if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

solidarity with trans people and death to fascism

Lol. AI can't even run a vending machine.

The horrors persist, but so do the horrors wait

2026 will be the year I return to the correspondence of the boar-spearing Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), sometime Queen of Bohemia, ridiculed by most historians as The Winter Queen but known in the 17thc as The Queen of 💕. If I have missed any letters in Volumes 1-2, DM me or forever hold your peace.

"Weit je wat hieâh illeigeal is in dit land? Dat kreupele deimissiaunèâhe klaute kabinet!" #GehoordInHetKoffiehuis

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

All I want for Christmas is the downfall of AI

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

My article, ‘Visualizing the executions of British queens in early modern Europe‘, has been published in “Historical Research” and can be read here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Politiek in december Vandaag in @volkskrant.nl

i stand by this statement every year

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

it's more of a comment than a ques

I don’t understand why people ask you a question if they don’t want an honest answer. I was asked by someone what I would like for Christmas, but apparently a secluded castle on the Scottish coast “isn’t realistic.”

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

Hegel vs. Schopenhauer

@jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social Zullen wij nu ook eens een vuist maken? Je achterban vindt het onacceptabel als je gaat gedogen. On-ac-cep-ta-bel!

Mitbekommen, dass in Tschechien Hepatitis A schwer grassiert? #ImpfenSchuetzt

16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

Good too see some critical assessment. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it's supposed to work. I've been using liquid lidocaine as an anaesthetic to dull the pain of recurring oral aphtae since infancy so I doubt it'd do much for me (high tolerance). Would you just stop *feeling* tired?

Elon Muskov means: ‘European nations shouldn’t cooperate, so that Ruzzia and West-Ruzzia formerly known as USA, can easily force 🇪🇺 countries to submit to their authoritarian agenda’s.’ Europeans should quit Elons ‘social’ media, stop buying Tesla’s, stop using his (EU subsidized 🤡) #superchargers

Ik wilde meedoen aan het online protest maar zit in een fase waarin het (helaas) wat slechter gaat en lag die dag grotendeels op bed. Ik luister altijd met veel plezier naar #NietHersteld - de podcast van Guus en Hermien. Een aanrader voor iedereen die meer wil leren over long covid en PAIS.

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that reading Edgar Allan Poe in a dimly-lit café on a cobblestone side street in Vienna during a raging snowstorm whilst enjoying cappuccinos and croissants “doesn’t classify” as self-care.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

De tentoonstelling De Wereld van De Witt in het Dordrechts Museum eindigt dit weekend. Laatste kans om deze prachtige kunsttentoonstelling te bezichtigen.

Even if you believe that Covid is over: Could you please mask to protect yourself against flu etc. AND to protect others from the viruses YOU might be spreading? Nobody wants your "it's just a cold" either! Thank you.

He's probably having a meltdown because his name is not in gold letters. Do I think that's intentional? Is the Pope Catholic?

Don't judge these dissertations by their cover! Herman Nederburgh (1864-1935) gifted these copies of what appears to be his 1890 dissertation to his immediate family: his parents, sisters and fiancée. Their contents, however, is not what it seems. Read our #SpecialCollectionsBlog: ➡️ edu.nl/4qhcb

This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer doing my research amidst the shimmering glow of lanterns in an old-fashioned library in Prague during a thunderstorm, so I therefore must politely decline your suggestion to “just Google it.”

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

OVER 100 DAGEN IS HET LENTE!!!

In Nederland leven honderdduizenden mensen met ernstige, langdurige klachten na een infectie: een Post Acuut Infectieus Syndroom #PAIS. Getroffen door #LongCovid, #Qkoorts, #Lyme, #PostSepsis of #MECVS liggen deze mensen grote delen van de dag, soms zelfs 24/7, thuis, in bed. 🧵

Oh my God. Bluesky, you know what to do!! @shakespeare.lol beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

De kunsten: (Van unusual poetry)

Just to prove you are worth an 8p stamp.

Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers" Examples: Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers? What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers? Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer? Do entitled assholes with computers lie?

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

You last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

No, NOT Alexander Pope (hope I spared you the disappointment)

Wanted everyone to see this 🤷‍♂️

Using #Google = supporting US dictatorship. Today is a great day to #deGoogle. #BuyEuropean instead. 🇪🇺💪 buy-european.net/en/alternati... #seo #googleseo #googlemaps #googleservices #googlepixel #googletrends #googleads #goeuropean

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History