The Vix Crater: largest bronze vessel of Western antiquity, found in the tomb of a Celtic princess in Burgundy, France (~530 BC)

I wonder if any hagiographic or manuscript scholars, or any other medievalists with relevant input, have recommendations for choice images of the sisters Mary and Martha. Late-medieval are preferable. Many thanks.

Just walked past the Good Friday procession, which gives me an excuse to post my favourite photo from the Rob Ford era

Going to hang this next to my "Barney Getting Waterboarded" and "Oscar before McCarthy" prints

Anglicans "turning to Rome...perhaps weary of sermons about climate change and social justice" - my friend Lord Frost, have you read anything about the pope recently?

This is completely galling. I have said it before and I will reiterate that the years that Danielle Smith spent as a professional contrarian rotted her brain, and she now believes every unhinged conspiracy theory out there.

Looking forward to doing something similar this coming autumn.

a little piece of joy: my TX State students thanked me for bringing manuscript fragments to class yesterday. I didn’t expect to have an emotional reaction (I teared up), but they were just so excited

LOL.

🚨JOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection! secure10.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Tapping the sign

Alberta's government is one of our nation's great shames

Stephen Marche humiliation kink.

i made a cup of tea using piss. everyone uses piss to make tea. it’s just more efficient (already warm)

There is no small irony that so-called "libertarian" Danielle Smith is creating a Soviet system of denunciation for political wrongthink.

If more students (and their parents--and general citizens) knew that their instructors are workings at at-best-subsistence wages, I think we would have much different conversation. Particulary in #NLpoli where the govt gives a 275k post to a friend and another 200k+ position to a cultural fig

I had to get over some personal shame to do this, but when I was adjuncting I tried to be very open with students and the wider world about my terrible wages. People just *don’t* know this is the case for the majority of faculty. And it certainly contributes to the whole “ivory tower” stereotype.

But on the pro genocide side… WTF— get these authoritarians out of office! Education isn’t neutral and teachers shouldn’t model neutrality— they should be nonpartisan, however. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I often wonder how much it would take for the public to realize how much their image of “university elites” as the academics is fictional, especially in today’s financialized age

I do hope my students enjoy the little notes I decide to send during the last week of classes....

A most excellent Gritty #Philly

"At some point, every person needs to accept that they cannot claim impartiality or universal expertise: I cannot tell if a bridge is safe to drive over or determine whether my lettuce contains E. coli. So I value agencies and organizations that employ experts who can." By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

The only time real merit would win out in hiring is when Canadian unis/academics/committees would quit being astounded by a fresh grad with a pending article and two book review ls but an Ivy diploma and selecting them over folks with two postdocs ans half a dozen articles.

The policy described would violate rules of international law prohibiting (i) the destruction of property without absolute military necessity & (ii) forced displacement. The former is a war crime, the latter a war crime & crime against humanity. I discussed this with Reuters here: reut.rs/4dStXyu

On today of all days too. These monsters did this on purpose.

There is only one good academia movie. Wonder Boys

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social This image came up on FaBoo through a St John's NIMBY post (where I suppose actual heritage arguments have more true traction), but ifelt you needed to know about the brutalism od St John's city hall. (Greetings from NL West coast.)

Today on campus, our university president (salary: 460k + benefits) invited faculty and staff for a coffee and chat session at the campus cafe. When folks arrived they found out they were to purchase their own coffees.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Nor did they have the charisma.

Economists are the chiropractors of the social sciences.

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

this is truly an abomination. I guess they were not satisfied with how thoroughly they have been betraying the lessons of the Holocaust.

However, the best thing about The Good Wife is The Good Fight.

9 month medieval post

REMINDER: The MAA @medievalacademy.bsky.social / CARA Summer Scholarship can be applied to U of T's Summer Latin Program at CMS! Their application deadline is April 1. www.medievalacademy.org/page/CARA_Sc...

The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵

This is what's known as a "righteous burn".

please do not feed all your thoughts into the jar of hungry ghosts.

When this is all over and we’ve had the trials and the sentencing this sacred bit of cardboard should be framed and mounted in the National Gallery of Art

You can exclude all Ashkenazi humor from a Google search result by adding -oy to the end of your query. You can remove all skankin’ good times by adding -oi.

Found the most bluesky board game possible.

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

Great paper title for anyone working on Books of Hours or similar personal devotionals....

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

How embarrassing 🙈 They used AI to obediently follow UCP party policy! edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n....