Miasma

the semiotics of this are fascinating. walter white, deadpool, and superman?

It’s musta been Slursday

Thanks for posting this! #earlymodern

Just learned that the son of renowned Puritan Praisegod Barebone was ... and I kid you not ... Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon.

What did he do for a living?

He was a property developer.

#earlymodern #skystorians

I miss paying $6 for that stuff in Ollies and TJ Maxx.

I was thinking about this poem yesterday

I used to work in an office where the guy who cleans up the kitchen put a picture of just his eyes (2 inch vertical cross-section of his face eyeline) on top of the coffee machine and people's behavior 100% improved. They refilled the pot and cleaned up after themselves.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

A receipt

A fragment of a poem about vegetables

Today’s archival research has been weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable other than the random fragment of a poem about vegetables on the back of an 1819 receipt tendered to the Boston Board of Selectmen 🗃️

[Exit Murderer.]

I'm compiling a handout with paleography advice for my students. I'll post it as a thread below. What am I missing?

- Your goal is to transcribe what is written on the page as fully as possible.

I'd check out this: folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/me...

These studies were important and great but we continue to wait for first major studies of x and y type of books, bc they're NOT literature and so they have yet to actually be studied for themselves, rather than for what literature they point to.

Am I teaching one of these Rapid Response lectures on the manipulation of Ancient History in America today? Yes, I am. Am I proud of our history department? Absolutely. history.uiowa.edu/research/pub...

16th Century list of accounts

Not strictly a legal record, this Star Chamber diet book nevertheless informs us how the Privy Council sitting judicially in the Star Chamber ran the court. Or, at least, tells us the vast amount they ate and drank on a particular day [TNA E 407/55]

a man wearing a suit sitting at a desk outside. it's like a little muddy land area surrounded by water. on the desk is a laptop

i am Online

Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart

The arc of the moral universe may be long, but when someone who was horrible to me is demonstrably incorrect in print, I am petty enough to believe that’s karma in action.

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

A poster for the dressing up clothes rails at Orkney Library. It shows rails of costumes in a fairy-tale setting with flowers and toadstools.

Tomorrow is #WorldBookDay so don't forget that if you need any last minute dressing up clothes we have loads on our rails at Orkney Library! 🦸🧙‍♂️🧚🧌

It's all FREE and you don't need to bring anything to swap - just take what you need and return them whenever you want.

#LoveLibraries

Although #earlymodern ads are never boring, I must admit I am glad my 1,162 ad transcribing marathon it over! 🤓🍾 💃

The last was this beautifully illustrated Mineral Water ad from Daily Post, June 6, 1730.

Claude, play scales for me.

This is an attack on my culture

Close up of multi-colored print resembling a church made of smaller Chicago buildings with text that says ‘the city is my religion and studs Terkel is the preacher and the staple singers are the choir’.

Chicago has inspired dozens of projects but my fave is this print, The City is my Religion, which features a ‘church’ built of personal, physical spaces. Multiple layers of ornaments printed are to resemble stained glass. #letterpress

Exactly

Years ago I found a note in the parish register of Glenfield in Leicestershire which instantly became one of my favourite Civil War commentaries:

'Churchwardens, not any; because
distractions many; & distructions mightie'.

I've returned to that document, explored other pages nearby, and found...

By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in 'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night, the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than double those in all our other institutions put together.

So cool!

As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.