@katvessel.bsky.social
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I got my MMR in adulthood too. You can get yours now! And you should. 👇
ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I got my MMR in adulthood too. You can get yours now! And you should. 👇
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Great Wiseman tribute by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social:
"His work would be considered essential even if it did nothing more than capture specific places and people at specific points in history. … Taken as a whole, Frederick Wiseman’s features exemplify nonfiction filmmaking at peak originality and exactness,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social.
The Eye of a Camera: Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A legendary documentarian is gone.
www.rogerebert.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Great Wiseman tribute by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social:
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Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades.
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
www.bbc.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Royal Mail delivered letters from your doctor, family and friends, 6 days a week for decades.
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Then it was privatised. Now it can't even deliver 3 days a week.
Instead they prioritise profitable parcel deliveries. Take Royal Mail back into public ownership. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
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Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old.
Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old.
Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Skeleton, a sport practised by a few thousand people (probably far fewer) in this country, has received £5,765,123 from UK Sport for the 2022-26 period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe? | Zoe Williams
What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe? | Zoe Williams
Team GB has swept up the skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics. I suspect it’s something to do with our capacity at weathering tremendous, impotent fear, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Skeleton, a sport practised by a few thousand people (probably far fewer) in this country, has received £5,765,123 from UK Sport for the 2022-26 period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
That's more than what was awarded to basketball, handball, lacrosse, fencing, squash and volleyball taken together over the same period.
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Frederick Wiseman has died—one of the great documentary filmmakers. This review we published in the Weekly Standard in 2017 of one of his documentaries, about the New York Public Library, gives a little overview of his career up to that point.
web.archive.org/web/20181215...
web.archive.org/web/20181215...
What Are Libraries For?
As I was leaving the theater after a screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, the friend I watched it with turned to me and observed, “For a documentary about a library...
web.archive.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Frederick Wiseman has died—one of the great documentary filmmakers. This review we published in the Weekly Standard in 2017 of one of his documentaries, about the New York Public Library, gives a little overview of his career up to that point.
web.archive.org/web/20181215...
web.archive.org/web/20181215...
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the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
Every time I try to question my kneejerk skepticism on LLMs because they seem like they might have some potentially interesting use cases, some company shoves them into a product I use all the time, and it absolutely sucks shit.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough
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I will share more of our findings as we get into data analysis, but we're reviewing energy usage & climate impact metrics for our cloud-hosted digital collections at MPOW, and the results have been really misaligned with what our expectations were. I strongly encourage other folks to do this.
February 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I will share more of our findings as we get into data analysis, but we're reviewing energy usage & climate impact metrics for our cloud-hosted digital collections at MPOW, and the results have been really misaligned with what our expectations were. I strongly encourage other folks to do this.
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the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
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I want to be that bear.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 15, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I want to be that bear.
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Eric Ravilious designs for his garden themed crockery service.
In the Aberdeen art gallery.
In the Aberdeen art gallery.
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Eric Ravilious designs for his garden themed crockery service.
In the Aberdeen art gallery.
In the Aberdeen art gallery.
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This is a fantastic interview:
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
This is a fantastic interview:
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The CIA shut down its World Factbook. Graham: "This is different from the [Trump] administration’s assault on truth... It’s a series of steps that by design or in effect block access to data, and in doing so erode the concept of a shared frame for all Americans." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
The Trump administration is erasing the country’s shared understanding.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The CIA shut down its World Factbook. Graham: "This is different from the [Trump] administration’s assault on truth... It’s a series of steps that by design or in effect block access to data, and in doing so erode the concept of a shared frame for all Americans." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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This is Ladybird. She's politely requesting butt pats. Will accept them for as long as you're willing to provide them. Could be days. Weeks even. 13/10 (TT: christina.stamper5)
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This is Ladybird. She's politely requesting butt pats. Will accept them for as long as you're willing to provide them. Could be days. Weeks even. 13/10 (TT: christina.stamper5)
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There are just a handful of women marked so far, I'm sure the #histsci community on here can suggest many more (brief submission form via link below).
Help us map science history for #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience. We've launched a new interactive map of landmarks across the UK connected to women from science history, and we want your suggestions.
Explore the map and submit your landmark now: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Explore the map and submit your landmark now: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
There are just a handful of women marked so far, I'm sure the #histsci community on here can suggest many more (brief submission form via link below).
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I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.
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Vince Guaraldi’s first television performance of Linus and Lucy, from 1964. youtu.be/9EMfA5_tm8Y?...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Vince Guaraldi’s first television performance of Linus and Lucy, from 1964. youtu.be/9EMfA5_tm8Y?...
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We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgraduate students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
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“Venezuela could become Trump’s Iraq,” Daniel Immerwahr writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist
He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle.
www.newyorker.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
“Venezuela could become Trump’s Iraq,” Daniel Immerwahr writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Oh, man. I know Weird Music Internet is blowing up a bit over these two, but it’s so up my street it’s ridiculous. Just so beautifully conceived and absurd and very welcome right now youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Oh, man. I know Weird Music Internet is blowing up a bit over these two, but it’s so up my street it’s ridiculous. Just so beautifully conceived and absurd and very welcome right now youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
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“AI is actually brown people in a shed” part 6519
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
“AI is actually brown people in a shed” part 6519