Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

The 5th Hong Kong Game Enhancement and Promotion Scheme held its Award Ceremony Cum Experience Sharing Seminar

German WW2 design philosophy: 'what if we built a tank that can't cross any known bridges?' Allied WW2 design philosophy: 'what if we stuck a REALLY long ladder on the end of a landing craft so that we could attack cliffs?' www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

"Chinamaxxing" isn't a harmless trend, but an inherently racist concept that perpetuates ethnic stereotypes and cultural appropriation. "Chinese" is not a monolithic identity, and it is a damn shame that embracing ethnic identity is becoming an internet fad for white people (again).

Really significant, I think, that the leaders of the Greens and Lib Dems were very visible at Transmission, very happy to publicly demonstrate a commitment to the dignity of trans people. But the Labour frontbench, which still likes to cosplay respect for human rights, was nowhere to be seen.

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

I love the Chinese translation of ‘government’ in Victoria China Town’s ‘Government Street’: 加富門 Gaa1fu3mun4/Ga1fu1mon3, WEALTH INCREASING GATE (or maybe even CANADA WEALTH PORTE?). The phono-semantic match also has a lovely Yue/Canto flavour to it 😁😁

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

🧵1/x Lots of blunt and contradictory conclusions by (de)generative AI on extent of #DEI in #AsianStudies projects that had received funding from #NEH

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Remember, 'Professor' Jiang Xueqin, who 'correctly' predicted the 2024 Iran airstrikes and Trump's election via psychohistory? Well, I'd already noticed his Holocaust denial, but TIL he's a general conspiracist who thinks a Jesuit-Jewish-Masonic cabal runs the world. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives This post is not about airships

Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we... ...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

I woke up thinking of all the times older/established men in the industry have said or done problematic things, & I've been reassured they didn't mean it like that or it's been misinterpreted. "It's just how they are, Annie, you're overreacting". -

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams. Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.

USS Hong Kong fires a Warning Shot at a Klingon D5E cruiser near Acamar, summer 2262. The D5E was a workhorse of the early cold war period, alongside the equally venerable D4E and F cruisers.

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Between takes on set Peter Cushing painted wargaming figures. He'd invite female costars to join him if they were new, looked lonely or being perved on by others on set. "Scream Queen" Ingrid Pitt proudly showed me the little figures they painted together once. Kept them all her life #nerdlings

The Atlantic’s in-house historian, Jake Lundberg, is answering questions about the history of print media in the United States, his career as a historian, and the relationship between media, politics, and culture. Ask him anything today on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I think I have officially won at Mapster.

It's why they don't typically actually quote him at length. They just paraphrase & go, "He said this today... he meant this." I used to be a video lecture transcriber & this is how'd one would absolutely on purpose make speakers I didn't like "read" as stupid as possible.

Please sign this petition to pressure the British Museum to reverse their decision on erasing Palestine from their archives: c.org/RhDbZY8bh2

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

I don't usually post about VTuber fandom stuff on bsky, but when I do it's to say Nazi VTubers can fuck off – Nazi VTuber agencies doubly so.

I regret(?) to inform you that uh... the Hanfu people have discovered the Taiping as of last December, and are now strutting round the Forbidden City as Heavenly Soldiers.

this discourse is so funny bc Luígi was an incoherent dirtbag centrist who loves Musk

I'm starting to wonder if the Qing authorities knew that the ringleader in the 1903 Canton Rising was the nephew of Hong Xiuquan or not. The Qing Veritable Records include instructions in March about the importance of catching him, and another in June about his execution. Neither mentions his past.

antonygreen.com.au/will-the-coa... For those not familiar with Australian politics, the Right wing faction of the Coalition (our Once and Future opposition party) bullied the first female leader of the Coalition out of politics, which will may well result in them losing another seat.

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The UK conversation on immigration is so divorced from the reality that we've cut it by two thirds in a year and are likely headed to net emigration. Why, in a statement condemning racism are you acknowledging we should "curb" immigration?

Generous fellowship for advanced Chinese language study available for GWU grad students: gradfellowships.gwu.edu/gitter-fello...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02... The Telegraph is once again realising that people hate what they stand for, but it is the people's fault

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

I always knew r/conservative were bottoms.

One of these platforms has been home to a decade-long project to bring curated, high-quality and in-depth public history content into people's feeds every day. Just saying.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Labour has one chance to pick a new PM – and then they must deliver the change Labour promised in 2024, while avoiding the scandals, chaos and U-turns that have characterised Starmer's disastrous 18 months" Are the stars aligning for Angela Rayner? Me for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/ange...

good reminder in case anyone forgot what kind of group phase connect are (racists and grifters)

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

TIL (unsurprisingly) that the Chinese term for colonisation (殖民) borrows from Japanese, but also (more surprisingly) that one of the main theorists of Japanese colonialism, Nitobe Inazō, was genuinely thinking about colonial agriculture when he advocated writing 'shokumin' as 植民 over 殖民 in Japanese.

Apologies, previous skeet should read "more visitors in a week than the Smithsonian Museum of American History *does in a year*". This fact also blows our minds, apparently.