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I do the social history of medicine in 19th/20th C Egypt | Prof at Our Lady of the Lake U in SATX | Austinite | EV owner | Arabist | Fulbrighter | Traveler | Foodie | 👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | 🇬🇧 🇲🇽 🇪🇬 | Usually in bed by 10
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This is why we have due process; because random people speculating about things is a terrible way to run a government. Without due process, we're all just vigilantes. At its core, that's what this is about. Due process and the rule of law. Everything else is window dressing.

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Class was fine and I am not posting this as an alibi. Nope.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

He’s refreshingly honest about it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I can never remember the names of the yoga poses in Sanskrit, so I combine what I remember with my knowledge of Hindi that derives entirely from cookbooks and menus. It was Parifritamurghmakhaniasana. You know. Half gate pose. The one after mattarpaneerasana.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I am an academic AND I post photos of cats! Here is Amelia who apparently wore herself out jumping into the dining table and had to immediately take a nap.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I can get my own monks to bless it, thank you anyway, Ina.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Apple Music is going to get me to love Norwegian Hip Hop or know the reason why not.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s #Photo: #Door. #Mosque & #Madrasa of Nasr Al-Din Qalawun, Al Khalifa (aka “Islamic Cairo”), #Cairo. If you know, you know. #Egypt #photography #architecture

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

K so, what’s going to happen is they’re eventually going to work out something almost exactly like what Obama did in 2015 and then this jackass is going to act like he saved the world even though he blew up the first deal for no reason other than sheer spite.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, but PIPEERRRR NAAAAAAAUUUUUU.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I finally saw *that* episode of The Last of Us. Accepting thoughts and prayers.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the economy…

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This week's E is for Epi newsletter is out now! In it, I pick apart all the things* wrong with one of the worst papers I've ever read. How bad is it? Well RFK Jr loves it... open.substack.com/pub/epiellie... ___ *actually, not ALL the things wrong with it. Because the article gets too long!

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

No comment needed www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 15 days ago • 338 comments

My Fulbright scholarship and research changed my life, and helped me get into Columbia for grad school. It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters. The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

I just saw an ad for “the Murphy bed of your dreams” and …

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Soros is apparently the largest private employer in America but no one has ever posted a picture of a check from him. Amazing

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

I have to say it out loud. I saw Hamilton for the 3rd time last night and I can still say that my feelings about it are “strongly ambivalent.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

It is time for my cat’s daily existential crisis: “I like the way this feels, but you’re touching me.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 19 days ago • 179 comments

So, if the same kind of AI that identifies dissidents is the kind that directed the dealership that sold us our electric car to send us coupons for oil changes and radiator service, we are well and royally screwed.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Well, at least something still works.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments