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Ich vor 3 Jahren: "Oh mein Gott, diese Hausarbeit ist sprachlich unter aller Kanone, das treibt mich in den Wahnsinn! 😡😡😡" Ich heute: "Oh, supi, diese Hausarbeit hat so viele Fehler, die ist garantiert nicht von ChatGPT geschrieben! 🥰🥰🥰"

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I'm just sitting here thinking about how a few years ago, every company, every institution gleefully jumping on the segregationist bandwagon was flooding our inboxes with Black Lives Matter statements. Politicians kneeling in the Kente Cloth but just as easily wore it as hoods.

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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Is there someone here who's able to figure out what engraving this image of Luther is based upon? Found this one on the website Mary Evans Picture Library and it's from a 19th-century book (www.maryevans.com/search.php?p...). But I assume it follows an older engraving... #earlymodern #arthistory

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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The rise of cheap digital reprints, as evidenced by the revival of the phrase 'etaoin shrdlu'. books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

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To all of you “et. al.” co-authors and co-editors, I, whose last name starts with a B and so I am often alphabetically first mentioned, see you, and I appreciate your work. #academicchatter

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Aletta Maria van Durlet (1758-1844) weduwe van F. J. van Tetroode (1756-1801), was in Amsterdam actief als boek- en prentverkoopster 📚 Ze maakte reclame op door haar uitgegeven ‘Prenten’ 💃 En kocht deze ‘Salvator Mundi’ van C. Allard (Amsterdam 1648-1709) 🤩 #devotieprenten #MuseumCatharijneconvent

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this paragraph gets worse and worse the longer it goes. fascinating

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And to think we used to disapprove of Wikipedia for occasional errors

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The Alphabet in Alphabetical Order. Aich (H) Arr (R) Ay (A) Aye (I) Bee (B) Dee (D) Djee (G) Double-you (W) Ee (E) Eff (F) El (L) Em (M) En (N) Ess (S) Ex (X) Jay (J) Kay (K) Kew (Q) Oh (O) Pee (P) See (C) Tee (T) Vee (V) Wye (Y) You (U) Zed/Zee (Z) Source www.goines.net/Writing/the_...

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The unsung and invisible heroes of the internet are every single person who sees someone asking a question publicly and, recognizing that they don't have the knowledge or expertise to answer, don't respond. I see you. I celebrate you.

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Count von Count outlining the five things he did last week: 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 ah ah ah ah ah

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I had a dream in which I was talking to a marine biologist, who told me that “Reptiles are just fish who got therapy. Mammals are fish with a superiority complex.”

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I've just come out of a 2,5 hour meeting, and I am happy to announce that I've decided to form a strategic alliance with a big bowl chocolate mousse.

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HathiTrust on Bluesky! (Digitized content of hundreds of libraries, google books and internet archive made accessible and searchable)

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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

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In “totally normal walk conversations with your poet-parent”: me: …if you were a tree, how would you like to die? 10-year-old: I’d like insects to ravage my roots and then I fall on Elon Musk as he is walking by and then my last words are “thank you” to the insects.

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It’s just bad news all the time now.

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This is digital humanities

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We're welcoming Heleen Wyffels to the #LowCountries seminar this week! She'll talk about "Women, gender and social status in the #EarlyModern printing house" Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory 28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

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Ooo, an eighteenth-century Volucella inanis. From Moses Harris, ‘An exposition of English insects’, 2nd ed (London, 1782). S391.b.78.14 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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Diane 11:30 a.m. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks

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People don’t write songs praising a person’s onion knowledge like they used to.

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Someone made a Lego model of the famous medieval “egg horse” and lol this is the best type of reception (L'estoire de Merlin, France ca. 1316, @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add. 10292, fol. 213r) 🥚 🐴 #equova

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This book looks great! About half of it is related to the Ming and Qing, but there's also stuff on Ethiopia, Japan, Korea. doi.org/10.1515/9783... Sinology 🀄️📚

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Student just called the ads in an original part of Dickens “like watching Hulu without an account” which makes my preferred metaphor of “television” feel a lil antique.

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ME: Let's work from home today! ROAD CONSTRUCTION WORKERS: Great idea! Let's all work from your home today!

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A spectacular bronze head of a griffin went missing from a Greek museum and ended up in the Metropolitan Museum, which is now returning it after research showed it was stolen. Great, you'd think... unless you know this research was done 87 YEARS AGO. 🧵 from your local provenance grump.

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Mordor on the Orient Express

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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"How did coined money vary across early medieval Europe, and what effect did it have on different societies?"

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Broke: there's an app for that! Woke: there's an ape for that!

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Dad joke of the weekend

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“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪 European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...

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Die Linke ist die stärkste Partei bei den Jungwähler:innen. 25 Prozent der 18- bis 24-Jährigen haben der Partei hre Stimme gegeben. Auf Platz 2 folgt die AfD mit 20 Prozent. Der Überblick und alle weiteren Ergebnisse: https://der.spiegel.de/3XdbtQa #btw25

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trade secret: historians actually include all years in the history books

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From United Humanists on FB

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23 February 1916 | A Polish Jewish woman, Ajdel Prync, was born in Włocławek. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz on 12 August 1942 in a transport of 999 Jews from Malines / Mechelen. She did not survive.

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Ziehen alle stark nach rechts.

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