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This is a thread of memes about Kash Patel’s defense of bestiality sent to me by current and former FBI employees. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🧵 1/
September 19, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This is a thread of memes about Kash Patel’s defense of bestiality sent to me by current and former FBI employees. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🧵 1/
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
September 17, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Superb exposition from William Pettigrew of how slave trading (let alone the whole plantation complex that depended on it) was “enmeshed in the processes that produced the nation we know today”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm...
Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989
Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989
September 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future.
Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future.
Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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September 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
There was a whole huge national tamale craze around 1900. @anchistorian.bsky.social had a good column about it a few years ago:
www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
At the time of its founding, Anchorage was a city in the grips of a major tamale food craze
Histories of Anchorage: In the late 1910s, Anchorage was the latest city that succumbed to one of the great if largely forgotten American food fads. From the 1890s through the 1920s, Americans went ma...
www.adn.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
One of the lesser-known fantastical creatures I talked about last week at @laworldcon.bsky.social was the bonnacon. It appears in medieval bestiaries as a bull-like creature with horns curved back on themselves and therefore useless to protect itself. Instead, it expels flaming poop in defense.
September 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
August 28, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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One quote that always makes me laugh: asked what her pet peeve in life was, she said, “Well, nobody realizes I got a great ass.”
August 25, 2026 at 6:51 PM
One quote that always makes me laugh: asked what her pet peeve in life was, she said, “Well, nobody realizes I got a great ass.”
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in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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It is never ever ever ever going to work out better for you if you talk to police before speaking with a lawyer.
What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
August 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It is never ever ever ever going to work out better for you if you talk to police before speaking with a lawyer.
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If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS??
(okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
(okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
August 13, 2026 at 12:27 PM
If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS??
(okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
(okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
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One of the best parts of being a historian?
Changing my mind.
Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew.
That's not failure.
That's good history. 🗃️
Changing my mind.
Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew.
That's not failure.
That's good history. 🗃️
August 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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This is how you know we need a wealth tax
August 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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I recently finished knitting a baby blanket. For a decent section of it, I listened to Olivia Waites's NOBODY'S BABY. My card for the parents includes the following two quotes (yes, I have the ebook, too — it's *good*).
August 7, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I recently finished knitting a baby blanket. For a decent section of it, I listened to Olivia Waites's NOBODY'S BABY. My card for the parents includes the following two quotes (yes, I have the ebook, too — it's *good*).
Instead of being mad at bicyclists on sidewalks, be mad at our leaders who have decided that everyone not in a car should be left to fight over scraps of space not given to drivers
August 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.
July 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
www.kcl.ac.uk
July 24, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
July 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
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Hey friends, it’s that time of year. I teach high school science including bio, advanced bio, and infectious diseases & global health! I share most things with my department. There are some dream items on here I don’t expect to get, but anything helps! Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
July 14, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Hey friends, it’s that time of year. I teach high school science including bio, advanced bio, and infectious diseases & global health! I share most things with my department. There are some dream items on here I don’t expect to get, but anything helps! Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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I mean, we know why, but it should be articulated:
It's because Trump is incapable of seeing other humans as people. He lacks any Theory of Mind, and is only capable of understanding humans in terms of what they will do to benefit him something. Otherwise he has no concept of humanity.
It's because Trump is incapable of seeing other humans as people. He lacks any Theory of Mind, and is only capable of understanding humans in terms of what they will do to benefit him something. Otherwise he has no concept of humanity.
Trump just delivered his first speech after the death of his allegedly dear friend Lindsey Graham, which happened less than 48 hours ago. He didn't mention him once. RIP.
July 13, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I mean, we know why, but it should be articulated:
It's because Trump is incapable of seeing other humans as people. He lacks any Theory of Mind, and is only capable of understanding humans in terms of what they will do to benefit him something. Otherwise he has no concept of humanity.
It's because Trump is incapable of seeing other humans as people. He lacks any Theory of Mind, and is only capable of understanding humans in terms of what they will do to benefit him something. Otherwise he has no concept of humanity.
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All the Enola Holmes movies AND The Other Bennet Sister KEEP saying "please come with my husband and I" etc, literally every time. Not just Kitty and Lydia either but all of the educated people.
They're delightful shows and movies. Why are they doing this to me?
They're delightful shows and movies. Why are they doing this to me?
July 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
All the Enola Holmes movies AND The Other Bennet Sister KEEP saying "please come with my husband and I" etc, literally every time. Not just Kitty and Lydia either but all of the educated people.
They're delightful shows and movies. Why are they doing this to me?
They're delightful shows and movies. Why are they doing this to me?
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i mean that's just as confounding www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
July 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
i mean that's just as confounding www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
July 12, 2026 at 11:56 AM
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.