😭 RIP Claude - No trip to the Academy of Sciences was complete until I saw you.
Rest in peace to a San Francisco legend, Claude the albino alligator 🐊🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
😭 RIP Claude - No trip to the Academy of Sciences was complete until I saw you.
When I was a kid my Dad took me to Notre Dame vs BC in South Bend, after church after the game we saw a group of guys skipping crushed beer cans off the ground trying to to make it through blowup uprights and I thought, “I can’t wait to go to college.”
Besides cornhole and pitching a football around, what are some other tailgate sports?
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When I was a kid my Dad took me to Notre Dame vs BC in South Bend, after church after the game we saw a group of guys skipping crushed beer cans off the ground trying to to make it through blowup uprights and I thought, “I can’t wait to go to college.”
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Physics ain't played nobody. History has a better strength of resume imho
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Physics ain't played nobody. History has a better strength of resume imho
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This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
The monster’s mom is Surfing Dracula, that’s why they got the Netflix deal.
Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. The monster’s name is Dracula Frankenstein
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The monster’s mom is Surfing Dracula, that’s why they got the Netflix deal.
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
This is a fantastic piece, I recently learned one of the reasons Palmerston didn’t push publicly to support the Confederacy was the need to keep grain shipments from the Union, thanks to the recently passed Corn Act, all while thousands of British arms ran blockades and would kill Union troops.
In 1862, @saulelbein.bsky.social writes, suffering textile workers streamed into a Manchester meeting hall. At stake: whether Britain should join the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. Proponents of "kitchen table politics" can learn a lot from what happened next.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
Lions at the Kitchen Table
Saul considers the Lancashire Cotton Famine, political mythmaking and the cynical trap of "affordability"
heat-death.ghost.io
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a fantastic piece, I recently learned one of the reasons Palmerston didn’t push publicly to support the Confederacy was the need to keep grain shipments from the Union, thanks to the recently passed Corn Act, all while thousands of British arms ran blockades and would kill Union troops.
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
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as I've said many times, he's one of our foremost public historians
And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...
Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA
The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.
www.historians.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
as I've said many times, he's one of our foremost public historians
Self representation?
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Self representation?
Wonderful! I still think about There There, and need to read Wandering Stars.
Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Tommy Orange
Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Wonderful! I still think about There There, and need to read Wandering Stars.
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people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
August 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
@talkinghenry.bsky.social @bobservo.bsky.social Was watching the Simpsons stream last night and may have found a “Simpsons predicted Labubus” when Homer had to buy $10 of gas to get a blind box Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie in S22 E5.
August 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@talkinghenry.bsky.social @bobservo.bsky.social Was watching the Simpsons stream last night and may have found a “Simpsons predicted Labubus” when Homer had to buy $10 of gas to get a blind box Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie in S22 E5.
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we could really use a major Hollywood picture about union soldiers being turbo woke pilled
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we could really use a major Hollywood picture about union soldiers being turbo woke pilled
Nice to see he finally put this down.
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Nice to see he finally put this down.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Biology of AIDS - Social history of the AIDS epidemic mixed with an immunology course. So good!
What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
I invariably get, "Ooh anthro that was my favorite class/cool professor" from people I meet. I tend to think soms of it is our outré material, being willing to talk "taboo" subjects in a cross-cultural context.
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
Ironically MY favorite class was probably Geology 101...
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Biology of AIDS - Social history of the AIDS epidemic mixed with an immunology course. So good!
I read George Plimpton’s history of fireworks, he would be such a good hang, funny and he LOVED blowing stuff up. Plimpton acquired some huge fireworks from the Grucci’s one 4th. Norman Mailer fell backwards from the launch of a shell he lit, but didn’t spill the vase of scotch he was drinking.
US edition, my personal non-exhaustive list:
1) Abe Lincoln
2) Ben Franklin
3) George Plimpton
4) William O. Douglas, though he might have gotten you in a bit of trouble
1) Abe Lincoln
2) Ben Franklin
3) George Plimpton
4) William O. Douglas, though he might have gotten you in a bit of trouble
Any prominent historical figure that would have just been a good bud and wouldn't be insufferable or dangerous to hang out with? Watch a game, spot you at the gym, go fishing, BBQ while having a few beers...
July 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I read George Plimpton’s history of fireworks, he would be such a good hang, funny and he LOVED blowing stuff up. Plimpton acquired some huge fireworks from the Grucci’s one 4th. Norman Mailer fell backwards from the launch of a shell he lit, but didn’t spill the vase of scotch he was drinking.
This is a fabulous piece.
I didn’t find any of the explanations for what’s going on with the bad job market for new college grads satisfying, so I spent a week trying to figure out what was up and what it means for the larger economy. Turns out it’s not AI! Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What the Tough Job Market for New College Grads Says About the Economy
A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.
www.bloomberg.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is a fabulous piece.
@bobservo.bsky.social @talkinghenry.bsky.social fabulous episode with @libbycwatson.com! I think a “pitch and putt” was a short 9-hole golf course where all you needed was a pitching wedge and putter. (Rethinking my pfp since we are past peak Poochie, plus I wore Homer hedge socks to my wedding).
July 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@bobservo.bsky.social @talkinghenry.bsky.social fabulous episode with @libbycwatson.com! I think a “pitch and putt” was a short 9-hole golf course where all you needed was a pitching wedge and putter. (Rethinking my pfp since we are past peak Poochie, plus I wore Homer hedge socks to my wedding).