Y’all. How is this even possible? Joan is STILL available for adoption in #Nashville. This gorgeous 9 year old girl has been waiting on her forever family for far too long. Can we #FindJoanAFurrever together? Looking at you #Medievalsky #Skystorians #DogsOfBluesky @weratedogs.com

Courtney (Dr. Version)@cakrolik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay, #Skystorians. Do your thing, please. Someone in the Nashville area (or someone willing to drive) NEEDS to adopt Joan. This 9 year old lady needs her forever. LOOK AT HER FACE. @weratedogs.com #MedievalSky nashvillehumane.org/nha-pets/joan/

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Early materials cataloguers! What's good on early material metadata since Bair and Steuer (2013)? I've been trawling but I haven't turned up much--I know there's been ongoing discussion, but perhaps it hasn't reached print? Or I've just not found it?

Since #COVID & pandemic handling is in the news, I want to recommend the brand new COVID Studies: A Reader: www.pennpress.org/978151282949... This is a fantastic collection of essays based in SSH fields. It is available to read #openaccess for free too.

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

She’s adorable! Come on, Nashville, get it together!

Courtney (Dr. Version)@cakrolik.bsky.social · last wk.

Y’all. How is this even possible? Joan is STILL available for adoption in #Nashville. This gorgeous 9 year old girl has been waiting on her forever family for far too long. Can we #FindJoanAFurrever together? Looking at you #Medievalsky #Skystorians #DogsOfBluesky @weratedogs.com

C’mon, just look at her She’s adorable

Courtney (Dr. Version)@cakrolik.bsky.social · last wk.

Y’all. How is this even possible? Joan is STILL available for adoption in #Nashville. This gorgeous 9 year old girl has been waiting on her forever family for far too long. Can we #FindJoanAFurrever together? Looking at you #Medievalsky #Skystorians #DogsOfBluesky @weratedogs.com

hell yeah willie www.chron.com/culture/musi...

Texas data center boom gets a new foe: Willie Nelson

"The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center near our town."

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This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

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Y’all. How is this even possible? Joan is STILL available for adoption in #Nashville. This gorgeous 9 year old girl has been waiting on her forever family for far too long. Can we #FindJoanAFurrever together? Looking at you #Medievalsky #Skystorians #DogsOfBluesky @weratedogs.com

Courtney (Dr. Version)@cakrolik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay, #Skystorians. Do your thing, please. Someone in the Nashville area (or someone willing to drive) NEEDS to adopt Joan. This 9 year old lady needs her forever. LOOK AT HER FACE. @weratedogs.com #MedievalSky nashvillehumane.org/nha-pets/joan/

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

Just a little guy. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

My dad got a kitten today and 🥹

every professor ever on film ever

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮@purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Can you think of a movie/ tv trope that is a wildly inaccurate representation of what they’re trying to depict? For me, it’s science stuff . They’ll show a scientist and say something like “ he has a ph. D in molecular biology “ and then have him solving physics or organic chemistry problems

It is foolish and arrogant to believe that one’s own present is necessarily better than the past, but it is dangerous to imagine the past was automatically better or that the world has always been the way it is now.

Professor Nutella@jpnudell.bsky.social · 3w ago

The reason historians often talk about terrible things in survey classes is to get students to recognize either a) how people overcame them such that they’re no longer an everyday concern or b) that they’re still ongoing. The tragedy is watching (a) become (b) in, for instance, food safety.

*medievalists, decloaking ominously so you know A Lesson is Coming* yes, yes we did

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

We've all engaged in a little 'gossip.' But did you know its origins were tied to family and friendship? n.pr/4wGwySo

Holy shit the accuracy

If “we” is my worst students, the ones who make it clear that they only care about their grades and can’t even feign interest in the material, then sure. But that’s not the “we” of the university.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

- Here Be Monsters: The Boundaries of the Human - Beautiful Horrors: Why Humanity Needs Its Monsters - Monstrous By Design: The Social Manufacturing of Evil - Our Monsters, Ourselves: Why We Create Things That Scare Us

I’m going to be teaching an intro to humanities course & I’m gonna frame around medieval and modern monsters. Down to a few potential titles. Thoughts? Vote? Other ideas?s

I’m going to be teaching an intro to humanities course & I’m gonna frame around medieval and modern monsters. Down to a few potential titles. Thoughts? Vote? Other ideas?s

When do we thing they’re going to try and toss in an Anti-Pope? (Bonus points if they try and pretend it’s never been done before)

The pain of a rupture - Vatican News

Our Editorial Director reflects on the schismatic act carried out by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X and the ‘latae sententiae’ ...

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Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

I really wasn’t prepared for the ‘20s to involve my PhD being so relevant to modern life and times.

Vatican excommunicates conservative SSPX followers

Around 600,000 followers of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic sect, are affected.

bbc.com

I really wasn’t prepared for the ‘20s to involve my PhD being so relevant to modern life and times.

Vatican excommunicates conservative SSPX followers

Around 600,000 followers of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic sect, are affected.

bbc.com

This alert is pointedly not about the reunion of a 90s boy band

Update that today is looking better. No temp above 100 (so far) and no chills. Tylenol is a godsend.

Courtney (Dr. Version)@cakrolik.bsky.social · last mo.

Update to add a sinus infection and a 101+ fever. Also, I’m the most pathetic sick person ever. I just want to snuggle up in my blankets (bc I feel both warm AND cold), sit in a hot shower to breathe the steam, and cry my face off.

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