Let’s all be sure not to sign up for Disney right away. At least until the next Mandalorian movie.

“Do not obey in advance,” unless you hope to get your stockholders a bit more money.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #propertyrecords #deedcovenants

Lyve longe and prosper! #StarTrekDay

This held me up: “it begins with an account of the plague in Florence, painting a vivid picture of its grisly symptoms and the social breakdown that followed in its wake. Boccaccio survived the plague of 1347 but Santagata, his biographer, died in the plague of 2020.”

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

Oh my goodness. Spelling Bee has an S in it today.

Unionize. You cannot do this alone.

Christ Church, Canterbury, glory.

Colbert is one of the reasons I’m able to get through this. It’s healthy to see someone who’s actually a decent person in the media. Shame on you CBS. #Colbert.

I want to put this seed of a point out there. It’s not manufacturing that made America great in the 20th century. Manufacturing jobs are hard on the body, hard on the soul, and often dangerous. What made those jobs great was unions.

“With the critical demand for nurses, SRU is leading the way for future nurses to earn their bachelor’s degree with the highest quality education in the shortest amount of time and with the lowest possible costs.” —Associate Professor Michele Crytzer, Slippery Rock University

#Bird of the Day: Bald Eagle (BAEA) BOTD is typically apolitical, but today I choose our national bird, the beautiful Bald Eagle. I’m feeling patriotic as I take to the streets to protest what's happening in this country that I love. I’m lucky to see BAEA quite often around my town, & on a long

Tonight (5.13 @ 6:30pm) learn about the connection between poetry and espionage with author Greg Barnhisel (gbarnhisel.bsky.social) and his book, "Code Name Puritan" (published @uchicagopress.bsky.social) at the Grolier Club. Copies will be on sale at the event with us!

I would really like Ryan Reynolds to buy the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I am not Catholic, but the prospect of a deep dish communion wafer is making consider this.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Bindingggg fragmentssssss

“Every lie we tell encourages a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt must be paid. That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes.”

#genealogy #dna

I find that I like reading style manuals like I like reading cookbooks. #cmos #ee #mla #joyofcooking

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

It‘s Hug a Medievalist Day! #medievalsky The Walters Art Museum, W.166, f. 118r

Fascinating story about the "The Battle of Nashville" painting by Howard Pyle, located in Minnesota's Capitol. 🗃️ www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

#manuscripts #fragmentology

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

A great writer and teacher about being a writer. And he started out as a Chaucerian.

Probably only one day in my life when I wake up to a rave review of my book in the New York Times and that day is today. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/b...

I just finished a book of easy compositions for guitar.  #andrewyork #andrewyorkmusic #andrewyorkguitar #classical #guitar #classicalguitar #acoustic #acousticguitar #music #composer #composers #composition #compositions #sheetmusic

Today is pub day for my new book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression. Available for free at many academic libraries. Until Feb 6 the 1st chapter is free here academic.oup.com/book/59025/c... For more abt the book, see global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Booksky #litcult 1/2

Wells Cathedral, because why not.

Duolingo reveals owl mascot killed by cybertruck https://triblive.com/business/technology/duolingo-reveals-owl-mascot-killed-by-cybertruck/

This site lets us know when a .gov federal domain is deleted.

Going to boost this post from r/Pitt. The university formally officially stating they're going to be irreparably harmed by the changes in research funding starting Monday.

this is very sad news #medievalsky

My new favorite Republican. I feel the man's anger.

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

"Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings" academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Current administration attempting to rewrite reality in their image by taking down websites. Great time to donate to support the Internet Archive. #factsmatter

'If the reader has no sense of who and what has been lost, then what is there to the cost?' Kathryn Gray: Two prizewinning poets take on death

That’s it. All writing in my basic writing courses will be in class, on paper with pen or pencil. Students are understandably thrilled.

It exists!

Rowing in the margin BL Add 42130; the 'Luttrell Psalter'; 14th century; England, N. (Diocese of Lincoln); f.160r