They're just bringing together the Avengers of comics academics and letting you watch their discussion for free? Incredible!!

I think our society really is grossly underestimating how important visible accountability is for social cohesion.

May we re-learn this lesson.

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@thewritestuff25.bsky.social has stuff at archiveofourown.org/users/TheWri...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

Meeser!

Sent this to my undergrad, who's working on a paper about Dorian Gray. She just got accepted for grad school at Boston College. Very excited for her.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

What Did Krateros Look Like? YouTube video by Let's Talk Alexander the Great & Ancient Macedonia

A relatively short video on the Lion Hunt Mosaic from Pella, its (probable) original sculpture group at Delphi, and Krateros.

#ancientbluesky #blueskyancient #classicsbluesky #alexanderthegreat

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Congratulations!

WTF @united.com??? Don't force me to start flying Delta...

This is lunacy.

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

ICE has targeted & detained a CT high school student, who entered legally & has no criminal record. His father, Zia, was an interpreter for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

This is a clear display of ICE's outrageous, misguided priorities & why I’m fighting for total reform.

NO LIES TOLD...

At least there have been a few awesome things that happened during this otherwise shitty 2026.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

And no sooner did I take this than Ceci showed up to kick her out of the prime spot by mama.

Not Caturday, but sleeping kitties are always worth a post. Miss Kleopatra in dreamland. #catsofbluesky #siamese

Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first

A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/09/auto...

There is something profoundly alienating about living with the imminent prospect of inevitable atrocity. Unable to not take seriously the possibility, unable to stop it, and laundry still needs to be done.

[[hugs]] and love to both you brilliant women.

Trump officials are unpleasant assholes. Period. Doesn’t matter who they’re meeting with.

I'll just leave this here.

Spectacles of Violence, Narratives of Empire: Alexander & the Branchidai YouTube video by Let's Talk Alexander the Great & Ancient Macedonia

Summary of a chapter I wrote that I'd promised to discuss. Why did Alexander annihilate an entire people who'd surrendered to him? What might he have thought he was doing? Looks at religious motivations in ancient warfare. #blueskyancient #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #alexanderthegreat

Newly created Polymarket accounts bet big on US-Iran ceasefire in hours before Trump's announcement A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of...

“A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers”

Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?

On to other clusterfucks:

[Announcer voice] AI is a bad tool.

arstechnica.com/google/2026/...

The contrast is sad. Local church runs a culturally appropriate food pantry 4xs a year, no ID asked, guests allowed to choose their own food just like shopping (granted dignity) ... church can barely pay the light bill. No show, just service. Megachurches = big show, and all show, no service.