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jimlohmar.bsky.social
senior greek & latin lecturer at college of charleston and sometime writer & editor. he/his/him. email: [email protected]
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received my first ever entirely chatgpt written essay (in latin!) this semester and failed the student. the assignment is designed to demonstrate the students’ proficiency in a foreign language and feeding a paragraph of english into a bot and reproducing that as your own work is textbook plagiarism

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we installed the newest chapter of ΦΒΚ at the college of charleston tonight. we are no. 293 of 293 chapters dating back to 5 december 1776 at william & mary. of our 40 initiates, i taught SEVEN

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hey @jonbois.bsky.social the falcons really falconed up the draft

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this man’s baseline operating animus is “how can i hurt the most vulnerable.” that’s it. he is evil and despicable and should be hounded from civisme for the rest of his days

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are american cornhole league players allowed to drink while competing?

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does this man know any fucking teachers? i am a college professor who earns $34k a year teaching four courses in fall and spring semesters, then again in june and july summer terms. i have to pull restaurant shifts in my off time just to make rent. i will serve tables in a pizza joint tomorrow

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the falcons traded away their first round pick for an etsy QR code???

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Letting his son drive a cybertruck is the most reckless thing Gilbert Arenas has ever done.

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… and those are the current weekly specials running at jim’s sandwich shop (14/14)

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seneca the younger (60s CE) wrote a long essay on why not to entrust secrets to habitual drinkers, because they will eventually let slip those secrets to your enemies

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the framing on this has always been: they are pro-segregation, pro-inequity, and pro-exclusion. any media types who don’t phrase this very simple tricolon are failing at their jobs

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the next pope must know ball

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1. horace never said this 2. ovid says it in his autobiography quoting his father, who remarks that poetry is not a lucrative profession

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georges gilles de la tourette died in 1904

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i will be the new pope’s latin secretary

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hold up the pope died ON THE DAY OF THE FOUNDING OF ROME?

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looking back kinda glad that @davidjroth.bsky.social didn’t make charleston his spring break destination because he brought us the Death Winter of 2021, and this week has been clear skies and 73 everyday

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i am a professor of classical literature and the big lesson i impart to my students is: Men Make Everything Worse

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rory will now enter augusta’s teeth removal theater, where the metaphor will be driven into the dirt

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heaven help me i’m at a university of florida alum wedding in atl the weekend after the gators won a national title

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