An amazing medieval library to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the magnificent Bodleian Library in Oxford (Picture taken at a recent visit) #Medievalsky

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

I love Judith’s face in this. She looks like she’s carving a chicken.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

A tweet from April 3, 2021 by John Inge @BishopWorcester Adult to group of children: 'What do you think Jesus was doing while he was in hell for three days?' Child, after long pause: 'I think he was looking everywhere for his friend Judas!' 4:20 PM : 4/3/21

Resurrecting (heh) some screenshot-worthy Easter past-posts from the other folks:

A repost is a Bluesky hug.

Happy International Hug A Medievalist Day! Sending hugs to all who need them (with consent, of course).

photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

Jagoff in the Dictionary - Dat’s Why Ya Put A ‘G’ In It - Greg & Donny YouTube video by greganddonny

"That's why you put a g in it it's nicer." If you're looking for material for your HEL classes, I'm here to help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J60u...

Uh oh.

The movie WarGames is much scarier in the AI era.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

The furry the furry! Love Pittsburgh on the Fourth of July!

The Pitt has a furry! A furry! July 4th!

What is a "second-" or "third-generation immigrant" anyway? The term makes no sense?

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

The "supply chain risk" happens if the Pentagon uses Claude, not if they don't!

Every American needs to watch this:

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities - Arc Humanities Press This book examines the transformations in medieval studies—and the humanities more broadly—enabled by decades of digitization and advances in computation...

Just saw a new talk with David Wrisley which will be part of new book. Really fascinating to hear about making paleography new again.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

I lose a little bit of respect for actors who shill for sports betting apps.

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

My Lord. Ian McKellen. No other late night TV show does what Colbert does.

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Who is it who owns ChatGPT anyway?

constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

I recommend anyone watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 for some encouragement.