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An email with subject line: Action Required: Important Update to Your Binghamton BUC$ Account The email reads: Our records indicate that you currently have a remaining balance in your BUC$ account of: $0.20 BUC$ was an optional, prepaid campus funds program that allowed students to add money to their Binghamton University ID and use it at participating on-campus locations, including Dining Services, the Food Co-Op, and the University Bookstore, much like a stored-value gift card. The University decided to discontinue the BUC$ program as part of a transition to more modern and widely used payment options. As a result, all remaining BUC$ balances must be resolved prior to the program’s closure. Important deadline: The BUC$ program will officially close on May 31, 2026. Action must be taken before this date. You may choose one of the following options: Option 1: Convert your BUC$ balance to Dining Dollars If you're on an active meal plan and have a BUC$ balance, you can convert your remaining BUC$ to Dining Dollars by contacting the Dining Services Meal Plan Office. You must convert your BUC$ balance to Dining Dollars by May 13. Dining Dollars can be used at all eligible Dining Services locations on campus. All Dining Dollars will roll over as long as you have a current meal plan and enroll in a Fall 2026 meal plan.

Thank GOODNESS Binghamton let me know about the twenty cents I left in my BUC$ account 17 years ago! I'd better hurry up and resolve that.

Is TMS perfect? No. The way it handles accessions if you have more than one object coming from a donor at a time is totally inexplicable. But it moves pretty dang well.

I spent all day today cleaning the database and it was sickkkkk actually

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick | MEMOs University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Explore our job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵):

1. Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick
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Color photograph of a display of grave goods from Grave 9 at Vivallen, including glass beads which were found near the head/neck indicating that they were most likely a beaded necklace which is considered feminine attire, a silver rose brooch (also feminine), and a silver finger ring (ambiguous)

Color photo of a reconstructed medieval belt from Grave 9, including all its mounts/fittings (considered male attire), a needle case (considered feminine) and a unique knife in a Sami style

The next gender non-conforming grave is in Vivallen. Grave 9 from the 12-13th C.; osteologically male, artifactually female*, this Sami individual was wealthy, with goods which indicate far travels or a strong trade network

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An excellent thesis:
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Costumes, Period Dramas and Their Audiences: From the Late 19th Century to the Present This book considers the notion of “historical escapism” through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to ...

If, like me, you remain devoted to the 1995 (BBC) adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice', you can learn about its costume design in this new book by fashion historian extraordinaire, Dr Lydia Edwards (Insta: @howtoreadadress). Preorder from @routledgebooks.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Costumes-Per...

A screencap of Firefox's main settings page, with "open previous windows and tabs" checked.

Firefox does have that setting! I have to use it because I'm a 100+ tab person.

A sunlit exterior view of a historic stone building with a round tower and leafy trees. Large white text over the image reads: “What’s on this month.” The Colchester Museums logo appears in the top-left corner.

Visitors move through a dimly lit museum gallery with stone walls and interactive displays. A sign is partially visible in the foreground. The Colchester Castle logo appears in the top-right corner. White text reads: “Relaxed Opening • 5 March.”

March is absolutely stacked across Colchester Castle and the Natural History Museum. If your diary needs a nudge towards “do something nice”, this is it.

First up: a calmer start, and a proper look at what’s coming.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

Heartbreak on the Colonial Front: Women’s Writing, the Seven Years War, and Humanity in the Archive By Thomas Lecaque This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Patrick Lecaque, 1/15/1949-10/11/2025, who taught his son the joy of history, of research, of discovery, and to find the individuals…

A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...

I don't love the name and can see where the alarm is coming from, but also see a need for a way to reformulate non-academic contributions as "respectable". Fashion history used to have a mix of academics and dedicated hobbyists, and the latter perspectives have been dropped in recent years.

Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)

Ford's speech is one of humility and gratitude. It's such a welcome counter point to the news I'm seeing right now.

Brown and white boer goat with an ear tag that says 0884, putting his little feet on me in a hammock

I'm sorry I engaged in discourse first thing in the morning. Here's a cute goat to make up for it.

American Medieval American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, your host Prof. Matthew Gabriele is joined by expert guests to explore not just the Middle Ages themselves,...

DID YOU KNOW that you can listen to not just the current episode, but all the other episodes ANYTIME YOU WANT????

it's true.

get it from @pocketcasts.com - pocketcasts.com/podcast/amer...

or apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

or anywhere else podcasts can be found

Poor families used to own my ancestors. Poor families benefitted from depressing their labor and drowning their communities after they were freed. Misdeeds often are financially attractive; it'd be pointless if they only offered moral compromises. Having integrity isn't a privilege, it's a choice.

Can't seem to be useful tonight, so I'm working on some Zotero sorting. Trying to hit every title I have that starts with "the".

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Standing stones in the sun

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#StandingStoneSunday

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

"I’m pretty sure technological progress is a law of nature, like gravity or death. The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it."

Before Pluribus, Samba Schutte Starred In A Pirate Show That Was Canceled Too Soon - SlashFilm

Samba Schutte was a welcome addition to Pluribus, especially among the fans of his previous work on a certain short-lived but beloved pirate TV show.

That's a really interesting observation, given the omnipresent narrative of McCardell's work being all about convenience!

Roman teapot!

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Two Women in Interior https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83379/

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The subject of the figural decoration of this hydria (water jar) is Herakles and Iolaos slaying the Hydra. Painted in black figure, the scene occupies the upper register on the body of the vessel between the two side handles. Herakles approaches from the right grasping one of the heads of the nine-headed, bearded Hydra with his left hand and raising his club with his right. Herakles is armored in a corslet and greaves. To his right, a large crab pinches Herakles' heel. Iolaos rushes forward from the left grasping one of the Hydra heads with his left hand and preparing to cut it off with the sickle he brandishes in his right. Underneath Iolaos is a small fire. On the reverse of the vessel, two sphinxes flank the vertical back handle, striding away from the center. Etruscan, from Caere, Etruria, about 520-510 BCE. Attributed to the Eagle Painter (Greek, Caeretan, acitve 530-500 BCE). Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades-Malibu, California (83.AE.346)

The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco will be hosting the exhibition ‘The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy’, from 2 May-20 September of this year. Over 200 pieces, promising to be a comprehensive exhibition on #Etruscan art and culture. 🏺 📸 me

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Want to help trans people move from hostile states?

Ellis does a disservice by repeating a common misinterpretation of this letter. She is talking about protecting wives from abusive husbands.

We are looking at silver teapot of a plain oval form with a waisted neck, engraved with an armorial and crest for Bowman, hinged raised cover with a plain domed finial, scroll wood handle. It is a fancy tea pot.

Attention everyone we want to make an important statement.

Bring back fancy tea pots.

That is all.