Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Seriously, especially the middle one. Marvel villain soldier meets fallen angel, with a hint of the Statue of Liberty. Crazy AF

The “Triumphal Arch,” the 13-foot high, multi-paneled woodcut print created by Albrecht Dürer in 1515, is on view now at the New York Public Library, but only until the fall when it’ll head back to storage.

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein. I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

Many of the writers in this (star-studded) lineup are Iberianists, including @madmcmahon.bsky.social @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social @cloecavero.bsky.social & @mia1va.bsky.social (+ allies @profliztingle.bsky.social & @emilymichelson.bsky.social) emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/n...

How is this the first time I was told that women made this

The Onion meets the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Roughly, left of the dark area is part of the far side of the Moon, not seen from Earth. The big round feature is the Orientale impact basin, the Moons youngest. That area was in darkness for all the Apollo flights so the Integrity crew are the first humans to see it with their own eyes

Killer rabbit.

I could space out on this all day.

Did you know... magnolia evolved on earth about 95 million years ago! Magnolia is so old in fact that it pre-dates the existence of bees and butterflies, meaning they relied on beetles to pollinate in their early days.

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

A heartwarming story of three spunky old nuns who escaped their nursing home and broke back into their locked convent to live out their days. Now they are traveling to Rome to plead their case directly to Papa Leo. Huzza for them!

How many can you identify correctly? Harder than it might seem. apple.news/AqLJF4JzdSxe...

Love the axial entrance to nowhere.

History should be rewritten

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

For nearly 200 years, these iconic — and Ionic — columns have welcomed visitors to the White House. Trump has privately mused about changing them to his preferred style, and now his top arts commissioner has proposed a plan to do exactly that. With @asteckelberg.bsky.social.

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

Drone footage of the site this morning… Source Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work: bsky.app/profile/benp...

You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

Architecture & Reflections, San Francisco #photography #architecture #sanfrancisco #nikon

www.newberry.org/calendar/rec... looks like an incredible program!

Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.? Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.

I can't believe this is a real NYT headline. In addition to being the tech-bougie capital, SF has to have the most natural beauty of any major American city, right? The giant mountains and the lush forests and the drastic cliffs that overlook the Pacific.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

This is actually very interesting because that’s what people get wrong about the Middle Ages as well. Simply put: you might know how to build aqueducts from self healing concrete but you might lose the need *and* capability to do so. Three separate things. Many misunderstand how societies adapt. 1/

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously

Weekend timeline cleanse! A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶 Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 475 BC. 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

Early modern women writing in books! An online resource. #earlymodern #Renaissance 🗃

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Tom Lehrer remains among the most insightful commentators on contemporary politics, which is saying something since he hasn't engaged in political commentary since 1972. Hope he's enjoying his 97th (!) birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwh...

Do not fuck with pasta in January

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

Good riddance.

What's an insult you'll never forget?