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Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com

I wrote about the influence credit cards have on the restaurant industry, and how it increasingly feels like if you don't have the right card, you can't get into the cool restaurants (and how swipe fees contribute to the fact that you can't afford it anyway) www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-c...

weareravenous.comCan You Only Dine Out if You Have the Right Credit Card?Almost 80 years after the Diners' Club was founded, eating out is increasingly a matter of having the right card. If you don't, you're probably subsidizing other people's elite reservations.

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Holy shit.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

And yet, there is a 0% chance that Collins will go near him or allow herself to be photographed with him.

Buitengebieden@buitengebieden.bsky.social

The Royal Flycatcher.. 😊

The French Republican Calendar@sansculottid.es

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠@sababausa.bsky.social

TIL from the mid-18th century until 1945, the de facto currency of Ethiopia was the 1740–80 Maria Theresa Austrian silver thaler Then their use was abolished in 1945 and they became plentiful jewelry www.menschenfuermenschen.ch/en/maria-the...

menschenfuermenschen.chMaria Theresa Thaler: Silver treasure in EthiopiaMany Ethiopian women wear heavy silver jewellery around their necks, on which the portrait of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa can be seen. What is behind it?

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social

Superb exposition from William Pettigrew of how slave trading (let alone the whole plantation complex that depended on it) was “enmeshed in the processes that produced the nation we know today”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm...

theguardian.comFreedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William PettigrewRegister of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

Ray E. Boomhower@rboomhower.bsky.social

"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989

Seth Rockman@sethrockman.bsky.social

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

J. Sam Drolet@jsamdrolet.bsky.social

There was a whole huge national tamale craze around 1900. @anchistorian.bsky.social had a good column about it a few years ago: www.adn.com/alaska-life/...

adn.comAt the time of its founding, Anchorage was a city in the grips of a major tamale food crazeHistories of Anchorage: In the late 1910s, Anchorage was the latest city that succumbed to one of the great if largely forgotten American food fads. From the 1890s through the 1920s, Americans went ma...

Arendse@arend.se

One of the lesser-known fantastical creatures I talked about last week at @laworldcon.bsky.social was the bonnacon. It appears in medieval bestiaries as a bull-like creature with horns curved back on themselves and therefore useless to protect itself. Instead, it expels flaming poop in defense.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

weird little guys of the cluny national medieval museum

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Pamela Toler (she/her)@pdtoler.bsky.social

One of the best parts of being a historian? Changing my mind. Sometimes one letter or one newspaper article sends me back to rethink everything I thought I knew. That's not failure. That's good history. 🗃️

Simon J. Greenhill@simongreenhill.bsky.social

Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

kcl.ac.ukAHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College LondonThe Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump just delivered his first speech after the death of his allegedly dear friend Lindsey Graham, which happened less than 48 hours ago. He didn't mention him once. RIP.

mnlib69.bsky.social@mnlib69.bsky.social

This was within my lifetime— and Stephen Miller, John Roberts and the Heritage Foundation ghouls want to bring it back. 🤬🚩

The Massachusetts Spy@themassspy.bsky.social

Another great argument for immigration is that we don’t have to eat s*** like this anymore. mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/SMHVXIMYTVGT...

mobileapp.bostonglobe.comEel casserole, anyone? This South Shore chef specializes in Revolutionary-era food.

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

When people want to do a discourse on technological progress they point to the train or the telegraph, but to my mind those pale in comparison to the potato.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

This rule comes out of the late 19th and early 20th century, when men's dress was still governed by time, place, and occasion. Thus, if you were of a certain social station and had to do a particular thing at a specific time, you knew what you had to wear. Here's a chart from a 1902 periodical.