Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.

A tradition of decades

Grab a cup of Christmas Cheer and settle in for @lynnprobbins.bsky.social’s chat with @jmbeatty.bsky.social about women, the American Revolution, and In Dependence www.revolutionaryhistories.com/revolutions-...

Middle nibling is playing ukulele so I show them a clip of Dad attempting a song on his uke. Going to have to see if I can find any other old videos of Dad on my computer to share with the niblings.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Reactionary intellectualism all summed up neatly here:

A gift from one of my friends. It’s so good to have people who really *get* you 😆 (Yes that is a little White House in the candle)

Sarah Falls gave a great presentation recently at the Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Summit about the challenges the Library of Virginia is facing from hallucinogenic AI patron requests, pointing to the increased labor load required to vet requests and then work with patrons seeking ghosts.

Job posting: UFT (our equivalent of TT) history faculty position at Normandale Community College! 🗃️ Please share! I'm chairing the search advisory commmittee Closes 1/5/26. Application: cover letter, CV, transcripts minnstate.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Minnes...

Happy 250th Birthday to Jane Austen! Celebrate by listening to "First Impressions," the first chapter in the new podcast series Finding Jane Austen, now playing everywhere.

Snow day wfh background noise is the new American Revolution documentary. Every mention of Henry Knox (that I register) makes me think of working on the Papers of the War Dept wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/page/... I love that project.

Justices like Gorsuch really think they “know” early American and U.S. history, but they only read a few conservative historians and they have ideas about the civility of early American politics and the Constitution that are flat out wrong.

I feel like the team for the visual changes of iOS26 paid absolutely no attention to accessibility needs (visual or cognitive)

This is a perfectly horrific notion that is now going to give me nightmares I think:

Ad in my morning podcast for butter. It wasn’t exactly the phrase “rich creamery butter” but my brain immediately went to Kate and Leopold.

"With the Declaration of Independence on their lips and the merciless Scourge of Slavery in their hands, a more flagrant image of human inconsistency can scarcely be conceived than one of our Southern Slave-holding Republicans." JQA, 27 December 1819

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I got behind the mic to host @bfworld.bsky.social (thanks, @lizcovart.bsky.social!) for a conversation between leaders of the 250th in my two favorite states -- Virginia & Rhode Island. Carly Fiorina (honorary chair of VA250) and Gregg Amore (RI Sec State). benfranklinsworld.com/episode-427-...

It’s always fun to come across the familiar when learning something new. Yesterday in a class from the Society of American Archivists, a slide of examples included the Baltimore Uprising project. I thought “oh I know that!”

What is with the "fake trailer for a holiday romcom" advertisement template this year? (I don't watch tv much, but I'm watching the Parade this morning)

Conversation with my roommate this morning about older internet memes, and I remembered I used to have a whole folder of LOL & ORLY images (for LiveJournal). Wonder if I can find those again…

I work with amazing, brilliant, articulate people. (That’s it. That’s the post)

God bless librarians Specifically with higher pay, but I hope they know how grateful many of us are for their good work

At some point in my theatre kids days, I learned about a show called “Stop the world, I want to get off.” That phrase has stuck with me, and sometimes it comes to mind. Could we please have a boring 24-72 hours to catch our breath?

CloudFlare is down which means our catalog is down. But OpenRefine runs locally, so off to do some data cleaning and sorting go I!

A book just on the grievances you mean? Out 6/9/26!

One of my little joys is to buy a smaller calendar (6in square or so) with silly designs and hang it in my office at work. This year is various wild animals, next year is Edward Gorey cats.

AASLH-NCPH 2026 update! We have pushed back the final proposals deadline to Friday, December 5. Submit final proposals through @aaslh.org’s Submittable platform at: https://aaslh.submittable.com/submit/333312/2026-aaslh-ncph-call-for-proposals #WorkOfRevolution

Thinking of doing the same, even though I am not important!

Kind of amazed (though happy!) that my History of the Database grad class for next quarter is overenrolled. Now I *really* have to come up with a syllabus.

NCPH and @aaslh.org have set the registration rates for our September 2026 joint conference. The rates are a compromise between NCPH’s and AASLH’s usual rates. Find them at: https://ncph.org/conference/2026-annual-meeting/registration/ #WorkOfRevolution

It’s a beautiful day to talk about digital archives!

Very glad to have been able to catch up in person w friends in libraries, retail, and the public sector. The world is a mess (as it ever was) and I have a fantastic community.

Part of me now has a new reason to pair Frankenstein (a novel about masculinity by a woman) with a novel by Richardson (a male novelist who was was good-against-his-will at voicing women, so much that his portrait of a “good man” was his only novel where the titular subject wasn’t the primary voice)

I used to be pretty good about journaling. I haven't picked up my journal in months, there has been a LOT going on (in my personal life), and I've only got a bit of my current journal left. So I should go buy a new journal this weekend, right? That will spur me back into the habit? ;)

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Too often people don't see or hear the difference they make. It's a small thing, but amplifying the impact can help it to blossom and grow.

Quite a headline.

@virginiabarksdale.bsky.social went to the Indian place near the Giant that you recommended years ago. Absolutely delicious! and we (well K) were so effusive in praise that they gave us rice pudding!

Next week's free+public events @ Scholars' Lab: workshops & speakers on making (sewing tote bags, using hand tools for carpentry/etc DIY, crochet), zinemaking for advocacy, minimal computing for professional portfolio websites, & understanding AI benchmarks (measures of what/how well a tool works) +

This zine is by our VR/AR/immersive specialist @arinbb.bsky.social, who collaborated w/an English prof this past year teaching students writing concepts by having them build a MUD (text-based game/interactive fiction where you describe spaces etc you see in writing). Link to download zine +

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

When I was at @scholarslab.bsky.social last week, I snagged a copy of this zine to give to my sister. We both played around on muxes and muds back in the day (aka the 90s). Anyone remember MicroMuse? (Also, I need to get a copy of the file so I can print this for some of my friends from those days)

Hanging out in a hospital waiting room today while a loved one has (fairly routine) surgery. I am amused that my autocorrect keeps trying to turn my typo-d “hospital” into historical.

Voted. I wonder if turnout will be average for a Virginia gubernatorial year or what.

Scholarship on early American Jewish History? Give me your titles. Asking for a student. I'm out of my depth here.