Do you disavow COBRA?

Registration now open for this year's #LatinPedagogyWorkshop! Join us in person or online December 5 to consider skill & proficiency in the Latin classroom. Register at tinyurl.com/2026LatinPedagogyWorkshop More info, including schedule and presenter bios: tinyurl.com/LatinPedagogyWorkshopIL

So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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#StarTrek has meant the world to me, taught me how to be mature & optimistic when I was a morose teen, helped me process so many different emotions & experiences as an adult, including especially my relationship with my long deceased father. #StarTrekDay gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-...

Fathers and Sons

Making meaning of my relationship with my father via Star Trek.

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

Happy Seven of Nine Day to all those who celebrate.

$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.

This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!

Reason Magazine@reason.com · 2mo ago

A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

My latest for Nat Geo's Stones & Bones is out! On the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Featuring work and commentary from Roger Bagnall, Alex Schultz, Cat Lambert, and AnneMarie Luijendijck. www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?

History loves a villain, but the culprit was likely something much more mundane.

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Curious about the lasting legacy of ancient epics? 🤔 Meet Joel Christensen, a renowned expert on Homer, in our latest interview! In "The Wrath and the Wanderer," he explores why Homer's stories continue to captivate us 3,000 years later. Read the full interview — link in bio!

from 1957-1977 the Italian broadcaster RAI ran 1000s of "caroselli" ads, often with famous personalities of the period... my favorite is the series for Barilla (yes, the pasta brand) featuring the singer Mina, particularly her Se Telefonando, filmed (1967) on the roof of the Naples train station...

"...professors at my mini-viva questioning my use of the term 'Asian American canon', insisting that 'canon' was the remit of white authors (and reciting names to me as I fought back tears)..." www.vogue.co.uk/article/camb...

I Aspired To Get My PhD At Cambridge – I Left Because Of The Racism

“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...

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Google on a mission to destroy one of its only products that has been an unqualified success. Classroom has basically become K-12 public school infrastructure at this point. Parents need to tell their districts about this so they can turn that setting off. Teachers must be able to disable it too.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

“…a new Gemini tab within Classroom will allow students of all ages to seek A.I. help on math problems and writing assignments. They can also generate course aids like study guides, quizzes and flashcards, as well as produce images.”

Been watching sodes of old school TMNT on my flight home and realizing young me was set up with very unrealistic expectations regarding the bravery, diligence, and integrity of journalists by April O’Neil.

April O'Neil Driving in TMNT

ALT: April O'Neil Driving in TMNT

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I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

Ok; Spanish VERBA is now live at play.verba-game.com, joining Latin, French, and an English version designed for ML learners. Since the collapse of the old bird place, the WL network isn't as large. Please share widely and let me know what you think! If you are new, verba-game.com has the details

#Chanuary

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Michelle Yeoh didn't almost die rolling off the hood of Jackie Chan's car into moving traffic just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." youtu.be/YOU2rsgA1o4?...

Part two of our back to school pedagogy offerings, Beyond the Basics: Integrating Universal Design for Learning into your Pedagogy on August 11 at 1pm ET. Join @apistone.bsky.social and @ellenleephd.bsky.social for more advanced conversations around accessibility & UDL www.wccclassics.org/events

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

Look at the email I got today, @gregorystringer.bsky.social!

Rhea Receptions essay up, reviewing Nolan's "The Odyssey"! This thoughtful and insightful review considers the film as a product of our current times and places it within the historical lineup of other adaptations of the Odyssey over the past century.

Voyages in Time: The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2006)

Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks, whitingc01@doaks.org Note: Spoilers ahead Let’s get the flotsam and jetsam of a film review out of the way first. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is, as one…

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My father was sent home by United from a post-ICU rehab facility in Maine b/f his covered # of days b/c my parents couldn’t afford to pay out of pocket while the second appeal went through. It was Friday of a holiday weekend so Medicare home-health couldn’t start until the next week. He died.

Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · 3mo ago

🏥 A bot denied dying patients their care A lawsuit says UnitedHealth used an AI to auto-deny extended care to elderly patients, with a claimed 90% error rate. 🔗 cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/ #AI #Healthcare #CriticalAI

hello my dear friends — if anyone has a lead on a sublet ( room or apartment, furnished or un) in Manhattan that starts in August or September…. i’m about to be homeless AND dogless — and I really need to be able to live near my graduate classes on fieldwork :))) I was not raised by wolves I promise

Hello #classics Bluesky, this is a stab in the dark, but: I would like to record an episode of Classically Trained, mine and Allison Marlyn's reception podcast, about Nolan's Odyssey. Allison is neck deep in field season and cannot actually join me. Would anyone be interested in a guest spot?

venerable bede coded tbh

hey #classicsbluesky I am in this! If you don’t have access to the volume—which includes many great pieces besides my own—consider asking your library to add Arion to its collection! It’s such a cool journal for more experimental forms of scholarship. You can also DM me for more info on my piece.

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics Vol. 34, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55479 @projectmuse.bsky.social @mercurywitch.bsky.social

Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.

VERBA - The Pericles Group Foundation

Putting the _____________ in Language Learning VERBA is the language learning card game developed by The Pericles Group. The concept is incredibly simple — one player (acting as a judge) ...

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Trump's fascination is not with classical architecture, it's with *neoclassical* architecture as refracted through colonial European power projection, and then poorly strained through the tastes and poses of antebellum plantation owners, American robber barons, and global authoritarian tyrants.

Saw the Odyssey. It was … fine. My hot take, the Armand Assante version is still much better, for a variety of reasons. #TheOdyssey