Now this is how scholarship on jokes should sound.

Като зададеш съвсем нормален въпрос и те цапне лелката на гишето с едно лаконично “да не ви излъжа”…

I can never decide which was the slimier piece of shit between Bernard of Clairvaux and Erasmus.

(doing belly time on carpet kicking feet in air, pensively) computer… play me rainforest noises. hmmm. increase ape sounds by 20%. yes… excellent

Watched the Supercopa final with my dad & he reminded me that I used to be a big fan of "that short guy" when I was a kid... the bow-legged one... ah, the one who did commercials for Lay's—you know, he plays in America now! I was actually surprised my Messi fandom left such a deep impression on him

The only thing worse than being told you have to use SAP Concur to get your travel expenses reimbursed by the university is learning that, because you are a lingering ghost of cohorts past & no longer an "employee" of the institution, you have to follow a whole separate process for "vendors."

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

The Bulgarian national railway operator has purchased a bunch of modern electric trains from a French manufacturer courtesy of the French taxpayer and the first unit arrived for testing a few days ago. Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...

We might take the letter as a laudable attack on the sexual exploitation of the socially inferior: confessors w/ their confessees, monks of oblates &c. But Damian (as w/ Alain of Lille's Complaint of Nature) seems to be unable to conceive of sex between people of equal rank, between *men* in short

Just read the intro (75 pages) to a Very Catholic translation of Peter Damian's 11th-century letter to the Pope Leo IX on sodomy, called, since the 14th c, The Book of Gomorrah. Having just taught Damian's letter in David Rollo's translation (for Brill), I thought Hoffman would be enlightening.

Hugos were last night, and just grabbed the winner of Best Related Work and read on a train journey - it's a quick read, tracing fascist tropes and fascists through sci-fi. Especially good on fascists readings of works and also proto-fascist nerd-wish-fulfilment Mutational Romances.

В Бургас животът е така.

Saw the new Superman with my friend who works for NATO and when they showed the LuthorCorp building she whispered, “That’s where my next job is going to be.”

There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.

This is a very troubling claim: someone who the Lemkin Institute - genocide experts - clearly believes is an expert in photo interpretation says there is evidence of an expanding mass grave near the CECOT prison in El Salvador… where the Trump regime sends detainees.

The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since. Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social on.ft.com/40NNZmt

It never gets old. I'll be talking about this MS at #IMC2025 ( @imc-leeds.bsky.social) tomorrow. And I can sit here, in Phoenix, consulting it online tonight. It was written sometime around 1075 at the monastery of Monte Cassino, under the supervision of its translator, Constantinus Africanus.

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 2

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First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?

Guys in the Azores today I saw the best dinosaur sculpture and maybe the best sculpture I've ever seen

Budapest Pride thread, from the ground

The anti-graduate union grad student is a fascinating creature. How are you mad that the union is garnishing your wages (to take $700 in dues or whatever) when they raised your salary by $20K?

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Twitterstorians in exile: lf you’re not managing your citations with BiberoTex, you are living in the STONE AGE. How hard it is to set up a virtual machine for your footnotes?! Meanwhile, my citation management system:

Just to be clear: Taylor & Francis, like Palgrave Macmillan, which is owned by Springer Nature, a company heaquartered in Cham, canton of Zug, Switzerland, is part of a global tax evasion racket. Taylor & Francis is a subsidiary of an entity called "Informa". And, of course, Informa is, as

Swedish mathematician Per Enflo winning a live goose for solving a 1936 math problem posed by Polish mathematician Stanisław Mazur. This math problem was part of the famous “Scottish Book” of the Lwów School of Mathematics. 1972

I left an egg to boil & totally forgot about it & when I came back to the kitchen 1+ hour later it smelled like literal fire, all the water in the pot had evaporated, & there were brown spots covering the bottom of the pot & the egg itself, which was somehow intact. Haven't tried touching it yet.

Akbabas; 130 Bridge Street, Nelson 7010, New Zealand https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-41.27267979999999%2C173.2859568&query_place_id=ChIJQ97I-g7tO20RYr8gw-mMTmE

Listening to three teenage boys sample women’s fragrances in this department store. “Bro, this is so good, bro,” “Euuurgh, that was so gross,” etc.

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First Japanese L on Random Restaurant Bot ever.

Вчера ми се отплесна ръката и си купих “занаятчийско джелато” с вкус на “хляб, масло и мармалад” за “20 лева”… ама е много вкусно, деба.

My parents (who are not Chinese) have become bizarrely convinced of the power of traditional Chinese medicine since acquiring a small pot of tiger balm a couple of weeks back. So far they’ve tried to get me to use it to cure a migraine and a stye…

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Not to victim-blame, but at this point it's kind of on junior academics that Oxbridge colleges still believe they can get away with paying postdocs in imaginary CV points. Applying for these JRF scams makes you a scab in my eyes.

Kinda over all the discourse about AI destroying the college classroom now. No, you're not going to convince lazy entitled zoomers who picked their school and major off a graduate earnings table that ChatGPT is "bad" or "intellectually dishonest." They'll keep submitting that shit. Just give them Ds

I'm sorry but if you don't have enough fully functional neurons firing in your brain to have seen this coming from the beginning, I refuse to believe you can be trusted with any task or objective that requires more than a third-grade intellect. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...

How does every chapter draft that gets circulated in academia exhibit some fucked-up formatting error that pumps up the page count, like double-spaced footnotes or a giant top margin or something, while my drafts are always normal? Are people doing this on purpose?!?!?!

Can you spot da Easter egg in my footnotes?