they're lying in wait?? im lying in bed!!! you're the vizier, figure it out!! what am I paying you the big guilders for??

strongly considering cross-stitching 'LET THE LANDTHIEVES DO THEIR WORST!' & hanging it next to the HMO license in my gaff

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses. If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion. nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍 These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895 © Trustees of the British Museum #Roman #Archaeology

If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.

Skeleton draped in a shroud Northern France, c. 1600 (Musée du Louvre)

OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned: youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

I'm doing a side project linked to the cultural history of video games in 1980s Ireland and I'm finding exactly what I expected to find

The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky! ➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars. 👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!

I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691

excited is an understatement for how i'm feeling about Rhys' talk today! details in link below :) if you are an Oxford uni member, please do pop along; if not but you're around Oxford, drop me an email; and if you'd like to attend virtually on Teams, please also drop me an email!

Last night I attended the launch of Dublin in Deeds: Records of the Guild of St Anne, 1237-1778, @ria.ie The freely accessible digital resources and contextual essays are here on the Virtual Treasury website: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g... #Spéirghorm #MedievalSky

If you saw me present on Iolo's abolitionist poetry at the Glasgow @bars.bsky.social conference don't worry, this is about a different, much weirder poem. Who doesn't like druidic transmigration of souls, eh?

Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism Email David Willis if you want a Teams link! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...

On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"

R.I.P. one of the last cornerstones of a functioning decent web.

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up! For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

See how fucking easy it is when you have a spine?

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy! #MedievalSky #SpéirGhorm www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

...And you thought you were stretched too thin! 😬 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

This is what we're talking about when we say we're excited to have honest-to-goodness sunlight in our new game, Mandrake.

Hazel was a delight to work with; look out for this one!

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

🔔☎️ RING RING ☎️🔔 Hello? … Slow down, what's that? … Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out? … And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited! … Bye, love you too! carantes.org/2025/09/22/s...

Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/ @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

writing a new york times article for the upcoming indie game "consume me," and i'm looking for academics who can speak to the gender politics and history of games! I know the school season has just started again, but I'm really hoping to hear back this week before I must fly out. my DMs are open.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

"A five-month investigation . identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023 . who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany." "Their story illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who . treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 . as targets"

How exciting is this!!!

It's welcome week and I'm on strike (again) over the University of Edinburgh's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. UoE has no deficit, but cuts of £90 million are already underway, damaging teaching, research, and the future of education at our university.

Are women bourgeois?

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála / The Book of the Invasions. The ‘Book of Invasions’ (‘Leabhar Gabhála’) is not the name of a specific manuscript. Rather it is an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions.

i know this is a v important day in everyone's calendars. of course, you've all been waiting eight years for...... my 29th bday