"Why is Daniel Kibblesmith blocking me" I saw you be weird to someone else two months ago when neither of you knew I was watching.

nah. I’ve lived in both places

California has two major mountain ranges. The winter storm warning is because this system is bringing the snow level down to 5,000 feet. We don‘t get deep freezes that immobilize our major population centers at sea level for weeks at a time. that’s Texas nonsense.

when I was carrying my phone in my pocket the other day, I created an outlook calendar event called “aaaaAAAAAaaaaa”

Physical Description Axis: 6 Diameter (in mm): 18 Weight (in g): 2.73 Series: RIC.7 Typological Description Object Type: Coin Date Range: 332–333 Denomination: AE2 Denomination: AE3 Material: Bronze Authority Authority: Constantine I Dynasty: Constantinian Dynasty State: Roman Empire Geographic Place of Production: Trier Reverse Symbol: -/-//TR•P References Reference: RIC VII Treveri 542 Administrative History Identifier: 1954.203.89 Department: Roman Collection: American Numismatic Society Provenance Acquisition: Lot 1954.203 (purchases: Ives, Mrs. Herbert Eugene), October 1 1954 Subjects Category: Roman--Imperial--Laterempire Rights CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society License: Public Domain Mark (images) Rights: No Copyright - United States Map In

A happy 2779th birthday to the city of Rome. You really don’t look a day over 2000. 🐺 numismatics.org/collection/1...

Today in Teaching in Higher Ed

couple of very persnickety geese have chosen to perch along one of the busiest walkways at UC Mercedand honk indignantly at everyone passing by.

our new motorized scooter speed limit enforcers at @ucmerced.bsky.social

my brain *struggled* to process this image. it looks like about four different and truly awful things, and not one of them is a swan

while @jamellebouie.net isn’t wrong to note that this sounds like warmed over David Duke ca 1990, it is also very much vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. these arguments were circulating in the debate over Stanford’s western culture program, a debate Thiel lost.

he’s been bent on vengeance ever since.

vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. (don’t!) ask me how I know.

Roses are red
I like to sin

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Poster for The Wild Thornberrys movie featuring Eliza riding an elephant through a valley

cinema

It does not seem like it should be a controversial point that sometimes terrible things are nobody’s fault

stayed up way past my bedtime to celebrate the career and mark the retirement of the marvelous @sdamussen.bsky.social

A Dijon mustard container with the safety seal of the lift-and-peel style ripped as I attempted to remove it.

Fire the person who invented this from every job they have, have had, or will have.

It’s a world of mixed expertise and ai has made dunning Kruger a social contagion.

We all tired. Let’s just walk away. That’s my MO. Sometimes I try to bring in those god awful cookies from that one store. But yeah let’s just all go home.

We need to keep lists of places that are ChatGPTing all help agents because I never want to buy anything from them again

I am literally always thinking about this. Not how to place op eds or how to write pieces for the public. About ways to have scholars in conversation with people about their work. Like the agricultural extension service, but for every discipline. Like “come talk to a living Wikipedia rabbit hole.”

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

I know someone who agrees with Hasan Piker on this. His name is Vladimir Putin.

just now seeing this. i’m so sorry.

A large hardback book sits on top of a green sewing mat. The cover illustration shows a lone register of marble columns, some toppled into the grass. High on a hill in a far background stands a 19th century church.

for those intrigued by Pope Leo's visit to Annaba, Algeria, I can recommend this wonderful and richly illustrated overview of the archaeology of Hippo, where Augustine served as bishop. My dream travel destination!

i have about 25,000 words of a novel based on the life of saint augustine. it has been in a drawer for the past 15 years.

I get all my meat from a Mexican grocery store in town. they have about 3 butchers working behind the counter on any given day. just amazing.

“GET OUTTA MY CHURCH!”

I’m in!

I read his biography of Augustine years ago. really enjoyed it. I have been obsessed with the Bishop of Hippo since freshman year of college

I have been jonesing for YEARS to visit Annaba, Algeria because I want to do a whole “in the footsteps of St. Augustine” journey.

I wish I had hitched a ride with the Pope!

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself.

Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis.

What stories have you uncovered in the historical record?

#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️