Very excited to announce my new book, coming out later this year from Putnam ❤️

Can't wait for the inevitable three-part Netflix special on this 👀

A widely used #Christmas time special of the European past was to buy and wear a paper crown. A paper crown, #skystorians? Yes, a printed paper crown. And the tiny street seller highlighted in this #earlymodern painting is selling them. Let's have a festive 🧵

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I've been asked for information about UK-based researchers with interest in TTRPGs and Actual Play. I have a half-dozen names off the top of the dome, but would be happy to hear of more to pass along for Schemes.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you are using without explanation

Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine. Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

If you haven't listened to @maddow.bsky.social's new podcast series Burn Order, then you should remedy that asap. It's a very timely and well-told story about the last time (before now) that the US invoked the Alien Enemies Act in an unconstitutional manner. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”

It even now has its own research project site! bsky.app/profile/karl...

This is the thousand-year-old Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire. Made from 22 carat gold, 144 precious gems, and dozens of pearls, its eight plates were originally held together by pins and stabilized by the removable arch across the top, meaning it could be flat packed for easier transport

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

There's a right-wing group led by Randall Terry currently trying to break in and blockade the Planned Parenthood location in Memphis, TN. This morning, they tried to drive through to the employee entrance, but my dad, who is volunteering with a local activist org, stood in the way of their vehicle.

Trump administration claims Europe is in danger of “civilizational erasure” due to immigration and signals support for Nationalist parties like Reform in the UK and the AFD in Germany, which is classified as an extremist party Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day

I got to see part of this quilt in person several years ago when I was running a sex ed booth at a fundraiser for World AIDS Day. It feels like we’ve lost so much ground since then. This is an important resource. Pass it on

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder Jared Leto, actor Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

The hero we need

Ooh my birthday was last week so I can do this now! Over 40, no filter, vibing in Vienna

A chandelier in the Great Gallery of Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna. Painted by Gregorio Guglielmi, the ceiling frescoes depict Maria Theresa and her husband, Franz Stephan (parents of Marie Antoinette), surrounded by representations of the virtues of a good ruler. #ChandelierSunday

History lovers, if you haven’t seen Netflix’s #DeathbyLightning, do watch it. Only 4 episodes about 2 men, President James Garfield and the man who killed him. What I loved about this little discussed episode in history is that it focuses on the characters of the men involved, and something else…/1

My book The Contagion of Liberty, which, among other things, explains the enthusiasm early Americans had for public health and inoculations. Is coming soon to paperback and can be preordered for 40% off with code HHOL25 www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

"The fear factor is large. It affects everybody—universities, politicians, faculty members. People are worried about getting in trouble." Friends react to ICE kidnapping of Iranian scholar Vahid Abedini en route to MESA conference Read more: www.newarab.com/news/iranian...

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann

I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.

Just by the way if you have a friend or family member who is interested in learning about Ancient Greece you could give them my little book this Christmas. It’s good (I hope!). #ClassicsBluesky

Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

The wonderful @adapalmer.bsky.social does a podcast on lessons from history for resisting authoritarianism, tryranny and censorship. For my Canadian fellow citizens, think Doug Ford and Danielle Smith. Every act of resistance matters. www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...

Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?

there has been no meaningful improvement in the devices or their functionality in 10 years in any way that affects what any normal person uses them to do, people only switch when forced updates cause a device which worked fine yesterday to lag so bad you can't type at full speed until you replace it

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

This book is fab! We had a great chat about it with Kathleen on Dirty Sexy History

It was never about going after criminals or gang members

Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

OH MY GOD

As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.

The Jesuitenkirche in Vienna, or as my husband calls it, “The Jesuit Church of St Extra.” It’s pink! Designed by Italian architect Andrea Pozzo in 1703, the flamboyant design of the Jesuitenkirche was a statement about the power of the order in the Counter Reformation

This story is bonkers and also (somehow) very Wisconsin. It reads like a short story with a moral and really nails the time and place. I found it chilling that the recovery tech’s brother also died by drowning. Those deep lakes are something else www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Hard to describe the feeling of walking into the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Fleischmarkt in Vienna (completed in 1858). I was the first person in when the doors were opened. It was very dark, but then they turned on the chandelier and I was stunned. Pictures do not do this place justice.

Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.