It's fine to be terminally online but it's kind of sad when you are terminally On Bluesky exclusively. It does strange things to your brain. Case in point,

Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · 23h ago

If the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.

Me and the boys

I feel like you can tell nobody on here is reading Leguin and Butler as much as they say they are because there is a site-wide discourse about Terry Pratchett every few weeks instead

here, have leonard nimoy reading it archive.org/details/brad...

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

None other than Jigjid Burkhan, Killer of Death

聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 2d ago

Quote this w your favorite wrathful deity

Oh man, I've been trying to find this book for years after reading it first year of grad school, really enjoying it, and then forgetting its name entirely

Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 2d ago

This book is an unbelievable feat of social research and theory. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Not now, Weather App

It's cool that there are so many different poetry dueling traditions. Aytis, zajal, etc, I'll listen to a poetry duel in any language

Mongolian folk-electronic duo from Inner Mongolia+Xinjiang, Taiga: youtu.be/0imyEQ5JW8I?...

Taiga｜Mazhalyk-ta（Official Video）

YouTube video by Oriental Order

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Got my 23 and Me results back in a mud stained envelope but all it says is "Bog People 💯💯"

Erdene Zuu Monastery in Mongolia, built within walls of former capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum. Monastery founded in 1585 &is oldest surviving monastery in Mongolia. Stones from the former city used in its construction. Practises Tibetan Buddhism. #erdenezuu #karakorum #buddhism #mongolia

This is kind of how I feel about everything right now. Y'all won, stop crying! Random dudes at the barbershop still get on me about CRT! What kind of parallel universe do you have to live in to feel oppressed by CRT when the state you live in banned, by law, teaching cultural studies of any kind.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

Would love to read an ethnography about the people who surf on Lake Erie. What's going on with them

"The Bear" reboot that takes place in the rat restaurant from Ratatouille called "The Rat"

The news is in: He's gone 😞

KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · 3w ago

I wonder if this statue of Predator is still hanging out in front of this random bank in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

can't speak to classics but appalachian studies was enthused

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

I love Instagram comments sections

After many years and many, many trips from California to NC and back, it's finally time to retire my 30 year old pick-up truck. Terrible day for Dr. SongsforHorses

I tangentially know a scholar who is like halfway through the typical pattern of a white person who is going to start pretending to be a different race and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to like say something or what

Please don't show me Joyce Carole Oates tweets, I don't want to see those

"Gegeeten [The Enlightened]", a book length poem detailing the life and accomplishments of the Wild Saint of the Gobi, Danzanravjaa, the Buddhist luminary, botanist, and lothario, whose familiar was a dog-sized scorpion and whose rosary was made of the skulls of 128 scholars, comes to mind

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Christopher Nolan's "Argonauts of the Western Pacific"

Emily Wilson's War

The success of the Odyssey movie tells us once thing: the people are ready for more ancient epic poetry adaptations. Famous directors please feel free to reach out as I am available to advise on a Secret History of the Mongols epic that will make a stupid, nuts amount of money. This is not a joke

Mixed Martial Arts? You mean interdisciplinary humanities??

KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · last wk.

Martial Arts... got Arts right in the name

Also just went to the zoo yesterday and I was looking at the elephant feeling sad for a while. Unrelated: they got a diabetic monkey there that can give herself insulin injections

Butt Praxis@buttpraxis.bsky.social · last wk.

Still reeling from going to the zoo this weekend and seeing an orangutan, which is basically a person, just sitting there in a hammock. I was tearing up imagining being a sentient creature in a captivity, then looked at my husband, who sighed a troubled sigh and murmured, “I wish I were in a zoo”

The strongest argument to me for video games being art is that art is the purview of the humanities and I would like tech guys to have one less thing they can enjoy without having to engage with The Liberal Arts

This is so visibly true because UN Peacekeeping efforts that *do* operate in Haiti also come from poorer countries that never participated in Haiti's colonization or neo-colonialism, specifically places like Kenya and Mongolia haitiantimes.com/2026/05/15/h...

UN-appointed anti-gang force commander arrives in Haiti to lead expanded mission

Major General Erdenebat Batsuuri arrived in Haiti to lead the Gang Suppression Force, a U.N.-backed mission that replaces the ineffective Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission. Batsuuri’s a...

haitiantimes.com

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

Yeah it’s less being “too difficult” and moreso almost every country who’d intervene has a very fraught history of occupying Haiti they’d like to avoid being seen replicating

Xiongnu cemeteries in #Mongolia added to World Heritage sites. Brings list to 7 for Mongolia, cultural and natural. whc.unesco.org/en/list/1759

The Cemetery Complexes of the Xiongnu Nobility

This serial property comprises eight funerary complexes of the Xiongnu nobility. The Xiongnu, ancient predecessors of a confederation of Eurasian nomadic peoples, established a powerful empire between...

whc.unesco.org

Also, "ethnographer" is an underrated character type for a hero in a mystery or horror story. Curious person who has a vested reason to investigate but isn't some kind of cop, specialized training in talking to people and putting together stories, etc

KG Hutchins@songsforhorses.com · 4mo ago

Ok so in Candyman the main character is a folklore or cultural anthro grad student who is *co-writing* her dissertation on the urban legend with her friend who is in sociology. This is a rare case where the inaccurate movie version of academia is better than what we actually do