Card of the day from the Thoth Deck for October 7 Death hermetic.com/crowley... 🃏 #tarot #ThothDeck #CardOfTheDay #DailyTarot #divination #cartomancy

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Worn #onthisday in 1989 by gay activists protesting outside the Pan Pacific Hotel in Anaheim, CA, which was hosting the West Coast Symposium on Homosexuality and Public Policy. Their T-shirts read "Silence=Death" and "OUT: Orange County Visibility League." #OTD 📷 LA Public Library

A study has just been published comparing writings by three pairs of twins to see whether they write differently, including me and my art historian brother Glenn. The upshot is that our styles are apparently very dissimilar. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YFIRR... #linguistics #twinstudies #philsky

Today we celebrate the birthday of our namesake, Fr. Matteo Ricci 利瑪竇, S.J. (Oct. 6, 1552-May 11, 1610). Happy Birthday, Fr. Ricci!

Moon update:

#DOTD in #ModernChina: Zhang Zhidong 張之洞 (1837–1909), reformer, military leader, and scholar-official. #勸學篇 #ExhortationToLearning #荀子 #Confucianism #科舉

#DOTD 23 CE: Wang Mang 王莽, notorious usurper and emperor of the short-lived Xin 新 Dynasty (9–23 CE). #OldTextConfucianism #古文經學 #RitesofZhou #周禮 #ZuoTradition #左傳

#BOTD: Matteo Ricci 利瑪竇 (1552–1610), #Jesuit missionary to #China #SocietasJesu #耶穌會 #SJ #ChineseChristianity #ChristianityinChina #Catholicism #天主教

We have a new Sinologist community on Discord - membership has a brief application & isn't *totally* open (it's professional in nature), but if you've been looking for a China group outside of bsky/Facebook/Twitter, this might be the ticket. discord.gg/g6S8WbVW

The Illustrated Study of the Creatures in the Mao Edition of the Book of Songs (《毛詩品物圖考》), compiled by Okamoto Genpō with illustrations by Tachibana Kunio, is an 18th-century Japanese tribute to Chinese antiquity. Drawing from the Shijing, China’s earliest poetic canon, this 1/2 #painting

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics. Application deadline: 15 November 2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

This also happened to many Japanese-American families forcibly detained between 1942-45. Because there was no timeline in EO 9066, very few were able to prepare for long absence and returned to looted or foreclosed properties. Restitution wasn't made until 1988: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_L...

Untitled, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/953197

#sinology #law Talk from Prof Liang Cai on the 15th Oct if you're in HK - doesn't appear to be on Zoom, sadly - and she has her book coming out at the end of the month, £110 also sadly, no sign of a paperback - Convict Politics, #China 221BCE - 23CE #law

Lu Jiandong 陸鍵東, Chen Yinke de zuihou ershi nian 陳寅恪的最後20年 [Chen Yinke's Last 20 Years] (Beijing: Sanlian shudian, 1995)

The Boundaries of Independence and Freedom—A Review of Zhang Qiuhui’s The Four Books on Chen Yinke open.substack.com/pub/ctexp/p/...

Thinking not for the first time about how the Clash song Spanish Bombs is closer chronologically to the Spanish Civil War than we now are to the song.

Emperor Augustus and the Sybil of Tibur, by Konrad Witz, 1435, 📸 by @branndannart

📣 2025-26 grant applications for the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) are open! Apply for funding to document, digitize and make accessible at-risk collections from around the world. Applications due Nov 17, 2025. Full details and Oct 9 webinar registration: ucla.in/4n8aJGS

Junk on the West River (Xi Jiang) Guangxi, c.1935, by TC Lau…

Located in the mountains of Yunnan, China, the Qiongzhu Temple houses a collection of fantastic Buddhist statues. This Thousand-Armed Guanyin icon is surrounded by over 200 arhat disciples, comprising part of a Five Hundred Arhat image collection over a century old. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Sinology #筇竹寺

Webinar beginning now!

