willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
not *literally* a birb
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this is like how no matter what the situation is, when i approach a human being standing on the other side of a counter from me, my brain immediately blurts “one oat milk babycinno EXTRA cocoa on top please”
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and you need to renew it to order books!
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never fear ive worked it out it’s just a bit ????
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no choice but to bow before this
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if you have any more violin puns now is the time, i am RESINED to it
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Very nice. 👌
Reminds me of one of Flann O'Brien's columns for the Irish Times - part of his series imagining the lives of Keats and Chapman.
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but also this is a true story 🤔
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they were v committed to the BIT
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I AM ON FINAL EDITS OF THE LONGEST PROJECT I HAVE EVER DONE (in my modest defense)
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this is not a true story!
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mic drrrropppppp
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🤩
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he was… a bit young at the time 😆
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ooh la la
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when students use AI to write assignments it’s cheating but when we use it to mark it’s “efficient”
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haha as if any of us will have jobs by then i guess
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just imagining what it’s going to be like teaching the students who’ve been through a school system where the “feedback” is generated by an LLM
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maurice glasman
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you mean he wasn’t a band leader as an infant
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ok im not sure bloomsbury checked their facts super carefully on this one:
www.bloomsbury.com/in/author/ro...
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I've always found Roy Parter to be a divisive figure.
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i know i know don’t hold it against roy parter
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(can’t claim to have read all of them but the ones i know are all stone cold classics. his essay on the history of the body was basically the inspiration for my PhD)
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wrote or edited OVER 100 BOOKS. this is unimaginable to me
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now reading his Wikipedia and obits and learning he was “known for needing little sleep” which would explain his PRODUCTIVITY