Good morning, the Art History department is inviting me to a research seminar entitled 'Is the Side Wound of Christ a Vulva?' Yes, a tired question by now, but this seminar brings to the table 'material traces of use, [showing] that images of the Wound of Christ were heavily rubbed, touched […]

New book: "Nameless" by Zoe Ann Wendler (@Impossible_PhD)! Impulse-bought because queer cyberpunk in Minnesota, what's not to like?! #nameless #books2026

Found some marvelous #Mosses and friendly #fungi on today's walk. Treasured trespassing, as always. Got hailed on a bit, rained on a bit, but such things remind you of life. Stay kind out there, human chums. #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #fungiverse #awalkaday #nature

Today's hopeful thing: - people wishing each other a good Lunar New Year, a blessed Lent, and Ramadan Mubarak. #hopefulthings

It's a problem that we only have one universe. It's very hard to do statistics with N=1. #Astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology

@Drude ich habe heute "kein schöner Land" gesungen und mich wieder über die Variante "Geschwister, eine gute Nacht..." gefreut. Die habe ich von einem Demoliedzettel, den du mal geteilt hattest, gelernt 🙂

I am exhausted at the moment, and one thing I hate about that is that it makes me judgemental and unkind. I have a lot of bad thoughts I am working hard not to say aloud.

[Holocaust] RE: https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/116057547155825057 Hildegard Rebekka Rheinstein. So much is in that name; a German-Jewish culture that was brutally eradicated. I love the joyful picture and wonder where it was taken, where in my hometown of Frankfurt she lived, if […]

Just a regular evening with (my) three kids. One kid builds a Duplo train while being fully naked. One kid does speech therapy homework, which includes throwing plushie fruits and veggies around. One kid writes a letter in a Caesar cipher, which they just invented themself.

RE: https://wisskomm.social/@MPI_ScienceOfLight/116052863338697847 "we attach great importance to equal opportunities" "Roughly one third of our scientists are women, a gender that makes up roughly 50 % of the population" *lolsob* (And they didn't even cite the percentage of female group […]

RE: https://mastodon.art/@JoBee/116052088156531105 Buoys and a rainbow 😍

I have it in all the grades! *stares blearily into the rain* *stares blearily at the to-do list* Yay? #amgrading #academicchatter

Today I averted a small disaster that wasn't even my fault. Why am I not proud and happy, but crying from exhaustion? Because the stress and anxiety and uncertainty and changes of plans ARE exhausting. #actuallyautistic

Das kann man dieser Tage gar nicht genug zitieren: Wenn ein Fremdling bei euch wohnt in eurem Lande, den sollt ihr nicht bedrücken. 3.Mose 19,33 #Losung #Fremde #Immigration #toleranz

K1: how do you find new things in math? Me: you notice patterns. Like, this way of calculating works for a lot of numbers. And then you ask, does it always work? How could you check? K1: trying them all is too much work! Me: yep. So you have to figure out *why* it works. We call that a proof […]

Found a neat little #lichen. Cheers friends. #lichensubscribe #awalkaday

kudos to K1 for carrying their protest sign the whole march! It's not nice we have to do this protest thing so often but this was a fun one. #narrengegennazis #plakategegenrechts

RE: https://wandering.shop/@murderbotbot/116029373711980249 Always boost this one because YES

Random parent: K3 speaks German so well already! Me: it is their first language, but yes, they speak well already Random parent: you speak German at home?! I kind of like that that's not your default assumption, random parent, but I also am somewhat confused because why wouldn't I?

At the kindergarten, saying good bye to K3, who is jumping up and down. Staff: K3, say "bye Mama, I'm a bouncy ball!" K3: bye Mama, I'm a bouncy ball!

@futurebird I think Revelations completely glossed over the 5th rider - Stupidity. He had saddled up a donkey, mistaking it for a horse, and then he got lost on his way to the apocalypse. But he’s here now, inspiring our new government and the entire cabinet.

Still feeling lonely and stuck. So I left some kind words, put some stickers on street light posts, helped a kid standing in front of the private elementary school (closed today) contact their parents. The feeling hasn't gone away, but at least a little good has been accomplished.

