@funkyplaid
Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Our next JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is coming up this Tues 10 March @ 5pm UKT. We'll be welcoming @stephengriffin33.bsky.social to speak about his forthcoming book on Count Owen O’Rourke, Irish Jacobite diplomatic agent to the Habsburgs and Stuarts.
jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...
You can check out our latest storytelling blog from the Glencoe Archaeology Project here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/the-house-of...
This story explores the 17th century tacksman's house in Achnacon, and the biography of this dwelling, its occupants and finds.
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Crivens has also had quite enough of these pieces of dookie in power just now. Quite enough.
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
Screenshot of a book cover showing an illustration of a crow perched on an "ICE" jacket lying in the middle of a snow-lined road under the light of a full moon. The cover reads "ICE Out " by Charles de Lint. Text to the right of the cover reads "ICE came to Newford. Big mistake." and "Download for free!"
Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now
www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html
I do believe this is the softest photo I have ever seen.
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
A caterpillar turning around and facing almost directly at the camera
heard you talking shit
You know what the saddest part of everything going on in the world is? None of this is a surprise. At all. A man stood behind a podium and told the world exactly what he was going to do and then a bunch of people voted for it. We could have had health care, education, and housing
Sounds amazing
THIS 👇
thank you, @awickenden.bsky.social
One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day
Happy Birthday to my beloved @cygnoir.net on this 23rd of Hearts. Ever since she emerged from the water my life has been far better in every way. 🦢💜
an orange cat sits on the floor. The light through an unseen window lights up its back in a window pattern not unlike the window pattern on the side of the catbus in the anime movie My Neighbor Totoro
Homemade catbus
A brand new programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops is upon us and we're kicking things off on Tue, 24 Feb with a visit from Prof Allan Macinnes, who will be sharing thoughts about his new book, 'Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond'.
jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...
I asked the Copilot if it could do X, it falsely claimed it could, fabricated results, then told me it was my fault. If I didn’t hate it already, I certainly would now.
there's always an undertone of violence in every sufficiently developed bourgeois idealism that sees the body as nothing more as a useless belly that it'd be better to liquidate if we could
Oh my goodness. This is essential reading.
Some might call it a…bag of secrets!
Pritzker’s invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.
“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”
This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."
#TrumpSyndicate
"You continued providing a service during the once in a century global deadly pandemic crisis and my experience was impacted"
Imagine this kind of student organizing against Ed Tech / AI.
“I lost out on learning! Relationships! Oh and all of my personal data, too!”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
Real talk.
