Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!

Advice I received early in my career: Be loyal to your colleagues, but not the institution. Because the institution doesn't care about you. Never truer.

Sister in law Aroura sightings

We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Re-upping for #RemembranceDay

It’s the 11/11 make sure your poppy is in place…or else

I find the comparison between Mamdani and Khan very annoying. One Isa champagne socialist whose transit policy is a mess and who hasn’t done enough to crack down on property crime. The other seems to have an exciting comprehensive policy plan. I really see very little in common

The SNAP thing makes sense to me when I think about the phone calls I got working on the hill. The majority were probably people complaining of benefits fraud. Usually these calls were from the same people over and over again.

“The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.” Les enfants vont bien

Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A mere 30 years later people cheered building walls not tearing them down progress is fragile and must be fought for

"Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis … ist das sofort … unverzüglich" "As far as I know, it takes effect immediately, without delay" With that slightly improvised answer on November 9, 1989 by Günter Schabowski, the party chief in East Berlin, the border between the socialist East Germany and

A new exhibit at the New Haven Museum offers a fresh perspective on the Amistad revolt of 1839. Joanna Steinberg of the museum says the exhibit is connected to America's 250th and is an "unfinished revolution," one of the themes from AASLH's Field Guide for the Semiquincentennial.

Does anyone on here work with race and medicine in the southern US in the early 20th century? Niche, I know, but I came across something very weird in my late father's stuff that might be of interest. Feel free to share.

Most of my supervisors mentors and key allies in the workplace have been women. I’d say they made it better maybe nasty little men need to treat them with more respect

If a sector of our society as significant and all-encompassing as the workplace is “ruined” by the inclusion of half the population then by definition it was never working to begin with.

By disruptive tech I believe it’s people anticipating AI taking positions..actual savings have yet to materialize

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

Good rule don’t neglect home maintenance we’ve been in our place 2 years the previous owner did cheap repairs and no maintenance now we are paying for it

Flushing the radiators has revealed the boiler was unsafe and subsequently revealed our gas line has been leaking under the house 😨

Does no one listen to U2 anymore music.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2s...

I’m just so so tired

We are heading towards excommunication. Very 12th century. I like it!

It’s weird what can be a trigger for an anxiety attack. Very mundane things

I probably disagree with Mr Mamdani on 90% of his platform BUT I don’t live in New York and he seems like a decent young guy who genuinely wants to help. So I wish him well

Some people in academic admin are lovely others…like do they just hate money and industriousness

So NYC is going communist, apparently...

The administration came into office on apathy and disengagement from a general public..but perhaps they have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with a frightful resolve

This guy needs invitation to the palace and medal from HM at a minimum

One should normally be suspicious of pundits but the clear exception is Mr Bouie who seems very insightful and willing to be convinced by argument i say give him a follow bsky.app/profile/jame...

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

Being on X enables Musk and Musk enables the far right. There is no longer any excuse to be there and people need to leave.

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

I continue to think they are both 💩 but one has a silly hat

It's almost like every warning from economic experts about Brexit was true. Imagine that. And yet, many people who voted for Brexit are now turning to Farage - the very architect of Britain's economic downfall. The absolute madness of all this.

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

Repeat after me my countrymen GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS KING

Three new projects: Ukraine Consitutional History Red-Brown Coalition Fact or Fiction Conference on the 1990s..busy busy busy

a movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif…

Vietnam experts assemble!!!

Honestly I love this for Elon. They’ve kept X upright while constantly degrading the service, all under the banner of “hey remember Twitter? This is still basically Twitter. You’re too lazy to move, right?” Now they’re ripping out the user experience, replacing it with a Grok slop bucket.

Taking note of who failed to stand up when called to. Good strategy i think

Waiting for daughter to finish dance lesson

Chatting with the clerk at the game shop after I told my son he could learn about Warhammer when he’s a bit older. The clerk mentioned it’s not any more violent than Star Wars or WW2 I agreed but said my 8 year old needs to be able to grasp the satire. There was broad agreement this is the way.

My dear friend and colleague sent me his findings on some of the potential plans for Gorbachev visit to Washington in 1987…🤣😂🤣 it sparks joy

This keeps happening: Any straightforward statement of concern about what prima facie look like nonsense figures is met with derision as if the problem is the questioner isn’t in on the Very Special Secret.

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Wait I thought this was a dying website overrun with wokes and scolds..I am getting suspicious