cognitive reframing: I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am out of milk because I am disorganized -> negative affect I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am making affogato, a sophisticated italian dessert -> positive affect

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I'm sure I'm not the first to say this but they need to stop remaking classic films. We don't need a million reboots, we need to be remaking movies that had great ideas but were executed poorly. Actually give them a chance to realize their potential. Leave the classics alone. Make new classics.

The struggle is real...👇😉 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #Doglovers

I have finally secured physical copies for all four of the first books my former students put out this year so you people are going to hear about them again.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

Those 3 things alone will get you well on your way. You can have opinions. But in arguing those opinions, remember troops are people, not props. And if you find your positions difficult and contradictory, don’t be surprised, that’s the nature of this awful, bloody, meat grinding beast

Working on this with Nathan was one of the only bright spots in the early days of Covid. We lost him last year, far too early, and I’d love you to read and listen to this small portion of the great scholarship he left us.

If you worked hard on something and want people to know about, you've got to speak up. There's like a three-week window when a new book comes out where you get a lot of attention and there is no shame in basking in every bit of it. You earned it.

[Jaws music]

Jonathan the Tortoise is still alive folks. It seems like mainstream outlets got duped by a fake X account. Jonathan is 193 years old, which is amazing. My favourite photo of him is this one from 1886 when he was already 53–54 which blows my mind

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

lol, overheard someone say that nowadays everyone wants to be part of a village but doesn't want to be a villager. And I can't stop thinking about it.

Someone is performatively grunt-roaring ... on the machines.

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

While the world is often a very cruel place, I’m a firm believer that everything feels much worse when you’re hungry. If you feel worse than usual and like none of your friends love you, chances are that’s not true and you just need to eat something. Keep yourselves fed, yeah?

have a little clip of the episode! Here Sarah Baires, an archeologist at Cahokia, talks a bit about what Cahokia as a city was like. It's astonishing and upends our the stories we Americans are often told about what was here before European colonization. #medievalsky www.youtube.com/shorts/TMe4U...

On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps.

#WIPSnips "offer"

Align. Transform. Create. I can live with that.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

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A quote from the Roman poet, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), about a lovely cure for slackness. thehistorianshut.com/2021/05/05/o... #history #quotes

This isn't a stretch based on assumptions or interpretations, or just some unpublished notes and letters. He very plainly said she was the co-author at the time. This dedication is in the first edition, published a year after she had died.

This bill encompasses so much more than books in the school library. Please make contact ASAP.

sometimes I post about the unspeakable beauty I find in imagining a past so different from our present. and sometimes you read about women competitively swallowing live fish

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

We're revealing the details for nearly TWENTY talks available at our online conference on 26th April. Pick and choose your favourites, or load up with snacks and settle in for a marathon! Here's a Romanian option for you! Full details: greatwargroup.com/product/online

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

What if you could collect Wikipedia articles and make them battle? Wikigacha, created by Japanese developer Haruki Sugiyama, turns every Wikipedia article into a collectible trading card.

Big shout-out to all the writers we've published at Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at Ruadán Books! So many amazing essays on writing and the writing life. ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...

How would you open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

Apply by March 15! We are excited to expand our team!

#skystorians! If you work on vast early America and want to develop your writerly and storytelling chops in community with other historians, please consider applying to the inaugural Craft Intensive sponsored by @oieahc.bsky.social (led by myself and Scott Heerman). For more details, visit:

Watching the Scarpetta adaptation. Why did they make Lucy femme and Marino hot?

The Academic: A Short Story

Deadlift 45x10, 65x10, 95x10, 115x5, 135x5, 145x3, 155x1, 165x1, 170x1, 175x1, 185x1, 190x1. PR.