For example, George Washington would never have believed that truly masculine soldiers were in need of inoculation against smallpox to fight the British
*Laughs uncontrollably in historian of vaccination
RFK Jr. wants tens or maybe even hundreds of millions of Americans to die because he considers them genetically inferior, and I just want to be clear that's not a good plan. For, you know, a number of reasons.
The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
Sarah Ferguson asks if we should ‘give something back’ to gas giants in exchange for a tax.
David Pocock “why we bargain with them?”
“I don’t think we need to give anything back. We just want a return for our gas!” 🔥 #auspol
what
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
So today on Gone Medieval I have that rare thing - a medievalist emergency - wherein I had to explain the Avignon Papacy because a lot of people know the phrase *cough* the Trump administration *cough* but they don't actually know what it means. Don't let it be you.
open.spotify.com/episode/7bsa...
Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information
Some universal truths from your friendly neighborhood hematologist
-every baby should get vitamin K
-no baby needs a chiropractor
-all menstruating and pregnant people should be screened for iron deficiency
-vaccines save lives, prevent cancer, and are a fucking MIRACLE
💯
So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling.
The machines can *never* do this.
It’s the reason we don’t have universal healthcare imo. Some white folks would rather die than see Black people get anything at all
Ex-military intelligence official 1: Aw shit! There's already a company of sinister intelligence-adjacent right wingers whose name references the bad guy from a major fantasy franchise!
E-MIO 2: Surely there's another character we can use whose symbol is an eye?
The other fabulous part of the AI publicity plan is “teach this junkware everything you know so that I, a rich CEO, can use it to put you out of work”. Wild how that isn’t being received with enthusiasm by the general public.
This goes extra intensely for academic writing, in my opinion. If you're using gAI to think (because that is what writing is) why should anyone read it? And sending AI generated writing off for peer review is just...
discovery is gonna be funny as hell, i hope we get to see some videos of the fbi director blacked out singing karaoke
This week marks the 83rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We remember the courage of our ancestors in the face of their annihilation.
According to the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, the IDF is investigating this image of an IDF soldier smashing a Jesus statue in Southern Lebanon.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
Humans are useless now, let’s replace the Olympics with robots
Single frame. Man standing in front of woman in wheelchair says: “Instead of complaining about the expensive nuclear subs we may never see, or our increasing expenditure on war machinery, maybe think about how properly funding YOUR NEEDS makes us LESS SAFE as a country…”
Priorities.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
More of this, less of bombing other countries
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
Oh come on @theguardian.com, no need to over analyze this. It's about one thing: the Pope criticized him. There's nothing deeper or religious about it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Hey, say Democrats, my stock portfolio is riding the wave of this industry, can't we just try to tack to the center, leave social issues behind and abandon our base?
Salute to an all-time tweet
This is true for so many infections... viral #hepatitis is a case in point - for #HCV we have fantastic, safe and curative medicines, & for #HBV a robust preventive vaccine & effective suppressive antiviral medication. We need more innovation, but education, implementation & advocacy are key. 🧪