Happy Sheela-na-gig day to all those who celebrate it.

In the 1930s, Christian, Jewish and Muslim residents of Edmonton worked together to build the first mosque in Canada. The effort was led by Muslim woman Hilwie Hamdon and the mosque exists to this day. This is the story of the Al Rashid Mosque. 🧵 1/10

An organizer friend says, repeatedly, that if it weren’t for Black women leaders there’d be no organizing. The church, naacp, D9 teach them how to organize, from the ground up in many cases. That and Heritage about the other massive training infrastructures left.

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes.#JacobinDay More information on potatoes

[October 1st, 1945] The U.S. War Production Board ends its wartime ban on the manufacture of radio and television equipment for consumer use.

Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #OTD

Today we are sharing Ariane Gauthier's piece on the "The Kapuskasing Internment Camp." This post was originally published on the @library-archives.bsky.social blog. niche-canada.org/2025/10/01/t... #cdnhist #envhist #labourhistory #warhistory

Proud to launch the Digital Library of Chinese Classics! 510 texts, 20 years of research, 500 scholars, 282 vols, in one comprehensive digital collection, empowered by Brill’s renowned dictionaries. Check it out: marketing.degruyterbrill.com/DGB_DLCC?utm... scholarlyeditions.brill.com/product/dlcc/

Who's ready to infuse new and exciting Canadian content into the University curricula? Killam Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies 2026-27 Bridgewater State University universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

[October 1st, 1945] The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was abolished by President Truman's Executive Order 9621. The order, signed on September 20, 1945, effectively terminated the OSS, though its personnel and functions related to intelligence gathering were transferred to a new unit, the

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The witch knows the turn of year through the sweet tang of apple rot carpet. She knows it in the slow striptease of hawthorn, knows it the wrinkling skin of berries. She requires no calendar but nature. Each season is sacred. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Oct 1st - On his 10th anniversary of being in the U.S., police officer Billy Wong (Jackie Chan) and his partner, Michael, went for a beer to celebrate. When the bar is robbed at gunpoint, Michael was killed. 📽️📅 The Protector (1985)

1942 World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.

Talking about Sima Qian with Alexander Boyd leads to the uncomfortable realization that a belief in cosmic consequences for bad leadership feels like a quaint notion in 2025. Link to the full episode: jeremiahjenne.substack.com/p/barbarians...

Card of the day from the Thoth Deck for October 1 The Hierophant hermetic.com/crowley... 🃏 #tarot #ThothDeck #CardOfTheDay #DailyTarot #divination #cartomancy

I guess my job is secure for a while, then!

Masks worn #onthisday in 1945 by girls in Hiroshima, Japan, as protection against the odor of death and the infections spreading rapidly through the ruined city after the US nuclear bombing of August 6. 140,000 people--more than half of Hiroshima's population--died in the attack. #OTD 📷Getty Images

@chanheeheo.bsky.social of @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social teaches us about the Christian nationalist origins of South Korea -- and why young activists are declaring "We Are Charlie Kirk" religiondispatches.org/charlie-kirk...

one nice thing about the zhuangzi is that people translate the names a lot

We have seen an upswing of what we term 'Happy Skulls'. Quite what they mean remains uncertain. One of my colleagues believes they speak of the beauty of death. I remain unconvinced. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1982

[September 30th, 1945] Gen. Douglas MacArthur signed Japan's unconditional surrender at 9:02 a.m. on Sept. 2, 1945, alongside UN leaders. He handed pens to Wainwright and Percival, with clouds clearing as New Zealand signed, symbolizing peace's return. 'Let us pray,' he said, 'that peace be restored

1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

Yellowhead Institute, "Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation" yellowheadinstitute.org/report/trc/ Assembly of First Nations, "Progress on Realizing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action" June 2024 afn.bynder.com/m/2fb4a0c35e...