Lawrence Abrams
@yidcaledon.bsky.social
Teacher. Co-Editor Historians Without Borders.
World and Modern Britain historian. Scotland, the military, and comics. Sucker for good food and cute creatures.
World and Modern Britain historian. Scotland, the military, and comics. Sucker for good food and cute creatures.
Moments like this are why I wish better databases on sales trends existed for scholarly research. The ones we have are a slog to dig through and tend to be year-on-year. Now of course I'm complaining with absolutely no time or willpower to fix it myself. C'est la guerre.
February 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Moments like this are why I wish better databases on sales trends existed for scholarly research. The ones we have are a slog to dig through and tend to be year-on-year. Now of course I'm complaining with absolutely no time or willpower to fix it myself. C'est la guerre.
Oh bravo. Something that might hit big enough to make it west of the pond so I can practice my Gàidhlig. There are only so many old Dòtaman reruns an adult can tolerate.
An t-Eilean review – this Gaelic language crime drama should have happened years ago
An t-Eilean review – this Gaelic language crime drama should have happened years ago
A high-budget series set in the Outer Hebrides – it’s hard to believe it’s taken this long, given how popular subtitled TV is. It’s a good, solid series, even if the plot stretches credulity
It is difficult to imagine An t-Eilean being made even 10 years…
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oh bravo. Something that might hit big enough to make it west of the pond so I can practice my Gàidhlig. There are only so many old Dòtaman reruns an adult can tolerate.
Lets be very clear. Threatening military/economic force to annex the sovereign territory of a NATO ally is just plain buggering nuts. News outlets that normalize this kind of rhetoric without reporting it as the patent insanity it is have failed in their journalistic duty. Stop normalizing crazy.
President-elect Trump talked of taking Greenland and the Panama Canal by force and dodged a question on Jan. 6 pardons in a rambling news conference at Mar-a-lago. Here's what to know. nyti.ms/40oCxOs
January 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Lets be very clear. Threatening military/economic force to annex the sovereign territory of a NATO ally is just plain buggering nuts. News outlets that normalize this kind of rhetoric without reporting it as the patent insanity it is have failed in their journalistic duty. Stop normalizing crazy.
There's a joke here about British hegemony and historic domination of Ireland but I can't quite get the punchline off my shoulder.
Guinness raids its Irish reserves to ease UK shortages amid gen Z demand
Guinness raids its Irish reserves to ease UK shortages amid gen Z demand
Diageo also reportedly puts shipments for North America on standby for potential diversion to keep up with thirst
Guinness is raiding its reserves in Ireland to boost shipments to the UK, where a social media-fuelled surge in demand has left some pubs…
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:32 PM
There's a joke here about British hegemony and historic domination of Ireland but I can't quite get the punchline off my shoulder.
With Israel invalidating the '74 truce line, HTS in the north, SDF in the northeast, and the hodgepodge coalition in the south, not even accounting for the Turkish "buffer zone", I have to wonder about potential balkanization of Syria at this point. Assad's fall is likely only the first domino.
December 8, 2024 at 7:18 PM
With Israel invalidating the '74 truce line, HTS in the north, SDF in the northeast, and the hodgepodge coalition in the south, not even accounting for the Turkish "buffer zone", I have to wonder about potential balkanization of Syria at this point. Assad's fall is likely only the first domino.
A useful explanatory thread. Given how fast things have moved in the last two days though it will be especially curious to see what takes shape now that Damascus has fallen to groups in the south, depriving HTS from completing their sweep down the central axis highway.
December 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
A useful explanatory thread. Given how fast things have moved in the last two days though it will be especially curious to see what takes shape now that Damascus has fallen to groups in the south, depriving HTS from completing their sweep down the central axis highway.
GO BLUE! HAIL TO THE VICTORS! What a stupidly ugly edition of The Game. But a win is a win. Well done #Wolverines.
November 30, 2024 at 8:28 PM
GO BLUE! HAIL TO THE VICTORS! What a stupidly ugly edition of The Game. But a win is a win. Well done #Wolverines.
It was fascinating to see the Church promote remote use of contact healing relics like the Shroud of Turin over zoom and other remote systems during Covid. It raised some peculiar theological questions but was generally explicable in existing faith frameworks. This? This is a theological pretzel.
Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus
Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus
Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:30 PM
It was fascinating to see the Church promote remote use of contact healing relics like the Shroud of Turin over zoom and other remote systems during Covid. It raised some peculiar theological questions but was generally explicable in existing faith frameworks. This? This is a theological pretzel.
1,000 days of war. We can and must do more. #SlavaUkraini
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 AM
1,000 days of war. We can and must do more. #SlavaUkraini
Between this and the recent Mayan discoveries, remote sensing technology is really having its day in historical studies. It makes me curious to see what we might find if the same level of sensing systems were applied to already discovered sites and how it might affect our understanding of them.
Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with declassified images from US spy satellites.
Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images | CNN
Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with declassified images from US spy satellites.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Between this and the recent Mayan discoveries, remote sensing technology is really having its day in historical studies. It makes me curious to see what we might find if the same level of sensing systems were applied to already discovered sites and how it might affect our understanding of them.
