Remember reading once it was a faux pas to end a hexameter in a pronoun. Is that true? I don’t have my computer to look rn

Refusing to hear that I don’t make a habit of celebrating my birthday, my students ambushed me in my room to give me a cake and sing happy birthday to me in Latin. I later learned that they found my birth date by through my voter registration information

Dūrat ab amne memoria fluēns vīvāx Michigantis Ad mare pervastum, nōmine Gitchi Gumī Aequor id effātur nōn umquam reddere captōs Cassiopēia cum fert hiemem orta polō

Infinitesimally closer

We’re getting there

Got a book deal, made friends, learned to speak a dead language, played DnD in said dead language, developed my political consciousness and found my local political home (now very much an IRL thing for me!) A lot of things in my life paid off this year that all started on social media

two weeks to go until the new term of #SeumasU I'm feeling excited and enthused about language teaching, which is a great thing! thepatrologist.com/shop/

Quī populō rapuit quoddam capitāle tribūtum Illō prō miserō lacrima nūlla mihi.

Mortifer heus pistōlā pulsus humī jacet ipse! Quid tamen est nōbīs? Hic status ante fuit.

*Vel fiat ut sis in casula rudi Vel fiat ut sis in aliis solis Vel fiat ut sis cum rapidis rotis** Villāve pulchrāve sponsā "Quomodo," tunc roges, "adivi?" "Dies adedi," me premat haec aqua. Dies abivit, sic subeunt aquae Et aere defuncto volemus. Amnis ad inferna vita solum est

Alii [Galli] immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines. Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.16

A coworker got mad at me this morning because the children of her student from 30 years ago took my class instead of hers lmao

On one hand the subtext of Ishmael and Queequeg’s first nights together is about as subtle as a freight train. On the other hand Ishmael being entirely oblivious and simply going on like they’re just very good friends is so, so much funnier

When a bar serves you warm beer, you should be able to take the owner out back and whip him with a scourge

My hold came in just in time for a weekend at the forge 🐋

to state the obvious: everyone in the regime believes it is someone else's kids who are going to be stitching the shoes together in the factories. but i think the majority of their supporters also think the factories are for others' kids. there's only so many jobs where you go to yale law like JD

lutnick et al are bringing the shoemaking jobs back for all of our kids. there isn't any more world in their plan where you have a side hustle flipping houses and everyone is elon musk. the colleges are closing, there's no more yale to PE pipeline for us rubes. surely you must see that guys

EVERY 30+ WHITE GUY NAMED JIMMY IS MR BEAST TO ME

Thinking abt this but from Phaedrus’ speech in relation to the endings of NGE and End of Evangelion, as phantoms and punishments. It’s interesting to me also that this version of the story is only found here in the Symposium

Heartbreaking: Lin Manuel Miranda is a writing credit on your favorite band’s new album

It's Friday night baby

Real. I’ve had multiple students come up to me and say this. I’m so glad I’ve been following this closely enough that I was able to debunk it. I’d say utterly irresponsible, but I’m almost certain WSJ was just chomping at the bit to start a trans panic

Incredibly funny thing to get this mad about

Are there people (besides me) who go insane about the first line of Antigone the way the πολύτροπος people do? Just read an… insufficient translation and I’m trying to forgive the translator.

Today’s character from Latin 1, the emo elephant, Eland

Happy Birthday to Claudia Severa! Born on this day in the late first century CE. She wrote a birthday invitation to her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, which survives among the Vindolanda tablets. #classicssky

Translating “Hwæt” as “okay so like..”

At least two of the knives in the last pic started as attempts to make the knife in the first pic. Finally catching up on comms. Only 14 months behind!!!!

Annual “I forgot how good and effective simple TPR is at basically every level” tweet

I just got some of the first art back from my artist, a former student in art school, and oh man it’s looking so so so good

My report to my chapter on the 2025 convention was picked up by Working Mass! Give it a read! working-mass.com/2025/08/22/o...

Got food poisoning this morning so I thought I was gonna have to power through my classes, but my students were able to speak Latin well enough to run the activity without me 😎 One of the kids is even using the accusative case correctly!!!!

being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games

looking for a good video on the Normans that's not a. anglocentric (we're studying the continent!) b. made by actual historians (or at least competent youtubers) Any suggestions?

in my first few years, I felt like I was reading Latin with my students --of all levels!--, but the last couple have more felt like I'm teaching Latin than reading it. I'm hoping this year will be different, but idk what I can really do besides that bc idk why it happened

“Est tamen temptandum aliquando id etiam quod nequimus ut nostro conatu viros strenuos ad hoc quod volumus et non possumus incitemus.” Odo de Deoglio

Frank Lloyd Wright ass sink

"we can always tell" but it's for people who went through the international baccalaureate program in high school

Here we go! A new Greek novella for learners of Ancient Greek, covering the Trojan war. Available now storybasebooks.com/product/ho-e...

Fun Latin phrases to celebrate the Fourth of July ❤️🤍🩵 •novus ordo sæclorum •e pluribus unum •mortem Americae •capite faciendi res •ICE delendum est •socialismus aut barbarismus •liberetur Palaestina

The guy at the shawarma place gave me a free baklava for the road

Someone should make an Iliad or Odyssey tiered reader.

lmao imagine getting this "thats you" ass letter in 1642

third amendment continues to pull its weight as the secret funniest load bearing cog in america's stupid machine

Filius Baconatoris

I got to hold an original kylix today They wouldn’t let me hold the sling bullet bc it’s lead 😔

Year six comes to a close today. We made it across the finish line. I am very tired.