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Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
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near Askja Crater, August 21, 21:54 (Iceland)
🤎 this one (& the alt text too).
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🤎 this one (& the alt text too).
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#urbangaze #photography
Volunteering is still the best choice, but people can still donate to the “New Yorkers for Lower Costs” PAC at supportzohran.com. The Rich use PACs to get around spending limits in elections, but we can use them too. Alternatively, you can donate to another DSA candidate, like Omar Fateh!
Everything in this is fantastic. but the text of the “Bill Ackman tweet” is next level. You may need to pause and screenshot it.
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I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
Sense of time and place in this shot by Jewish Austrian photographer Margaret Michaelis. Arrival of British Medical Unit at Portbou on Spanish Republican border. Last week, 29 August 1936, apparently 5am in the morning. En route for Grañen on Aragón front and then near Jarama and elsewhere
"Bolton" (1937) by Julian Trevelyan. Collage shows mills and chimneys of Bolton, with the Pennines behind. Incorporated are newspaper and magazine cuttings of Spanish Civil War and rise of fascism across Europe, warning it could come to this Lancashire town. Bolton Art Gallery
I often think of William Morris' thoughts on the "education of desire". What are the patterns and practices that can help our students feel their appetite for longer/calmer forms of thinking over the incessant cacophony of short form videos leeching out of every surface of their lives.
Something I teach my students is that reading is a rhythm. They need to build a space-time where the rhythm of longer form reading is available to them. Generally this begins by having them inventory the various kinds of noise (cellphones, screens, work/care/social commitments) in their lives.
J'adore ce genre de scènes. Ils ont tous l'air énervé avec leur visage de face, et le jeune homme qui pointe sa main comme exaspéré. 🏺Cratère en cloche apulien, Leesen Painter, vers 370-360 av. notre ère commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le...
The buzz from the Venice Film Festival has been rapturous.
Twitter is run by a far-right Ketamine addict who has helped spread vaccine misinformation that will lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Here's another piece on how BlueSky's lack of intellectual diversity is destroying liberalism.
"Given this myopic approach to events by our public intellectuals and journalists, what are we to do?" 1/ degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/see-no-evil
🧵 Many who benefit financially and politically are revising history. ⬇️ ➡️ Claim: The CDC issued stay-at-home orders. False. CDC never issued stay-at-home orders. Those came from governors, mayors, and county officials under state police powers (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)).
RFK Jr: You're just making stuff up, senator! HASSAN: You know, sometimes when you make an accusation it's kind of a confession, Mr Kennedy
Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Master of the Power Suit, Dies at 91 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/f...
Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Master of the Power Suit, Dies at 91 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/f...
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An unfortunate way to learn that this is indeed the glorious translation of "double-decker"...
Unfortunate but I’ll now never stop enjoying this translation. 💯💯💯 glorious
Today's flowers are Nicotiana, in association with #ThursdayBins Carshalton
Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
Canal du Midi (S. France) #trailrunning
Tell me it's 2025 without telling me it's... forward.com/fast-forward...
This is the natural endpoint of “you do you” public health. It didn’t work for covid & it doesn’t work for anything else. Normalizing it for “the economy” was one of the worst mistakes Democrats have made in my lifetime (& they’ve made a lot). But liberals will refuse to accept this connection.
Trump Administration Broke the Law in Freezing Harvard’s Funding, Judge Says www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Update on this from the Boston Globe. This is great news!
I would get copies of your immunization records NOW if you’re someone who likes to or has to travel. Other countries have already been issuing travel advisories to the US due to the destabilizing of our public health system. They will NOT risk their population b/c of us.
bsky.app/profile/jowi... Me, an early modernist: but it was ALSO literally enslaver policy
When Vasco da Gama first reached the Swahili coast in 1498, he was astounded to find well-developed urban centres with buildings of “stone and mortar, with windows and terraces like those of Spain.” Origins and Development of Swahili Architecture www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/origins-an...
NEW: The big ones are coming up in November, but before then: do not sleep on elections this month. It's the month of recall elections! But I'm also watching elections for mayor, city council, and Congress. My guide to 10 elections to watch this month:
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
☀️ Plus de béton, moins d’arbres… Et des vagues de chaleur qui durent. Mais à la place de la clim, certains misent sur… des idées. Une “abrise” inspirée de l’Égypte des années 1940, des murs qui respirent comme des termitières… ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/wIB
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got my latest film back (really am - no pun intended - on a roll at the moment) and you can tell the light was super overcast and vv weird when I went to Kew, this was taken on 400!
