Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

I've had a very weird and messy couple of days and would just like to put this out there and let it stand: The biggest villain in Gilmore Girls besides Rory is Jackson. Truly an accursed man.

TFW you realize people will show you who they are if you pay attention.

Eventually do we get to Halfaouine? www.imdb.com/title/tt0090...

and everyone got a tinfoil hat but me :(

Theft of Roman statues from Syria’s main museum believed to be work of an individual - ABC News abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Emirati Arabic word of the day فوقه fōgah ‘a rice dish with the meat and vegetables on top’ n.b. 1. The name literally means ‘on top of it’. 2. It's mačbūs in Bahrain 🇧🇭 & Qatar 🇶🇦 and that is the name I have called it for years. I will have to change my ways!

I read 70 pages of this book on scarification in Upper Egypt/Nubia and Sudan today and my brain is so fried but 'twas cool:

Trying my hand at making ምስር ወጥ and it might not be restaurant level but I think I'm doing pretty good...

#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.

It's antisemitic to not buy your friends advent calendars full of their favorite things (jams, teas, chocolates) just because they're Jews. Let's be so for real, there's no didactic content left in the L'Occitane calendar (give me).

“Unsanded” got an amused snort from me, so thanks to the editors who let Werner Daum keep it in.

But then how will I alienate all the right people?

Honestly? Good. Yimakh shemo.

Firefly and The Expanse

Departure of Guillain’s caravan for Gueledi, from Mogadishu. ca. 1856 www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...

Medieval lexicographers debated whether kawkab was truly an Arabic word. Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi claims it is Ethiopic, but most seemto have recognized its distinct “Semitic” flavor, not that they called it that! Wonder what they would’ve done with cupcapes…

At some point people started conflating “contrarian” with “smart.”

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/parliament...

Cycling too. www.bikeradar.com/features/lon...

It turns out if you tell men on the internet that women are increasingly beating them in the ultra-marathon and studies point to women being advantaged in those types of physical exertion, they cry and rage and scream “source?!” and check if their willies have fallen off. Go make them cry.

Listen I need the jinn to stop fucking with me it’s a damn Friday.

This is basically Benjamin of Tudela's main interest in his travelogue from the 12th C!

Institutionally, Jews were invested (sometimes paternalistically and hierarchically, granted) in the fates of Jews in other parts of the world *as Jews* and there are travelogues and educational/charitable networks that attest to this throughout the 17th-19th century. I teach abt some in my classes.

Ok fine I will admit that I enjoy this immensely and it's restored a modicum of my faith in humanity

I’ve had this shit back up for one week and I’m thinking I’m gonna delete through Thanksgiving starting next week. Or thru my next publication, whichever comes first.

Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al-khilāfiyya bayna al-Māturīdiyya wa-l-Ashāʿira Angelika Brodersen academic.oup.com/jis/advance-...

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces. To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

I can read this now, bitches. 🤯 (And yes it's just the begats at the beginning of Matthew so it's not complicated but... bitches.)

Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre ca. 1981–1975 B.C.E. Middle Kingdom (Met Museum)

Petition for an autoblock option where you can just yeet everyone who quoted a post into the sun

And that’s enough internet for today.

This is urbanite professor erasure.

Writing a first book feels like screaming into the void. Beginning to write a second book feels a lot like trying to have a more reasonable conversation with the old self that was doing the screaming.

Conservative egal kid chiming in to say that ועל כל יושבי תבל is right there for basically this reason!

I need a new office mug for my new office. Post pleasing mugs.

Some folks have asked, so you can access my essay here (gratis) www.academia.edu/144027467/Pe... If I could publish only in ethical OA outlets, I would, especially as academia.edu crumbles into AI slop mode, but we're at where we're at in higher ed and I think I see a bigger fire over yonder...

dooooooo itttttttttttt

There's a couple of open access articles in here

So, one thing I learned today is that theater loves a hunchback. Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...

In sincerity I did log on for a reason. A new issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is out, edited by colleague/friend Marcel Elias. It's about how to do postcolonial medieval studies bigger and better. You'll like it. (I'm in there). Go read. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/...

You log in for one second after the shabbat shabbaton and find this sign to log back out...

Most Jewish Americans oppose Trump's university funding cuts over antisemitism, poll shows

Ok some of you are going out of your way to misunderstand the point, which is if you are going to bring religious others into your work, try to get to know them. This isn’t about food, it’s about culture and norms.

This shit pisses me off so much. Do the reading if you’re going to talk about non-Christian things, please.

I intend this pun with every fiber of my being: Jesus Fucking Christ.

Vidi pyramidas sine te, dulcissime frater/ et tibi quod potui, lacrimas hic maesta profudi… “I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism

Cornellians! (Cornellanders?) I will be with you on Tuesday to talk about my book, whose first birthday is coming up. Do join. Or don’t. I get a nice dinner with colleagues either way 😉 events.cornell.edu/event/schine...