This is the energy I’m bringing to my first New England fall btw

THIS THURSDAY ON This Guy Sucked: Prof. Lou Moore profloumoore tells me the story of America’s first celebrity athlete - and the color line he drew once he made it to the top.

My homemade ginger cake breakfast situation this morning is very much giving Christian Girl Autumn™

I don’t necessarily need assistance with getting some reading done, but by god is my intern cute

Obsessed with this Australian beer ad in a 1951 newspaper

TODAY ON This Guy Sucked : Prof. Lou Moore profloumoore on John L. Sullivan - America’s first sports celebrity and the man who personally drew heavyweight boxing’s color line.

Eric Foner: “the study of history is under assault in a way that I have never seen in my livelihood”

People are always debating ethnic diversity at the Ivies but they’re forgetting something really important: I haven’t seen a goth since I got here

Autumn Landscape with Colored Leaves, by Hishida Shunso, 1899

THIS THURSDAY ON This Guy Sucked: the inimitable Dan Hicks tells me the intertwining stories of a man, his family, and the people they hurt long after their deaths.

During the Trojan War, the Greeks noted that their Achilles units would return from battle wounded in many areas except around the heel. Therefore they increased the armour around the rest of the body but left the heel unguarded. This is a classic example of a boring maths story

Hay there, it’s October! 🍁

THURSDAY ON This Guy Sucked: we’ve got a fun little collaboration with the gang from wow if true to discuss Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK’s excellent new book - and the guy in question is less of a ‘who’ and more of a ‘what.’ Anyways, back to scrolling!