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Goooooood kitty.

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Yep, and men are conditioned to believe the only appropriate source of emotional support is a female romantic partner. But that is increasingly hard to get when you can’t show up as an equal partner.

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“We are breaking the bodies and the minds of the children of Gaza,” Dr Ryan said. “We are starving the children of Gaza, because if we don’t do something about it, we are complicit in what is happening before our very eyes. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

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Happy to have had the opportunity to speak up on behalf of independent scholars here. We can't lose another venue that legitimizes the work we do outside of the university construct.

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This image features on the cover of the programme for an MA student conference I’m co-organizing on Monday at UNIBE!

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I love this piece more than almost anything else I’ve written.

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Ok there is so much truly awful stuff going on in the world right now but WHY DID THEY HAVE TO CANCEL MYTHIC QUEST AND WTF IS WITH THE NEW ENDING I HATE IT

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"This project examines John of Garland’s Dictionarius to answer questions about the languages of everyday urban life, multilingualism, and educational practices in medieval England and France." Sounds like a brilliant project, and Westminster's outstanding for research on language, past & present.

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We criticize Hegseth for his incompetence when we should be celebrating him as the living embodiment of the American dream: the dream of someday being free to f*ck up like a white man. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

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In memory of Marci, a new fund for @imc-leeds.bsky.social travel bursaries. #medievalsky www.gofundme.com/f/dr-marci-f...

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Every parent greets the summer ‘vacation’ with the grim resignation of Théoden at the Battle of Helm’s Deep.

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A wonderful, timeless slogan. (Thanks to @stwajda.bsky.social for posting this great WWI piece by Dan Smith.)

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So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils. If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure. www.mellon.org/news/america...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

My ride from Chicago O’Hare to Kalamazoo next Wednesday has fallen through!! 😱 Am I crazy for considering hiring an Uber??

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At long last, men’s voices will be heard. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Just like Chaucer, I leave most of my greatest written works unfinished.

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Even though I’ve lived abroad for almost half my life, I will never stop being charmed by the way Europeans tactfully ask whether I’m Canadian instead of going straight for ‘are you American’.

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Professor McBride, I salute you.

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Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

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Whan that Aprill rolleth round, Shakespeareans may get to celebrate on the 23rd, but Chaucerians get to party alllllll month long.

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The thread I needed:

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This is so, so tragic. Her poor family.

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ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

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My god, they’re coming for white women. Before long, they might even go after white men 😱

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Le Monde recognizes this arrest as la merde.

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BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month. The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

submitted 9 days ago • 86 comments

They’re arresting white judges in swing states now, if you’re trying to determine how safe you are

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Are you a medievalist looking for DH training opportunities? Come join us in Leeds this summer for 1 of 5 workshops offered by leaders in the field. Co-sponsored by University of Leeds and @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

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When W.B. Yeats wrote about ‘a lonely impulse of delight’, he meant ‘the way a mom feels when her husband and kids are at the movies and she has the house to herself AT LAST’.

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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

submitted 10 days ago • 367 comments

YES.

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I always wanted to make a difference in the world, so I did the obvious thing: I became a medievalist/comedy writer.

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Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

More of this, please.

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As a medievalist, what I love about the Middle Ages is how they are so very ‘now’.

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this is why you shouldnt believe what you see on the internet. It was actually closer to 50 years. His name was Porphyrios, he actually caused the creation of entirely new trading routes just to avoid him and was declared enemy of the state by Justinian. He is the hero we need.

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Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

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