I read this as Pop-Tarts and got very concerned

Finally ordered a couple of Christmas gifts from VU Press with that nice holiday discount (and perhaps a book for me too)! @carrieat.bsky.social fire up Rocky Top!

Dinosaur Carl’s Jr.

All our animals escaped into society but they came back and pulled the cage doors behind them.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

I was in high school when these first came out and we bought the heck out of them because that is my family name. My dad would always say he was the only one allowed to eat them because the box said they were his

T-Rac, is that you? The Titans season is pretty ugly, so I completely understand

This parade does feel especially unhinged

Interesting choice to have Shaggy’s “It wasn’t me” with a turkey float at the Macy’s parade

Bring back flip-up headlights

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Who sucked out the FEELING? Who sucked out the FEELING?

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Wrote about Todd Snider, East Nashville and how the more things change, the more they change. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/something-go...

Just heard Mike Keith's SAAAAAAAAAAAAACK call despite the soundproof glass separating the two of us.

So lucky to have seen Todd Snider live multiple times, heartbroken that he is gone. At one of his shows at the Bijou in Knoxville, you could see he was soaking in the admiration and love from the audience and it was something special to see

When SNAP benefits get partially or fully restored, please do not cancel any monetary or food donations you are making to local food banks. People are still going to need a lot of support.

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

I’m finally seeing all these Chat GPT commercials everyone has been talking about. Let’s just suck all the emotion and effort out of everything. Do I get similar gifts from my husband all the time? Yes. Does he still take the time to try his best to be creative? Yes. And that part is the dang gift

In 1874, Mary Ewing Outerbridge brought home America’s first tennis set — and customs agents seized it. She got it back, built a court on Staten Island, and changed women’s sports forever. History turns on curiosity, persistence, and a little nerve.  Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3brswyss🗃️

Released 33 years ago—Oct. 5-6, 1992. Share your favorite track in the comments!

On this day in 1992, R.E.M. released their eighth studio album “Automatic for the People” featuring singles “Drive" “Man on the Moon" “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" “Everybody Hurts” Nightswimming" and “Find the River"

Maybe I missed my calling

Godot 2: Electric Whereareyoo

Synchrony! On the timeline

Tigers interviewed a 91-year-old woman who was at her first game today.They asked her what it was like and she said “overwhelming, the park is so beautiful, and all players all look SO GOOD” which is exactly what I think when I watch baseball.

Live footage of historians these days

“This song is nothing if it’s not a complete slagging off or a lampooning… a putting in place of where media has gotten us in 1994, what media has reached, where it’s at at this point.” - @michaelstipe.bsky.social “WTFK?” was released this week in 1994. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkM...

I think it’s good to read books and write things about those books. I even think we could design special classes where students get to read books, and write about them. Maybe there could be some departments and programs dedicated to it.

Slightly diminish a band: Old Crow Placebo Show

There really are few things better than a lovingly maintained local history museum full of items donated by the community and staffed entirely by volunteers. Sincerely a joy, every time

That Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cinnadust commercial is horrifying, and makes me never ever want to buy it

AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.

Supplee Nut Carmola is my new band name

“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...

How people think AI will create a knitting pattern: they describe an object, and the AI figures out how to build it & writes instructions. How it actually creates a knitting pattern: it chops up all of the knitting patterns it has stolen and puts pieces of them in random order. Result: nonsense.

According to a report from @StephenHargis, Peyton Manning's son, Marshall, is enrolling at Baylor School in Chattanooga ⬇️ www.rockytopinsider.com/2025/07/18/t...

“ you can easily get into college in 2025” is one of those sentences we need to repeat a lot

The sun rises, the sun sets…

Humanities Tennessee announced Thursday that the Southern Festival of Books will be returning for its 37th year, thanks in large part to a partnership with Vanderbilt University.

Really believed I was going to buy some heath bar cookies in the Publix bakery department yesterday for a get together on Saturday and not open them until then

The 'Singles' Soundtrack was originally released 33 years ago on June 30, 1992 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/SinglesSndtrck

This Nature Company went to my dorm room as well where it was also joined by the boys from Athens

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

My friends and I saw Corey Feldman and talked to him right before he got on the Wabash Cannonball at Opryland in the late 80s