Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

It is 4 am and I am developing a heart problem. Just score a run, please.

*throws open window* You there, boy! How about them jays?

It shouldn't matter, but I have to assume that the name isn't helping the battle to save the Horrid Ground-weaver www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

This is @historyned.bsky.social fodder, this is (at least circa 1999)

Hey @edsbs.bsky.social did you know there was a big sumo tournament in London this week?

The SkyDome is open & its 10-1 Jays

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

A lot of the critique of 'AI will replace historians' gag centred on the point that historians do more than just remember dates and so on. However, even if that was all the job entailed, I think it'd be safe from The Plagiarism Machine for a while yet.

Laura asking in all sincerity who tore into the box and ate a third of the pizza, while the street cat who hadn't eaten since breakfast sits contentedly on the chair.

Breaking news: the pope finally got back to his Duolingo account on Sunday. He’s now learning Italian.

Chris Woakes, man. Hope this isn't it for him, but what a thing to do.

Love this about a big city, knitting different known areas together

I killed an 18th century printer (and I didn’t even have to use a time machine). An #EarlyModern #BookHistory 🧵 📚💙 📜

My ebike is speed and power limited from the factory because lawmakers see it as a potential hazard to people in cities.

From Wikipedia, this quite wonderful pre-war poster. "See Birmingham's charming suburbs by 'bus." (Love the apostrophe before "bus".)

this tour de france stage, summarised

In 1529, Georg Hartmann of Nuremberg made this woodcut, a cruciform #sundial, establishing a market for #DIY paper instruments. For those interested in assembling Hartmann's paper cruciform sundial at home or in a history seminar, here is a link: www.kartonmodellbau.org/cgi-bin/boge...

17.05-- buy Day 5 tickets. 17:21-- Crawley out for a duck

Big thanks to @redford.bsky.social and @davidjroth.bsky.social for getting Tim Krabbe's The Rider in front of me as I recover from (what else) a shattered collarbone and can't get out on the road.

The distance between Elon Musk being the richest person in the world and Elon Musk being in prison for an obvious Theranos-style scam that kills its victims is the distance between the world we live under and the world we have on paper

Where King Meets Queen

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident

We think the rescue cat is learning he can get attention at dinner time by turning the stovetop on. Remember this if we have a mystery flat fire.

Turned on the bike race and accidentally made myself incredibly hungry by thinking "Gyro d'Italia"

We now cut live to @historyned.bsky.social to tell us which 1990s German politician the new pope looks like in those glasses

AND ALSO WITH YOUSE

As someone spending a lot of time laid up in bed just now, I'm super-glad we've finally got a Good Posting Day on here.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

The very twee postbox toppers in my twee corner of Birmingham are engaging with the news now

That the Gus Honeybun on display in Plymouth is very clearly haunted just adds to the oddness of this whole thing.

Final week soundtrack is: revving cars (someone seems to have rented a Lamborghini?), HS2 construction, and a very persistent ice-cream truck. It's fair to say campus is demob-happy.

My own favourite April 23 fact is that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23 1616, ten days apart.

50 years ago the BBC filmed this incredible documentary about Shrewsbury Town FC’s ball boy who was a grown ass man named Fred who owned a tiny boat.

Parmi les testaments conservés dans les archives de la ville de Bristol se trouve celui de Thomas Powell, "cloth-maker", mort en 1611, avec la note suivante : « There is a note saying Powell died after a fight with a cat ». I have questions.

At least we now know that those two-volume post-war western world histories will be now be 1945-1990 and 1990-2025. Let's hope there is enough history to go for there to be further volumes.

This really is good, and puts a name to a typeface I love to see aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

Always fun when the train guard is recommending to get off from a specific carriage at Dawlish due to “the waves being a bit high today”.

One of the most maddening things about this approach is that places like Cardiff have destroyed other institutions, and are now just walking away. Bangor closed its Chemistry Department in 2020, partly because our student intake was being gobbled up by the expansion at Cardiff and other places

I love the contrast between these two WWII anti-Nazi posters. Never change, Mexico and Canada. Never change.

I committed every Achewood strip to memory for a perfect pull like this

@edsbs.bsky.social On your correct point about mid-2000s TV, were you aware of Space Cadets, the British reality show where they convinced contestants they were going to space? The finale was them stepping out for a space-walk and all their friends were there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_C...