Robbie Richardson

"Hello, yes, I've come to inquire about the cursed painting you're selling."

Yes, but real life call of Cthulhu

I feel like this is where you’d go to buy books on alchemy or the ark of the convenant

An imposing entrance to a home framed by two busts

Part of a row of Victorian townhouses in Glasgow, from the 1870s I think; I love their occult energy. Like there‘s got to be a séance or meeting of a secret society going on behind this door every night.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

I wonder if, as now, the friendly Glaswegians chatted with Occom about the weather and asked what he was up to that day.

Holmwood Classical elegance and architectural tricks distinguish Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s finest domestic creation

Not sure if have any new 19th-century material to suggest! Maybe Greek Thompson’s house on the south side? He actually designed the building I live in too! The Burrell collection down there is great as well, and the adjoining park. www.nts.org.uk/visit/places...

The Oneida word for wampum is onikó:lha' meaning "of the mind"

Thanks Matt!

I was teaching Gray’s Elegy and Mohegan writer Samson Occom together today to think about individual and collective commemoration and literacy. Strange to think that Occom read an Oneida wampum belt on stage here in Scotland in the 1760s!

Yes, a longstanding and deliberate feature of US empire-- very hard to take.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

The lack of apostrophe also fascinating

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

The clientele appear less whimsical than the name suggests

A pub with a green exterior named “The Wee Man’s Bar”

Fascinated by this bar in Glasgow’s east end.

A street with Victorian residential buildings ending in a church steeple

Victorian tenements and a church that’s now a pub and theatre in the west end of Glasgow.

Husky House, by Fulfilment 10 track album

It's #BandcampFriday today, and in an act of shameless self-promotion, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. First, my current punk band Fulfilment (FFO Jawbreaker, Constantines, Wipers, Unwound).

panels of birchbark with embroidered images of strawberries and people gathering them

Some 19th-century Mi'gmaw embroidery, done on birchbark with moosehair. It depicts strawberries, and women dressed in their fancy ceremonial dress gathering strawberries (the fruit is medicine associated with women, renewal, and the heart).

Queer British History – 1714 to 1785 YouTube video by HistoricalAssocUK

Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

The Albini sessions for In on the Killtaker (my personal fav Fugazi LP) are up on Dischord's Bandcamp page with money going to charity: fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech Canadian actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers says she is “disgusted and ashamed” by the Toronto Film Critics Association’s (TFCA) decision to cut a portion of her awards speech, in which she expressed support for Palestine, from Monday’s awards gala.Tailfeathers was being honored at the TFCA Awards Gala in Toronto with the prize for Best Supporting Performance in a Canadian Film, for her role in Melanie Oates’ drama Sweet Angel Baby.

Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech

Wearing fancy dress suggests a broader sense of well being

panels of birchbark with embroidered images of strawberries and people gathering them

Some 19th-century Mi'gmaw embroidery, done on birchbark with moosehair. It depicts strawberries, and women dressed in their fancy ceremonial dress gathering strawberries (the fruit is medicine associated with women, renewal, and the heart).

I'm teaching Lote next week!

A thronging widow’s walk

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

I imagine every flat in this building consists of furniture covered in sheets, dusty floorboards, and silence but for the sighing of ghosts.