Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info @allouryesterdays.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwtc7wmcm222More light comic verses from Phil Larkin- Dockery and son… https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48416/dockery-and-son01 Oct 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtc7wmcm222https://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwsr636afk2fComplaints about slop and plagiarism machines all the way back in 1979!! "They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the problems you could see" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs01 Oct 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsr636afk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwsn6kz2hk2f"[Iran's] elites have been hardened by the war, which killed friends & family members. They see Feb 28, 2026, the same way Israelis see Oct 7, 2023, attack by Hamas—as the moment their enemy proved willing to slaughter them, & thus as proof it must be defeated" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-iran-escalates01 Oct 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsn6kz2hk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwoaouybl22y"... in his book Istanbul: Memories and the City Pamuk describes hüzün as a shared, collective sadness, a kind of civic grief that lingers after an empire’s fall. The feeling is not individual but ambient – a pride turned inward, a grandeur curdled into gloom. Anglofuturism is a British hüzün"29 Sep 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoaouybl22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwj2crp7ac2nLooks interesting27 Sep 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwj2crp7ac2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwfwahjatc2wOof. https://marchudson.net/2023/07/29/hollaback-poems-maud-miller-and-mrs-judge-jenkins/26 Sep 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfwahjatc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwfosxz3bk2wWar, war, what’s it good for? Well, since you ask… https://marchudson.net/2026/09/26/war-war-whats-it-good-for-well-since-you-ask/26 Sep 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwfosxz3bk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mwehtebjys2tGreat chapter by Peter Wilson "Warfare in Europe" in The Cambridge World History of Violence25 Sep 2026 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwehtebjys2thttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mw6kyqndm22gI've started pitching satire to Private Eye. Precisely zero success (measured in, you know, appearing in print) so far. Latest FFSes (Four Failed Submissions), all sent in late last week... 1/423 Sep 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6kyqndm22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mw7ccy3x3c2lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifljYPFW-E23 Sep 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7ccy3x3c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mw6kyqndm22gI've started pitching satire to Private Eye. Precisely zero success (measured in, you know, appearing in print) so far. Latest FFSes (Four Failed Submissions), all sent in late last week... 1/423 Sep 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6kyqndm22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marchudson.bsky.social/post/3mw476re45k2iI know the lawyers always get rich, but can you have a court case where BOTH the plaintiff and the defendant lose?22 Sep 2026 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:6ffmydg2uch4buzckgetfl5i/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw476re45k2i