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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

i think it's good that we don't have free insulin because if we did then we wouldn't be able to afford to keep throwing fighter jets into the ocean

LEAD INTO GOLD LEAD INTO GOLD this has been an exhausting week for medievalists www.home.cern/news/news/ph...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

I Hate Hate Hate that America has been tricked (by multiple industries with infinite money) into thinking that clean air is Gay

how to draw a medieval cat in two easy steps

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things

Sir Issac Newton proving sunlight is gay:

“Run the government like a business” remains a peerless indicator that you’re talking to someone who doesn’t know shit about fuck.

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

I don't expect any of our major media outlets to acknowledge this outright, but this is the thing: These aren't 'steep' tariffs, these are _insane_ tariffs. These are 'nobody in the White House understands decimal points' numbers. It speaks to total economic illiteracy _throughout the White House_.

New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep theonion.com/new-stu...

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

Weird Little Guys is really, really good. Along with content which is ... meticulous.. in a way that that pleases me the way those perfectly cut cake videos do, the audio soundscape is dark & electric. And try listening to it on a foggy, late night drive up Mt. Hamilton -- it's a journey.

every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain

This is how kids should learn about the Louisiana Purchase

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

you don't "gotta hand it" to the uk but when liz truss drove the uk economy off a cliff with loony bullshit they fired her ass

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

President Trump is eliminating thousands of federal jobs and enforcing cuts that negatively impact the most vulnerable members of our society, yet we do nothing. We should take inspiration from the French, who were protesting austerity measures nationwide earlier today.

Billionaires lately are like “won’t it be great when it’s just us and our money and you’re all dead?” And then they’re like “why don’t people like me?”

"We used AI to--" Shut up! Shut the fuck up!

There is an academic job market / labor mobility if you're a tenured prof at an Ivy. The rest of us will have to suffer the end of the American university system as we know it.

If I were a little creature I would scurry into my burrow at the smallest sign of danger. What was that?? Hehehe missed me I’m in my burrow now

the platonic ideal of Being Online is simply scrolling down looking at pictures of your friends cats and yelling I LOVE THEM!!

Many medievalists will be familiar with this oft-reproduced representation of the structure of the brain. But did you know that this far superior image precedes it in the manuscript? NOW YOU DO. Source: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

A reminder to please always add alt text to images as a service to users like me who can’t recognise any celebrity who became famous in the last ten years

Penelope in the Odyssey

These people can be shamed and bullied into blinking, the people telling you otherwise are just people who have no appetite for doing it

Roses are red Violets are blue

Unsolicited diptych

i used to believe it was against the law to break the law, feeling pretty silly about that now

a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Things are bad but at least we have cats

Things are pretty bad huh

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

I can tell that Spring is almost here because I'm filled with rage, but I also want to plant flowers.

Hey guys this is what it looks like to oppose a trash government

Been reading a little mythology and it seems like one of the main cross-cultural themes is, “do not, under any circumstances, get on a boat.”