Today’s the day! UVA is hosting a conference on apocryphal Christian literature with a great line-up of incredible scholars dealing with multiple languages and centuries of Christian texts and histories

Margaret Knight (1838 – 1914) was the American inventor of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. A man, Charles Annan, stole her design and patented it, claiming that "she could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities of the machine", but she sued him and won. #CelebratingWomen

Darmok cuts Jalad's hair at Tanagra ...

A glimpse of everyday life in ancient #Greece: a terracotta figurine group depicting a barber cutting a man's hair. From Tanagra, Greece, dating early 5th century BC. On display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me 🏺

🇧🇩 🐅 Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans The slow growth in the number of tigers in Bangladesh's Sundarbans, despite years of conservation work, is stoking fears that the world's largest mangrove forest may one day lose its apex predator.

"This decision will jeopardize maps for congressional seats, state legislatures, city councils, school boards – every level at which communities of color have fought for true representation," writes @slakin.bsky.social.

Switzerland is putting solar panels on all the empty space between train tracks. If done in the UK this would take 20,000,000 Solar Panels and would provide 8GW of electricity.

Lot of reactionaries truly believe in their hearts that immigrants and trans kids get the secret good healthcare from companies that love paying for claims.

⚡️Venice Art Biennale’s jury resigns in protest over Russian, Israeli presence just days before festival starts. The jury's resignation comes just one day after the European Union's culture commissioner announced that he would boycott the Venice Art Biennale over Russia's presence.

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians

Speaking as a historian, just wanna add that we are almost certainly going to receive an Era Name that none of us wants or expects

Wife of Spain's PM Sanchez files assault complaint against far-right influencer reut.rs/42FSakO

Gardaí are seeking any information that could further the investigation www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

#ClimateEmergency - "serious implications for communities, agriculture and nature", in so many ways phys.org/news/2026-04...

An aging family's search for stability offers a poignant window into the unresolved aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in documentary "At the Triangle Intersection."

Mexico City activists staged a boisterous protest outside Congress to mark the 19th anniversary of partial abortion decriminalisation. They demanded the complete removal of abortion from the penal code. At the link is a 7-minute video in Spanish with English subtitles.

This certainly is well-articulated. I was writing last week (different context) about tacit knowledge, and the continuous shift between information and intuition, being a hallmark of subject mastery - hence the decades of 'grunt work' required.

"A small number of far-right actors are disproportionately influencing public debate, shaping conversations, and exerting political pressure, a report has suggested." Almost like capitulating to far right fear mongering wasn't a sensible political position huh

More goodies from the ‘Seeing the Dead’ project - Roman burial of two infants in Roman York were buried in textiles dyed with Tyrian purple. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2606019...

A warning on the rise of far-right rhetoric in Ireland: "public attitudes are becoming steadily more inclusive, but that political rhetoric risks legitimising scapegoating and that the far-right had not secured broad public support, but 'is shaping the conversation'". www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A piece on old Irish May traditions… www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"The number of people who support the freedom of transgender people to live their lives is up 5% up from 70% in 2024." Good to see that despite everything being thrown at it, most people aren't buying the anti trans narrative here

Men will say "honor us or else we'll engage in a bunch of stupid brutal violence" and then do the stupid brutal violence regardless.

i think we should record a video of a few gruff white men in hard hats and greasy carhartts walking around some solar panels and occasionally hitting them with a wrench. we can then use the footage to trick conservatives into thinking green energy is appropriately manly

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block the north access to the city of Jerusalem during a protest against military draft. Discontent among the ultra-Orthodox community grew after Israel's High Court of Justice ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who dodge the draft

This newly insane, unprecedented legal stalling does nothing but delay our deal with the receiver to take control of InfoWars. We now expect new traps in Alex Jones' amoral war to deny paying the Sandy Hook families, but we're freshly surprised by the U.S. legal system's appetite to put up with it.

Like many women of the Beat Generation, Cassady experienced a double standard in which she provided stability while the men pursued “liberation.” She was represented by the character “Camille” in Kerouac’s On the Road, a symbol of domestic restriction that he and Neal sought to escape. /6

One of the websites attached to the InfoWars asset list is, I shit you not, goblinlove.net. We have our work cut out for us.

✨The Maenad of Dionysius✨ The dance of the maenads in worship of the god of wine, Dionysius, is often described as frenzied. And the sense of frenzy is evident in the way this maenad seems to emerge from stone turning to face us. #ReliefWednesday

Should I Marry a Murderer? review – the amazing woman who spied on her killer fiancé for police

“A chance discovery of a broken bronze cup in Spain has revealed a 1,900-year-old depiction of Hadrian's Wall and forts in England, a new study reports. The multicolored vessel was likely crafted as a memento of a soldier's time defending the frontiers of the Roman Empire, the study authors said.”

Did a pirate write this?

Today's highlight in Norway: News shared about the discovery of the largest coin hoard from the Viking Age Norway. Exciting times for colleagues @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and elsewhere! www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-...

New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #medievalwomen

Inquiry into French public broadcasting was guided by far-right tactics

Medieval Nubian linen, silk and wool, dyed using natural plants and mordants #TextileTuesday These samples provided crucial data on fibres, dyes and decorative patterns, enabling the experimental reconstruction of five costumes from Christian Nubia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Worth highlighting that Stella O'Malley is not a clinical neuropsychologist with knowledge or skills in the diagnosis of autism or neurodivergence, and in fact she is such a careless psychotherapist that she can't spell the job she claims to be trained in. On top of being an anti-LGBT+ oddball.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

When you're despairing & thinking things only get worse, remember that in 1989 a group of students were convicted for including the number of UK abortion information lines in a Dublin Student Union Welfare guide. From that to this in 30 years. There's still a long way to go, but things can change.

Wooden #sculpture of high rank official ‘Kaaper,’ Old Kingdom, #Egypt (c. 2500 BC) #art, Egyptian Museum.

Manon Fleury, Michelin-starred chef: 'I constantly thought about cooking because I was anorexic'

She had several other children, and lived till the age of 78. People often ask themselves what would have happened if Wolfgang Amadeus had survived beyond the age of 35. To me, the real question is: what would have happened if his sister had been allowed to pursue her talent?

Instead she became a music teacher. Letters from her brother show that he thought very highly of her compositions, but none of them have survived. Her father took charge of her eldest son Leopold when he was born - supposedly to help out after the birth - but the boy never returned to his mother.

Maria Anna Mozart (1751 – 1829) was the sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As a child she accompanied him on foreign tours, often earning top billing, and excelled in both performance and composition, but when she reached marriagable age at 17, she was no longer allowed to perform. #CelebratingWomen