Today's hopeful thing: - art. No matter if it's raw and angry words, tentative brush strokes, a new and elegant formula, a haunting melody or a goofy clip. (Yes, math is art too.) #hopefulthings

Today's hopeful things: - protest songs - being able to enjoy little things, like a sudden snowfall #hopefulthings

I would not have predicted that religion of all things is the class K1 hates so much they have to cry and be angry the evening before. But it is. Because they often watch clips or listen to stories K1 feels are too horrible, like the one where the fox cub is left alone because its mother is […]

In Medieval Europe ships called cogs revolutionised shipping simply by their size: they were the biggest things to ever hit the water. A cog named Svælget 2 was recently found off the coast of Copenhagen: it’s 28 metres from bow to stern and, preserved under sand, its rigging is still intact […]

Great expression that should be used more.

"We hebben goed naar jullie geluisterd" is geen teken van empathie, maar een compliment aan jezelf.

Today's hopeful thing: - there will be other days, and chances to do better. #hopefulthings

[mental health (-), whining] This was a week that just stamped me in the face that I can't talk to other people or be with other people, that I just hurt everyone and make everyone's life worse. And I can't even just fuck off. So I'll keep.on trying to function, right.

Heute vor 8 Jahren starb mein Vater. Der Sohn des deutschen, katholischen Widerstandskämpfers Theo Hespers. Erst eine Woche vor seinem Tod haben wir zusammen versucht, sein Chaoszimmer zumindest ein bisschen zu sortieren. So. Viel. Papier. Aber darunter eben auch so einzigartige und wichtige 1/2

Visited our city's historical museum today and it is a wild ride, as these things are. A 19th century waffle iron and a giant Roman monument, a Brussels sprouts recipe in Sütterlin script and a Jacobin hat and medieval glassware, all right next to each other. And a room dedicated to the 1000+ […]

Today, someone (who's observed my kids) asked me how I deal with "having three intense* kids" and this keeps nagging at me. Because I don't like the label. Because I don't actually see my kids this way. Because I suspect it's criticism. *for the German parenting bubble: they said "gefühlsstark"

I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...? Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand […]

#Mosstodon #hiking #wandern #photography #naturephotography

like, one might be tempted to say "noooo it's a constructed hypothetical that only admits these two options" but there's something really lovely about a union coming in and being like "ah, no, a different world is possible"

thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

RE: https://toot.cat/@skye/115980430425669211 @irina has a #printerexistentialcrisis @skye has a #soundcardexistentialcrisis 🙃

Today's hopeful things: - there's still daylight at five p.m. - my father's health is okay these days #hopefulthings

I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights. Or go sledding. And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate. Hmph.

Me: tired K3: needs to count (up to eleven, WTF?) K2: needs to vent frustration about speech therapy (it's hard right now) K1: needs to talk about how and why Germany isn't a monarchy anymore Me: even more tired

K1 and K2 let a toy airplane fly in the garden. Of course, it landed in the neighboring garden they couldn't easily retrieve it from (high wall,b entrance in another street). So they wrote a note saying "throw our plane back" (in best first grader spelling), tied a string to it, and lowered it […]

[Holocaust Remembrance] Today, I did the traditional long walk around our neighborhood and put flowers next to all the Stolpersteine. I thought about these people: a family, an older couple, a man; neighbors, club members, classmates, friends. May we never tolerate government-sanctioned thugs […]

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/115959672225850325 Ah that's why I don't own any! #agenderfeels

Looking for nice examples for Chi-squared tests, I am annoyed yet again that SO MANY are about testing whether this or that is independent of a random variable called "gender" which can only have two values. 🙄 #amteaching

RE: https://toot.cat/@riley/115961170224049618 TIL ⬇️

“Je zegt: ‘ik wíl wel languit in bed liggen, maar dat kán niet’, wat bedoel je daar precies mee?”

Today's nice Latin cargo ship names: - "Volare", because yes, sailing can feel like flying - "Vale", because you're often saying goodbyes as a sailor (and because I immediately thought "salve atque vale") #rheinschiff

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland #books #literature #dedication

[Church, AfD mention, DEpol] A sign that my church might not be such a bad fit after all: turns out 3 out of 5 people meeting in the evening were at a protest against an AfD election campaign event in the afternoon ☺️