I am pictured here and I fully endorse it.

Pretty familiar to those of us of Jewish extraction too.

Moments like this are why I wish better databases on sales trends existed for scholarly research. The ones we have are a slog to dig through and tend to be year-on-year. Now of course I'm complaining with absolutely no time or willpower to fix it myself. C'est la guerre.

Oh bravo. Something that might hit big enough to make it west of the pond so I can practice my Gàidhlig. There are only so many old Dòtaman reruns an adult can tolerate.

Lets be very clear. Threatening military/economic force to annex the sovereign territory of a NATO ally is just plain buggering nuts. News outlets that normalize this kind of rhetoric without reporting it as the patent insanity it is have failed in their journalistic duty. Stop normalizing crazy.

There's a joke here about British hegemony and historic domination of Ireland but I can't quite get the punchline off my shoulder.

Do we really want to encourage Backpfeifengesicht as justification for including characters?

And yet...

We'll need to update our green pickup truck plans. Both the lecture version and the runaway to discover the country version.

I'm a decent amateur analyst when it comes to the Middle East, but it's not my primary field. Any experts out there feel like weighing in? Rapt audience right here.

With Israel invalidating the '74 truce line, HTS in the north, SDF in the northeast, and the hodgepodge coalition in the south, not even accounting for the Turkish "buffer zone", I have to wonder about potential balkanization of Syria at this point. Assad's fall is likely only the first domino.

A useful explanatory thread. Given how fast things have moved in the last two days though it will be especially curious to see what takes shape now that Damascus has fallen to groups in the south, depriving HTS from completing their sweep down the central axis highway.

Digging into this story with my colleague for an article was one of the highlights of my career in academia. It was just phenomenally crafted. Thank you for building such an incredible story.

GO BLUE! HAIL TO THE VICTORS! What a stupidly ugly edition of The Game. But a win is a win. Well done #Wolverines.

It was fascinating to see the Church promote remote use of contact healing relics like the Shroud of Turin over zoom and other remote systems during Covid. It raised some peculiar theological questions but was generally explicable in existing faith frameworks. This? This is a theological pretzel.

1,000 days of war. We can and must do more. #SlavaUkraini

Between this and the recent Mayan discoveries, remote sensing technology is really having its day in historical studies. It makes me curious to see what we might find if the same level of sensing systems were applied to already discovered sites and how it might affect our understanding of them.

Hand any foodways ones to your cooking-obsessed former students?

Definitely the old copies of Giant sized X-men #1, and Hulk #181 (first appearance of Wolverine) that I inherited from my dad's collection. Both classics, but also ones I've written papers on that helped me start my academic work in comics.

So I hit a 100 followers. I don't know why or how given what I do on here. But more power to ya you weirdos.

Are sandals acceptable? Slippers are too warm.

A friend just texted me, “Caligula only appointed one horse.”

Can comics historians join the fun? Got a small group, including myself, who'd love to join in.

A Note from Daily Planet Publisher Morgan Edge: In the ongoing battle between Superman and Lex Luthor, the Daily Planet has decided not to support either figure. We trust our readers here in Metropolis and elsewhere to make up their own minds. While some may question our decision, calling it an abdication of responsibility, we don't see it that way. We are merely returning to our roots. I note that the Planet only started endorsing those involved in metahuman conflict in the Crimson Avenger/Ultra-Humanite battles of 1937, for understandable reasons at the time. I accept the resignations of Editor in Chief Perry White, reporter Lois Lane, gossip columnist Cat Grant, politics desk editor Ron Troupe, and staff photographer James Bartholomew Olsen. Steve Lombard, formerly of the sports division, has accepted the role of EIC and will lead the paper to new heights. I am also proud to announce our new media partnership with LexCorp.

Whole lotta people gonna get tenure off this. Really cool revisions to Mayan history coming if they find more sites like this.

Oy vey. It's even worse stateside. It used to be hold the battlements at Thanksgiving. Now we're lucky if we can guard the hastily erected barricades at Halloween.

This is such a useless framing. They wouldn't need a lifeline to call out about guns in schools if we dealt with the damn guns.

A really thoughtful op-ed. Trying to deconstruct problems of popularized Fanon/Said, decolonization, and the current version facing Israel-Palestine. Comes closer than most I've seen to a proper expression of what I struggle with daily in explaining to students. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...

Go Blue! #nationalchampions