"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression"." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I will read this for the title alone. And the scholarship within is pretty good too, I'll bet.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Here's a helpful explainer of Article 4 and how it's been used in the past, for those interested. www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

🔥 Caernarfon Castle in Wales has some lovely 1/1 scale sprues in if anyone is interested 😂 #dnd #ttrpg #nerdlings #minipainting #rpg #warhammer #minis #WarhammerCommunity #miniatures #tabletopgames

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Did no one else watch Jurassic Park? Just me?

A fashion artist from southern California has beaded a medallion based on a creature from the 1979 science fiction-horror movie 'Alien'.

Squadron Leader Andy Mackenzie, feautred in the photo below, was shot down over North Korea during the Korean War. He became the only RCAF prisoner of war from the Korean War. Hear his recollection of being shot down over enemy territory youtu.be/3VuHkzdtYVI #RCAF #history #militaryhistory

Tim Sayle has a great new book out – published last week! – called THE NEXT WAR. It deals with the creation of a tripartite (🇨🇦/🇬🇧/🇺🇸) indications network in the early Cold War aimed at figuring out a truly pressing matter: when general war was about to break out! press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

An unidentified airman attempts to put the lid on a garbage can which contains a man dressed as Adolf Hitler at No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School in July 1941. Credit: LAC Item ID number: 3521071

Why no, the painting's not haunted at all Ghostbusters 2 style, why do you ask?

I love this photo and the article attached is great. As a museum guy I'm just picturing the discussion at the collections committee, "he wants us to do what?"

Ah, my first museum job. Scrape, paint, tour. A fun summer.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

#OTD in 1953, up to one million people demonstrated against the SED regime in the #GDR. In the early afternoon, Soviet tanks arrived to crush the protests. I wrote my PhD about how the uprising was remembered and I've published other stuff since (your access options may vary):

Oooh I had the middle one!

On my thrift store travels yesterday, I found these little gems :)

All glory to General Judi and her coterie of brave resistance fighters; may the blood of their enemies fertilize the greenery of North Yorkshire

Wonderful.

I spy @canadadeclassified.bsky.social on here now! Give them a follow for recently released records from Library and Archives Canada from the Second World War through the Global War on Terror. #cdnhist

Yuuuuuup. Ideas have never been the issue. The key is picking which ones are worth writing about, and which are worth writing will change with the specific author. I wrote a whole fucking novel about the moon turning to cheese. I assure you, ideas are the easy part. Execution is what matters.

17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We exist. We don’t need a cure. #IDAHOBIT

Well this puts a damper on my enthusiasm for tower defence games. BUT it is very well written and enjoyable.

Can anyone recommend work by historians on the theme of secrets, especially: secrets the historian encounters intentionally or not, and what they decide to do with them in their scholarship? Any time or place

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.

Look at that set design!

An article on the complex history of a Soviet torpedo at the Canadian War Museum, including its connections to the Korean War and early Cold War mine warfare, for the Canadian Nautical Research Society’s journal Northern Mariner: #NavalHistory #CdnHist (1/6): tnm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/de...

It's exciting to have the first tangible 'thing' from my current project out in the world! Also, thanks to the wonderful IFRC Archives, the article includes photographs of Henrik Beer, the League of Red Cross Societies' Secretary General, in Tashkent in the 1960s

My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc

Pleased to see my new piece, "Together Apart: Commonwealth Korean War Dead" has now been published online with the International History Review! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Roses are red Violet's a flower

Happy Valentine's Day, should you celebrate. I love this card from the CWM collection for the poem on the reverse: "Leaves may wither, Roses may die, Friends may forget you, But never shall I." Irene Suter sent this to her brother Pvt Martin Suter in the FWW. www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

18th century tooth artists were metal as hell.

l m a o

"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

sorry boss, can't get any work done--the crime i use instead of an imagination is offline

Hereby petitioning that all military histories feature a cover with a wet-nosed mammal. (Wherein a glitch in an online catalogue becomes an overnight publishing sensation)

RIP to the king

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

the key to a good post is editing. first, cut half of your post. now cut it again. keep going until it’s gone

In other news I would watch a movie where these two roadside attractions came to life and fought over dominion of a small Saskatchewan community.