Tam not Lin
@tam0lin.bsky.social
research historian. vestigial degrees in medieval lit. got tombstone hands and a graveyard mind. stayed up reading too late last night.
First page of Google search for ‘Lydia Pinkham’. They keep telling me that AI is going to do my job (historical researcher) but…
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
First page of Google search for ‘Lydia Pinkham’. They keep telling me that AI is going to do my job (historical researcher) but…
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Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.
January 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.
A little boy is going to bed without his mother tonight. She will never put him to bed again.
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
A little boy is going to bed without his mother tonight. She will never put him to bed again.
As a child I read compulsively, all the time, gobbling up books. At some point, somebody convinced me that I needed to live in the real world.
…except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.
…except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
As a child I read compulsively, all the time, gobbling up books. At some point, somebody convinced me that I needed to live in the real world.
…except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.
…except that I just read three books in three days, and it was SO MUCH better than the real world, I can’t tell you.
Allan Rohan Crite, 1946.
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Allan Rohan Crite, 1946.
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Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
An incredible story spanning generations
From Poland to Sydney, a bar mitzvah amidst rising antisemitism
www.australianjewishnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...
“Part of it was I always thought I could at least someday put things right and I guess I just dont feel that way no more.”
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Part of it was I always thought I could at least someday put things right and I guess I just dont feel that way no more.”
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
weta
red squirrel
timber rattlesnake
fox
great white shark
weta
red squirrel
timber rattlesnake
fox
great white shark
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox
Wolf
Otter
Bison
Cougar
Fox
Wolf
Otter
Bison
Cougar
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
weta
red squirrel
timber rattlesnake
fox
great white shark
weta
red squirrel
timber rattlesnake
fox
great white shark
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i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
This is brilliant. And it’s the kind of wonderful, complex prose that your students will never learn how to write if they’ve dependent on generative AI.
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is brilliant. And it’s the kind of wonderful, complex prose that your students will never learn how to write if they’ve dependent on generative AI.
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"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."
O is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."
My child had a theory that his teacher was grading his weekly essays with Chat GPT, so he tested it by submitting two identical essays to different prompts in different weeks. Almost identical feedback.
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My child had a theory that his teacher was grading his weekly essays with Chat GPT, so he tested it by submitting two identical essays to different prompts in different weeks. Almost identical feedback.
The thing about spending my childhood in NZ is that I forget that most of the people tossing around sheep metaphors don’t know what sheep are really like.
People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The thing about spending my childhood in NZ is that I forget that most of the people tossing around sheep metaphors don’t know what sheep are really like.
Norwich Cathedral Green Man.
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Norwich Cathedral Green Man.
Amazing. Chortling the whole way through the thread.
Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Amazing. Chortling the whole way through the thread.
The thing about bread and circuses as a strategy is that you really can’t endanger the ‘bread’ part.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The thing about bread and circuses as a strategy is that you really can’t endanger the ‘bread’ part.
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The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
Somebody told me that October 16 was a good night to watch SINNERS at last, and my God, what a movie. Still grappling with how I could sing all the monster’s songs because I knew them by heart.
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Somebody told me that October 16 was a good night to watch SINNERS at last, and my God, what a movie. Still grappling with how I could sing all the monster’s songs because I knew them by heart.
Woolly bears are more optimistic about this winter than I am.
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Woolly bears are more optimistic about this winter than I am.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
Golden grapes and quinces in an Oxford garden.
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Golden grapes and quinces in an Oxford garden.