honor sachs

honor sachs

@drhonor.bsky.social

Historian, professor, tired.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There’s a difference between being divided and BEING divided.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

The trees in the news today make me feel like my body is being torn apart limb by limb. This is one.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

How is it that a sitting president wages a pointless war against a country, invites said country to bomb US cities, and still remains a sitting president?

Grew glass gem corn for the first time this year. 10/10 did not disappoint. Much more to harvest still but it’s not quite ready yet. Plan is to dry it into popcorn. So beautiful 😍🌽

I hear in SoHo they’re selling rye bread for $60 a loaf and cutting boards for $180. I made both rye and board. Should I quit my day job? #YeastMasters

TikTok is the only algorithm that really gets me and consistently delivers the content I want. TikTok understands that what I really want to see is people making eggs and omelettes in nice carbon steel pans.

Me, from the audience: “YOUR KETTLEBELL SWING IS ASS.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

I’m sorry, but it’s not enough to just “the PatRiArchY” is why this happens. I want specifics. I want to know what podcasts these little pricks listen to. Show me their browser histories, their subreddits, their idiotic online footprints. We need to know how monsters are made.

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if young men thought, “being a piece of shit morally depraved dirtbag will ruin my life,” rather than “getting caught being a piece of shit morally depraved dirtbag will ruin my life”?

Big gratitude to these student journalists, who are largely responsible for turning this into a national conversation. You are doing great work.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss@milleridriss.bsky.social

3. The Cornell Daily Sun! Need I say more? These fierce, courageous journalists -and Jane Doe herself- are heroes. www.cornellsun.com/page/donate May the students who graduate this year not find themselves 35 years later, as I do, feeling that nothing has changed. /end

Maybe don’t tell women that they need to be nicer to men because they’re lonely and it’s a “crisis” that women need to fix or else men will commit horrible acts of violence against them. Maybe shut the fuck up instead. No, definitely shut right the fuck up immediately.

Remember that Onion article from the aughts where Obama went to a Denny’s to discuss his ambitious policy goals and left saying, “maybe we should just work on leaving the house in something other than sweatpants”? I think about that a lot. Like, a lot.

Anybody have a couple grand to give me so I can see Metallica at the Sphere in Las Vegas? Also, how is this real? Even the cheap seats are over $1500.

For absolutely no reason whatsoever: last night I made a salad with peaches, tomatoes, corn, and scallions with a dressing of white wine vinegar, maple syrup, fish sauce, and olive oil . . . and I can't stop thinking about how good it was.

I also just noticed my little sister’s pacifier sitting there. I’m sure I was supposed to be babysitting her, or something, but was playing games instead 🤣

😂 omg it was Choplifter! I couldn’t remember the name. Totally Choplifter. It’s the only reason I know what the word “sortie” means 😂

A Sentient Pile of Spaghetti@spagritty.bsky.social

Is that Wolfenstein? I had that on my Apple IIc. And Choplifter. oh we could also type papers and program in basic whatever

Constitutional amendment to require future presidents be able to pass the marshmallow test.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"

“Sir, I’m already hot.”

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

They open these boondoggle centers and then they come to us, the hot people, to help make them hot. Come teach a class! Be edgy! Be heterodox! For half a faculty line, no prestige, and no extra money. Sir, I’m already hot. Students want to take my classes. Why would I go to the weird guy cabal??

Though, to be honest, I don’t really know what retirement is, so the line between retiring and escaping to the hills to live off-the-grid is kind of fuzzy.

I mean, I know it’s a pointless thought experiment because moral equivalency is dead and nothing matters anymore and we’re literally drowning in a sea of corruption, but imagine if a Russian oligarch paid for Hunter Biden’s luxury wedding. While Biden was president. Imagine.

My entire feed this morning has been about men harassing female athletes, men harassing women online, fraternities treating women like garbage. It’s depressing and gross. Get your shit together, guys.