Hazel Zebulon
@zebulonica.bsky.social
Museums, galleries, archives, feminism, politics, society, communities, animals - a magpie mind constantly pecking at the weird and wonderful in this world. Oscillating between fascination, rage, joy and hope.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
I understand that archive.org is not blocked by the UK government but by the British Board of Film Classifications. It's not blocked by all UK isps but only by service providers who subscribe to the BBFC's list.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I understand that archive.org is not blocked by the UK government but by the British Board of Film Classifications. It's not blocked by all UK isps but only by service providers who subscribe to the BBFC's list.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
LOVE to discover, the week before teaching starts, that the UK government's nonsense has blocked access to @archive.org so a load of readings on Aztec-Mexica history now aren't available to my students.
a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
LOVE to discover, the week before teaching starts, that the UK government's nonsense has blocked access to @archive.org so a load of readings on Aztec-Mexica history now aren't available to my students.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Researching this incident for my book on the Civil Rights Division, I came across the photos taken of the bodies when they were discovered in the earthen dam. I won't share them.
OTD 1964, the bBodies of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman found in Philadelphia, Miss. Lynched by KKK assisted by local sheriff's deputies, after they arrived to help investigate the burning of church/freedom school. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ci...
Aug. 4, 1964: Civil Rights Workers Bodies Found
The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
www.zinnedproject.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Researching this incident for my book on the Civil Rights Division, I came across the photos taken of the bodies when they were discovered in the earthen dam. I won't share them.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...
Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee from Angry Citizens
"It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!" a rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.
www.thedailypoliticususa.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
what a fuckin embarrassment
US FCC approves two T-Mobile deals after wireless carrier drops DEI programs reut.rs/44HqWL9
US FCC approves two T-Mobile deals after wireless carrier drops DEI programs
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved two T-Mobile deals that would expand the wireless carrier's network, the commission said on Friday, after the company ended its diversity, equity and inclusion programs under pressure from President Donald Trump's administration.
reut.rs
July 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
what a fuckin embarrassment
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Seems important to say that MechaHitler is being powered by turbines that are poisoning Black people in Memphis
www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
www.wired.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Seems important to say that MechaHitler is being powered by turbines that are poisoning Black people in Memphis
www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
One of the most interesting voluntary roles I have is sitting on the panel for the National Blue Plaques Scheme - help keep it interesting by putting forward a nomination!
Tell us who you think deserves a National Blue Plaque! The National Blue Plaques Scheme celebrates inspirational people from all walks of life. Enter your nomination by 17 July at bit.ly/NominateBlue...
How to Make a Nomination | National Blue Plaque Scheme | Historic England
An overview of how to make a nomination and who is eligible for a national blue plaque, along with answers to frequently asked questions.
bit.ly
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
One of the most interesting voluntary roles I have is sitting on the panel for the National Blue Plaques Scheme - help keep it interesting by putting forward a nomination!
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Getting back into the habit of blogging about research. Here’s a rather random account of tea and handkerchief smuggling on board an East Indiaman. Doors were broken. www.deepthimurali.com/thieves-in-t... #history #eastindiacompany #tea
Smuggling Tea and Handkerchiefs? — Deepthi Murali
A snippet from aboard the British East India Company ship in 1712.
www.deepthimurali.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Getting back into the habit of blogging about research. Here’s a rather random account of tea and handkerchief smuggling on board an East Indiaman. Doors were broken. www.deepthimurali.com/thieves-in-t... #history #eastindiacompany #tea
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
'They [the Data Rescue Project] now need established institutions to host the rescued data sets. The Max Planck Institutes in Germany have already taken on huge amounts of environmental data, but other homes are needed.'
‘There is no political power without power over the archive’
Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, ...
observer.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
'They [the Data Rescue Project] now need established institutions to host the rescued data sets. The Max Planck Institutes in Germany have already taken on huge amounts of environmental data, but other homes are needed.'
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...
Resentment against Albuquerque ‘deliveristas’ may have sparked viral Walmart ICE arrest • Source New Mexico
Source New Mexico spoke with the family and friends of the man captured on video being violently arrested by ICE. They fear he has an untreated head injury.
sourcenm.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
This WW2 map was drawn by my grandpa, Doug Reich, while in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp ✍️
Here's his story 👇
Here's his story 👇
July 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This WW2 map was drawn by my grandpa, Doug Reich, while in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp ✍️
Here's his story 👇
Here's his story 👇
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
All of the major media organizations over the last decade have been systematically bought up by oligarchs, dismantled, and turned into propaganda organs benefiting the oligarchs. This was not by accident, this was a concerted effort to exercise more control over US society.
July 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
All of the major media organizations over the last decade have been systematically bought up by oligarchs, dismantled, and turned into propaganda organs benefiting the oligarchs. This was not by accident, this was a concerted effort to exercise more control over US society.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
So much commentary takes the framing of “we’re really on the edge of something dangerous.” Sorry to spoil the party, but we passed that point years ago and we’re just in it now. Democratic erosion does not happen overnight, it’s gradual. It’s already happening, and has been for years.
June 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So much commentary takes the framing of “we’re really on the edge of something dangerous.” Sorry to spoil the party, but we passed that point years ago and we’re just in it now. Democratic erosion does not happen overnight, it’s gradual. It’s already happening, and has been for years.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Sign: “No Kings, Only Queens”
June 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sign: “No Kings, Only Queens”
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Looks like the @pennpress.bsky.social off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!
The Sweet Taste of Empire – Penn Press
How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slave...
www.pennpress.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Looks like the @pennpress.bsky.social off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Well, at least Bernie showed up to see where & how our tax dollars were spent
June 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Well, at least Bernie showed up to see where & how our tax dollars were spent
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
*Confused historians of early modern medicine wake up to find themselves experts on current affairs*
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
*Confused historians of early modern medicine wake up to find themselves experts on current affairs*
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 24 of 2025
A total of thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. Following the recent pattern, the vast majority were from Capp.Sist, which added twenty-one, and a further eight from it's sub collection...
www.wiglaf.org
June 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
#Medievalsky #Skystorians
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Read this paper! It’s Grrreat! 🐯
Tiger Day! Not only did Theodosius' kitty get me to Canada for the first time. But also my first publication in a non-history/classics journal. Plus the sheer intellectual joy in pursuing just how much you can actually squeeze out of a mere nine words in Latin. Give a shout if you want to find out.
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Read this paper! It’s Grrreat! 🐯
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
Interesting how Irish authorities choose to read increased card payments and spends on groceries in particular as sign of consumer confidence rather than the very obvious increase of prices.
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Interesting how Irish authorities choose to read increased card payments and spends on groceries in particular as sign of consumer confidence rather than the very obvious increase of prices.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
A pebble mosaic of the 4th century BCE found in 2018 in the excavations of the bathhouse associated with the theatre of Amvrakia (modern Arta) in Greece featuring a very friendly looking octopus!
#mosaicmonday #ancientbluesky 🏺
www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/08/octo...
#mosaicmonday #ancientbluesky 🏺
www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/08/octo...
June 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A pebble mosaic of the 4th century BCE found in 2018 in the excavations of the bathhouse associated with the theatre of Amvrakia (modern Arta) in Greece featuring a very friendly looking octopus!
#mosaicmonday #ancientbluesky 🏺
www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/08/octo...
#mosaicmonday #ancientbluesky 🏺
www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/08/octo...
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
Reposted by Hazel Zebulon
From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union*
Abstract. In the mid-1980s, HIV and AIDS were initially dismissed in the Soviet press as infections that could only be contracted by individuals engaged in
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...