Signs to encourage recycling at the Phoenix airport

This security guard died protecting children at the Islamic Center of San Diego. If you can help support his family, it would go a long way. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

The teen gunmen were merely carrying out the views and policies of the Republican party, as expressed by its proud leaders like Andy Ogles, Randy Fine, Tommy Tuberville, and of course our President and Vice-President. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/u...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

NEW: A former Phoenix PD officer whose company trained an ICE paramilitary unit was involved in six shootings while on duty, four of which resulted in death. @awinston.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/an-ice...

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekTForTime Manchester Central yesterday

A sinuous initial R in the ‘Enneades’ - a world history from creation to the fifteenth century - by the Venetian historian Marcantonio Coccio Sabellico. Printed at #Venice in two volumes in 1498 and given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social by John Charrington in 1916. Inc.1.B.3.132[1789.1-2].

Now with more video! www.thomryng.com/camino/via-l...

#MosaicMonday takes us to the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome to find the most famous #mosaic in history, a copy of a work in #Pergamon by the mosaicist #Sosus, found at #VillaAdriana in 1737. It had many copies subsequently, and became a kind of shorthand for #classical taste. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

If you're interested in the comparative history of the Roman and Han Empires—or just want to know what all the fuss is about—you could do worse than begin with Michael Loewe's (posthumous) synthesis, favorably reviewed here. *Many* viable topics for further analysis lurking in these pages...

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

I am reminded of the 1993 outbreak of hantavirus in the Southwest and how Diné (Navajo) elders had warned of outbreaks linked to climate changes in their oral history tradition. The increased rainfall caused by the 1992-1993 El Niño led to an explosion in pinyon pine nuts which led to more rodents.

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

Leaving aside debates over the quality of AI translations, I'd answer the question by saying that humans learn other languages not to "translate" them, but to understand them and think in them. It enables us to think and express ourselves differently and understand how others do so.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Alan Stahl is a fabulous numismatist and historian and an absolutely wonderful colleague. I'm sure Princeton will miss him, but I've no doubt he'll have plenty of projects that will continue to advance the field. Huge congratulations on his retirement!

I actually blame every single fucking twat who insisted we could simply defeat fascism in a “market place of idea” and we aren’t allowed to tell people they are wilful idiots when they are hatefully ignorant.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the 2026 La corónica International Book Award-- Anita Savo (Boston University) for Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (U Toronto P, 2024)

This astonishing #relief ceiling from the C1 CE is today's example of #spolia for #SpoliaSunday. Reused in 1597 in the transept of #StJohnLateran, it came from the temple of #Minerva in the #ForumTransitorium, demolished by #ClementVIII #Aldobrandini to get marble for the floor. #AncientBluesky 🏺

This is probably the most historically illiterate and racist crap that an official in a presidential administration has publicly uttered since...oh I don't know...let's just say a very long time.

Reminds of what Lincoln said during his debates with Douglas in 1858 about an eternal struggle between the common right of humanity and the divine right of kings. www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

In 1990, billionaire wealth was 2.5% of global GDP. Their wealth is now 14.1% of GDP. In the UK, it's now 22% of their GDP We absolutely have to get inequality under control. It's the extreme level of inequality that's causing so many of our problems. We need to tax wealth + transactions and do UBI

Tonkin Gulf no. 3567.

I spent a good chunk of my life with documents in archives or with monuments that have survived for hundreds and hundreds of years or more. And, you give a lot of thought (but never enough!) to what we've lost. That renders me totally incapable of clearing out an office.

One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laundering state propaganda.

#10minutesfromhome Holcombe Hill this afternoon

A dissertation with a box attached. I guess it's finally time to part with the tattered box... (I have the plates of photographs)

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Clearing out an office after nearly four decades...an archaeological dig.

Chinese political cartoon mocking Trump. But we can all laugh.

We must put an end to their unlawful plans in Cuba. That's why I lead 32 of my colleagues to demand the administration change course. I will continue fighting for policies that prioritize diplomacy, human rights, and cooperation with our neighbors.

An investment that enables a college graduate to speak and read a non-English language, have competency/empathy in dealing with people who are different from them, and understand complex human systems like law, art, music, government, etc. is generating returns!

The problem is that politicians tend to talk like this, which is not too professorial or erudite or intellectual, but too affectless and bland.

Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption à #SainteMarieLapanouze (#Corrèze) Ce petit sanctuaire, construit en granit, se compose d'une ne... Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00099865/sainte-marie-lapanouze-eglise-notre-dame-de-lassomption

What I find so weird about the whole discourse is that I, a college professor, spend most of my time explaining complex ideas to 18-year-old novices. There’s a lot to mock academics for, but most of us couldn’t do our jobs at all if we didn’t know how to communicate with non-experts

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Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Aleth à #SaintMalo (#IlleEtVilaine) Ce site a été occupé de l'Age du Fer à la période médiévale. La cath... Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00090800/saint-malo-cathedrale-saint-pierre-daleth

Democrats need to preface any comment on redistricting by voicing their support for NATIONAL anti-gerrymandering reform, “that applies equally to Texas and California, Florida and Massachusetts” even if such a reform is not achievable in next election cycle, even if details aren’t worked out

Um okay so Well, see, the thing is So what we have here is Oh fuck where to start

Museo Fonck / Viña del Mar #Chile

Objections: Students ask me to post things on Canvas, including readings, lecture slides, and grades. Answer: Say no. Our job as professors isn’t winning a popularity contest, but rather education. I require students to take notes by hand. They perform better in exams because of this.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

I loved working on this. These booksellers are amazing, please take a look and consider buying your books from these stores! #booksky

Inea’s story is one of home, tradition, and memory over generations.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

The archaeologists are from the University of Barcelona which has had a project at Oxyrhynchus for three decades, now led by Esther Pons Mellado and Maite Mascort i Roca. The headline teased with "the Iliad": the fragment was from...the Catalog of the Ships. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...

"The gallery limits entry to 180 people per time slot, which are often booked out weeks in advance, leaving many tourists who pour into Rome disappointed." Yeah, bummer being stuck in a city with nothing else to see or do. Bring a deck of cards. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ou...

So much attention has been paid to the Musk v. Altman trial. But real accountability for the AI industry will not come from a billionaire mudfight. It will come from the movements around the world resisting the empires of AI. My op-ed for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

Into the belly of the beast #Florida