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jarona7.bsky.social
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
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starting a discworld book: hohoho what silly mischief does sir terry have in store for me this time :) finishing a discworld book: We Must Dig Up Margaret Thatcher And Kill Her Again

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Having some fun plugging obscure theological terms into ChatGPT and sticking the suffix -punk on the end to see what it gives me - did y'all know that The Matrix is a classic text of Doscetismpunk or that Planescape: Torment reflects the ideologically shifting themes of Latitudinarianpunk?

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Well if you ever wanted to hear a hip hop song sampling Stewart Lee reading Old English poetry - this is a thing I now learnt exists: open.spotify.com/track/7p9ArM...

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this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

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I'm sure someone has already done this, but: "Difficult, Difficult...Lemon Difficult"

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Dragonlords deposed? Clans returned in harmony with the spirit of Tarkir? Desparked watermark seemingly gone? Simple legendary creatures designed for non-commander constructed? & now this? They did get my letters!

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If you’re not trans and you believe believe yourself to be a progressive ally type of person I highly recommend you read up on a prison practice called “v-coding” because with any luck it will make you physically ill and shock you to the point of action

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Unfortunately, I opened this book at the public library. Her “adoptive father”????

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A funny thing that happened is that my 7yo came home excited to tell me the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

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Thoughts on #Reignbreaker Demo (nowhere else to put them):

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Trying to teach my half-English half-Greek 2 y/o the Italian communist anthem 'Bella Ciao' - her reply: "Baba, want sing Bella Chai" - in its failure to understand Communism, intentional mispronounciation of foreign words, and valorisation of Tea, this is the most English thing I've ever heard.

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Ever have a nice evening playing games or reading interesting books - only to be completely derailed by reflections on your own mortality, completely out of nowhere

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Friendships get harder to build as you get older and busier - lock in good habits of communication while you can. Also getting your home insurance sorted doesn't make you an adult

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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke] THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.

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fuck fuck FUCK. AGH OK Can anybody help me find work, The one I was talking to fell through and I'm getting really scared now

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Great schedule of speakers! donate.romchip.org/schedule.html. My highlights: - screening of Kinoautomat w/ @molleindustria.org - @hollynielsen.bsky.social playing Dragon Age: Origins and talking about narrative design (and hopefully history?) - @colleenmacklin.bsky.social rave up with Rez!

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The next Bodleian Student Editions session will be held on the 27th February – it’s a great opportunity for students to contribute to the discovery of new research materials in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections. Find out more + sign up here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

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Hi #Queer #DH #Academiasky community - I'm looking for UK-based DH projects focusing on LGBTQIA+ topics and discourses around Queering DH as a practice - I blithely assumed I was clued up in this field and then realised ALL my examples are US or Canada-centric! #DigitalHumanities

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Disappointed to have to pass on the Oxford Literary Festival this year - but I can't in good conscience give money to an event platforming Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel.

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Jane Eyre Jane Watir Jane Erthe Jane Fyre Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye... Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

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