Is Martin Margiela the Thomas Pynchon of the fashion world?

You’re in her DMs, I’m in the archive tearing up about the building of the Great Fergana Canal—we are possibly not the same, but the boundaries between real and imagined are slippery online

Babe, wake up, the Armenian Prime Minister posted another video of him sitting sadly in his office listening to music

It’s always archive fever, archive fever, and never archive my back hurts, and they didn’t bring me the right file, and I don’t know how to talk to people anymore

All raging is fundamentally against the dying of the light

Maybe if I don't get hired by the History Factory, I'll find work at the Rumour Mill

I love going to the haircut store

If my body’s keeping the score, can I at least win sometimes?

I went to a cafe/bakery today for a loaf of bread and the cashier asked me if I wanted it “to go” as if there was an option that I’d sit down and just eat the whole loaf there

I always thought she was a perfectionist, turns out it’s just intergenerational trauma lol

I’ve been reading Soviet meeting transcripts from the 1930s, and seeing person after person being threatened with the Gulag for filling out a form wrong made me understand why my mom would get so upset whenever I made a mistake on paperwork

Trump admits he has a basic understanding of time and the unpredictability of human behaviour

Yes, I’m monitoring the situation (making sure there’s only one of the weird bug I found in my kitchen)

Sad how the poor fellowship of the ring didn’t even have a phone to take pictures during their hike

Someone once asked me if “Master & Margarita” is the sequel to “Master & Commander”

Is evroremont the AirSpace of the post-Soviet world?

Dreamt I was eating a mochi-like pastry and gently awoke to discover I was chewing on my earplug

Accidentally peppered my pasta water instead of salting it just now, IS this illegal?

Nowruz makes sense, bc the year should restart when things are beginning to grown again, not in the middle of winter when you still want to k*ll yourself

I love the archive and how it breadcrumbs me. Really triggers my anxious attachment style and keeps me locked in

Trump’s weird capitalisation feels like a clickhole post and would be funny if it wasn’t real

Where’s the part of Bluesky that reposts the TikToks of the Homer Simpson cover band?

If Canada became part of the US, would Ontario be North Ohio or East Minnesota?

Tile from NDR public broadcasting: “AfD votes in favor of CDU resolutions on migration: A broken taboo or intact democracy?”

German media in like 3 weeks: “if you think about it, isn’t letting Nazis join the government a sign how *well* we’ve worked through our history?”

Cut the corner of my mouth on a too-sharp spoon this morning. There are dangers everywhere for those with mouths to feel 🥲🏔️🥄

I'm hiring a post-doc working on 🇦🇿🇰🇬🇹🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺 for our new @dfg.de-AHRC project at @uniregensburg.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social "Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics." More information here: www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Very happy to announce our programme for the Lecture Series in African and Global History, Second Term 2024-25, at Ghent University. Abstracts can be found at ecc.ugent.be/activities/. All talks only in presence. Thank you @n-klimenko.bsky.social for the wonderful poster!

It's so weird and annoying when a house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside and you keep trying to count the rooms and they just don't stop, yk?

Wow the chatbots are becoming really convincing. My late-30s ai boyfriend told me he doesn’t want anything serious right now