Today on the blog I try to solve the pope‘s perplexing pagan people puzzle! #medievalsky salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/a...

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7 Neo-Latin PhD positions at Innsbruck and Freiburg: Ancient Greek and Neo-Latin; Oral Neo-Latin; Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin; Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers; Catholic Inculturation(s); Canones of Neo-Latin Texts; The Nachleben of Neo-Latin Literature. listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

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too late. everyone knows what ICE and you are doing.

Blaming DEI for the height of the Guadalupe River flood is a new low. (And another assault on common sense.)

why are dead Texans always ruining ted’s vacations?

This is from The Guardian. Forget Cancun or anything else the man is known for and nail Ted Cruz to this for the rest of his life. He did this LAST WEEK.

"Before the flood." Camp nurse Devon shares a glimpse into life at Camp Mystic before the flood. #CampMystic #TexasFloods @dpaige323

Article: www.latintimes.com/camp-mystic-...

One of the things to think about is that the other camp, pot of gold, was in mid evacuation when their tragedy hit in 1987. In 1987, the floodwaters never got near the Mystic cabins. They did cut part of the camp off from the other part. I would have stayed put with that history, too.

Good to see at least one Texas lawmaker rethinking a vote. Let’s hope it turns into action so there isn’t another Camp Mystic tragedy. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/t...

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May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

This is the face of a cat that has been rudely prevented from tormenting a cricket in my shower.

Do you work with medieval manuscripts? Then please consider completing this questionnaire on the impact of cataloguing on the discoverability and usage of medieval manuscripts: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination, and to prevent meaningful democratic checks on their behavior. Their victory, though, would do much more than that. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Important discussion tonight on how to engage with sites of enslavement. 7pm CST/8pm EST.

New Medieval Books: Knowing What We Know www.medievalists.net/2024/05/new-... #Book

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The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association promotes the interchange of ideas among various fields of specialization by sponsoring an annual conference, publishing a peer-reviewed journal, and cooperating with other relevant academic organizations. rmmra.org #medievalsky #renaissance

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.  Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

Does it work if it is the same word 3x? If so: Torta, Torta, Torta

Hey, does Murderbot have murder mittens, and does that mean that Murderbot is really a cat?

Steven here says he’s been maintaining the police shootings database for 10 years. What he doesn’t say is that nine of them were at the Washington Post. The fact that WaPo let him go/drove him away speaks volumes about the state of the newsroom. (He’s also a wonderful human being.)

Every American generation made more than their parents until 1980. Reagan fixed that - and it has not returned. The rich are doing better than before the great depression. Marie Antoinette would blush.

It me! I was on @historyextra.bsky.social! Talking about cheese, which will come as no surprise...You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Great list of recent public scholarly works, including @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social on #UrbanHistory from the peripheries. Check it out! 👇

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Please circulate: the Montreal (2027) and Edmonton (2030) *online* bid party is looking for Canadian artists, writers, musicians, creatives etc to showcase their work and help us promote the bids. If you are interested, sign up here. Details on the form, forms.gle/Xkchm5PDNDN6...

Here’s a list of President Biden’s many accomplishments. Thank you Joe. 💙🙏

It does here where I'm visiting family in Wausau.

I always love reading through folks replies to this! I mainly write flash fiction and short stories - and I’m working on getting my short story collection published soon - but now I write poetry too! Just had this poem published in @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social #WritersLift #WritersCommunity

Curious about how Vikings lived? Sign up for our online course and explore their world! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/viki... #Viking

Want to know more about the one (supposedly) woman Pope? I have a chapter, "There Was a Female Pope Named Joan," on the myth, sources, and legends of "Papissa Joanna" in my book, "The Middle Ages: Facts and Fictions" (2019). The title of the chapter is the "fiction", not an assertion of fact!

National website update probably carefully planned for months, years even, and rolled out in a moment that amounts to an employee armageddon. It’s surreal seeing dozens of former colleagues start to show up as “Unknown User” show up in Microsoft Teams.

From Justin B. at Rebel Alliance and The Allied Forces #TheAlliedForces

Our friends in the courts think that they control the law. They must know their place. (Translated from the original Turkish.)

What's up my fine followers and not followers? It is I, the nerd so nerdy that instead of being born on my granma's birthday, I arrived on May the 4th (be with you) I'll be grumpy about being 45 later. Do me a solid and share my art? <3 these are my favs. fallenlights.net

@v-h-t.bsky.social Here are some more forbidden photos from the Petit Palais.

“This has cost so much time and money, it’s not even funny. Private citizens should not have to be enforcing the environmental standards of the state.”

Capped Red ensemble (buzzies...cornemusen, crumhorns, etc ) rehearsing for the Lauda Musicam concert tomorrow at 3 pm, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal, Atlanta.

Just a reminder! If you're in the Atlanta area, take a break from doomscrolling the news and hang out in serene St. Bartholomew's, and hear free lovely early music! 3 to 4:30

People are getting uglier, nastier, and proudly letting their racist flags fly. Then, of course, they whine when they face consequences for their racism.

This is what fascism looks like. He wears his stupidity like it's a badge, and it is: it is exactly why he was hired. Anyone with the capacity for introspection would recoil from what comes after we "see what's coming." A smart man planning evil acts would have the sense to shut the fuck up.

Wow, that's a good point.

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

Atlanta and area folks: If you like early music come to the Lauda Musicam Spring Concert this Sunday!: "The Ties That Bind: The Musical Influencers of the Renaissance and Baroque." 3PM, FREE. St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 1790 LaVista Road, Atlanta, GA 30329