Fantastic news from @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and from my university’s press @concordiapress.bsky.social ! So glad to see this out!

"Remember Trafalgar Square" Exactly a week later, on 20 November 1887, a second protest took place in London - with fatal consequences William Morris & Walter Crane combined to publish 'A Death Song', a fundraiser in aid of the children of young clerk Alfred Linnell

Today's remarkably enjoyable sabbatical read: Jan de Vries' "The Industrious Revolution" (2008).

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Kaiser says, "Relax!"

I was volume "H" of the World Book Encyclopedia for Halloween when I was eleven. My own design and doing! (H is for horses, in case you wondered.)

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

Trump administration thinks they're silencing dissent with their actions, but they're really forging heroes for us.

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

This may be one of the funniest moments shaping intellectual history, OMG. (Please feel welcome to share other great ones below)

Today, OCUFA is meeting with Ontario MPPs to discuss the serious threats facing our education sector. Ontario provides its universities with the lowest amount of total provincial funding per-domestic full-time equivalent (FTE) student in Canada, and it’s not close.

I'm mourning how Teen Vogue's fired its excellent current events reporters, all in the furtherance of white supremacist controls, while I remain grateful that People magazine continues its hard-hitting coverage. *record scratch* Man, nobody from the before times would believe this!

URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨 ​Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th). www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2... ​Includes Plus One & Double Airfare! ​Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!

But Constitutional Law is an academic subject. The problem is that lawyers in general are bad historians, and the current bunch are bad lawyers. (speaking as someone who taught history for 25 years and also has a JD)

A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

31 Oct 1537: the lead encased body of Queen Jane Seymour ends a week lying in the Presence Chamber at Hampton Court #otd Moved to chapel, buried #Windsor 13 Nov

Also open to and important for any Canadian researcher concerned with the Tri-Councils' mandates.

This looks fantastic - I love the concept and the art style. 'Roll the dice in this black and white first-person dungeon crawler inspired by tabletop Dungeons and Dragons. The Secret of Weepstone comes to PC in 2026, and you can play the demo right now on Steam.' youtu.be/U7cuH6IOXZM?...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I'm currently enjoying Garritt Van Dyk's "Commerce, Food and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" which should win an award for the perfect title for chapter two: "Primary Sauces: The Rise of Cookbooks, Cuisines, and Corporations".

Diligent searches of my notes and downloads paid off. It's time to re-read the story of a late 17th century serial murderer, Elizabeth Ridgway, who I like to call "the Poisonous Presbyterian".

FFS *done* Anyone have thread of all the ways to un-AI all the things? Preferably for Luddites.

Very sad news about the loss of historian Tim Cook, who died far too young. His impact on our understanding of Canadian military history was just massive. An outstanding historian. He will be missed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I've been observing the increasing idiocy of folks at GFR for some time now, but this most recent claim about the politics & gender profiles of Star Trek & Star Wars fandoms? A new, clueless low.

It's very much "go ahead and cite the Deep Magic to me, witch, I shipped it when it was written"

Delighted my podcast on Brilliana Harley has been released. She died on 29th October 1643 of a 'defluxion of the lungs ', probably pneumonia @susanwabuda.bsky.social @suwesterman.bsky.social @sdamussen.bsky.social @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @jamesdaybell.bsky.social @englishcivilwar.bsky.social

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Former cop is in jail for committing thought crime against the memory of Charlie Kirk theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

Pretends to be shocked www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

To get Spots of Ink out of any linen Cloth. Before that you suffer it to be washed, lay it all night in urine. The next day, rub all the spots in the urine, as if you were washing in water, then lay it in more urine another night, & then rub it again, & so do till you find that they be quite out.

I’ve seen the skeet about this principle. I concur. Seeing a preteen develop up close the last year or so has added a lot to my perspective on how adults behave. These people are truly just small humans having big emotions they cannot process because they have permissive emotionally absent parents.

Go to @feedingamerica.org to donate time AND money! They reach into every US county and lead advocacy efforts to improve access to #SNAP, school meals, etc. Volunteering is easy & rewarding. With tariffs spiking prices, families are already supplementing insufficient SNAP funds; plz give if you can!

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

As Donald Trump moves to lock up his critics, Canada's Conservative leader thinks "hey, there's a good idea!" (Gift link) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

To sauce an Eel. Take a very large eel and split it, then take out the bones and strew it with some sweet marjoram, thyme, rosemary, mace and some nutmeg. Then roll it up and tie it hard, sew it up in a cloth, and boil it in water and salt. Then make a sauce drink for it with beer, water and salt.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

We must always ask who benefits and who is harmed. These companies did not pay their mechanical turks a decent salary, why do ppl think they care about society at all?

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

Today, I'm surveyed out on questions about generative AI. There was a huge federal survey and then another university level survey. And I just want to say that the emperor has no clothes but I have to do it nicely.

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech. We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Hankering for some pancakes? Some recipes from Restoration London, courtesy of Hannah Wolley's cookbook. Note: Good pancakes require a fair bit of clarified fat for frying. The second pancake recipe uses breadcrumbs for a base. As for spices? It's always a good bet to include nutmeg!

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink