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Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

*You,* a responsible academic, have just cancelled your academia.edu account. *I,* a scatterbrained academic, have not been able to log into my academia account for months because I don’t know the password & I think it’s still attached to my former university email that I no longer have access to.

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

"Iron slave- or gang-chain, 100 BCE-50 CE. It has neck-plates to link five slaves or captives by the neck." © Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales museum.wales/collections/...

Someone *loves* the new Superman

Teaching “Fall of Rome” next semester and thinking of doing a decline or change model, where each week we investigate different aspects of Roman life/empire into Byzantium to determine decline or change. Has anyone taught it this way? I’m not totally sold but considering it.

You may call yourself a "woman," but when archeologists dig up your bones in three thousand years, they'll tell everyone your copper ingots were subpar

My school did a survey of what classroom tech we would like, and I asked for typewriters so students could type in-class work without the internet. I also had to specify I was dead serious.

I wanna be able to put the photos I take on my phone directly to my computer without the cloud

So much this!

One of my students discovered what she believes is a fake ancient artifact in a museum (presented as authentic), and now that’s what she’s writing her paper on this semester. Assuming it’s a solid paper, should I have her email the museum when she’s done?

New office is slowly coming together. Tapestry art of Palmyra by @flaroh.bsky.social

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

1. A few hours before this morning’s presser, in which law enforcement authorities announced they had taken into custody Charlie Kirk’s killer, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late John McCain, weighed in on “the fundamental difference between the right and the left in this country.”

34. Hanania & Rufo seem like canaries in the coal mine. While others are busy telling their story – “that the left glorifies death, particularly of adversaries, and the right does not,” according to Meghan McCain – they are not seeing the right-on-right white-on-white danger to their lives.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

The media was eager to turn Kirk's murder into a story about left wing political violence but when that flopped they shifted seamlessly to the "what went wrong with this nice white boy?" angle they do every time a mass shooting or high profile killing occurs. Utterly shameless.

If I could have any other job, besides history professor (which I love being), I would probably want to be a knight in Kesha’s Queensguard, in a world where Kesha is queen.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

"prove me wrong" and "free speech" tours was actually antithetical to the purpose of a university. I have no problem with him speaking on campus, but he's not doing the work of a university. I think part of defending our institutions means explaining this.

Babylonian map of the world (© The Trustees of the British Museum) and c. AD 1620 Portuguese map of Basra, Iraq (© Hugo Refachinho / CC BY-SA 4.0). Despite both depicting the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab river, they are completely different, showcasing maps' subjectivity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

Also good advice for grad students--

IF this is true-- and it's a big if, remember who is running the FBI right now-- please be aware that back when I was monitoring 8chan and later Terrorgram, this is EXACTLY what Nazis urged their followers to do. They encouraged each other to do mass murder and then frame the left for it.

Fashion and Freud? A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT in New York City explores fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Wow, surely nothing major happened while I was grocery shopping in Aldi, right? I was only in there for like 20 mins

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The 14-person search committee for UVa’s new provost has 3 women and ZERO humanities professors. news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

Idk about anyone else but I would rather watch 8 hours of knee surgery clips than have to look at that disturbing drawing ever again

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

Poll Finds Most Desirable Quality In   Romantic Partner Is Being Jacked Centaur

"I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching. Because according to our president, there's only two genders, and he said that he would be freezing agency's funding programs that promote gender ideology."

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

As historians have constantly demonstrated, the USPS is perhaps the most essential, basic service that the federal government provides.

I had a gutter punk band in central Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. We caught some hate, but we were never booed. We even played a dry Christian club, folks came out as we were leaving to say how much our songs moved them. I even got hugs. Trump is worse than Voodoo Dan and the Strap-Ons.

This must be what it felt like when Ptolemy VIII Physcon kicked out foreign scholars from the Library of Alexandria.

Will one of you bully me into submitting my revised article by the end of the weekend?

I figured out how to break students out of the Gen Z stare during lecture! All you have to do is teach the Love Song for Shu-Sin and then talk about how Shu-Sin inspired smutty fanfiction (those words specifically). Their jaws will drop!

Holy sh*t! A reminder about pre and post vaccine preventable deaths. In addition to eliminating small pox, vaccines reduced deaths for mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, and diphtheria by 80-99%. By 2007 measles was no longer endemic, but of course that's no longer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

tbh i'm deeply amused how we went from accusations of welfare queen stuff in the 70s/80s to this

Why yes, Microsoft Word, I absolutely wanted to format my images this way and not neatly stacked one on top of the other as it appears on my computer screen.

Anyone else now painfully aware of how much they’ve been using em dashes in their writing?

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

If you're willing to throw the trans population to the wolves you're willing to throw every other group that's not you to the wolves too, they just aren't howling loudly enough for them yet.