Have hit a weird phase where I see a name on here I remember from twitter and can’t remember if at the time I followed the person or hated the person

Well, everything else has been grim this week, so I’ll hope this news is true

I have never, ever seen history faculty more scared than they are now. Scared of politicians; scared of writing; scared of their students; scared of teaching what what have given their lives to studying.

THE WORLD: things are grim all the time, know despair, frail human MLB: it’s cool, I’ve got you, my man. someone whose name looks like the word Shitter is going to throw a gem tonight

Why are we doing this shit

Why are the blue sky overseers posting about waffles? Do I want to know?

Many of the teachings of Jesus (e.g. kindness, charity, helping the downtrodden) are also deeply unpopular with this crowd but they support him too.

ALEXANDER: I have summoned you here, my generals… SELEUCUS: will you name an heir, my liege? ANTIGONUS: how fares the war in the Indus, O son of Herakles? PTOLEMY: quiet, fools. Let Zeus Ammon’s incarnation speak. ALEXANDER: …because Bucephalus kicked me in the dick. HEPHAESTION: again

Does anyone know if the Meet my Friends the Friends podcast by Tom Scharpling is still going? It was my absolute favorite but I haven’t seen new eps in some time. Didn’t know if they shelved it or if it was a patreon thing now (if so, this would 100% get me to subscribe to the patreon)

Once upon a time this would have been a really special moment for me

Is familiarity with the Adobe suite of software considered valuable by employers? My previous campus was an “Adobe Creative Campus,” and this was mentioned as a big reason for why the university spend, I think, six figures for this access.

@ihavethatonvinyl.com thanks for sharing those pics; I’ve been trying to sum up how I feel about this and it turns out I don’t need to. I can look at his photographs and just feel it.

“A bunch of farm boys desperate to seem brave who are terrified of foreigners and really afraid of the city” applies to both ICE Agents and the Greeks in the Iliad

PTOLEMY: so, what are we doing here? SELEUCUS: I had to leave my guys during a cavalry charge ANTIGONUS: I was literally in the middle of a siege CASSANDER: oh and.. ALEXANDER: I’ve called you all here today to discuss the warrior ethos. What makes a warfighter? Hand your answers to Hephaestion.

On the one hand Judge should probably be MVP. On the other hand, some people don’t want this.

Is the stuff happening at ASU and the Texas Tech system in general hitting national news? Because it’s really, really bad.

As a parent of an autistic child, I am so fucking tired of a segment of the population feeling it needs to “fix” my kid rather than work to make an even mildly accommodating world that appreciates the wonder of life in its tremendous range and diversity.

Also the plot of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

They don’t really think it’s Tylenol. They just like simple answers. The complexity of the world and the nuance it requires to study it terrifies them. This is one of the major reasons they loathe universities.

It’s kinda funny many of used to call Twitter “the hellsite” and routinely posted as if we were bound in service to that little white bird and based on what comes out of there now those days are like the garden of Eden.

Resubscribed to defector. They’re doing good work and it’s nice to be able to support good work with dollars.

Man, one day some prof is going to put a question on an exam asking students to trace the historical developments from “the guy ogling the ‘Juggy Dance Squad’” to “governmental destruction of the first amendment.”

This is awesome. I loved Robbie and have so enjoyed watching this hit count accumulate. Thanks, Adam.

Jeff Bezos is good at two things: making sure you can get (and depend upon getting) random stupid crap delivered in one day from now and turning a pretty good newspaper into a really pathetic quisling rag,

I know online is bad and yet every day I learn about someone doing something courageous and good—tonight is that stone cold badass in Iowa—and I am emboldened by their deeds.

My undergrads and grad students struggle with reading book reviews because they get stuck on tone, e.g. “this is too mean.” No content, just tone. And our pundit classes are no better, as Jenkins et al. have illustrated. The content doesn’t matter to them, only the civil tone in which it’s delivered

I see Sally Jenkins wants some attention today

When you unlock the Mirror Tower in Age of Empires

My mom had never heard of Kirk until today and when I asked what she thought of it all she replied “he sounded like a jerk.”

I still can’t believe Ezra Klein wrote that piece today

A lot of people who use words for a living sure seem insulated from the idea that incendiary words have a direct impact and can motivate people and events. I guess I get why this insulation happens—it allows for more writing with no worry about conscience—but it’s jarring to read and experience.

Sulla’s funeral in 78 BCE was immense. Massive displays of grief. Tremendous public sadness. Former enemies lauding him. To a person in Rome who survived Sulla’s proscriptions, and cruelty, and promotion of violence, this must have seemed like madness. After today I have a sense of how they felt.

Holy shit, A&M fired a Dean, a department head, and a professor over a recording a student took in class of content that seems entirely in keeping with the course, based on a video a student—who seems to have been gunning for this—took that I’m not sure they were allowed to take.

Huh, Talarico is going to take on Allred

Leuctra too

Dodgers fans right now are Yankees fans right around 2002 and no one will like this observation

Getting my flu shot and COVID booster in north TX; it’s been easier than I thought it might be.

I grudgingly voted for this guy the first time around; I was worried he was another rich man buying his way into politics. And he’s been perhaps the best leader I’ve seen in my adult life. Give ‘em hell, JB.

You can just block the “making fun of AI makes you racist” person and move on. You’re making the place better for us all!

TACITUS: Some say your opinions are controversial KENNEDY: Yes, this is the fate of free thinkers GALEN: tell us about raw bacon KENNEDY: excellent as a wound treatment LUCRETIUS: what about motes of air tainted by spirits KENNEDY: Deadly; only myrrh and a sacrificed Parthian child can save you

Fluorescent lighting: for when you’re having trouble seeing and could use a phenomenal headache

For a team with the second best run differential in baseball the Yankees can really look like shit sometimes

The same people who get violently mad at the idea that ancient statues were colorfully painted and not an austere white will masturbate furiously to this garish and gilded transformation of the Oval Office.

I’m of two minds on this one. I grew up with “Donnie and the Bombers” commercials for the Yanks and remember when Bird & Magic were the faces of the NBA. But I’ve also seen teams erode public faith in them for the sake of the dollar and it’s not surprising people gravitate to individual players

Modern leader: this stuff is scary, run away The inheritor of a 2,500 year old office once associated with bridges and sacrificing animals: I get it

Nice to see the commish takes orders from a guy who likely still thinks the Dodgers play in Brooklyn and for certain thinks Roy Campanella was “one of the good ones.”

I guess watching him slowly turn into a bag of goo and get closer to death every day is a consolation prize

Fun fact: the emperor Trajan’s wife Plotina kept his death secret for many days, allowing her time to choose his successor, Hadrian