Social media might be low-key evil but I think there's a good chance that a lot of people are going to learn something about Alexandre Dumas today.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

so, fellow historians, this is a 12-alarm fire if "learn about history" is the top use of AI (related to the Humanities).

this should be an all-hands-on-deck conversation with @historians.org and every history department to work K-16 to get us away from history as just "names and dates"

Honestly, after that Trump post, I’m begging @nytimes.com, @apnews.com, @reuters.com, @washingtonpost.com, @npr.org and all of the other newspapers and media outlets to take this seriously. This is not normal and we need to stop pretending. This is a crisis.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly

(@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Freudian slip much?

Seven painted eggs with images of leaves, flowers abd birds in blue and white, all on a white surface

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring.
Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

What's New in Medieval Studies (Feb. 2026) With so much new scholarship on the middle ages appearing all the time, it is easy for it to get lost or missed by those who are not in the know or professional historians. So my goal is to curate a l...

There is so much new scholarship published every month, it would be easy to miss all of it. I've decided to collect the things I find each month, and compile it into a list for perusal. It shows how vibrant and dynamic (academic) medieval studies can be!

#medievalsky

A person’s knees are wrapped with gauze, beneath which has been placed pieces of thickly-sliced garlic. It looks ridiculous. Is it because I like garlic so much that they think I’ll start wearing it now? Or are the big garlic corporations trying to take over medicine? If so, will they start to add garlic to hospital food? I hope so. Why put it only on patients’ knees if you could also make them a delicious spaghetti aglio e olio?

People frequently ridicule medieval writings on health and healing. Thankfully, 21st-century remedies for pain actually work, like the one in this advert for relieving pain in the knee due to arthritis.

For the life of me, I can't figure how capitalism works without consumers.

Also, "consumers" means pretty much every person in the United States. And you are the LAST concern of the Trump administration. Nice of them to admit it. Finally.

Studying history is useless though, right?

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

Middle English Text Series so woke

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

Portrait of Henry VII

Discussed Henry VII today and assigned undergrads to skim and discuss some of his patent rolls. Has anyone ever described him as a mafia don before today? One of my students enjoyed all the favors and shakedowns.

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Also thinking about how I work at a senior military institution and our dean summarily closed my religion department this year

Crusades relevant much?

chart showing the population of horses in the united states over time. It starts with 20 million in 1900, and declines to under 2 million in 1960. The chart also shows how many cars as well, starting at zero until 1912, and over 75 million by 1960.

Also, it's rather telling that this techbro used horses as a metaphor for the working population, considering that horse populations crashed after they were automated by cars.

But also Terry Pratchett is great!

@sarahbethdurst.bsky.social's The Spellshop!

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I'm also from Beaverton. I'm so sorry for Paulino and his family. This regime has a lot to answer for

Same

This is a concentration camp.

A Forbes headline and summary of billionaires who are extremely stingy with their wealth, surprise, surprise.

Shocked af 🙃

My MIL was required to pay the tariff when she shipped stuff recently, but we will be reimbursing her with US
-purchased jigsaw puzzles this summer, so we pay it in the end.

Anyway. That is why Aragorn can't really have something that we'd understand in the modern sense as a "tax policy," either progressive or regressive: he is constrained by (lack of) state capacity.