Kate Lonsdale
@KateWritesStuff
19th c. scholar without portfolio. Writing my way out of the academic basement.
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
I’m so tired of the “but what about the draft?” argument. Here’s the perfect rebuttal.
Okay, let's talk about this ridiculous talking point that some conservative men love to use, subsequently betraying their complete ignorance on our military draft. Claiming the draft is to men like abortion is to women is ludicrous for three big reasons. (thread)
Historically accurate (assuming we’re speaking of Reagan’s second term). As a historian, I have no notes.
BREAKING: We’re suing Louisiana for requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Public schools are not Sunday schools.
If Wisconsin were a country, it would be the fourth-largest cheese-producing nation in the world.
OED #WordOfTheDay: witches' knickers, n. colloquial (chiefly Irish English). Discarded plastic bags or shreds of plastic bags that have become snagged in trees, hedges, etc. View the full entry, here: oxford.ly/44cSZln
Have we learned nothing from English folklore? Or from horror movies? The bog, like Janice from accounting, doesn't give a fuck. The bog endures.
so not to be a buzzkill but what survives of english folklore in those areas of the country amounts to 'don't go in the bog, don't talk to anyone you meet in the bog, take nothing you find in the bog' and in that one specific area of my life I am a firm traditionalist
"RICH LADY’S HUSBAND: I’m just popping in to make a blanket statement about race, so I can learn a lesson later in this episode. See you at dinner!" mcsweeneys.net/articles/every…
No words.
Meet Mike Johnson, the new Republican Speaker of the House. 1/
I’m afraid the confessions of this 21st c. needlewoman would pale in comparison and mostly be about yarn-hoarding. 😳🧶🪡🧵
Good advice. Walk on air.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney. “Walk on air against your better judgement”
In 1923, Dorothy L. Sayers published her first novel, “Whose Body”, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories. #bookfact #TheStrand
OTD in 1897, #ArthurConanDoyle wrote to #BramStoker to congratulate him on #Dracula.
hey @elonmusk + @lindayaX … please rethink removing the block feature. as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online. - that woman
Mein Kampf was published by Hitler in 1925. In 1848, Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Marx was born in Trier, but lived most of his adult life elsewhere. Nazism is ethnonationalist fascism that allies itself with capitalism. Marxism is anti-capitalist.
Fox News anchor: "I remember, 20 years-old, going to Trier, Germany and trying to find the home of Karl Marx 'cause, you know, 1848, he wrote Mein Kampf. I wanted to know what was all about. So, that's part of the education in America."
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
Greetings, fellow word nerds! For your edification, I bring you the not-so-humble ampersand. Enjoy! 🤓
What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?! The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet... But there are three parts to this story. And the first begins over two thousand years ago in Ancient Rome with a single
a french love ring from the mid 1800s, with hinged panels that open to say “i love you a little, a lot, passionately, not at all,” a play on picking the petals off a flower
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