all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Image of the front of a paperback novel called The Spoil by Maile Chapman. The cover is bright red with a closeup of a fly insect in the center.

super excited to read this!! I preordered it on @bookshop.org last fall and forgot about this treat published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social until it appeared on my doorstep this morning 🪰😎

I’m so sorry for your loss. This poem has always meant a lot to me, it was one my grandmother shared with me (alongside a lifetime of deep love and care for dogs): Robinson Jeffers’ “The House Dog’s Grave” www.poetbay.com/viewText.php...

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Poor Things, by Alasdair Gray

Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!)
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

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Arthur Symons, 1892, a relatively obscure poet and literary critic of the fin de siecle. Poems that really anticipated the imagism of the modernists. And my undergrad advisor warned me over twenty years ago no one would ever take interest in my obsession with him! Haha showed him :)

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

Henrietta Lacks is the reason we dont get polio anymore.

Henrietta Lacks is the reason in-vitro works

Henrietta Lacks is the reason there's an HPV vaccine, gene mapping, we know how cancer cells divide, AIDs is no longer a death sentence.

Henrietta Lacks cells were stolen from her

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

“This Gives Us an Outlet”: Members of the Minneapolis Comic Community on What It's Like to Create During a Crisis - SKTCHD It might seem like an unusual comparison, but for some comic creators who reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, living through Operation Metro Surge — the effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Securit...

ICYMI: In a rare Monday feature, I wrote about what it's like to create during the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, the ICE Out Comics initiative, and what it's really like living through this with insight from members of the Minneapolis comics community.

This one is open to non-subscribers.

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

"Video footage can create unnecessary clarity. Clarity increases urgency. Urgency creates action. Action creates policy. Policy creates oversight. Oversight creates paperwork. Paperwork creates consequences. We hope you can understand why we must avoid this chain of events."

Parents' statement mourning son Alex Jeffrey Pretti, calling him a kind ICU nurse, denying claims he held a gun, saying he protected a woman and urging truth.

Donald Trump is tearing America apart.

This family deserves the truth and justice.

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most.

Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

Neither of us remember the couples’ names but STILL. It’s Wally the corgi, how do you not know?

I’ve never doubted my marriage until tonight. My husband asked if I knew the couple with the corgi that lived down the street and I said, “do you mean Wally?” And he admitted he didn’t know the corgi’s name. The corgi who has lived on our street for two years who has a heart and a soul and a song.

Okay it’s been 18 years, now you can be honest: how much did you pay for In Rainbows when it came out? #radiohead

Dawson’s Creek S1:E5: time for Chekhov’s gun err shoebox diorama! When messy Gale tells Mitch about her affair with her coworker Mitch sends his scale model of his Oceanic Hooters restaurant idea flying and it breaks apart, just like their marriage is. The heightened drama of this ep had me 🤣🤣🤣

The White Hotel DM Thomas cover image shows naked white woman with hair on fire sitting in a rocking chair in a white room with three windows and a red Persian style rug

Dawson’s Creek S1:E4 Gale Leery is MESSY. Affair kisses outside a dressing room. Affair kisses at work. Dawson has a hollowed out book. Pacey’s virginity sex tape is inside. This could be Dawson’s incel origin story episode. Jen has “a past” 🙄 and Joey’s favorite drink is haterade.

Photo of embroidered white small banner with the outline of a cartoon frog head and the text inside of the outline reads BE THE INFLATABLE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD

Finished my mini-banner and it’s up! Stay strong Charlotte and fuck ICE! #fuckice #charlotte

Dawson’s Creek S1:E3
Hot off hearing his dad films sexual trysts, Dawson thinks “why not?” and tries to capture his and Jen’s first kiss w/o telling her. But manages to film Pacey’s first time… with his English teacher. The 90s were something! And that something was statutory rape my friends.

S1:2 2) He admits to using his son’s camcorder for a sex tape, and 3) he mentors his son on the kissing using a severed head prop meant to be Joey. All three acts are suspect but again, does Mitch think once his restaurant shoe box diorama is complete a bank will look at it and say here’s your $$$?

Dawson’s Creek S1:E2 There is a dance where things happen for the main teen characters, but we need to talk about Mitch Leery. In this episode, Dawson’s father: 1) keeps working on a scale model of his restaurant concept and everyone keeps actting like that’s how you plan a business??!!

On my bike ride into work this morning a hawk swept over me in the sky, landed on a lamppost, and then took a dump. I never realized I held assumptions about what hawk poop would look like, but this moment absolutely defied them. If this wasn’t the Kantian sublime, I don’t know what is.

S1:E1 Honorable Mention for a BANANAS Adult: Film Teacher Mr Gold, who is watching THE reveal scene in Psycho at like 8am on the first day of school. A plot device to show Dawson’s film knowledge? Maybe. A sign this teacher is burning out? Absolutely.