This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

A reminder that applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv

One thing I like about AI is how I’ll search for “ESPN” and then the browser will be like “AI Powered Search found you the website for ESPN” and I can marvel at the wonders of Tomorrowland

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

"Frankenstein was the doctor." Wrong. He was an undergraduate.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

Same for Canada

“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma

The funniest explanation for Andor would be that they actually went into the room and pitched "What if Star Wars was more like The Battle of Algiers?", and some Disney exec greenlit because he didn't want to admit not knowing what that was

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

God: A flood is coming. Build an ark. Poilievre: Right. New corporate tax cuts it is! God: No, build a boat. PP: I’ll cancel the capital gains tax! God: Build. A. Boat. PP: Tank the tax! Build the boats! God: ?? Jesus Christ… Jesus Christ: Don’t bring me into this… www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

When HP Lovecraft looks more tolerant than the current American presidential administration? You're in trouble.

🚨 BREAKING: Another one of Elon Musk’s taxpayer-funded Starship rockets just exploded—AGAIN. How many billions are we wasting on this failure factory? Everything Musk touches blows up, catches fire, or crashes—including the Trump Administration.

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

As we enter the Dark Ages, it's worth recalling that they're not "New." The early Middle Ages had the Arab world, Ireland, Byzantium. The lights were always on.

Pitch: Billy Joel re-records "We Didn't Start the Fire" but every word is just "Trump" repeated.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

I'm loving Blue Sky, even though the mining company clearly isn't coming to my rescue.

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

I think every girl I ever dated liked my long eyelashes. Guys, is it gay to have features women find attractive?

Sounds good. Shut it down.

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

Tired: "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. Wired: "The Thin Man" is a Christmas movie.

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

Assad is sleeping on Tulsi Gabbard's couch now, right?

You’re welcome, #medievalsky!

Everyone always goes on about "The Grapes of Wrath" but the sequel, "The Bananas of Vengeance," is wildly understudied.

Yörc, a decorative skull that only has three steps.

It not just that life can be hard. It's that we have to put up Elon playing on easy mode his whole life while pretending he's the champ.

Current internet media literacy: “why was the movie called Goodfellas? They seemed like pretty bad fellas to me. Plot hole?”

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.” www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber

I loathe how the MAGA commandeered the word "lawfare" ti defend their openly criminal God Emperor.

The rabbit funeral procession from the Gorleston Psalter. The rabbits have a processional cross and a series of wax tapers to light the way. The rabbit priest sprinkles holy water on the coffin. Two dogs carry the bier. 14th cent. Add 49622 @britishlibrary.bsky.social #skystorians #medieval

No question we’re a killjoy discipline.