When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

If I ever had a DNA editing robot I’d probably name it Gene Hackman as a little joke.

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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Really don't understand how there are people who don't like Irish trad or folk. It's the only kind of music that alternates between making me want to dance, cry, and chase a redcoat over the bog with a pike

Suddenly possessed with an all-consuming desire to learn Appalachian clog dancing. Please send help and/or clogs.