Does the world need a website dedicated to cat humour called ‘The Mew Yorker’? a) Absolutely, get right on that. b) Nah, we’re good.

the @folger.edu opens their long-term and short-term fellowship scheme for 2026. Includes book in progress fellowships, artistic research fellowships, and public humanities fellowships www.folger.edu/research/the...

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. www.acls.org/competitions...

I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, invites applications for their fellowship in the Digital Humanities itatti.harvard.edu/fellowship-d...

This is beautiful.

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...

These people are *way* too fixated on what goes on under everybody’s clothing. Ffs

Opportunity: Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

This gets a paragraph, if that, in high school US history.

If a man shoots a Democratic congresswoman, he’s a mentally disturbed individual. If a man shoots a Republican congressman, it’s because Bernie Sanders brainwashed him and turned him into a sleeper agent who is activated by the phrase “tax cut.”

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

Was delighted to spot @rachelhewitt.bsky.social’s book at a bookstore in Geneva today!

WHERE IS YOUR MOUSE NOW

Also if you come see me at Thoughtbubble and draw me a pigeon in my Pigeon Book, I will gift you a pigeon badge!

Working on stuff for Thought Bubble and screaming totally calmly at my ipad. Wheeeee.

My Etsy shop is still on sale this weekend. Times are tough. The husband is sick with Covid still I’d love a few sales. Take a look if you have time. My global warming Christmas tree are a big hit with the parents in laws as gifts! And there are mugs (making more) and jewelry. Surly.etsy.com

I hate to talk about Christmas at a time like this (it being only Sept.), but if you're thinking about commissioning a gift map for Christmas...'tis the season! I've done a number of gift maps over the last few years, and they take a while. So now's the time to get in line!

Generally, for a map like those above, you should expect to pay somewhere between $700 and $1000. You can contact me through my website, here: surprisedeelmaps.com

#FightFascism #WriteComedy

History doesn’t repeat. It is REPLICATED. Very intentionally.

Omg never change 🤣

Loki is either zipping around or conked out like this.

Research and knowledge, the two things that make university magical. I was just telling the Gremlin today that the amazing thing about university is that you can study *anything* there.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

David Remnick on The Late Show. Trump is mimicking his polit-daddy - he’s going after comedians first, as Remnick cites how Putin did. He’s executing his unoriginal attacks straight from Putin’s authoritarian playbook. Explanation at 4:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGe...

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

So they voted to honour a guy who described a Bible verse advocating stoning gay people as ‘God’s perfect law.’ Who said ‘If I see a Black pilot…I hope he’s qualified’. Who said he would make his own 10yo daughter deliver her rapist’s baby.

Stanford University Press is still accepting applications for our Marketing Assistant position. Apply via the link below - but some tips before you do (general suggestions, not just for this job, but for any, especially entry level or early career positions):

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I highlighted funny writing by Talib Babb, Behzad Barkhordari, Sharda Mishra, and Rachel Axler! Plus: Info about my upcoming intro to short humor writing workshop. Check it out & subscribe here ⬇️

JESUS.

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Asked if he minded being run down in PUNCH, Winston Churchill said no, and that politicians must get used to criticism from the press, just as eels are used to being skinned. And...yes. He was wrong about the eels (there's a whole history to that expression). But he wasn't wrong otherwise.

We have a small budget to make a start on gathering resources for a Book Lab: does anyone have any recommendations, either for materials we should be buying, or for resources that give advice on doing such a thing?

Extra post: watch this folks... and follow @ledbydonkeys.org youtu.be/K8V4VNBw078?...

He's now been flown from that private estate to another: Chequers. Once again, totally avoiding the British public. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Britain... 3/3

He arrived at Stansted airport & was helicoptered straight to Windsor, which - as well as being a castle - is also a private estate. Everything he has done, including the carriage ride, has been done within grounds of a private estate. Manufactured pomp with nobody there. 2/3

Just a note to all the Americans, no matter what you're seeing over there, we don't like your President. We don't want him here. He has been 100% kept away from the public here in UK & that's why it all looks rosy. They know allowing him to be face to face with British public would be messy. 1/3

Loki says goodnight, and is one relaxed cat.

I hope he's right. They will try like hell to corrupt the midterms.

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

My first attempts, but I’d love to see better ones!!! #FightFascism #WriteComedy

Someone more artistic than I am needs to design a sticker that reads ‘FIGHT FASCISM: WRITE COMEDY’.

God damn, O'Donnell just won't quit, and I am totally here for it.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Me, when I mistype ‘omgggg’ into a text message: ‘WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “NO REPLACEMENTS FOUND”?!?’

A possible alternative for those ditching academiaDOTedu because of its appalling new ToS.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”