you guys would have been posting the michael jackson popcorn gif when hitler had ernst röhm killed

the monumental abandoned care home, Lainz, Wien 13 if any of you have a horror film idea

"...he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never play the Dane'"

in my roman empire arc (extremely into having a nice bath)

aside from the conservatism and shops being shut whenever i'm not at work the thing that sucks most about austria is how pretty much every old church has been baroquised

just getting over a cold but on my way in, hopefully in fit state to at least be an adornment to a stall (and yes that's a plush tram and an introduction to hittite on my bed)

i used to think iconoclasm was excessive, and it was more about how you shouldn't think that god is literally some old beardy dude hanging in some clouds, but with the ai shit lately i realise i was too generous and it's about how *people literally think *that* picture of a beardy dude *is* god

in my roman empire arc (extremely into having a nice bath)

of all the victims of semantic shift, spare a thought for the poor members of goon squads. no longer will anyone be able to keep a straight face when a brutish ruler threatens to send in the goon squads, gooning through the doors in their goon boots with their goon clubs

my job today

just getting over a cold but on my way in, hopefully in fit state to at least be an adornment to a stall (and yes that's a plush tram and an introduction to hittite on my bed)

you have heard it said to the people long ago, 'bros before hoes' but i say unto you, was ever there a bro who had not sprung forth from a ho? honor therefore the hoes in all your doings

some pharisees in the crowd shouted, "what of adam, the first man?" jesus answered, "he who was fashioned from dust was no bro, for he had no other man to call 'bro'. as the LORD said of him, 'it is not good for man to be alone'" and the pharisees were silent

'The gays in ancient Rome?' Please, the term is 'the LGBTSPQR+ community'

romans 🤝 spiders people think they're dangerous badasses but basically they spend most of their time hanging out in the bath

#TIL the #Arabic word for the mail, barīd, is from #Latin veredus 'light horse' (via Greek), making it a distant cognate of #Dutch paard and #German Pferd. The Latin word was borrowed from #Celtic – can't imagine there are very many other Celtic words in Arabic! 📧🐎

'viking' metal bands should have to use runes appropriate to the time-period they claim to be trying to evoke. you use elder futhark then sorry you get dropped in the snake-pit

Will you be in Vienna in mid-December? If so, you can come hear me give the annual IMAFO lecture on editing the East Frankish royal charters! You know you want to... #charterrific

yeah so I'm basically like Jean-Luc Picard (very english-coded and people generally assume I am until a belaboured plot point reminds people I'm Italian)

“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...

Chomsky accomplished nothing in his role as the figleaf conscience of the imperial core, but he did at least manage to more or less single handedly ruin the field of linguistics.

know this is not the main point here but i'm here for the chomsky hate

say what you like about him, but streeting has a unique historical opportunity now: to become the most hated wesley in internet history since crusher

It Turns Out the Emperor Tiberius Used His Famous 'Villa Paedophila' for Paedophilia by G. Suetonius Tranquillus

working at the nyt

you may not like it but this is what positive masculinity looks like

steam punk but for the 80s. brown-orange wallpaper in my home and a wood paneled automobile. big curly hair and a dress with shoulder pads. lead in my blood

heard about the 'dark academia' look, which i can only imagine is dried egg-yolk on your cardie, a rejected grant application under your arm and some vodka minis in your handbag to get you through a day of marking

off sick so no books for me today, so have a selfie from the last time i was in the office

limbo is like a himbo but of liminality

sending humbert humbert a 100% supportive email so badly written he turns himself in

off sick so no books for me today, so have a selfie from the last time i was in the office

facebook is full-on spyware especially if you have the app on your phone and yet it is also so incredibly stupid. it's like if the stasi went through your files, bundled you into a van as you were on your way to see a friend and then showed you the dumbest memes for hours til you cried

love how in Star Trek TNG, Troi gets a message from The Manitoba Journal of Interplanetary Psychology which i can imagine already exists as a predatory pay-to-publish outfit

through my silly little jokes i have gained 5 times the followers i lost from posting my 'slutty rare bookseller' halloween costume but that in itself speaks volumes about the questionable taste of this site

stunning new discovery: overturning previous beliefs that hitler was bad because he was on drugs or secretly gay or mentally ill or had a genetic condition, latest research in ethics has suggested that murdering millions of people is in fact very bad and doing this was why hitler was bad

##Berlin #tram #fernsehturm #m5 #bvg Berlin 12.11.2025

'I'm worried about all these military beardos who are Nordic Pagans'

1985, als Whitney Houstons visionäres Debüt "Whitney Houston" erschien, wäre Gesine Cresspahl 52 gewesen — ich denke, sie hätte die Qualitäten dieser Platte zu schätzen gewusst.

it's funny seeing online reactbait scoldpieces about polyamory as a modern trend when you know even the slightest thing about 19th-century france

remember the 'zeitgeist tape' which malcolm makes the minister watch in the thick of it, so he knows who oasis and the only gay in the village are when making public appearances? they need that only for if you're off bluesky for a long weekend

i have never actually heard wes streeting speak but i read everything he says in a wormtongue voice

my most boring bog-standard answer is LotR (birth of the philologist nerd as a young girl); the Vínland sagas for blowing my mind by opening my world to Old Norse literature (and later Njáls saga for doing it again); the Aeneid for making me fall in love with Latin

going back to do a phd in assyriology so i can do my dissertation on cuneiform correspondence and call it 'ur in her dms'

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic You: Tell me more 😏 Me: ............... and if ......... [thy]me...... .......................... hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd] .........................s

going back to do a phd in assyriology so i can do my dissertation on cuneiform correspondence and call it 'ur in her dms'

*new* roman cursive? in *this* indiction?

today we commemorate st martin, patron saint of selling people torn old clothes you found in a skip and telling them it's curated vintage

cyrano write poem for girl. theme 'u r hot, fuck pls' no, too long no, still too long poem ok now but nose too long