It’s a good day to cheer my 9-year-old on her cross country run!

The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy

THEY DID IT

Chris Bassitt. King.

Holy shit Springer!!!!

Vibes are off guys, way off. I’m emotionally making peace with this being our last game. 😂

I’ve finally hung some special photos of my grandparents and my dad. Just have one more grandparent to put up. They are above my desk reminding me I better write something worthwhile!

The symbolism of Canada's only baseball team playing in the World Series in the Year of our Lord "51st State" 2025 is too perfect to not happen.

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

A family member spent 4 nights in a hospital hallway, waiting for what they called urgent surgery. 4 nights. Ford is wasting BILLIONS, paying off donors/developers on highways to nowhere or building on wetlands, or ripping up windmills, or crappy license plates. Waste. While ppl suffer.

My essay ballooned to 9,000 and I worked long hours to trim it down to 7,000 words. And now we’ve been asked to increase our word count by 2,500 words 😂 I’m ready to make it into a haiku if I have to next

At the 12 second mark, that camera operator called an audible and just said "fuck it, the lane is clear, no tripping hazards, I'm winning a Sports Emmy for cinematography right now"

Am I mentally prepared for game 7? No. But bring it on!

Good for Schneider calling out the classless Seattle fans for cheering when Springer was seriously hurt. That was pure trash. Good for Schneider saying something. #BlueJays #ALCS

The baseball gods are cursing the Jays tonight clearly, so expectations are low. Que sera sera!

“i thought he was gonna kill me, it was great” is an all-time quote about scherzer but let’s not forget john following it with “he locked eyes with me, both colours” 😭😭😭

Love Mad Max for giving me the rare opportunity to watch a guy older than me dominate a Major Leage lineup #ALCS

Yessssss Jays

Got it! And went to a second location like the nerd I am.

Cold weather is upon us, and you, too, can look extra #gay in a pride hat from House of Faber! Every hat is hand knit by me, your local friendly queer trans nonbinary academic! www.etsy.com/shop/FaberAn...

The size of coffee I ordered didn’t have this cup, but I seriously considered stealing this mobile order.

Duchess Katharina von Mecklenburg, in v. fine outfit and with A+ little dog, in 1514. Painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose day is today.

Today's pick: Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba (ca. 1535) - Hans Holbein the Younger. At first glance this miniature depicts the visit of the [..] #art #Holbein www.artbible.info/art/large/148.html

Really enjoyed this @asherelbein.bsky.social story on maybe the most enigmatic and controversial rocks in the geologic record: the bizarre, premature-by-a-billion-years-or-so fossils[?] of large complex life[?] in Gabon. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...

I received a reply from @dramys.bsky.social about contributing to a panel, so this is what we have so far. If you know of anyone else who wants to think broadly about performance and the Reformation(s), please let me know. This is our working abstract - full text in the Alt description too

What a scene in Toronto. Singing it loud and singing it proud. Absolutely electric at the Dome for the start of the ALCS. Enjoy it sports fans.

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I’m getting tired just sitting on my ass watching this game.

Mariners and Tigers generously keep playing as I stay up late to write. I thank them.

For any @bluejays.com fans who want some content.

my year old decided to be an astronaut for Halloween and I kind of jokingly said I wasn’t going to allow him to be an astronaut in real life because I’d be too worried about him. He said “maybe you’ll be dead by then” I will be because you just murdered me lol

We’re all set up in Boston for MSA 2025! Do pop by the booth to browse our huge collection of books and journals, grab a conference discount and discuss all things modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Yeahhhhhjjhh jays I’m destroyed from that game but yes yes yes

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.

I’ve been saving up these pictures and ornaments for a long time and to have finally hung them is a good feeling.

Vladdy!

Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration! What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back? na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...

I’m sitting here editing an essay I’m writing and looked up to see a Blue Jay had landed on the roof next door. Now, this picture is awful, so you’re going to have to trust me that it was a Blue Jay. I’m seeing this as good luck for tonight.

I’m sorry. I love Trey Yesavage as much as everyone does, but “ice Trey” is a deeply uncool nickname. I might even pick big dumper over that.

Reminder: it’s Banned Books Week. Read some books! And remember that literacy is power.

In the tail winds (gales) of a diminishing storm (Amy). A day when light, colour, sound and perspective play with the mind... Sgarasta beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides.

Sometimes all you need is someone to hold your head when they hug you.

The Blue Jays have scored 23 runs in their first two postseason games this season. That's the most by any team in MLB history 🤯 H/T @chriskirschner.bsky.social

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

I am not well right now. In the best of ways. Grand slam Vladdy.

The biggest question is how to teach in a society that is fundamentally hostile to the deep goals of education, often without even realizing it

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.