Hey everybody, I hate to ask, but I’m putting out my hat if anyone can help. I haven’t talked about it because I didn’t want to make it a big deal but two weeks ago I had to make an emergency room visit. With the big unexpected expense, start of the month payments I’ve hit a negative balance hard

yesterday i went to a jeopardy taping and someone in production asked me to take off my n95 for when the camera sweeps the audience. i said “…no?” and then i didn’t do it. and nothing bad happened! so: try saying no more. it’s good practice for the fascism.

Oh hey it's me! I've used my history degrees for lots of things but this is the silliest

Popping into say ▪️DC is perfect the way it is ▪️Taylor should really be talking about Palestine ▪️If you're excited about her new album, you better be following real showgirls (see @thenerdlesquefest and @itsaquariusmoon on Insta!) #lifeofashowgirl ▪️Stay tuned for Sprigs & Kindling's August edition!

You are worthy of focused attention from your medical team. 🖤💙😷🥄

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

“Whether one really loves God can be determined by the love borne toward others.” Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev

1. First #TTRPG You Ever Played - D&D 5e 2. First You Ever Ran - MotW 3. Played The Most - D&D but I'm looking to change this! Invite me to your Fate or PbtA or CfB games! 4. Run The Most - MotW 5. Favorite - Raccoon Sky Pirates maybe? 6. Most Recently Played - The Between (see comments)

Good morning to job hunting 2025

THIS is spiritual leadership. I would like statements from Jewish leaders wrt Jews & non-Jewish employees of Jewish orgs at risk of ICE w/similar thoughtfulness. I would also like to see clear language stating that all Jewish spaces are regarded as sanctuary from ICE now. Never again is now.

so sad to be missing this!

Happy Pride month!! 🏳️‍🌈

I’m mysterious in a “how did they get chocolate in their hair” kind of way

so many saints do an insane amount of double duty. sailors AND intestinal diseases? Plague victims AND wolves?? girl you need a better contract

Definitely not our worst problem, I know, but ProQuest running a *national* dissertation award contest in which they choose *one* winner for all of “the arts and humanities,” and then giving that winner a certificate and $2k, is really sending me today. It’s pathetic

I got to meet @venessakelley.bsky.social and @chippons.bsky.social at Bard’s Alley and it was an absolute delight 💙 If you, like me, enjoy historical romance and circus stuff and beautiful art, go get When The Tides Held the Moon!

Some unfinished drawings I never posted from 2019 of Heavenly Bodies looks as art history references. Rip to Chadwick, I know he would've nailed this year's theme

First ep drops TONIGHT. Go ahead and give Kitten Marlowe a cheeky little follow on your podcatcher of choice if you’d like to hear the exploits of some very horny monster hunters in an equally horny Victorian London. I feel like we are doing #TheBetween proud.

I’m a super accepting person until I see someone wearing flip flops on the metro

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

I cannot express how excited I am

I have THREE

today’s joy is eating soba with my sister and my partner as the sun sets on a day that felt like summer

me last week: I’m gonna read @iamatrex.com’s Sprigs and Kindling zine! me a few days ago: I’m gonna submit content for the zine! me today: I’m gonna volunteer to copy edit! Sooo anyway go check out sprigsandkindling.com

Just got yelled at by TSA because I "smiled too much" in my drivers license photo, thereby ruining their new facial recognition software they use at checkpoints. Unrelated, did you know that the TSA routinely and massively fails to detect weapons when tested? abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive...

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

Say what you want about Kendrick but the fact that people are figuring out what “40 acres and a mule” in 2025 is why any education to black history is important, no matter no big nor small.

today in Fuckery, Israeli police raided The Educational Bookshop, an iconic East Jerusalem chain of Arabic & English books on the Occupation & the history of Jerusalem -- and arrested the owners on "incitement to terrorism" grounds. Everyone in peace/ coexistence work knows this place.

imagine if the eagles win the Super Bowl again and it happens in the year nobody can afford to throw eggs. the entire state of New Jersey will collapse

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

I don’t even live in Minnesota but I am barreling through Tropes and Trifles’ 2025 reading challenge like my life depends on it

watch me play the part i was born to - sam the eagle - in a live stage reading of the muppet movie this coming sunday to benefit california wildfire relief! in-person tickets are sold out but the livestream is available to all!

This weekend I had the absolutely magical experience of seeing Judith Schaechter’s masterpiece Super / Natural in person. Judith has been working with the department of Neuro-Aesthetics at Penn and was prompted to create a sanctuary space (1/2)

Mercantilism is such a lame thing to bring back from the 17th century. Why couldn’t they bring back the fashion instead?

Hey, if we could stop calling fantasy written by women YA simply b/c the author is a woman and features a female protagonist, that would be great. While we're at it, if we wanted to stop classifying historical fiction as fantasy simply b/c there is a woman pirate or something, that would be awesome.

This was my favorite book of January, with honorable mention to Lucy Foley’s The Midnight Feast!

2020 me: I can’t handle horror 2025 me: Horror books are much better than reality, gimme all your LGBT+ horror recs

Hello blueniverse! I am coping with the Everything by reading a lot of fiction, so I will probably be posting about that here. I also want to shout out @gauntletrpg.bsky.social and their game The Between, which is currently the highlight of my week with @chaoticblade5.bsky.social

For folks who enjoy Fate #ttrpg, @thecritshow.bsky.social's new AP podcast features The Clockwinders, @madjay.bsky.social's awesome clockwork fantasy setting. You can listen to Session Zero here! www.thecritshowpodcast.com/our-shows/th... Episodes drop weekly.