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Medieval lit phd from Indiana University. Working on werewolves and watching Star Trek. They/them

Joined January 2012
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History Channel Viking: Axes, grittiness, leather, cool hair, blood, conquest Saga Viking: You know what's great though? Convoluted legal cases. History Channel Viking: ..... Saga Viking: Also the extensive backstories of particular farms and how big they are.
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In 2021, 28-year-old Texas mother Josseli Barnica died after doctors delayed treating her miscarrariage, becoming one of numerous US casualties of anti-abortion policy. vogue.com/article/josseli-ba…
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Gen AI doth offer "excitinge new opportunityes" for higher ed the same way that the web of a spyder doth offer "excitinge new opportunityes" for a flye
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sooo fascinating that the assumed position of health is the absence of desire
you don’t have a crush. you have attachment issues and someone is giving you attention
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another great tweet by my newest friend
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"Talk to the rib!" Prague, Musée nat., detail of Speculum humanae salvationis, c. 1420. #medievaltwitter #talkingheads
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When Israel bombs a civilian hospital and massacres tens of civilians it’s an underground Hezbollah- or Hamas-run military base. When an actual Israeli military base is bombed the headline makes no mention of it having been a military base. Complicit.
BREAKING: Israel's military says four people have died after a drone strike hit the northern town of Binyamina. @DominicWaghorn has more. Middle East latest: trib.al/4g9RaUn 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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The ideal marriage is when your spouse runs the worm unit
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Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die
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IDK I think most of us would be fine visiting Jim Crow America for a week and then declaring it an apartheid state— and this is Coates’ specific analogy. He even provide analogous examples of the way he saw and experience the treatment of Palestinians and separate and unequal.
Ta-Nehisi Coates would be disgusted at the idea of someone taking a quick field trip and becoming a self-styled expert on American race relations, yet that's exactly what he did to consider himself qualified to lecture people on the Middle East.
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my apologies indiana i wasnt aware of your game
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g
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seems almost pointless to ask since an airstrike on beirut was apparently called in from within a UN building yesterday but: is lebanon a sovereign nation or not? is every neighbour of israel only its own country until the idf decides otherwise?
Israel announced it won't let any Iranian planes land in Beirut
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this can’t be the new normal. we can’t live with this terror every day
Complete carnage. At least 6 entire apartment buildings flattened in south Beirut from Israeli strikes. God knows how many are dead.
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‘A monastery, much like a modern university, is an institution that transforms symbolic power into land, buildings and funds.’ @irinibus visits Reichenau Abbey in southern Germany, for three centuries ‘one of the leading educational centres in Europe’. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/…
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This is like the Queen died on here but only for New Yorkers
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"years of lovely towers in the distance"— from 'on knowledge' in Bluff by Danez Smith
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The So What (our open-access, online public humanities arm) welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025. Full CPF: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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This just arrived in the mail. So excited to read this book @badinfinity2!
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I find this kind of thing so annoying. Does this chart look like a steady decline? Or does it look the number *plummeted* between 1960 and 1975 and then stayed *incredibly steady for the last 50 years*?
The cat-lady memes point to a broader trend: women in the U.S. are having fewer children. An economist and mother of eight children views the “birth dearth” as a cultural crisis of relentless individualism. nyer.cm/5DrmDDa
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