DRAFT DONE!!!! A couple weeks knocking off side projects to clear my plate (and my head) and then on to chapter two…

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

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I’m so close to finishing the rough draft of this chapter that I can taste it. Is it filled with “go look this up”/“say more”/“this needs to be restructured”/“find the page number”/“does this even make sense” notes? Yes. But it’s a drafted chapter of the dissertation!

Thys was my Heated Rivalrye

At times like these, it really is the little things…

petty psa: If you go to work in a coffee shop and do not need outlets, and are in a place where outlets are a rare commodity, please be mindful of not taking one of the few seats next to them 🌈 all the little ways we gotta make room for other humans in this world ✨ / petty psa

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

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Hit skeet courtesy of Silvannen Gerrard's excellent article in CQ 73.1 (2023), which you must read

I’d like to bump this one not just for tourists but for students. If you’re on an F1—like I am!—then working remotely at home, freelancing, etc. are all potentially illegal work. Be Fucking Careful.

there’s stuff circulating about Wikipedia and AI; I’d ask that you dig into this thread before getting concerned.

Not what you want your kitchen floor looking like five days before start of term… or ever.

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

Grievous is the citizens’ speech filled with rancour, as it has the power of a curse ordained by the people. βαρεῖα δ᾿ ἀστῶν φάτις σὺν κότῳ, δημοκράντου δ᾿ ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος (Aesch. Ag. 456f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

The problem with good conferences is you come away with three new ideas for articles and yet somehow no new time to write them in.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Rough week. Good SCS, though. I'm really looking forward to being in my own home with my cat and my tea collection and my own fucking bed.

Respectfully, leaving abusive situations is not “letting the abuser win”. It’s a common, but deeply problematic way to frame any kind of abusive or hostile environment. “Just keeping taking the abuse” is deeply misogynistic

hey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia. check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

Gift link: A new and far more comprehensive archaeological effort to map the Roman Empire's road networks! I would've killed for this while I was doing my doctoral dissertation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...

imo this is very much because our culture has decided that Humanities is For Girls and Thus Pathetically Easy Bullshit whereas STEM is For Cool Boys With Huge Dicks

Some good tips in here!

#BandcampFriday 🔥

⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐ C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

“You spent ten hours clicking back and forth between two specific passages of Iliad 9!”

when they mostly remember you because of the weird sex stuff with your wife and the time you almost got overthrown by angry chariot racing fans ...... but they DO remember you

In other news, the Telegraph has published an article frothing about Dungeons & Dragons being woke, and the gaming community is ripping it to pieces for being stupid (and disingenuous).

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

The amount of time it takes to grade an essay like this, and to justify the score you give it so you can defend yourself later in the dean's office, is insane. And because you can't know which student will be the one to complain and go public, you have to give the same attention to all of them.

JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Just a friendly reminder on this hallowed day of overconsumption via @earthlyeducation.bsky.social

anyway these are all great books so far and you could do a lot worse than picking one up, reading the first two chapters tonight, and desperately using it as a conversation topic if someone gets a little too weird over pie

Here on Bluesky, the image from our appeal campaign page got flagged as "adult content" so every time we link it we have to use this thumbnail instead. Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard

I can see how they got to Plutch and Partarch, but Patrice is REALLY funny.

New issue of Phoenix Vol. 79, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55982 @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social

They have a Lots of the Rings subway map!

A case that AI in the classroom needs to be addressed as a social issue rather than as an arms race. joshuapnudell.com/2025/11/22/a...

Reposting again to emphasize that we won an award!!! Librarians picked the anthology out for best indy scifi. Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚

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I’ve embarked on an extremely large project. No, not the dissertation—a DIFFERENT extremely large project. (page 1 of sixteen underway) #crossstitch