A teaching scene in the University of Leuven, a collected 16th Century continental roundel now at Nowton, Suffolk, a church with more collected continental glass than any other in East Anglia. The setting is typical Georgian decorative glass. Nowton: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/nowton.html
New #OpenAccess article from @drjpw.bsky.social in Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org on 'mad' supplicants in Elizabethan England, showing how 'distressed subjects exercised rhetorical agency when petitioning those in power.' #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One for the music lovers: a few miles up the road from Friedberg is the spa town of Bad Nauheim, where we found this sign that once (presumably) belonged to a Hi-Fi shop.
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
Exactly! "AI tends to give generic responses that don’t answer questions as thoroughly as a human would, so rewriting an article also requires doing her own research on the topic at hand.... Making AI sound more human can require just as much thinking and creativity as writing the entire article."
Okay. Let’s talk about AI “historical dresses.” If there’s pleats completely unmoored from the structure of the garment, that’s AI. If the lace has no coherent pattern, that’s AI. If this is supposedly a surviving garment and it looks pristine, that’s AI.
ooooh, this is wonderful! Congratulations, Alyssa!! 💐
Tippi Hedren photographed by Leo Fuchs during a break from filming Marnie (1964)
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Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share
Gift link to the NYT article in thread. I can't stop coming back to this either.
God willing if I haven’t been sent to the fields for dear leader and the creek don’t rise, I will do this:
This wins.
There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Yes. With these grades??! A ludicrous claim.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
Ghouls. beyond ghouls. I mean ghoul-ghoul-ghoulissimi.
NOT a defense of KB, who is ofc reprehensible. But I took them at 15 at my US school, just signed up & showed up. Then took 3 of the "achievement" tests at 16 at a high school on a US army base in Europe (not my school, stepped foot there just the once). Nothing like that in the UK, I imagine.
Yes, but also…this is a very specifically English take on things.
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
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I just think it's worth reiterating that this content free, vibes-based, know-nothing grievance based approach to election analysis was the thing Nate opposed in creating 538! Like, he has literally become the thing he started his career to oppose. It's amazing.
Definitely yay!
“But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor…The Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.” www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
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This guy is obvs just looking at next his meal, but yr photo makes me take the deepest, calmest breath. I confess I've come back to it a few times...
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anyway if you want to find out more about empire, migration and British culture, BUY MY BOOK
The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain
Furthermore! "Joy comes from finding out who we really are and what we really value. It comes from the fact that what we want most deeply is meaning and connection, even after lifetimes of being told that we just want to be pretty, and rich, and safe, and amused."
I think y'all should (me included) take some deep breaths and follow @andreapitzer.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social among others. It's real bad but nothing is inevitable.
I admit I’m curious about Bluesky’s finance, how impt growth to attract VC actually is…
José Segrelles, 1923
This is like waiting for shooting stars. But yes, eventually someone will Storrow a truck
The sign I saw on Storrow yesterday (only one) would be very easy to miss, so yeah. I’m betting on at least one.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
If I do say so myself, I think this cover screams "Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television. North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom. Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye". Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen..."
The tempo of Russia's 'de-militarization of Ukraine' three and a half years into the full-scale war is so impressive that Ukraine is now particularly producing and using its own newly designed longer-range cruise missiles.
Excellent & very much worth reading, a gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
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During these trying times I'm occasionally posting a piece of music guaranteed to make you feel something other than misery. #66 #dailynoids #musicsky #TalkingHeads were so in the groove on this track!! Live "Cities" 1983 Pretty sweet seeing David Byrne take a guitar solo youtu.be/jJMxwBmQWHA?...
Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
'Hateful day when I received life! Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?' Mary Shelley, born 228 years ago #OTD, developed a keen interest in galvanism and the reanimation of the dead whilst writing Frankenstein. bit.ly/Q-Creve-H5445 🧵
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Read the Dramatic C17th Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story Researchers have digitized all 4 volumes, which offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history by Sonja Anderson for Smithsonian Magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
Ngl my first thought was “Margaret or Helen? Surely not Tibby! Wait. Maybe Tibby?”
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😬 Students pay more (& better) attention when the prof is a little weird, so tbh I think many of us lean into it a bit? (Though this happens a lot more w/many yrs of post-tenure teaching & ofc that’s becoming rare! So yet another reason people in faculty jobs are less weird…)
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