open.substack.com/pub/katemann... will definitely be getting this: thanks to Kate Manne for bringing it my attention. Such a sad bizarre awful case.

Men who sexually abuse or harass the women around them will also endorse other violent expressions of domination and impunity.

I'm listening to Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" so this post resonates!! Not much new under the sun.

catherinegrimm.substack.com/p/extremely-... I desperately need to get back to uni work, but I just wrote this very preliminary post about a book I just finished. This is what I sometimes do before I make a youtube video. My thoughts on the novel have already evolved a bit,so might need to edit.

Gotta say I do live my insomnia Bluesky feed: less us centric, more us and Oz posts: I’m here for it at 2:55am edt! #insomnia

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

A picture of Lily looking at something only she can see. #cats #catsofbluesky

www.climatecriminals.org/timothy-mellon this fits:

Good article: this is our reality.

I think part of why taking prednisone makes me emotional is realizing how just how much pain and discomfort I live with on a daily basis. It’s like wow: so this is how you all feel like-no wonder you’re so full of energy & happy! (And I’m not). #chronicpain

Had to cancel classes due to nerve pain in hip and um derrière. Waiting for prednisone prescription that will help & make me feel weepy and loopy but not in a bad way. Focusing on rest for now. (Fatigue is literally kicking my butt!) Retirement next May cannot come soon enough. #chronicpain

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

We had a good discussion of gender expecations & children, in my fairytale class today i.e. how quick male relatives often are to step in when little boys want to play with dolls or paint their nails. A student said "Don't be your child's first bully" which I thought was a great quote!!

When it’s cold you can see the song! From photographer Mikhail Kalinin 35photo.pro/photo_1819651

Not a fan of the new $20 bill…

This reminds me of how Undine in de la Motte Fouque's story is extremely apprehensive about getting a soul.

A grave of a Roman physician in Bingen dating to the 2nd c. AD contained a remarkable set of medical instruments, including cupping cups with a stand in the shape of a grapevine. These cups were used for therapeutic suction or bloodletting, a practice with deep roots in Greco-Roman . 🧵1/ 2 📷 me 🏺

The fact that Republicans get upset about tearing down confederate monuments, but not demolishing the White House, says a lot.

Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese (Al-Andalus), Tulane University: #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

Assistant Professor of English, Medieval Studies (Texas State): #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

Still cannot believe that Josh Lyman is married to C.J.Cregg. #TheDiplomat

I know he feels. 🥺 #sciatica

TIL that: Our LMS "Canvas runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) because Canvas's parent company, Instructure, hosts its entire learning management system (LMS) on AWS's cloud infrastructure."

Timelapse from last night looking over the Pentland Firth. The first part of the clip has a meteor exploding in from the top right and heading to the bottom left leaving a smokey train which slowly dissipates.

#NoKings #NoKingsOxfordOhio

#NoKings #NoKingsOxfordOhio

#NoKings #NoKingsOxfordOhio

Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...

Gotland, Sweden (Horse & Windmill), by Pentti Sammallahti,1993.

Wojsiech Krupa b 1966

Excited to get back into this absolutely brilliant work of committed antifascist/Marxist fiction. It’s unbelievably well-written. Very earnest even didactic but absolutely fascinating. #germanlit #peterweiss #booksky #aestheticsofresistance

Plate depicting Cybele pulled by lions, a votive sacrifice and the Sun God. Ai-Khanoum, Central Asia / Northern Afghanistan, 2nd cent BCE

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨 3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

Beautiful yet NOISY Rainbow Laurekeets 🌈

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

And here is my most recently finished book: #22 of 2025. For some a shockingly low number, but as a slow, chronically ill & still full time uni teacher it’s feels appropriate. Absolutely loved this last long installment in the Palliser series. Might add the 2 books I am eternally reading.

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

#21 of books read in 2025: I hesitated reading Gaskell after really disliking Mary Barton. I was surprised at how much better this was! The prose was great and the story interesting. Had a curiously modern feel to it. Highly recommend! #victorianlit #booksky #litsky

"Arbeiten Sie ohne Gehalt und ohne soziale Absicherung? Pendeln Sie jahrelang an einen Arbeitsplatz ohne jeglichen Arbeitsvertrag, ohne Büro und ohne dauerhafte E-Mail-Adresse und bezahlen Fahrt und Unterkunft aus eigener Tasche? 1/5

#20 of books read in 2025: a lovely cozy read. Well-written and nicely paced. #booksky #MaryStewart

wow another thing to loose sleep over!! YIKES!

#19 of my 2025 books: I was surprised by how much I liked it. I know it is considered a lesser Dickens and the plot suffered a bit from us all knowing how it would go, but it was still a riveting historical novel. I’ll never forget the aggressive knitting!

#18 of books read in 2025: A riveting AND thoughtful firsthand account by tobacco heir and Arno Schmidt benefactor & scholar Jan Reemtsma of being kidnapped and held for ransom.

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

#17 of 2025: I really liked it, even if it could be cast as Catholic propaganda. Cather was a good writer. #WillaCather #booksky #litsky