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me invoking @isabel.kim in the multitude slack

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 3d ago

pov: you are definitely not breaking the law

obsessed with the part where someone asks how she avoids erroneous information and she says 1) she has AI double-check itself 2) she has used it so often that she has a 'good feel' for the errors that it will make and just anticipates those

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Nick Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social and Christa Dierksheide convince me that there’s actually *another* reason to dislike this man.

Excellent news: I get to do another Russian history episode of TGS

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Nick Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social and Christa Dierksheide convince me that there’s actually *another* reason to dislike this man.

just came across a brand advertising their clothing in the funniest way possible

I am going to find the person responsible for Humidity and I am going to [redacted]

Alright y’all, thank you for the giggles - the answer is ELEPHANT SWORD because they just weren’t scary enough without ‘em!

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 3d ago

Here’s a fun history game for everyone who’s still awake: let’s play a round of Name! That! Weapon! (if you 100% know the answer because you have recently seen this weapon in person and you ruin it for everybody else im gonna curse you)

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

GET YOUR LAST MINUTE GUESSES IN - weapon reveal at 9!

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 3d ago

Here’s a fun history game for everyone who’s still awake: let’s play a round of Name! That! Weapon! (if you 100% know the answer because you have recently seen this weapon in person and you ruin it for everybody else im gonna curse you)

Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky

“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

Here’s a fun history game for everyone who’s still awake: let’s play a round of Name! That! Weapon! (if you 100% know the answer because you have recently seen this weapon in person and you ruin it for everybody else im gonna curse you)

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

Sometimes I get asked what my historian origin story is, and the actual true answer is this damn book

on today’s edition of Old Italian Men Who Are Going To Hell

hanging out with these divas today

being mean is good actually if you do it academically

Pedestrian sigma posture versus driver beta posture

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d ago

this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’

It’s a wonderful day to say Happy Birthday to me and James Baldwin and abjure JD Vance who does NOT deserve to have a birthday

Some of you just can’t exist without being mad online at allies and I very much encourage those of you to try to construct your identity around something else

A lot of people I really respect have been working hard for a long time to make this style of engagement *not* be the norm in academia. None of the people I am around do this (and would never valorize it) because it is the worst thing about the academy.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!

Just got the cutest coordinated birthday presents ever: a Met membership from my mother, and my fiance is getting me “anything I want” from the gift shop when we go tomorrow 🥹🥹🥹

Did you know the father of Eugenics literally invented ‘Hot or Not?’ !!?! This episode is now on YouTube/podcast apps worldwide

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello! The Francis Galton episode of You’re Dead To Me is now available on all global podcast apps, and will be uploaded to YouTube later today I’m joined by comedian Desiree Burch and museum curator Subhadra Das to discuss the 19th century scientist and father of Eugenics

A friend just told me they'd not been able to stop "seeing Rome" in different ways and different places since they read my book and if you would also like your peace of mind ruined / an extra layer of knowledge about the world around you, may I recommend you read it also? quarto.com/books/978183...

All Roads Lead to Rome

Whether you’re interested in history, contemporary global issues, or you're simply curious about why Rome remains relevant, All Roads Lead to Rome offers a fresh perspective on the lasting significanc...

quarto.com

it's muting time, good luck everybody in there

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 5d ago

A real question: were classicists acting this insane about O Brother, Where Art Thou when it came out

hey guys... haha... if you like this kind of thing, i've got a great podcast to recommend to you... no worries though...

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

they had their knives out for Wishbone: just constant complaints about his wife being human yet Telemachus not being some Goofy-esque dog-man, things of that nature

"Fire boots of the highest caliber can cost $800 a pair, with less expensive models in the $300-$500 range." Really fascinating bit of journalism/material culture/history on boots, firefighting, capitalism, and the (many) failures of the state. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

These boots are the safest for US wildland firefighters. Fewer and fewer can afford them

The handcrafted leather boots are a century-old tradition – but with money tight, the cost of up to $800 is harder to justify

theguardian.com