To do an AI production of Wagner in Bayreuth of all places… there really are no limits to the arrogance/ignorance/sheer disrespect of AI evangelists. From the stalls to the balcony, we are going to win.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.

an der schönen, blauen, trockenen donau… seems bad when the climate crisis is at such a level that the relatively clean energy generating option no longer works (cf hydroelectric dams also not being able to work during a drought) and so we must burn fossil fuels to stay alive in the climate crisis…

I think nations of the world should unite to establish a general international organization to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, reaffirm faith in human rights, and promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.

good morning from asia’s world/worried city

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

I’m so bored. Imagine thinking this is the pinnacle of the game when the champions league final happens every year.

stop kicking it around in your own 6 yard box enough already with this playing out the back nonsense

This is why you should always choose to go do research in Kew Gardens:

Aaron Bateman@aaronbateman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime nuclear test.

To misquote a French minister, our current world order is shaky at best if every four years it is left to the whims of a handful of voters in Wisconsin.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4w ago

People don’t want to believe it’s over over, they want to go back to Obama, but that died the moment seven swing states decided eggs cost a bit too much

The IOC pretending that this was over the Russian NOC operating in occupied territories is absurd. If that was the case then Russia would have been banned since 2014. We all know where the international community drew the line and the IOC followed. Now the IOC is bowing to powerful reactionaries.

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 4w ago

The International Olympic Committee announces that it has provisionally lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee which had been in effect since October 2023.

1839: Belgium established to preserve the Concert of Europe and world order 2026: Belgium won a football match to preserve the integrity of the sport (and also world order, I guess)

Matt Fitzpatrick@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thank you, Belgium.

BIG ROM!!!

this is concacaf after dark chaos

Apropos absolutely nothing, definitely not about inclement weather affecting a wanna-be-emperor’s fête, I think the Duke of Zhou wrote a few millennia ago something along the lines of: Heaven is not constant and very difficult to rely upon; the Mandate of Heaven is not easily preserved.

The corridor chat is an interesting point. On one hand we have been losing traditional genres of evidence for historians i.e. paper memos, minute sheets, diaries, but on the other hand these chats we used to rely on post hoc recollection to know about are now being recorded live on email/WhatsApp.

Helene von Bismarck@helenebismarck.bsky.social · last mo.

Thought-provoking. As a historian, I obviously want everything. But the general point, that banning one Platform for informal chat will only lead to people using another, is hard to argue with. Side-Note: chatting in the corridors is vital, but less of it takes place in a working-from-home world.

funny when it happens twice on the same day

Krimson the Visible Ninja@krimsonvnm.bsky.social · last mo.

It has been such a great joy to attend the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social summer institute. I have learned a lot from amazing colleagues who have become great friends. Big thanks to @cmcknichols.bsky.social, Andrew Preston, the SHAFR council, and @mershoncenter.bsky.social for making it all possible.

Christopher McKnight Nichols@cmcknichols.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is the last day of the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social summer institute @mershoncenter.bsky.social with an amazing 16 early career scholars. Exceptional research and writing workshops and discussion every day, more invigorating than draining, so glad SHAFR and Mershon support this program.🗃️

*völlig losgelöst intensifies*

Must read on the newest marathon world major, the Cape Town Marathon, from the @shafrhistorians.bsky.social run club captain herself:

Mattie Christine Webb@mattiecwebb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share my newest article, which sits at the intersection of distance running & African politics. The Cape Town Marathon is now a World Marathon Major, but what does it mean for South Africa to represent the African continent? africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

OMAHEELS!!! 🐏⚾️

well the knicks deserved that one I think—especially jalen bruson.

This but unironically.

Sarah Pickman@sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think this is a legit good idea but also laughing picturing a BookToker holding up, say, a copy of Seeing Like a State and gushing “The world building in this book is INSANE” 😅

Yellow line to *Greenbelt* spotted in the wild… @wmatagm.bsky.social out here delivering better service on the metro! @wmata.com

I will never experience anything that could ever match watching the UVA 2019 men’s basketball national championship run. It was my fourth and final year in Charlottesville, after the first round exit the year before, and the crushing Elite 8 loss two years before that. Joy did come in the morning.

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I hate people saying “act like you’ve been here before” to sports fans who get too excited or wound up about their team finally being good. Take it from someone who knows: it’ll never feel better than when you’ve never been here before. There’s nothing like it.

Every kid who was legally allowed to stay up past their bedtime in New York City to watch this game should be running to a local park [at 11:12pm] to try to recreate this Brunson jumper

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2mo ago

absurd bucket from Jalen Brunson followed by him attempting to run on crisco

mr. brightside as the champions league final pregame song is hilarious

"History does not appear solely as a record of human violence, but also as evidence that humanity is capable of creating institutions that protect our shared life."

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

H-Diplo has released a roundtable for STATES-IN-WAITING- Many thanks to @emleake.bsky.social @riakapoor.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @adenknaap.bsky.social, Saima Ashipala, + Bérénice Guyot-Réchard for their insightful engagement with the book!

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum@h-diplo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-39 on Walker, States-in-Waiting On 14 August 2025, a range of student, church, religious, and other organizations representing the Naga community in India celebrated the 78th anniversary of the Naga state’s declaration of independence on 15 August 1947. The date passed…

no models, only the history of the late weimar republic...

look a three goal lead for the habs is exactly where things will start going wrong