It is an important issue, and I am glad to see a collection of peer-reviewed work we can now share with our students to demonstrate the complexities and relevancies of the questions involved. trivent-publishing.eu/home/217-ang...

Came up in my memories, don't have the citations unfortunately. Christ as geometer between the angels and the hellmouth.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

I feel like ever since I got covid I get sick more often (2-4 times a year instead of once) and much worse (almost a week instead of 48 hours, same crushing headaches covid gave me even when I test negative). Is that a recognized form of long covid? Or am I just getting old?

Looking at Eco's definition of Ur-Fascism, Sparta would fit. I've not read the essay, does anyone know if he mentions Sparta?

#medieval #tombsonTuesday in Châlons-en-Champagne. 📷 my own. Tomb marker dated to second half of 13th century

Increasingly I'm liking my 603 date as the end of Ancient Rome - the last official act of the Roman Senate. It was, after all, not the emperors who conquered the Roman Empire, but the magistrates who comprised the senate, & they who still gave the veneer of Republican legitimacy for centuries after.

Not seeing a lot of love thy enemy or turn the other cheek from the Biblical literalist crowd this week.

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

A reminder on the anniversary tragedy, that in its aftermath we failed. We gave in to fear, and hatred, and vengeance. We squandered all their deaths and made the world a worse place. We let ourselves become worse. And in so doing, the terrorists won.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying violence is never acceptable, and that's just not true, and they know it. Without violence, we would never have defeated Nazism, or ended slavery. It is a sad truth that violence is sometimes necessary to prevent an even worse outcome.

"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" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

This so perfectly encapsulates MAGA thinking. They talk about unproven pedo conspiracies all day, but never the scout leaders, ministers and priests, much less the institutions that abetted them. It was never about protecting children. It was always about destroying their enemies.

I need to remember to stop pointing out when people are using poor argumentation outside of grading my students. Because it just ends up in an impossible argument. And now that I type that the logic is pretty simple 🤦‍♂️

The US Administration, and I’m quoting verbatim here, “doesn’t give a shit” about whether its execution of 11 people had a legal basis. It just claims absolute power to kill any person, at will, that it decides to kill. The same people now illegally deploying active military across our homeland.

Does anyone else have a coded hierarchy of email sign-offs that roughly correlate to a scale from "I am attempting to convey my rage at you with professionalism" to "you are basically my ride or die"? No one I am emailing is even slightly aware of this system, and that's probably for the best.

On Labor Day remember to ignore people who claim to believe in moderation in everything except capitalism.

Paul Kershaw, UVa. I had never heard of the Anglo-Saxons or Carolingians before, and it is no small part thanks to him that I quit my theater major to pursue a PhD in the history of the early Middle Ages. He also demonstrated that lecturing is a performance art, so I wasn't giving up much 😂

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

You learn who among your friends gets academia by telling them that you are now chair of your dept. If they're not very familiar, they say congratulations, because it sounds like a promotion. If they are familiar, they say "I'm so sorry," because that is the appropriate response.

Bad Batch is so much better than I remembered it from first watching. It's crazy that tv that was meant to be binged is still being released one episode a week. Kills the pacing.

Correcting spelling and grammar when the meaning is obvious is the pettiest form of internet trolling.

Last weekend of summer. Thinking a lot about mom. She loved to hear about the first day of a new semester. This cosmic sky reminds me of the journey into the West, appropriate as I embark on my Tolkien first-year course for the first time since she passed.

Cicero seated at a writing desk with quill and knife in hand, next to a revolving book stand, and cupboard holding books Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 257; Somnium Scipionis, with Macrobius' Commentary, & glosses; 1383 CE; Italy (Bologna); f.2r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

I really want to like Andor. But season 1 was just too unrelentingly Grim for me - which is also just not Star Wars to me (the OT cracks a lot of jokes while they fight fascism). Season 2 seems better on this crucial front, but I can't remember what's going on, & I'm not rewatching 9 hours of Grim.

Another year of Just Trying to Keep This from Falling Apart. I know it should be more than that. I would like to be fighting for a how what I do makes a better world. Perhaps that's really the right way to save this. But what I have the energy for is basic survival. That's going to have to be enough

I'm telling you: this is happening everywhere. Don't give me your dissembling about budgets or private/public or whatever. There is a complete wholesale attack on knowledge production and it is dismantling every university. They're starting with the Humanities b/c they know you'll let us die first.

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

Chairs meeting 9-4 tomorrow, on top of faculty forum 9-3 Thursday. Trying to remember why I pushed to be chair. When I'm also up for tenure. Gonna be a fun year yall.

There is just no scenario where you could get me to teach twentieth-century Europe. Too depressing.

Three of the top 25 “most dangerous” US cities are in Ohio. One is in South Carolina. DC is not on the list. realestate.usnews.com/places/ranki...

The American story as it actually has unfolded - a nation slowly, imperfectly realizing its founding ideals - is only divisive to people who are racists. ICYMI @tlecaque.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-smit...

Being politically neutral is not a sign of wisdom. The middle is not correct if one side has become too extreme. And no, that one side is too extreme does not necessitate that the other us equally too extreme. That's more "middle" logic talking. The middle is the easy way of avoiding doing the work.

Update, I am officially admin of my intestate cousin's estate now. So the trek to Chicago for probate court was worth it. Finally going to be able to send in a PI to see if she had any final directives. Also the start of six months for creditirs to make claim (including me, this hasn't been cheap)

Well, I've now watched every episode of Star Trek released in the 1990s, in release order.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

(coming soon) www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I have a strong affection to my birth city of DC, so I'm horrified at Trump once again showing why their separate status is anything but equal. Let this be the catalyst for what they deserve: full & equal statehood. Or else let DC take full advantage of its special status & shut down the government.

Sat in probate court for 1.5 hours this morning. My attorney managed to get my deceased cousin's name wrong. Would consider hiring another, but all the lawyers I saw were pretty incompetent. One just flat out told the judge he forgot to bring all the paperwork. Clearly got into the wrong career.

Interesting evidence for charter production: this charter evidently had a gap left for a scribe to fill in the name of the count where the property lay. **I'm gonna just start posting cool stuff I find while here

My cousin once removed died the June. I hardly knew her, hadn't seen her in 25 years, only found out when probate researchers tracked me down (looking for a %). Turns out my septuagenarian aunt & I are her only living relatives, giving me just days to claim her remains 200 miles away in Chicago.

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download! #medievalsky #paleography #insularart

It's interesting how most people seem to think the lost golden age they want to recapture was their own childhood era - you know, the point in time when most people are sheltered and have no clue what's really going on in the world.

I'm so sick of people criticizing media for being "unoriginal." Originality is not the be all and end all of quality media - in fact original stuff is just as likely to be absolute garbage as derivative junk. The problem is not a lack of new ideas, it's a lack of good craftsmanship.

St Paul is here to write letters and kick ass. And he has just written his last letter. Musée de Cluny, Cl.1505, c. 1030, Echternach

I think this is my third time going over the wars of the diadochi in as many months and I still can't keep them straight.

The difference, fundamentally, with the two political sides in this country, is that left would rather ten abuse the system than that one deserving go without, while the right would rather see ten deserving go without than one abuse it.

I miss old Twitter.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who, never having read the phrase, thought it was "tea total" and indicated you were drinking tea instead 🤦‍♂️