Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Wow.

It's a bit of a spoiler, but my latest story begins before the development of a writing system. Of the three mains, one character is an autodidact, one studied under a rigorous oral tradition, and one is unschooled by any definition.

My favorite thing about reading history books far outside of my field is how frequently those books feed back into my own work, often giving me ideas about things I’m working on.

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We should bring this one back.

Me: I should look up the new trailer. My search results: Teaser slop Fake slop Fan slop Parody slop Extra sloppy slop I swear this is real slop Unrelated slop In modern clothing slop Slop w/ Iron Man Racist slop Game slop No, serious, this one is real slop Stolen slop by other sloppers Oppenheimer?

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

It's wonderful to see that Vox once again has the worst of all instincts, which in this case refusing to take "no" for an answer and baffled as to why their attitude is infuriating. Cover your drinks around whoever wrote this.

I had many terrible views in high school. The thing that got me past them? Having friends. They didn't debate me, they were just themselves. That was enough. Likewise in adulthood. Ex. Just having a non-binary friend (they never argued, just said who they were) opened my mind more than anything else

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE if we choose it into being Godammit

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy without a gun

This man is a hero who saved countless lives. He's the best of humanity during the worst of it.

My 8yo asked me to read Livy's account of the 2nd Punic War. We started tonight. I may be a historian who wants my daughter to love history, too, but I was not expecting *this*.

The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are: money being born into money knowing other people with money

I went to see Conan the Barbarian (2011, starring Jason Momoa) with 2 friends on a whim. We were the only people in a large stadium-seating theater. We had a blast talking through it like our own personal MST3K screening.

The energy we need for 2026.

You will be visited by three spirits.

I love when people share pictures of shelves or stacks of books. I always find stuff to add to my to-read list.

My 8yo has an ancient Rome unit in school. They just covered Julius Caesar. Then they practiced opinion writing. Glad to say my daughter consistently said conquest of neighbors, violating legal norms as a military commander, and trying to act as a king made Jules someone who should not be in charge.

"God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men." -Wislawa Szymborska, "The Century's Decline," 1993

Just imagine standing in that court with that child—baby, really—and listening to his little voice and having to pretend that something lawful and reasonable is going on. It requires you to fully break with reality.

"Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?" -Luke 6:9 Very soon they'll claim that "The Needle's Eye" was a popular stable for camels that only the wealthy were ever able to afford to use.

This is 100% true. A guy paid a million dollars JUST to write the first book about it. Techbros were absolutely convinced it was world-changing.

I finished an edited draft of a fantasy novel today. Now it's the beta-readers' problem!

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

These were my neighbors and students once. I'm physically sick.

Me, a fool with a phd: "A coalition of military aristocracy, high church officials, and commoners practically invented what we understand as the rules of war over a thousand years ago because they saw violence as materially and spiritually harmful to all." Our Sec. of Def: "Why warriors if no war?"

These people would read "The War Prayer" and not get (or admit) that it was satire.

Dems release a video reminding troops of their responsibility to disobey illegal orders. They’re called seditionists. WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike. WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!” This is why you disobey illegal orders

Not the most important part, but important for RW framing, but The Essay did not "use the Bible" to defend static gender norms. She said "the Bible says" and then said whatever she wanted. Didn't even do chapter:verse. And that's the way Christofascists prefer.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

Beautiful! On Mars, dust grains are ~ the same size as visible light wavelengths, so they scatter red light away (Mie scattering) and let blue through near the Sun. On Earth, air molecules are far smaller, scatter blue away (Rayleigh) and leave red. Same physics, inverted colors! 🔭 🧪 #science

I named my fists Dreyfuss and Spielberg because they have close encounters with jaws.

Sometimes I think Finland got merged with earth from another realm. This does nothing to invalidate that theory.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Great Horned Owl African Elephant Grizzly Bear Bison Arctic Fox

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Vance: *says falsely that Christianity and/or Europeans are solely responsible for Good Thing* Someone: *asks that said Good Thing be done* Vance: *says "no" in the smarmiest way possible* Repeat forever.

This is powerful. An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum. 'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.' www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

Man fuck hobby lobby and read this book

Tsaaku Uratabeni- Happy Thanksgiving in Comanche. :) 🦃

i’m biased, but i’m thinking academic(!) religious studies needs to be taught in US public schools.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”