This hurts my brain in the best way.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 7h ago

Love this: Méditerranée Sans Frontières Sabine Réthoré 2011 Seen in the MUCEM museum, Marseille.

If an entity call MS-NOW winds up being historically important, how embarrassing

So….I typed the word “accountable.” It was highlighted as wrong. Why? Apparently, the right word is “acvountaboe.”

Goose chasing meme: who slashed the dinghy? WHO SLASHED THE DINGHY?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10h ago

Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Welcome to 2026, when things are so deranged that Jacob Rees-Mogg is basically now sitting at the political center.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterday

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

Anyway, Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine will be out June 2027.

Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 20h ago

I will not fall for this bait.

Fuck it. I bought an RNLI flag.

Woke up in a cold sweat from a dream in which Melvyn Bragg asked me to give a quick definition of modernism

Hadn't realised that the Royal Society had invested in the Royal African Company (November 1682, £200). Just one thing learned from Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga, series 1, episode 1. On iPlayer now. #Skystorians

“Colonial Bajor and the Cardassian Settler Imaginary”

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · yesterday

Right then, our turn What's your fake Star Trek academic paper

John M MacKenzie, the founding editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Inperialism series that i have the honour of co-editing, has sadly passed away. Our tributes here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09...

Celebrating the life and contribution of John M MacKenzie - Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

Archival Name of the Day is Salem Middlesex, who was prosecuted for theft in 1797. Many African Americans in New England were given or assumed geographical names, incl. Boston, Bristol, Gloucester, Newport, Charlestown, Dublin, London & Salem. Salem, though, is in Essex, not Middlesex, County 🗃️

They even made DoorDash apologize.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

If we were truly talking "top academic talent" a) Canada would be investing in the people who already work there and b) people who are teaching 5/5 at a community college and changing people's lives on a shoestring would be top of the list.

The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Three current and former Harvard researchers are heading north to Canadian universities as part of a sweeping $1.21 billion government effort to recruit top academic talent. Riya S. Shah and Juliana L. Yao report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Apropos of the “can POC be English?” discourse... does anybody know of any good recent scholarship on the tendency of England-born POC to identify as English and/or British? I’m way less interested in normative debates on the question than in how people actually understand their identities.

Looking for resources for senior seminar students, TIL that there was a Spanish-language newspaper—El Evangelista mexicano—published in Nashville in the 1890s. < hndm.iib.unam.mx/consulta/pub... > 🗃️

Winter Fall/Autumn Spring Summer

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fall. Winter. Summer, Spring. Seasonal joys in proportional order, I won't be taking any questions.

After all, what is the elaborate, quasi-millenniarian belief in Trump's eventual deliverance of all-healing medbeds but a disguised and distorted plea for universal healthcare?

Whatever frustrations you feel about young adult students not reading, not following directions, and not trying to problem-solve before bleating for help, I ASSURE you that these things are just as common in a class of grown-ass middle & advanced age adults 🫠 It's NOT the youth, y'all, it's PEOPLE.

Can't remember exactly when it was I first saw a URL on an advertising hoarding, but yeah, whenever that was, a year before that...

Claude Willan@claudewillan.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you could freeze the internet at one point in time, and you had to take all the losses and gains that that involved, no hybridisation etc, what year would you pick? I'll start: 1997

Cold War lesson plan. Show this All-Star Comics #22 panel, published in 1944, and ask students to discuss - “Using textual and visual evidence, what do you notice?” When they are done discussing, ask them to look again at the text if no one noticed that “under God” is missing… research the change

I've learned that people get much more excited about my lectures when I include the word "dead" in the title. "I'm lecturing on nuns tomorrow." Meh. "I'm lecturing on dead nuns tomorrow." Well, tell me more. (It's 17th century new France. All the non-nuns are also dead.)

And who says there’s no such thing as “national character”?

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

I’d also throw out there that I have students (first gen, working class) who drive something like 400 mi/wk to attend classes, commuting from small towns without public transportation. At $6/gal that is nontrivial—perhaps on the order of 2hr/wk of wages to pay for the increased fuel costs.

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 4d ago

This is the same logic they used to push for a $5/mo minimum premium for ACA enrollees regardless of income. "It's just $5/month! What's the big deal?" When you only earn ~$2,000/mo, literally EVERY dollar counts. $45/mo can mean the difference between having your electricity turned off or not.

Any antifascist out there have a full download of the VNN forum and other compiled DBs of posts? I have stormfront and want to compare how they speak for a paper I'm writing.

The Butlerian Jihad will not be televised

Weinersmith on near-term Mars colonization:

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think we could do it right now. It's just that it'd be a pointless waste of massive resources. But if it was a trillion dollars on war or a trillion dollars on getting a permanent Mars base I'd pick the second thing every time. I am just pro-realism, anti-hype.

The thing about actual Roman damnationes memoriarum is that they didn't really obliterate all memory of a bad emperor. None of our sources are afraid to talk about these figures. It wasn't truly about forgetting the guy, but about abolishing his (positive) public commemoration.

Andy Dimock@adimock.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Damnatio memoriae” sounds satisfying, especially to us Roman Empire obsessionists We should tear down every building he built But we can’t excise him from the historical record, Roman style, because he needs to be highlighted in perpetuity as the shining example of everything the Founders hated

I can't wait to see the NYTimes both sides their own banning.

WWII audiobook narrator: calls Dönitz “Doughnuts” me: it’s gonna be a long war