Moments like this are why I wish better databases on sales trends existed for scholarly research. The ones we have are a slog to dig through and tend to be year-on-year. Now of course I'm complaining with absolutely no time or willpower to fix it myself. C'est la guerre.

Oh bravo. Something that might hit big enough to make it west of the pond so I can practice my Gàidhlig. There are only so many old Dòtaman reruns an adult can tolerate.

Lets be very clear. Threatening military/economic force to annex the sovereign territory of a NATO ally is just plain buggering nuts. News outlets that normalize this kind of rhetoric without reporting it as the patent insanity it is have failed in their journalistic duty. Stop normalizing crazy.

There's a joke here about British hegemony and historic domination of Ireland but I can't quite get the punchline off my shoulder.

With Israel invalidating the '74 truce line, HTS in the north, SDF in the northeast, and the hodgepodge coalition in the south, not even accounting for the Turkish "buffer zone", I have to wonder about potential balkanization of Syria at this point. Assad's fall is likely only the first domino.

A useful explanatory thread. Given how fast things have moved in the last two days though it will be especially curious to see what takes shape now that Damascus has fallen to groups in the south, depriving HTS from completing their sweep down the central axis highway.

GO BLUE! HAIL TO THE VICTORS! What a stupidly ugly edition of The Game. But a win is a win. Well done #Wolverines.

It was fascinating to see the Church promote remote use of contact healing relics like the Shroud of Turin over zoom and other remote systems during Covid. It raised some peculiar theological questions but was generally explicable in existing faith frameworks. This? This is a theological pretzel.

1,000 days of war. We can and must do more. #SlavaUkraini

Between this and the recent Mayan discoveries, remote sensing technology is really having its day in historical studies. It makes me curious to see what we might find if the same level of sensing systems were applied to already discovered sites and how it might affect our understanding of them.

Definitely the old copies of Giant sized X-men #1, and Hulk #181 (first appearance of Wolverine) that I inherited from my dad's collection. Both classics, but also ones I've written papers on that helped me start my academic work in comics.

So I hit a 100 followers. I don't know why or how given what I do on here. But more power to ya you weirdos.

A friend just texted me, “Caligula only appointed one horse.”

Whole lotta people gonna get tenure off this. Really cool revisions to Mayan history coming if they find more sites like this.

Oy vey. It's even worse stateside. It used to be hold the battlements at Thanksgiving. Now we're lucky if we can guard the hastily erected barricades at Halloween.

This is such a useless framing. They wouldn't need a lifeline to call out about guns in schools if we dealt with the damn guns.

A really thoughtful op-ed. Trying to deconstruct problems of popularized Fanon/Said, decolonization, and the current version facing Israel-Palestine. Comes closer than most I've seen to a proper expression of what I struggle with daily in explaining to students. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...

Go Blue! #nationalchampions

Hail to the victors! #GoBlue! Onwards to the national championship game.

So I'm seriously wondering if we can get an SNL riff on Kissinger dying the way they used to do "Fransico Franco is still dead". This is now part of my holiday gift wishlist if anyone knows a producer or writer for the show.

Fixed it for you: Henry Kissinger, war criminal, has died aged 100.

The ongoing erosion of the post office under the current Postmaster General and board of directors is a mounting problem. Turnover on the board and subsequent removal of the PMG cannot come soon enough.

This is a tragedy. I grew up reading popular science at the local library. Deeply saddening loss.

This is art.

The tone is a little ridiculously hyperbolic. But as a union member currently out on strike in solidarity with a different bargaining unit this year, I can see the appeal. My unit is much smaller and has less bargaining power next year. Mass action would certainly fix that. Let's get French-mode on.

This is just too damned cool.

Stand with #teachers. Tell Portland Public Schools to come to the table with real proposals. We will walk the picket as long as it takes for a fair contract for students and teachers. #UnionStrong #SolidarityForever.

So awesome to see my old sport getting some love. Having broadcasts of games and now the Olympics rocks. But blocking out the Haudensaunee would be virtually criminal. They originated the game and are still one of its leading lights. IOC needs to make some kind of special provision.

This is monumental progress. Getting rid of the corroboration requirement and soon the "not proven" verdict option will massively advance safety against sexual assault in Scotland.

Some fantastic and clearly readable graph analytics of the Speaker problem. Especially in light of the now failed second vote, this issue looks fairly intractable. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The usual incisive commentary from Krugman. But with an extra dose of Green Lantern. @kjknoblauch.bsky.social does this mean we're legitimate now if GL is in openers for op-eds in the paper of record? www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/o...

Okay, Bluesky, do you know more about religion than the average American? Take the 15-question quiz here and let us know your score www.pewresearch.org/quiz/u-s-rel...