When I was a kid a cow on our farm hot-wired a tractor and let the whole barn loose when it crashed through a gate, so yeah. I agree. Cow tools.

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In St. John's? Come to our event! ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research! #researchweek2025

Starting my yearly relisten to You’re Wrong About’s unfinished masterpiece on the OJ Simpson Trial.

Wavy Navy! Cnd naval reservists get wavy cuff embroidery instead of straight lines. I have always been delighted by this moniker.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Unidentified camouflaged ship, picture taken from HMCS MAYFLOWER in 1944, possibly around Normandy invasion. If you can identify this ship, please leave a comment. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Tremendous achievement by Kara Walker in dismantling and reconstructing the Charlottesville monument to Stonewall Jackson. Its howling self-destructive demise is on full view at The Brick in Los Angeles. Now titled “Unmanned Drone” (2025)

Look I know what he’s talking about but damn political cartoonists better make the most of “steam-powered catapults”.

I saw a fucking BREADFRUIT TREE today! Also VANILLA!!

Just make everyone in NYC cops already, this is taking forever.

Two unidentified crew members from HMCS TRENTONIAN during the North Atlantic crossing in April 1944. It is still cold on the open ocean as there are icicles hanging from the kisby ring. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

Piecework is how military clothing and uniforms were made 200yo and there is a straight line between that labour and this. Done by women, for next to nothing, this work built modern fashion, if not the modern world.

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Lord embarrassed for us that our lawmakers had to be in the room with Trump for his weekly “I’m not dead” appearance.

Buttered mashed potatoes with salt and pep, after you haven’t had them in a long time, are the most delicious thing ever. So perfect. So humble.

Having worked on clothing in the navy I can say that “logistics gay” is a very common modern sentiment from the public to academic historians.

#OTD 1/10/1941 #RememberRCN -Appropriately named, Sail Training schooner HMCS ATTABOY is commissioned into the RCN. The owner, Lt. Thomas Fuller, RCNVR (AKA -The Pirate of the Adriatic for his exploits commanding MGB's) of Ottawa loaned the 38 ft schooner to train RCNVR sailors.

The problem with switching to flannel sheets season is that now I never want to get out of bed even more than usual.

"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c... #envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

Got to look at 1950s sailor inventories today because apparently the RGSS never stopped requiring them! We saw records for deceased Indonesian passengers going to the Hajj and my first sailor killed by motor vehicle, hit by a lorry in Genoa while on leave.

Please help spread the word about our CFP? Id love to get a wide variety of posts for this series

Brazil mostly booked! Excited to use the only Portuguese word I know, "baccalieu!"

We are still open for participants in this year's workshops! You don't have to be a historian to be involved or consider yourself a maritime historian.

I looked for news about the rain and VOCM provided.

STATEMENT: We strongly condemn Israel’s targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza. And we call on our media colleagues everywhere to join us in speaking out. ricochet.media/media/statem...

Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory

Seven merchants ships from a Sydney, NS to St. John's convoy approaching their destination in 1942. The convoy is escorted by HMCS WASAGA. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 11/8/1938 #RememberRCN -A Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) Half Company is raised in London, Ontario. In 1941 it is named HMCS PREVOST, after HMS LADY PREVOST a 12 gun schooner that took part in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. HMCS Prevost / NCSM Prevost

Everyday another outrage.

Ok, let's depress ourselves still further, shall we?

Hey, I'm streaming transcription again trying to keep on track to finish these ledgers in August/September. Come join me! www.twitch.tv/gyups

I have a pineapple and now I need a banana!

Gonna stream some transcription work on twitch so if you are interested in some intense Excel/Tropy action or want to ask some questions about clothing consumption in rural Newfoundland, check it out: www.twitch.tv/gyups

Hulkamania is dead! Thinking about all the greats who died too soon to see this day.

I picked up Death Stranding on sale bc of some people posting about it on here and I really love it! Wish I hadn’t listened to the reviews and got it when it came out. It reminds me of so many games and yet is its own thing.

Great.... We managed to make field sanitation such that the endemic plague of field service (lice, and the typhus they carry) was pretty much a thing of the past. Way to improve "lethality" for peer to peer conflict. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-re...

Saw a picture of Sam Alito in a Carhartt beanie on one of his Alaska paid vacations, just so indicative of the very long history of the aesthetics of working people, especially working men, being marketed and coopted by the rich.

So weird that the Wordle game has a nazi blog called the New York Times. Someone should look into that.

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

The French: Looks like the capelin’s running b’ys.

Newfoundlanders! Did you know there is adult vaccination hotline? If you don’t know when you had your last measles vaccine, it was long ago, or you never got one, you can make an appointment and help yourself and your community! There are now two measles cases in PEI.

CanCon is so great, we even get our own “butterfly dipshit.”

As an historian, this is categorically false. The paper on this period would start with the fight before leading the reader through the more substantive consequences, called something like “Two High Agency Males Going At It”: The US Budget Crisis and the Decline of the Presidency in Spring 2025.

What a day to sit outside in the sun and touch grass.

Ship's Company, HMCS ROSTHERN, St. John's, Newfoundland, 20 May 1943 (LAC a173449-v6.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History

It takes nothing away from the brilliance of this show to acknowledge that this character was often humiliated and harassed in ways we would now recognize as totally gross, and it was Swit’s job to be plausibly so above it and so hyper-competent that she wasn’t pitiable or hateable.