Watching the new season of Quarterback and Joe Flacco is so wildly unlikeable oh my god

Kenketsu-chan, a blood fairy with blood drop ears, is Japan’s blood donation mascot. She was snowboarding in Yoyogi Park today.

I am more worried by the lack of Adorno and Benjamin tbh

Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · 2d ago

Historians cited by at least 300 dissertations in a corpus of 10,229 open access history PhDs from Canada, the United States, Britain and a mix of European countries strongly weighted to France. What does it say about our discipline that Judith Butler is the youngest person in the core canon?

A punkin for a punkin

I was wondering why we’d been selling so many YCLTD hats the last few days, and it turns out I have @jamellebouie.net to thank for it 🥲

Sorry I’m so busy containing multitudes over here

I got to be a Russianist again for this week’s TGS episode with Shane Madej and it was sooooo fun

rest in peace to Dolores Huerta. after a lifetime of organizing, in her last year on earth, she chose to be brave enough to change the historical record; in doing so, she set an example for generations of feminists

Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor activist, dies at 96

Dolores Huerta helped lead strikes, boycotts and a movement for change.

axios.com

So I fully missed this happening one month ago but it turns out that my favorite living author is a TGS fan ??????? www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

AK Blakemore: ‘The best historical fiction is comfortable living with the sheer weirdness of the past’

The author on new novel Doom Painting, the parts of English history that are ‘intentionally minimised’, and her memories of 2005 bombings of London

irishtimes.com

In case you’re curious why I think AI is bad for, and bad at, history—and why it can’t actually DO history at all—this clip from my conversation with the wonderful @profgabriele.com basically sums it up.

American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · 6d ago

HAVE A LITTLE CLIP! @mikkibrock.bsky.social does such a good job here talking about what we, as scholars, owe the dead. #medievalsky youtube.com/shorts/REvvt...

At the phase of burnout where I have to regularly remind myself that breathing is a two part process during which the breath must go both in AND out

alas, my joke @thisguysucked.com merch has once again become real merch

I did this when I went to Portland 15 years ago! Grant Park, a few blocks away, has bronze statues of Ramona, Henry, and Ribsy.

I’m not even ten pages into Allison Leigh’s new book THE MISOGYNISTS and it has been a while since a book has made me feel this emotional. Just gut-punch after gut-punch.

I had a blast on THIS GUY SUCKED, hosted by the incomparable Dr. @ceaubin.com! We had a chin wag about the murderer, Eugene Chantrelle, who appears in my new book SLEUTH-HOUND. Have a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkOZ...

Eugene Chantrelle with Lindsey Fitzharris

YouTube video by This Guy Sucked

youtube.com

Alcibiades being a horrible person who treats his loved ones badly? I’m shocked

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Tomorrow on TGS: @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social and I remind listeners that they are NOT STRONGER than a Victorian child

If I don’t receive my prescribed dose of 1-2 apple cider donuts per day I die, actually, and it’s really insensitive for you to imply otherwise

We recently recorded a Freud episode with a very special guest and I’m sure everyone will be glad to know that our genuine good faith attempts to disparage the man almost entirely failed

"What will survive the demise of the so-called Budapest scene is a fractured group of rightwing thinkers who, whatever their fate in Hungary, will continue to hold a frightening level of influence over US political culture." #uspol #hungary #orban www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘The last bastion is gone’: the US right idolised Orbán’s Hungary. Can they recover now he has fallen?

The long read: Over the past decade, Hungary has been a beacon for the ‘postliberal’ right, with pro-Trump thinkers making regular pilgrimages to Budapest. Now Orbán is gone, how will the movement ada...

theguardian.com

well i'll be damned, the etsy witch worked

Thread. Please, PLEASE, if you support artists on Patreon, use the Patreon WEBSITE to manage your subs, *NEVER* the app.

reapersun@reapersun.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you pledge to my patreon through the ios app you will pay an additional 30% fee (Apple's fee, they keep all that!) AND your pledge is held by Apple for 75 days. So if you pledge to me in March maybe I will get that money for rent in June.

when you just had a haircut and it’s a lil chilly in the house

when you just had a haircut and it’s a lil chilly in the house

You will never take outwith from me!!!!!!!

Secret Edinburgh@secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Your annual reminder that people outwith Scotland don't tend to use the word outwith. Get outwith in a sentence today to spread awareness!

There are a lot of cool things about being a historian - for example, my fiance and I went to get tattooed yesterday, and we (inevitably) started chatting tattoo history… it turned out his artist knew @mattlodder.com! The world is so small when your job helps you make friends all over the place!

Drop what you are doing and read this incredible essay by @kristingrogan.bsky.social on the question of whether we can handle what Sylvia Plath shows us in her poems. It's brilliant and fierce and up to the job in a way that not many other writers could manage.

You Wince Like a Girl

More of Sylvia Plath’s writing is available than ever before. Can you take it?

bostonreview.net

I have emerged from TT job and fellowship application hell to say: THERE IS A NEW SPECIAL EPISODE OF @thisguysucked.com OUT! The wonderful @gregjenner.bsky.social and I chatted about what it means to do humor and history at the same and you should go listen to it.