Words are just sort of jumbled in my mind at today's news, not forming a coherent thought: horror, grief, anger, sadness, solidarity, justice.

The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.

We do not read enough Danish literature. Let's start with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Emperor 's New Clothes."

Has anyone read "Sour Cherry" by Natalia Theodoridou? #booksky

Etruscan Kitty!!

Evergreen

If anyone knows of a coalition of Classicists who are pro-vaccine, please let me know.

5 years since the undertakings that Jupiter sure as hell wasn’t nodding at.

Marco Rubio looks really scared. Which he should be, but it's unnerving.

Is there someone out there preparing a syllabus for Latin American politics? How are you doing?

Is anyone doing a word of the year?

This headline! Where do I even begin?

it is going to be a long, long year

And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology: "It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

When I broke my foot while travelling I requested a wheelchair on the way back. Because of delays we were rerouted and 24 hours delayed. Wheelchair service was uneven and I ended up walking through ORD and DFW on my broken foot. Stop complaining people! You're lucky if you don't need one.

Bronchitis during finals week. It wasn't pretty but I made it.

For some reason this made me think of Dante's Inferno.

More bad news a liberal arts college... "[A]fter a review of 'student enrollment data and student interest'... Cornell College will halt its [majors in] more than 10 areas, including classical studies, French and Francophone studies, German studies, religion..."

Is the word "whilst" in undergraduate writing a dead giveaway that something was written by AI? Or have people absorbed it from AI writing and now using it on their own?

My Latin students ritually purified their pencils today. My favorite part was pouring a libation of ink. I'm calling it a stylolustrium.

Trigger warning: I saw a Molon Labe tattoo yesterday on a fellow motorist as I was stopped at a red light.

Congratulations to all Virginians tonight. These wise citizens have elected a decent and experienced person as their governor. What a concept!

2 charmingly medieval black cats for #Halloween.

I feel like those K pop demon hunters could be doing a better job tbh.

I have so many thoughts...not coherent ones, but thoughts

I really enjoyed "The Names" by Florence Knapp. A thought provoking read on coping with and healing from trauma. Also appreciated the reference to Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son." #booksky

So what are some signs that a construction project is a front for financial crimes?

I keep thinking about my intro to Roman archeology class in which we had to write an essay on how the building projects of each of the Julio-Claudian emperors reflected their personalities. Then I heave a heavy sigh.

The Golden Age and a new Forum Romanum dst.at/cartoons @derstandard.bsky.social @cartoonmovement.com #Trump #arch #triumph #ballroom #gold #WhiteHouse #ForumRomanum #cartoon #satire

The so-called Aula Regia of the Flavian palace on Rome's Palatine Hill was a showy, monumental complex employed to help a paranoid, bigly insecure monster feel superior to others (sketch by J.C. Golvin)

Go Hoosiers! And Boilermakers I guess.

So I have just learned that Stephen Miller has been living about a mile away from where I grew up in a neighborhood I knew well. Now I feel dirty. Thankfully he's selling.

What text do you recommend for undergraduates reading Homer in Greek?

Is anyone else being triggered by the use of the word "underbabied" today?

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

Who is celebrating National Spinning and Weaving Week? How are you celebrating?

I organized my first ever declension flash mob for our Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week celebration. Feeling very satisfied. #naaaw25

I wonder what it would be like to have a representative like this...

A little poetry for Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week #NAAAW25

Ordinarily you would only know one of the stupidest people in the country, tops, but now it's like you know them all because they are in high government positions and all they know how to do is be on TV. It's very tiring.

Noun-Adjective Agreement Awareness Week off to a great start with our poster making session. I also sent a bunch of greeting cards to campus dignitaries. #NAAAW25 #truthjusticeandbettergrammar

Taking an AI course that is reinforcing the value of a Classics degree for me. Today's takeaway: we are preparing students for a future where, as AI continues to evolve, creativity, adaptability, and critical thinking skills will be essential. #OsprAI | #UNFAI

Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts. Required: - a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin - competence in Microsoft Word. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.

RFK Jr. being stuck between Scylla and Charybdis was a major linchpin of my concerns for him being HHS Secretary. I believed and still believe that his primary concern is maintaining his influence at all costs, including attempting to change everyone else’s reality to fit his own.

"Too much liquid in the babies" is going to be a chapter title in a book about the Trump era some day. Maybe it could also be the title of a paper about the Nereids?

Two things for which I am grateful: Tylenol and children's tylenol.

"Memorial Service" is a much broader term than I realized.