Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15hfun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying. 22909325
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7546151
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyConstance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Looking up at red zinnias against a blue October sky ... lovely afternoon still hanging on to late Summer ... 37410
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22hA thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images... 17785260
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 14hFor the youngs, this sort of thing (analog-version) is what led to the bloom of queer weekly papers/mags/zines in US cities. We could not be platformed in mainstream media, so we made our own. It's not impossible we will again. (Sadly, sec 28 muzzled similar in the UK, it would seem.) 2185
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 15hThe Brilliant Engineering That Made Venice: How a City Was Built on Wateropenculture.comThe Brilliant Engineering That Made Venice: How a City Was Built on WaterMany of us have put off a visit to Venice for fear of the hordes of tourists who roam its streets and boat down its canals day in and day out. To judge by the most visible of its economic activity, th... 0176
Reposted by Kathleen E. Kennedygwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14hNew: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...chron.comHow Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay barAt least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business. 291262548
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 14hLol these shrinkflation salad greens are labeled "30% less plastic!" Yes, indeed, 30% less veg, too... 0112
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 20hYou guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 4734461037
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyElaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 16hIgnorance comes at a cost. Everpure's 'stuck in the Dark Ages' stereotyping (on left) shows how little they know about the early provision of data (on the right). Why does ushering in technologies mean mocking those upon whose knowledge we build? Clearly, these companies need trained humanists! 34911
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20hJust a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot 1365181217
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17hit was a real learning experience for me in university administration because like EVERYONE ELSE was on one side (the statue had been damaged by a car! perfect excuse, if you’re a coward who needs one!) and it did not matter because like three guys in suits and some donors were like “but our legacy” 120613
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 18hno, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome 384219579
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyDr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 19hI will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re... 87424
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyThe Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 20hHey Bluesky! Wanna see a frog? Of course you do. 926729
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 20hSo I was working on describing a manuscript with a noble's name in it, title indicated one of these eeny meany principalities, but the saints pointed to a different diocese..until I checked the date and the itty bitty polity got linked (not attached! not nearby!) w/Another itty polity in the diocese 2203
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 21hputs yer wee panics about the time change into perspective, dunnit? 1111
Reposted by Kathleen E. Kennedyjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 879173630
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyThe Quietus @thequietus.com · 04/10/2026"I used to think Medieval Christianity was about doom and hell and Dante, so it was really surprising to find this woman just totally feeling the love of the universe. To her, God is all love." Susanne Sundfør on Julian of Norwich buff.ly/Wuvop99 1349
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s Korvapuustipäivä in Finland and Kanelsbullens Dag in Sweden, which is to say Cinnamon Bun Day! I happen to have a recipe for Swedish Cinnamon Buns, so of course it has to be #RecipeOfTheDay www.nigella.com/recipes/swed...nigella.comSwedish Cinnamon BunsSwedish Cinnamon Buns are not radically different from other cinnamon buns (and do see my Norwegian Cinnamon Buns), but they do diverge in one fundamental way: rather than having the fluffiness of, sa... 21727115
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey so are we assuming that its note app is the newest thing Google is abandoning (desktop at least, mobile still seems to work)? 130
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyHMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 03/10/2026On Saturday, October 17 (4–5 p.m. CT), join HMML at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to learn about damaged books in HMML’s collection. Details about this free, in-person event can be found at hmml.org/programs/events 0147
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!” 934071699
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyZeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ohio Humanities Council has/had a whole speakers bureau and paid you $400 if an org was willing to host you. I gave a couple of talks that way and other orgs occasionally found me that way as well. (Sadly the budget got fucked by DOGE). 2236
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 03/10/2026A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org 415032
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedySpookiest Welsh Canadian (Glynn Stewart) @glynnstewart.com · 03/10/2026We are receiving increased issues of tactical unicorns! Awesome news. 0265
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Possibly worth highlighting that the unique PNW forests are roughly similar to what used to cover Ireland and parts of Britain before high intensity ag (of various kinds) cleared the land. When you stop to consider Irish folklore...it tracks... 1182
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026your moment of haunted forest, bob straub state park. 1438347
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyJuan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Two of my colleagues have created a company just like this to bring specialists of all fields to bars and do interesting talks about their specialty. My first talk about Caribbean pirates in history and pop culture was for them. www.discoursebham.comdiscoursebham.comHome | Discourse 2245
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just typed "it's so bad I've moved from email to phone in several instances" and yes, there it is, our historical moment. If it requires a phone call w/a phone you've moved into emergency territory. and yes I was on the phone this week. and will be next. smdh. 0111
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27783302
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyUnofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hawaii's iconic 500-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch has collapsed into the seabbc.co.ukHawaii's iconic 500-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch has collapsed into the seaThe lava rock formation protruding from the rocky cliffs of Volcanoes National Park crumbled some time last weekend. 93517
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026Exactly. The left is not resource poor. It just doesn’t invest in higher ed. It doesn’t invest using public funds. It doesn’t invest using private funds. It just doesn’t seem to care. 816623
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 20199982453
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyAli Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The kerning here is absolutely SENDING me 1142285
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyKenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Women couldn't be outlawed in 13th-century England because they were never put in law. Instead, women accused of crimes were ordered to be waived if they failed to appear at trial. The consequence of waivery was the same as outlawry's: execution (often immediately and without trial). 🧵1/4 28733
Reposted by Kathleen E. Kennedyaelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026still getting the hang of how much to wet the paper (handmade by me many years ago from my high school exam revision notes, which I 10/10 recommend as extremely cathartic) 2401
Reposted by Kathleen E. Kennedyaelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026so I 3D-printed an etching press & made my first print & was unprepared for just how restorative it would be 212929
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyKatherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Come work with us at Winchester! We're hiring a 0.5FTE open-ended contract in pre-1800 English Lit. Details at the link. Deadline 14 October. Please share! Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester share.google/2la1PLwY1Tey...share.googleLecturer in English Literature at University of WinchesterAn opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings. 1128
Reposted by Kathleen E. KennedyC.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wild stuff. In the midst of all the horrors of climate change, unexpected beauty. apnews.com/article/chil...apnews.comEarth’s driest desert is covered in wildflowers right nowSpring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and even Chile's Atacama Desert is blossoming. Known as the driest nonpolar desert, it's now covered in flowers due to heavy rains from the El Niño weath... 0147