I fully support changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, but we've got to come up with a less clunky name for it.

Happy to see this database of quotes by Latter-day Saint women in general conference!

h/t By Common Consent
exponentii.org/lds-womens-q...

I usually read 19th- and 20th-century American history, but I might have to branch out for this.

PSA about purple lights for Halloween: Orange and purple lights next to each other just look pink from a distance. And purple and green lights don't look spooky; they just look like Easter.

You can absolutely use purple lights in your decor. Just be strategic about it. 🟣🎃💡

The fall was inevitable. #cat #catday #bluesky

The Fate of Ophelia

seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that”

me: “Bob Dylan”

7yo: “is that yr friend”

me: “no a singer”

7yo: “not a very good singer”

This cartoon would be especially fitting if they were semicolons.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I'm really enjoying Bradley Thomas Turner's instrumental, atmospheric album "Haunted House Party" for Spooky Season. ("Spooky Season" is even the name of my favorite track!) bradleythomasturner.bandcamp.com/album/haunte...

For my birthday, my friend @sandypsyche.bsky.social sent me a Nancy comic book. Then separately, my colleagues gave me a birthday card with a Nancy panel! I guess my Nancy reposts, along with the Nancy and Sluggo enamel pins I used to wear on my lanyard, have given me a reputation.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Yes. Exactly thirty years ago was my seventh birthday party. After the party was over, a friend came over, and I told him, "I just had my birthday party!" My dad motioned to me that I shouldn't say that, since my friend hadn't been invited.

And now I feel guilty about it every time I think of him.

If I was accidentally weird to you once just know I will be thinking about it every night for the next 30 years

"Secret of Kells" is great, but that's not what this book is. The article is discussing the Blacader Prayerbook, which is comparable in quality to the Book of Kells, but it's not the Book of Kells. "The Herald" could have written a clearer headline!

Funny how introverts are always told to ‘speak up’ and ‘get out of their shell’… but no one ever tells extroverts to lower their volume and maybe read the room

I'm happy to see an official announcement about the publication of William Clayton's journal! I helped with many of the footnotes in 2022 and 2023, so it will be exciting to see the final version. www.churchhistorianspress.org/article/news...

Here is the source: collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=5...

I'm looking at a school journal for incarcerated Japanese American third-graders during WWII, and I was surprised to see them say they were saving spiders for the war effort. This led me to find out, superficially, that spider silk was farmed during the war so they could use it in gunsights! 🕷️🕸️

Hey, I ghostwrote this quote!

Very well deserved!

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I just realized "take on" has opposite meanings:

"I can take you on! 😠"=I'm going to fight you
"I can take you on! 🙂"=I'm going to hire you

A-ha!