Tam not Lin
@tam0lin.bsky.social
research historian. vestigial degrees in medieval lit. got tombstone hands and a graveyard mind. stayed up reading too late last night.
This is what you get on the first search page of Google if you look up American inventor Lydia Pinkham.
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
This is what you get on the first search page of Google if you look up American inventor Lydia Pinkham.
Anyone remember that one franchisee who refused ICE bookings and was getting endless hate on here until the killings began..?
January 26, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Anyone remember that one franchisee who refused ICE bookings and was getting endless hate on here until the killings began..?
They make me think of Mightily Oats, making a great light in the cold. That’s all.
January 25, 2026 at 10:37 PM
They make me think of Mightily Oats, making a great light in the cold. That’s all.
I’m Episcopalian, and used to being mocked as the wishy-washy anything-goes denomination. But those are our nice middle-aged clergy down on their knees in the snow, glasses misting up, singing prayers in wobbly voices as ICE hauls them away.
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I’m Episcopalian, and used to being mocked as the wishy-washy anything-goes denomination. But those are our nice middle-aged clergy down on their knees in the snow, glasses misting up, singing prayers in wobbly voices as ICE hauls them away.
I know a really sweet Irish setter doodle with all the poodle smarts. But I have a private theory that when you mix a breed with strong herding instincts (sheepdogs etc) with a bird-dog breed with a prey drive, everything gets unpleasantly unpredictable.
January 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I know a really sweet Irish setter doodle with all the poodle smarts. But I have a private theory that when you mix a breed with strong herding instincts (sheepdogs etc) with a bird-dog breed with a prey drive, everything gets unpleasantly unpredictable.
My dog has only ever been attacked by doodles so now I’M nervous around them. Not sure the local Amish puppy mills are turning out the soundest temperaments in their designer merle sheepadoodles.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 PM
My dog has only ever been attacked by doodles so now I’M nervous around them. Not sure the local Amish puppy mills are turning out the soundest temperaments in their designer merle sheepadoodles.
That last line is how so many Irish and Scottish folktales end. There’s an encounter with the supernatural, and then you wake up alone on the green grass.
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
That last line is how so many Irish and Scottish folktales end. There’s an encounter with the supernatural, and then you wake up alone on the green grass.
On that note, I’ve just remembered my eldest needs to sign up for selective service, hurrah hurrah.
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On that note, I’ve just remembered my eldest needs to sign up for selective service, hurrah hurrah.
Meeee. I literally never envisaged a future where the US and the UK wouldn’t be allies. Also! My kids are dual citizens!
January 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Meeee. I literally never envisaged a future where the US and the UK wouldn’t be allies. Also! My kids are dual citizens!
Always thought Jilly Cooper should have written a book about the Boat Race. Toss in an American Rhodes scholar from Texas, a square-jawed German, a noble British working-class lad who loves opera… she’d have had a ball.
January 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Always thought Jilly Cooper should have written a book about the Boat Race. Toss in an American Rhodes scholar from Texas, a square-jawed German, a noble British working-class lad who loves opera… she’d have had a ball.
Knew an MA student having an affair with her (much older) supervisor who complained that everyone thought he was writing her thesis for her. Well, yes.
January 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Knew an MA student having an affair with her (much older) supervisor who complained that everyone thought he was writing her thesis for her. Well, yes.
My pet hate are books about Oxford students having affairs with their tutors. Terrible idea. Bad.
January 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
My pet hate are books about Oxford students having affairs with their tutors. Terrible idea. Bad.
I don’t know why time-traveling historians would be based out of Brasenose, but I assume that they gave the author the good port when she visited.
January 17, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I don’t know why time-traveling historians would be based out of Brasenose, but I assume that they gave the author the good port when she visited.
Weeell, some of us are not hasty about it. One friend produced a three-volume definitive history of his subject and it took him ten years. I took five to have a baby and a thesis.
January 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Weeell, some of us are not hasty about it. One friend produced a three-volume definitive history of his subject and it took him ten years. I took five to have a baby and a thesis.
Ended the ‘war on Christmas’, ended ‘the war on protein’… any idea when they’re going to end the war on Minnesotans..?
January 16, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Ended the ‘war on Christmas’, ended ‘the war on protein’… any idea when they’re going to end the war on Minnesotans..?
My grandfather remembered being a little boy on top of the flour warehouses in Liverpool and doing this. I assume that if he hadn’t been speedy enough, I wouldn’t be here.
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 PM
My grandfather remembered being a little boy on top of the flour warehouses in Liverpool and doing this. I assume that if he hadn’t been speedy enough, I wouldn’t be here.
I appreciate that headline isn’t written in the passive tense. Makes it very clear who did what.
January 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I appreciate that headline isn’t written in the passive tense. Makes it very clear who did what.
Well, my husband’s Christmas present just arrived, with an expected delivery date of December 20. My Christmas cards never arrived either.
January 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Well, my husband’s Christmas present just arrived, with an expected delivery date of December 20. My Christmas cards never arrived either.
I remember ranting to my spouse one January that I couldn’t wait for the New Year’s resolutions people to just give up already so I could use the gym properly, and he said “…honey, no.”
January 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I remember ranting to my spouse one January that I couldn’t wait for the New Year’s resolutions people to just give up already so I could use the gym properly, and he said “…honey, no.”