I'm taking up mandolin, and I have my grandpa's old instrument, but I need a strap for it. You know what that means... inkle loom time!!

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

Another example of private equity ruining EVERYTHING. Southwest used to have a best-in-industry policy, earning loyal repeat business from MANY people, and they just went and blew that all up

Grief is SO weird. My mom's been gone for 9.5 years now, but today out of the blue I miss her more intensely than I did 6, 7, 8 years ago.

Thought it was SO boring as a kid, but as an adult, Frasier slaps

Amused by all the various ways people represented dates on a single page of this book: 19 : iii : '69 28-3-1969 19 · v · 69 27-viii-69 9.x.69 ?/8/'63 ?? 25th Oct 69 5th February 1970 Why are dates like this 😂 😭

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Damn! SNL with the surprise guests tonight! Also, when did Marcus Mumford have this glow-up??

Post a knight 🗡️ This one lives on my arm 🐌

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I did not expect to be crying this much at the first episode of the Scrubs revival 😭😭😭

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

We need the curling guy added to this

This is so fun! If I was still teaching, this would 1000% make its way onto a MedRen or Brit Lit survey syllabus😍 My OE is rusty--I'm on fairly solid ground through 1200, but 1100 I've got only the *gist* of what is being said open.substack.com/pub/colingor...

+ What?? Not fair!! These students had done nothing wrong! It wasn’t their fault they shared preferences in common with the cheater! Then we talked about how gang databases and DHS’s “link analysis” tools work, how through no fault of their own, regular people are criminalized.

Okay but why is capo 4 the best one

Accidentally caught a couple minutes of an episode of Grimm on TV, and they were like "Whoa this is some kind of Old English manuscript from 1217" and then showed some Book of Kells-looking script 😅 So much wrong with one sentence

I always tell students that university is a rare opportunity to study things that are interesting rather than useful.

Just woke up from a dream in which I was teaching again, two classes of undergrads. I miss it so much 😭 I was never someone who thought I'd seek a TT job, but now that I'm out of academia entirely I have moments of grief--this is the most intense it's been! I feel I've let my past self down.

It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

There are lots of people sharing lots of ways to help. This is one I trust absolutely.

Spent the better part of the evening sorting through a pile of quarters my dad's been saving over the years, separating state quarters & other interesting ones out. Now I've started sorting by state, and am excited to compare the distribution in this collection to the dist of actual coins minted 👀

Semi-annual reminder that absolutely nothing is stopping you from playing music in the background during Zoom calls. It's just in your own headphones, no one's gonna know.

The Spokane River -- featuring the longest urban waterfall in the country

Yeah... I could kinda look past the oil industry propaganda in the first season, found the main character's emotional intelligence an interesting departure from tropes, and got a kick out of the old folks home side plot. S2 has been mostly dull & overly horny-- the E9 the roommate plot was *horrid*

“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.

Had my most satisfying #Wordle experience ever the other day

I kept procrastinating on this, but at long last she is ready for weaving!

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Watching @jonwurster.bsky.social is always my favorite part of seeing @themountaingoats.bsky.social live 😊😊

It's been too long since I warped my big loom, and I forgot I need to keep the warp cross at BOTH ends 😭 Pray for me, #DHmakes crowd

Wow, did everyone just use sign language before 1855?

Still at Nelson-Atkins and having entirely too much fun to stop and post (I’ll post more soon!) but couldn’t resist sharing these blue rubrics! Blubrics! 💙💙💙😍 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Ew, no thanks.

what they don’t tell you is that procrastinating on your reading for class continues even when you yourself are the one teaching the class

Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description! This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion #medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

My new theory is that the Dodgers do well because they employ a full-time organist, which attracts the spirits of baseballers-past to their stadium. #GetTheMarinersAnOrganist

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Taskmaster having a museum heist task this week is one of the funniest bits of happenstance I've ever seen 😂

Next meeting is Saturday, November 1! Come hang out! Personally, I'll either be working on an abstract for HNR2026 or chipping away at development of the annotation tool I need for my Durham project. RSVP at: calendar.app.google/U6pXAJ8LpUPy... #humanities #dh #bookhistory #medievalsky

I'm working on some of the old Durham Cathedral Library records, and I have to wonder... did the person keeping records not like this particular borrower, or is the placement of these doodles simply because there was a convenient space? 😆

Alright Mariners fans I know you're sad and upset at that hilarious strikeout ending things but let's all unite together for one simple fact all people with pure souls and hearts can agree on Fuck the Dodgers

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO 🔱🔱🔱 🎉🎉🎉

Remember how the Death Star had that one hidden weakness? Well, an important kill switch in this massive surveillance network is: individual control over a bunch of the nodes. People hold the power to tear the network down. Love your neighbour, trash the Ring camera.

Okay, I've started a repo (and even came up with a Tolkien-inspired acronym)! If you're interested, star / watch the repo. I'll start some discussions there too. github.com/jtauber/CARC

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’ It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.” It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”