The rhetoric coming from the right reminds me of Umberto Eco's remarks on how the enemy constructed by fascism is always simultaneously too strong and too weak – the left is now suddenly violent and dangerous, but not that long ago they were characterised as fragile, ineffective soy-boys.

What do you mean, the Doctor Who YouTube channel now has a 24/7 stream of Dugga Doo on repeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR30...

Watching the Hasan and Ethan debate and I have to say, this almost definitely isn't going to go anywhere because Hasan is coming into it expecting a rational one-to-one, but Ethan sounds very much like he is actually seeking an apology, acknowledgement, or even blame for the harassment he received

What reality is this where spoons are an ally and the labour party is the antagonist

'Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, you are not gods. You are men, and you are careless. ... You are sucking up to a tyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible. You are collaborators.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Belgium, I have arrived

That horrifying moment when you realise that you've been streaming on Twitch and recording at 640x360 resolution for like three whole weeks lol

oh look I'm on this poster

The PhD network I'm on is looking for a researcher to be based at Bristol, working on Carolingian literature during the period of transition from manuscript to early printed book – application deadline 27 Jan 2025. More details below. Spread the word! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The final update of e-codices for 2024 is now live, with twenty newly digitized manuscripts for the holiday season. Discover them today! e-codices.ch/en/list/all/...

Running late for my stream tonight: we shall start at 9.30pm GMT rather than 9!

To the person who curated today's @geoguessr.bsky.social challenge and made it all forests ... why 💀

since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share! Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c... Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...

Ok but does this mean I can add Gregg's to my cities??

posting this gem from today's Twitch stream with absolutely no context catch-up VOD of past streams are all on my Twitch channel! (see bio for link) warning: latinists and consummate palaeographers may find themselves yelling correct translations/transcriptions at the screen to no avail

This is an #almanac, a printed calendar. This genre was from the sixteenth-century onward produced in high quantities and reached very large audiences. These almanacs were a characteristic part of the contemporary media ensemble, as #mediahistory and #bookhistory knows.

I might be biased as someone who used to work in publishing but sometimes this is why we need gatekeepers ... because we don't need to be flooding the market with another 8,000 books a year (not that the majority will end up anywhere except in the graveyard of the eBook ecosystem, probably) 🤦

Here is the Manuscript and Book History starter pack, with experts working on Latin, Chinese, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Old English, Slavic, Ethiopian and many more manuscript and book traditions! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

USTC was an absolute life- and time-saver for me when I was trying to get a quick survey of the earliest known books to have been printed in Ireland, the copies which survive, and which ones have some kind of digital footprint available. CANNOT recommend enough

Throughout the 2010s, the media ran blaring headlines about millennials "killing" one industry or social norm after another. Now, at long last, we pass the torch—and the blame—to Gen Z:

Every single word of this write up is the truth and this entire article deserves to be read.

As a stationery goblin, this thread brings me much joy

Catch me on Twitch TODAY (Thurs) 3pm–5pm BST ... this week we continue transcribing & making our way through a 13th-c. bestiary; how much I do battle with translating the actual Latin is up to the Fates (& my brainpower). Previous streams also up on my channel: www.twitch.tv/bjornbooks

So this is how democracy dies, with a pseudo-governmental agency with a meme name run by a billionaire www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Hmm When Did I Get a Bruise Here?: A Memoir

Reminder that the real threat to academic freedom is not and has never been pronouns: it’s the Tories and right-wing governments weaponising funding against academics who disagree with them and call them out for their bullshit

William of Rubruck (OFM, fl. 1255) wrote an account of his travels in the Middle East and Central Asia; "Itinerarium ad partes orientales" survives in 4 main MSS - and 3 of them are in @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social 1. Oldest is MS 181 (pp. 321-400), late 13thC parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...

Just got to my desk! Time to procrastinate for 30 minutes before any semblance of work happens

I changed my laptop wallpaper

It's International Open Access Week! Do you know that the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is an open access resource on anglo-norman.net ? ⬇️

ADHD understimulation truly is hell 😢

If you need me I will be in a corner somewhere listening to 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire