John Kuhn
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
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Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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peace in the kingdom
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
peace in the kingdom
one outcome of this year's Thanksgiving prep: I'm a grown-ass man fed up with the tedium of fine-mesh sieves and I'm finally buying a goddamn food mill
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
one outcome of this year's Thanksgiving prep: I'm a grown-ass man fed up with the tedium of fine-mesh sieves and I'm finally buying a goddamn food mill
laughing at the play counts on The Weather Girls' album Success (1982). What, people don't like "Hungry for Love" as much as "It's Raining Men"?
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
laughing at the play counts on The Weather Girls' album Success (1982). What, people don't like "Hungry for Love" as much as "It's Raining Men"?
Australian boyfriend passive-aggressively declining offer of 20 frozen pawpaws as he puts together his Thanksgiving pavlova. Rude to me and rude to NORTH AMERICA
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Australian boyfriend passive-aggressively declining offer of 20 frozen pawpaws as he puts together his Thanksgiving pavlova. Rude to me and rude to NORTH AMERICA
cranberry tart doesn't have meringue top yet. Turned out delicious, although slightly ruined by the intrusive thought that it looks a bit liked dried ketchup
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
cranberry tart doesn't have meringue top yet. Turned out delicious, although slightly ruined by the intrusive thought that it looks a bit liked dried ketchup
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you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life
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Sorry pie haters I couldn’t hear you over the symphony of god’s light
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Sorry pie haters I couldn’t hear you over the symphony of god’s light
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what if we kissed in the snow by the campus hazardous waste storage facility 🙂
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
what if we kissed in the snow by the campus hazardous waste storage facility 🙂
I love it when you're in the grocery store behind someone buying things in mysteriously large quantities. This lady today had 50 pounds of ground beef and ten gallons of pineapple juice. What you got planned, lady?! Can I come?!
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I love it when you're in the grocery store behind someone buying things in mysteriously large quantities. This lady today had 50 pounds of ground beef and ten gallons of pineapple juice. What you got planned, lady?! Can I come?!
gonna need to go to confession after what I just did to this poor guy. Dry brine has commenced!
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
gonna need to go to confession after what I just did to this poor guy. Dry brine has commenced!
greatest pies: strawberry rhubarb (all) and one specific 50/50 peach/groundcherry pie I made the summer I was doing my oral exams. Cherry also top tier. Apple pies can be good but I often find them finicky. Pumpkin is fine. Pecan is gross. Lemon meringue is an excellent dinner party showoff dish.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
greatest pies: strawberry rhubarb (all) and one specific 50/50 peach/groundcherry pie I made the summer I was doing my oral exams. Cherry also top tier. Apple pies can be good but I often find them finicky. Pumpkin is fine. Pecan is gross. Lemon meringue is an excellent dinner party showoff dish.
my divorced friend is crashing w/ me for a bit (third time this has happened in 5 yrs, I am the post-divorce crash-pad friend). He has brought his dog, Saturn. Mostly getting along with Ruby despite some blended family growing pains, specifically around bones/the Bone Zone area of the living room.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
my divorced friend is crashing w/ me for a bit (third time this has happened in 5 yrs, I am the post-divorce crash-pad friend). He has brought his dog, Saturn. Mostly getting along with Ruby despite some blended family growing pains, specifically around bones/the Bone Zone area of the living room.
a glorious gift someone got me: a Bonne Maman (the jam company) advent calendar....presumably filled with small jars of jam??? I received this thoughtful gift a week ago and have spent many waking moments speculating about the jams that it might contain. Will the jams be outre or safe????
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
a glorious gift someone got me: a Bonne Maman (the jam company) advent calendar....presumably filled with small jars of jam??? I received this thoughtful gift a week ago and have spent many waking moments speculating about the jams that it might contain. Will the jams be outre or safe????
Will this be disgusting??! only time will tell
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Will this be disgusting??! only time will tell
Left unsupervised in the fancy cheese section and now will be retiring several years later than planned
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Left unsupervised in the fancy cheese section and now will be retiring several years later than planned
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Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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We’ve gone too far
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We’ve gone too far
three hours til I'm free for Thanksgiving! Love this pre-break feeling, when you're the last person on campus.
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
three hours til I'm free for Thanksgiving! Love this pre-break feeling, when you're the last person on campus.
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Looking forward to seeing this: ‘The Palace of Versailles and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac present a new exhibition dedicated to the visit of Native American allies to the court of Versailles. In 1725, four Native..
www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/e...
www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/e...
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Looking forward to seeing this: ‘The Palace of Versailles and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac present a new exhibition dedicated to the visit of Native American allies to the court of Versailles. In 1725, four Native..
www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/e...
www.chateauversailles.fr/actualites/e...
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A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
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Fun fact: Alleyn, earlier famed for title roles in Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine, became John Donne's son-in-law (m., as his second wife, Donne's eldest, Constance, 3 Dec. 1623, at Camberwell). #earlymodern
25 Nov 1626: d. Edward Alleyn actor, theatre founder of #Dulwich College & Alleyn’s school (EdwardX)
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fun fact: Alleyn, earlier famed for title roles in Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine, became John Donne's son-in-law (m., as his second wife, Donne's eldest, Constance, 3 Dec. 1623, at Camberwell). #earlymodern
all fruit can be organized on a pair of axes: reliability and total deliciousness potential. Bananas? high reliability, low deliciousness potential. Pears? low reliability, high deliciousness potential
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
all fruit can be organized on a pair of axes: reliability and total deliciousness potential. Bananas? high reliability, low deliciousness potential. Pears? low reliability, high deliciousness potential
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I’m just impressed that turkeys can make that turkey noise with a beak and a freaky little bird tongue. Like that thing is not nimble enough to make a gobblegobblegobble if you ask me. Real impressive sound work on those turkeys.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I’m just impressed that turkeys can make that turkey noise with a beak and a freaky little bird tongue. Like that thing is not nimble enough to make a gobblegobblegobble if you ask me. Real impressive sound work on those turkeys.
18 pounder secured!!
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
18 pounder secured!!