Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
the price of train tickets in the united states is nauseating after experiencing a country with good rail infrastructure
No travel experience more unpredictable in comfort or hospitality than the @amtrak.com replacement bus, yeesh
Historical marker reading “Black Heritage Trail NH - WARNER The names of four Black men are etched on this Soldiers Monument representing three different wars. Ichabod Twilight served for three years in the Continental Army and after his service lived in Corinth, VT. William Bradish served in the War of 1812 and is buried in Warner's Poor Farm Cemetery. Cousins James and John F. Haskell served in the Civil War. James served with the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment. John F. served with the 45th United States Colored Infantry. Both cousins are buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Salisbury, NH. These soldiers' stories represent a small part of the rich history of Warner's Black community
Historical novel about Black Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Twilight when?
If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is
Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo
Morning walk
Touching grass is not enough
I need a runaway truck ramp
For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.
See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!
I know there’s a lot of horrors to fight but if you have bandwidth I can personally attest that PSLF is literally life-changing and it by design benefits people working for the public good (and not just educators!). It’s only been a handful of years since Biden-era changes made it actually WORK.
An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
top cover of a cardboard cake box that says the name of the band and album, with a circular photo in the center of a group in the mountains
Cardboard cake box that holds the record and sculpture from the side
a vinyl record with a sculpture on top of it of a mountain with little tiny people
a vinyl record with a sculpture on top of it of a mountain with little tiny people
Ok, first post!
Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile - Ja Soa Schmarrn (number 81/100)
This is an Edward Ka-Spel project. The record is allegedly playable, but we've had this for nearly 30 years and we haven't played it, at least not that I can recall. More info here: www.discogs.com/release/1705...
yuniya edi kwon and amazingly talented friends performing the world premiere of _silver through the grass like nothing_, a meditation on illness, bardo, and Buddhist śarīra, at the Monheim Triennale.
BOS --> FRA
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
Have you ever seen a Tibetan typewriter? This one is held at the Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde of the University of Vienna - and it's still in working order! Read our latest blog post for the full story and a close-up view.
www.bdrc.io/blog/2025/06...
You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism
no no, this is correct and good. let it cook.
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I wrote a thing! about hysterectomy and human flourishing and @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social’s new book
I don’t know how many of you wanted to know things about my rectum, but @mpgphd.bsky.social did, so there
getting Marie Kondo involved was her idea, I am living for it
TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
The image is a fragment of a burial tomb mural depicting a cat. The artwork shows a black and white cat sitting upright. The cat is facing to the right and its tail is curled around its body. The mural has a weathered appearance, with visible cracks and a rough texture.
Anyang Museum in Henan Province finished restoration on a local tomb mural depicting a black and white cat (note the bell collar!).
Belonging to official Zhao Yigong, the tomb was completed in 829 CE; it's thought to be the earliest Chinese tomb mural of a domestic cat.
#caturday
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
so I'm finally reading Moby Dick and I was NOT prepared for how Extremely AO3 it is
In the results of a Google search at 6:11 AM on March 28, this headline and meta description from The Federalist reads "America’s Librarians Became Militantly Political, And Now They Suffer The Consequences America's librarians elected a Marxist to represent them. It's no surprise the Trump administration is pulling federal funding."
What those radicalized by mis- and dis- information are ingesting day after day.
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now