Definitely the old copies of Giant sized X-men #1, and Hulk #181 (first appearance of Wolverine) that I inherited from my dad's collection. Both classics, but also ones I've written papers on that helped me start my academic work in comics.
Top Shelf Friday time
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love❤️
This week, Wolverine #8 (1989)
One of my favorite covers!
#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love❤️
This week, Wolverine #8 (1989)
One of my favorite covers!
#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics
November 16, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Definitely the old copies of Giant sized X-men #1, and Hulk #181 (first appearance of Wolverine) that I inherited from my dad's collection. Both classics, but also ones I've written papers on that helped me start my academic work in comics.
So I hit a 100 followers. I don't know why or how given what I do on here. But more power to ya you weirdos.
November 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
So I hit a 100 followers. I don't know why or how given what I do on here. But more power to ya you weirdos.
Reposted by Lawrence Abrams
A friend just texted me, “Caligula only appointed one horse.”
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
A friend just texted me, “Caligula only appointed one horse.”
Reposted by Lawrence Abrams
Whole lotta people gonna get tenure off this. Really cool revisions to Mayan history coming if they find more sites like this.
Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident
Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident
The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Whole lotta people gonna get tenure off this. Really cool revisions to Mayan history coming if they find more sites like this.
Oy vey. It's even worse stateside. It used to be hold the battlements at Thanksgiving. Now we're lucky if we can guard the hastily erected barricades at Halloween.
‘Christmas creep is real’: festivities start earlier every year, analysis finds
‘Christmas creep is real’: festivities start earlier every year, analysis finds
Data supports belief that Christmas-themed merchandise, songs and decorations are appearing ahead of season
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Oy vey. It's even worse stateside. It used to be hold the battlements at Thanksgiving. Now we're lucky if we can guard the hastily erected barricades at Halloween.
This is such a useless framing. They wouldn't need a lifeline to call out about guns in schools if we dealt with the damn guns.
Georgia school shooting highlights fears about classroom cellphone bans
Georgia school shooting highlights fears about classroom cellphone bans
The shooting at a Georgia high school has highlighted concerns raised about a growing effort to ban or restrict cellphones in the classroom.
apnews.com
September 8, 2024 at 8:07 PM
This is such a useless framing. They wouldn't need a lifeline to call out about guns in schools if we dealt with the damn guns.
A really thoughtful op-ed. Trying to deconstruct problems of popularized Fanon/Said, decolonization, and the current version facing Israel-Palestine. Comes closer than most I've seen to a proper expression of what I struggle with daily in explaining to students. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...
February 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM
A really thoughtful op-ed. Trying to deconstruct problems of popularized Fanon/Said, decolonization, and the current version facing Israel-Palestine. Comes closer than most I've seen to a proper expression of what I struggle with daily in explaining to students. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...
Go Blue! #nationalchampions
January 9, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Go Blue! #nationalchampions
Hail to the victors! #GoBlue! Onwards to the national championship game.
January 2, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Hail to the victors! #GoBlue! Onwards to the national championship game.
So I'm seriously wondering if we can get an SNL riff on Kissinger dying the way they used to do "Fransico Franco is still dead". This is now part of my holiday gift wishlist if anyone knows a producer or writer for the show.
November 30, 2023 at 5:56 AM
So I'm seriously wondering if we can get an SNL riff on Kissinger dying the way they used to do "Fransico Franco is still dead". This is now part of my holiday gift wishlist if anyone knows a producer or writer for the show.
Fixed it for you: Henry Kissinger, war criminal, has died aged 100.
Henry Kissinger, a foreign policy thinker and statesman whose influence rivaled that of presidents, has died at 100.
Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100; Shaped Nation’s Cold War History
The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China, Russia and the Middle East.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Fixed it for you: Henry Kissinger, war criminal, has died aged 100.
The ongoing erosion of the post office under the current Postmaster General and board of directors is a mounting problem. Turnover on the board and subsequent removal of the PMG cannot come soon enough.
Amazon has increasingly come to rely on postal carriers to make “last-mile” deliveries in harder-to-reach rural locations.
A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued.
Amazon has increasingly come to rely on postal carriers to make “last-mile” deliveries in harder-to-reach rural locations.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM
The ongoing erosion of the post office under the current Postmaster General and board of directors is a mounting problem. Turnover on the board and subsequent removal of the PMG cannot come soon enough.
This is a tragedy. I grew up reading popular science at the local library. Deeply saddening loss.
Venture capital killed a 151-year-old magazine that I and so many other people were proud to work for, until, of course, we were all laid off a few weeks ago.
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
The long-running publication has come to an end.
www.theverge.com
November 28, 2023 at 4:40 AM
This is a tragedy. I grew up reading popular science at the local library. Deeply saddening loss.
This is art.
[Gus Johnson commentating the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo] Princip, stepping out of the crowd. Princip! PRINCIP. OHHHH. GAVRILO PRINCIP
November 25, 2023 at 6:47 PM
This is art.