Post a banger not in English. youtu.be/Z_uIGTW9raY

This book looks cool. I’ve heard a few of these myths carried across the Atlantic.

Morning mood.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in university (actual course titles optional): 1. All About the Years the Prof Spent Getting Very Drunk with Peasant Rebels in the Highlands of Peru (and why he’s no longer allowed into Peru) AKA Social and Cultural Anthropology

lurs only do this when they are agitated, caged together within a small environment 😾

The US govt has always taken a dim view of violations of its own consulates abroad. Like when a group of (inebriated) Canadian militiamen tore down the US flag at the consulate in St Thomas, ON, in 1894, prompting late-night telegrams to DC (transcript in alt-text) #cdnhist #onthist #vexillology

Tips on coping from the Renaissance Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.

I love this channel. Do yourself a favour and break up your doomscrolling with some daily Manitoban wildlife.

Happy Friday to all, and especially to my American friends who are not going to work today.

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 3,800 hospitalizations, 860 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 12,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

I’m glad I read the whole speech, because quite a few folks on here seem to be having hot takes based on single sentences of it, without knowing what the PM said in the sentence that followed.

This thread is wild. It also seems like a metaphor for the USA in general.

Ha! I know some of these guys.

Hwæt we gar-Dana in heodagum þeod-þegena þrym gefrunon!

We're wishing everyone a safe commute home this evening. Take some time to help your neighbours! https://ow.ly/Z9wo50XXpw3

from last night--it's thank your bus/streetcar driver weather

You can show this one to your relatives who think it’s fine to travel to the US, “because we’re just staying in Miami one night and then leaving on a cruise.” Imagine being this guy, and NOT being an American citizen.

A library based on access to subscription databases that vanish completely as soon as the payments stop is, in an important sense, not a library. It is not a repository. It's just a viewing platform.

Interesting piece on New York Jewish socialist history, which looks like it parallels what I’ve been reading in the Archives about early twentieth-century Toronto.

Well this one shouldn’t be too hard to manifest.

The origins of the Anglo-American legal system (including the jury trial and rules of evidence) are held in millions of cases recorded in highly abbreviated Latin. Only medievalists trained in these specific records can read it. We're trying to change that!

A small sign of the times: at some point a couple of years ago, we Canadians stopped using the NORAD Santa tracker for our go-to Christmas Eve joke, and started going unilateral. No one wants to hear from some American colonel on Christmas Eve.

Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays… and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal. #VaccinePlus ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Another way of putting this: AI is basically setting off a nuclear explosion over academic citation by injecting distrust into a system built on trust.

5) AI is cleary messing up academic bibliographic work, and if this turns out right, i.e. that library page's are temporarily showing every hallucinated content that Google (or others) are offering, then we are truly cooked.

Sometimes when talking to up and coming (and often demoralized) environmental and climate justice activists, I encourage them to look up ‘McDonalds ashtray’. And then I explain that smoking was so normalized, smoking paraphernalia was literally branded by giant corporations. Change can happen.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

This account from the Halifax International Security Forum has been rolling around in my head all day. www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

I’ve seen this problem at our reference desk too. An LLM can mimic the form of an archival citation (fonds, series, file, etc.), but the content is nonsense. Researchers expect us to be able to pull a file that doesn’t exist.

Found on martiniden666's Tumblr - thought this was a drawing but the caption says it's a photo from 1953 titled Cat in the Snow from photographer Hannes Kilian. #cats #catsinsnow #photography

Merry Krampusnacht, and a good night to all naughty children! media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

This is so cool. If you’ve been to that stretch if the Rhine, you can recognize individual castles.

We have permission for take-off! Hello Bluesky! Follow this account for images and news from the City of Toronto Archives. #Toronto #TOHistory #TOArchives

I didn’t know that Norval Morrisseau also did some paintings of urban wildlife! (Alt: portrait of two punks in the style of N.M., with large solid blocks of bright colour and thick outlines. The backdrop and faces are red, outlined with blue. Still faces contrast with exuberant mohawk hairstyles.)

I’m hearing versions of this from multiple friends who still work in academia.

For a year now, Georgians have protested every single day in 8+ cities. 120+ people have been jailed for years. Most opposition leaders are in prison, and opposition parties are expected to be banned. Peaceful protest has been criminalized. Yet, we're still here. Keep an eye on our big rally today.

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

This. Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?" We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!" Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪

I shall be posting this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two posts diverged on my screen, and I— I took the bait, I hit reply, And that has made zero difference.

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

Those Trudeaus have a flair for the dramatic. This was a game between Calgary and Montreal, played in Toronto, so basically everyone in this photo is wearing regional folk dress as a fan costume.

Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago

I wish I had known about this chart when I was doing freelance editing and translation a few years ago. If you freelance in Canada, put it in your bookmarks.

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These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...