John Kuhn
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
This was good but I think I could literally double the fennel seeds and it would make it even better
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This was good but I think I could literally double the fennel seeds and it would make it even better
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Back on an excellent doomscrolling prevention hobby: knitting slightly lumpy scarves
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let me just say, if i were the nymphs of Mulla, responsible for tending the silver scaly trouts and greedy pike, /i/ would not send out an email insulting said trouts and said pike, instead focusing on keeping the rushy lake and bynding up the locks the which hang scattered light, WHICH IS MY JOB
[redacted because i used to like my job] wtf
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
let me just say, if i were the nymphs of Mulla, responsible for tending the silver scaly trouts and greedy pike, /i/ would not send out an email insulting said trouts and said pike, instead focusing on keeping the rushy lake and bynding up the locks the which hang scattered light, WHICH IS MY JOB
I read Glorious Exploits this summer and really did enjoy it--glad to see the author getting recognition. Novel is extremely creative, funny, gross, touching....
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I read Glorious Exploits this summer and really did enjoy it--glad to see the author getting recognition. Novel is extremely creative, funny, gross, touching....
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Does anyone know what publishers/series are actively acquiring in either early modern (European) urban history or early modern European jewish history? (Looking into this for a friend).
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Does anyone know what publishers/series are actively acquiring in either early modern (European) urban history or early modern European jewish history? (Looking into this for a friend).
light snow in Binghamton. We are in the hardest two weeks of the academic year. The holidays are not yet fully in sight; it's dark and getting darker every day (sunset is 4:45 PM); students are exhausted and sick of class; I'm sick of teaching. Just gotta hold on for Thanksgiving!
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
light snow in Binghamton. We are in the hardest two weeks of the academic year. The holidays are not yet fully in sight; it's dark and getting darker every day (sunset is 4:45 PM); students are exhausted and sick of class; I'm sick of teaching. Just gotta hold on for Thanksgiving!
one thing I don't care for about Season 4 of Slow Horses: no Sophie Okonedo (who just elevates everything she is in)
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
one thing I don't care for about Season 4 of Slow Horses: no Sophie Okonedo (who just elevates everything she is in)
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More folk horror from Facebook marketplace
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More folk horror from Facebook marketplace
new season of Slow Horses is amazing. Christopher Chung doesn't get enough credit for his turn as the jacked, 4chan-pilled manosphere moron Roddy Ho; the background political stakes are so real it hurts (London mayoral election with a xenophobic nationalist wackjob on the ballot)
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
new season of Slow Horses is amazing. Christopher Chung doesn't get enough credit for his turn as the jacked, 4chan-pilled manosphere moron Roddy Ho; the background political stakes are so real it hurts (London mayoral election with a xenophobic nationalist wackjob on the ballot)
forecast for Tuesday: low of 23 degrees / high of 34 degrees! gonna nuke what's left in the garden (the brave calendulas)
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
forecast for Tuesday: low of 23 degrees / high of 34 degrees! gonna nuke what's left in the garden (the brave calendulas)
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A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
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roasting this bad boy today
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
roasting this bad boy today
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.
Reposted by John Kuhn
i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
me: "it was mostly just drifts of rabbit fur, there was only a tiny bit of viscera"
my friend Bailey: "I kind of feel like even a tiny bit of viscera is too much viscera"
my friend Bailey: "I kind of feel like even a tiny bit of viscera is too much viscera"
Came home from farmers market, back door had drifted open bc I forgot to latch it this morning when I was digging dahlias. And discovered Ruby had finally caught, killed, and completely eaten the fat rabbit that has been in the backyard....in the living room.
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
me: "it was mostly just drifts of rabbit fur, there was only a tiny bit of viscera"
my friend Bailey: "I kind of feel like even a tiny bit of viscera is too much viscera"
my friend Bailey: "I kind of feel like even a tiny bit of viscera is too much viscera"
Came home from farmers market, back door had drifted open bc I forgot to latch it this morning when I was digging dahlias. And discovered Ruby had finally caught, killed, and completely eaten the fat rabbit that has been in the backyard....in the living room.
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Came home from farmers market, back door had drifted open bc I forgot to latch it this morning when I was digging dahlias. And discovered Ruby had finally caught, killed, and completely eaten the fat rabbit that has been in the backyard....in the living room.
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Anything can be an unidentified flying object if you’re stupid enough
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Anything can be an unidentified flying object if you’re stupid enough
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nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
a friend is staying with me and my dog has been choosing to snuggle with him at night, only returning to snuggle with me when he leaves for work at 5 AM. I feel like the less-preferred sister wife!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
a friend is staying with me and my dog has been choosing to snuggle with him at night, only returning to snuggle with me when he leaves for work at 5 AM. I feel like the less-preferred sister wife!!!!
Pleased to see my alma mater rejecting this compact (which now seems dead). To recap: feds tried cancelling science grants to force unis to change non-science areas. Ruled illegal. Feds then tried new strategy, which was getting unis to voluntarily *agree* to allow blackmail. Also didn’t work.
KU won’t sign Trump’s higher education compact, was never invited to, provost says
KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer said the university cannot sign the Compact for Excellence in Higher Education due to limits on academic freedom.
www.kansan.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Pleased to see my alma mater rejecting this compact (which now seems dead). To recap: feds tried cancelling science grants to force unis to change non-science areas. Ruled illegal. Feds then tried new strategy, which was getting unis to voluntarily *agree* to allow blackmail. Also didn’t work.
Utterly charming
Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Utterly charming