Who is this man? He deserves to go down in infamy. This is thuggery. He is a thug.

The Wound Man might strike contemporary viewers as a gruesome spectacle, an archaic precursor to the “Saw” movies, or the revenge fantasy of some jilted ex. But the figure is something else altogether, offering reassurance to patients coping with ailments of their own.

So grateful to @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social for providing this traveling mimi-course on American history to my rural library system here in Grants Pass, Josephine County!

It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost? Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.* Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net. 🗃️🧪

Sinclair broadcasting decides to play games and won't show Kimmel on their local ABC stations. Ok guys, you know what to do. 1. Find out if your local ABC station is owned by Sinclair. 2. Find their biggest corporate advertiser. 3. We start viral posting the stations 4. We boycott the advertisers

Julie Brown is a hero in every sense. Her relentless reporting ripped open the Jeffrey Epstein case when powerful people wanted it buried. Honestly, I don’t think we’d even be talking about Epstein today if it weren’t for her. Please consider following her: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

New rule: you don't get to ban it if you can't even pronounce it

Jimmy Kimmel returns tomorrow. This is an important victory for free speech. Remember that it was YOU all using your power TOGETHER that got a gigantic corporation to reverse itself. Bless everyone who participated in telling Mickey Mouse to fuck off.

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Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Great question and wonderful suggestions in the comments

"In an America where the West was never colonized, the Appalachian Mountains mark the border between starkly different worlds" Win a copy of my smart, talented friend @gianaclis.bsky.social 's alternative history novel, The Binding! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Je suis *extremely heavy sigh* Jimmy Kimmel

Let’s fucking GO.

Melania remains Undefeated as civic goth fashion template

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

As the lights go out all over the world, be a shining beacon It is important everyone knows there is still good out there, and where to find them The darker it gets, the more you shine Do not lose your humanity

but yes conservatives who want to spend ten years in grad school to teach a 5:5 load for $45K a year and yes you do have to pay for parking should have the same opportunities as liberals to do so, and largely do.

No bending the knee

Sugarhill Gang releases “Rapper’s Delight” 46 years ago today — changing music forever. “.. We could’ve made a four-hour record,” Wonder Mike said. “We only cut that 15-minute record because the tape ran out.”

It was a pride and pleasure to contribute to this article for the Science History Institute: Melissa Rossi, "Holy Smoke: The monks, nuns, and friars at the forefront of alchemy in early modern Europe" #histmed #medhist www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

Yeah okay but they seldom make history

Judith Butler, “When Universities Become Informants”. www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

I spoke with @opb.org about my embattled, resilient library. In a nutshell: our own commissioners are trying to evict us, and we can't get a straight answer as to WHY.

they were developed in a fentanyl lab located in Asbestos, Quebec, to be Woke, fireproof and deadly to the touch. their glands secrete generic prescription drugs and they all believe in climate change. these aren’t your granddad’s 30-50 feral hogs. they’re bilingual. they will win

This is really important. If they re-classify hormonal contraception as abortion, that mean most forms of contraception will become illegal or inaccessible across the country. They’re targeting anything that can prevent implantation. That’s almost all of it.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3227):

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Per the alt text, this marvelous poem is by Sean Singer

Timeline cleanse of flowers from the backyard thanks to @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social

And your comment is helpful how? We cannot abandon places nor have this attitude ESPECIALLY when the story explicitly states how hard folks on the ground are doing the work. You’re literally spitting on their efforts. My lord y’all are exhausting. Nothing will change with this bs.

🚨⚖️📚 Heather Cox Richardson & Joanne Freeman warn democracy faces echoes of the 1850s: political violence normalized, tech amplifying extremism, “civil war” as a lazy buzzword. They urge resisting disinfo by pausing before reacting and lifting up democratic norms. T-28:17

Thousands of women are sharing this and saying yes, this was their experience, many of them sharing their own horrific 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s experiences. (And almost everyone sharing it appears to be female.)

The evil that men do lives after them

I advocated for my embattled, resilient public library, with thanks to @heykellyjensen.bsky.social bookriot.com/josephine-co...

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.

of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most

BREAKING via Sky News According to Ukraine’s air force, Russian drones have violated Polish airspace and now threaten the city of Zamosc. Poland is a NATO member.

This is my library. So grateful to @heykellyjensen.bsky.social for covering this so carefully and fully!

If you have any skin at all in the AI-theft copyright Anthropic et al situation (and that's gotta be most of you one way or another) please follow Courtney. Her threads on this & related legal issues are crystal clear & helpful.