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I am so close to asking students who complain about a professor's tone in an email or a grade that they have received to work it out in a remix with them, just like Charli xcx and Lorde.

Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

I had a nightmare about incunabula. Woke up in a cold sweat. So I made an appointment with my doctor (aka the curator of medieval manuscripts here at the Huntington)

Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)

Throwing the baby into the bathwater

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

Is the what to the what?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

Charlie Kirk literally said that more deaths from shootings is the price he's comfortable paying and it seems like a lot of people think he didn't say or believe that

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, 4/2023 www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.

i just watched "unknown number: the high school catfish" and holy shit what WAS that?!

Watching "Manhunt" on Apple TV+ and you really want all these Confederates to die horrible ugly deaths so all in all it's well done I think

They're called "research fellowships"

Student complains about a 75 for a paper that did not meet my dept colleague's standards for citation or length, and is almost certainly AI-generated. Demands that his work be regraded to receive an 80. Non-compliance will prompt him to take his grievances to the media. I wish him well. #ChairLife

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

Gonna try to get this sentence-- “Elsewhere in his risāla, Ibn Fadlan is famously critical of the manners and hygiene of the Rus, going so far as to report that one of the men shot a snot rocket from his nose“-- to pass peer review.

Am spending the end of the summer and the fall semester here (Huntington Library in California). The air smells wonderful 🌹💐🌻🌳

Accurate because Trump’s economy caters only to morally bankrupt CEOs who screw over American workers leaving them ashamed and embarrassed.

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

My book on display at the Oxford University Press table at IMC Leeds!

We're hiring a permanent lecturer in Political Science in the Department of Social Science. Application period closes July 11. Link here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/lecture...

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.

The special issue of @la-coronica.bsky.social edited by Nicholas Jones (who I don't think is on here?) on Blackness in medieval Iberia is now out and available OA through Project Muse! I’m proud of my contribution and excited to read my colleagues' work alongside it! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54962

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

What’s weird is that no one predicted this

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

I saw a MAGA call the new pope “globalist” and was wondering how long it was gonna take for someone to call him a Jew out loud and apparently the answer was a couple of hours.

The compromise position is to send them all to The Hague

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

So over for you hoes

It’s not impossible that the pope has read one of your tweets, and perhaps even enjoyed a sensible chuckle over it.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

a Chris Murphy-retweeting pope. The ResistLibs really do have the Mandate of Heaven

Update: My very religious mom is THRILLED that the pope is from her hometown and FURIOUS that he is younger than her.

AN AMERICAN POPE!!!!

The most exciting thing for me in any papal election is the name that the new pope chooses. Then I worry about the rest!

The penultimate arc of “Andor” echoes colonial history—from the British Raj to modern Gaza—resulting in nail-biting, heart-wrenching genre television. Star Wars has never been more invigorating. It feels, in a way, reborn. joysauce.com/andor-uses-r...

My special issue in HR/RH has been just published! Please email CuencaE [at] UHV [dot] EDU if you'd like a particular article or the entire thing. Link here if you have institutional access (Introduction is Open Access): www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... Table of Contents (Thread) 🧵⬇️

Honored to be one of the awardees! This grant, along with a fellowship at the Huntington Library in California, will allow me to complete my second monograph, tentatively titled "Tattooing Customs and Ethnographies of Skin in the Premodern World (c. 250–1750)" in Fall 2025. #medievalsky