Beds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM

Imagine not only wanting to read this shit but paying good money for the privilege of reading it before other people.

Steve Liesman@steveliesman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pres Trump’s plan to charge for early access to his pronouncements on his truth social company should be illegal. The information he releases is not his personal property. It belongs to the people. He has no right to sell and profit from it.

Couple things missing I think: 1) other sports where US dominates are v much pay-to-play (baseball, basketball), comparative analysis is too cursory here 2) US went out in rd of 16 but so did Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, others where soccer is nat’l religion. All but 8 went out at this stage!

Sam Cohen@samcohen.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...

This reminds me of a talk Peter Stallybrass gave at Material Texts about copies of children’s primers in early New England with marbled covers made from unused pages of Fanny Hill.

Uniformbooks@uniformbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

"...made from Nicholson Baker’s 1994 erotic novel 'The Fermata'."

Does that FIFA Peace Prize mean Trump can get that red card taken away?

I like a good upset but that was an absolute robbery. Definitely a PK for Kane

4 votes to overturn the 14th Amendment by personal fiat. Kingship by another name.

I’ve been curious about the new Dante film since I first heard of it. This negative review has not dampened that interest, esp as the reviewer said “I was out the second I saw an ungloved Nick sifting through priceless Italian historical documents. The librarian watching him should have been fired.”

It didn’t take nearly this long to take Geta’s name off the arch of Septimus Severus, guys

A great book at a great price!

claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

paperbacks! 📚🖤

PC Load Letter for the Bluesky crew

debbshock@debbshock.blue · 2mo ago

this is the printer of our discontent

What replication crisis?

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2mo ago

arti-fish-al intelligence

In the space below, please list the ways in which you have found that Pepsi is the taste of a new generation. Examples include Pepsi being refreshing, delicious, invigorating, and/or awesome

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just got a survey from my university asking how I use AI in research, wanting details on barriers to use as well as burdens that AI has reduced for me. Not one question about barriers or burdens that the use of AI has created. So the unstated position is that it must be good. This is advertorial.

At the top of the survey i was asked to complete on AI usage in my research, there is this helpful “tip.” Did an AI bot create this survey?

So these are supposed to be 3 Salem witches. To me, the fact that they are in a group of 3 shows the influence of Macbeth. Am I wrong?

Zachary Lesser@zacharylesser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Quick instant reaction poll: who are these figures? What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Yes! So glad the @inquirer.com has picked up on this awesome story. Congrats @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social !

Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social in my newspaper! share.inquirer.com/tayMsR

Quick instant reaction poll: who are these figures? What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Quick instant reaction poll: who are these figures? What’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Correct, a thousand times correct

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I just want to point out, politely, that there are other colleges apart from Ivy League institutions. They are where most college students go. They are where, believe it or not, America's massive comparative advantage in higher education exist. You would never know this if you read the Times.

This would be so fucking hilarious if it weren’t so sad. Ok, honestly it’s both.

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)@themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow. So gop intellectual diversity is we will make you pay to take classes in conservative thought to graduate? The free speech crowd, everyone. shorturl.at/XxrII

COMING SOON! imaging of john milton’s copy of holinshed’s CHRONICLES (1587) is complete! thanks to the staff @ransomcenter.bsky.social for doing the work & to our friends at the phoenix public library for transporting the book. 📷: natasha zoghlin, digital imaging technician with the book

I love this. Although it tells you something about how university libraries have changed that they have to put a box for silent study inside the library. The tiny box used to be the library.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

These are the pods. I sincerely, unironically love them. May go find one today, in fact. Cancel a few meetings…

Barthes and Foucault have entered the chat

Sam Sacks@ssacks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't like any of this either, but from a critic's perspective, we're still just going to have to trust in our capacity to judge the book on its own terms

I’m so old I remember how much everyone laughed about Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection and the corruption involved

Look the fun of Top 100 lists is arguing over them but I think we can all agree with no argument that The Great Gatsby is not the 11th or even 111th best novel of all time. And Moby Dick four spots behind it at 15?!? People…

Just saw this interview w/ Ramanan Raghavendran, the (relatively) new Chair of the Board of Trustees @upenn.edu: a remarkable segment (2:30-7:30) where this Engineering/Wharton grad /venture capitalist discusses the importance of the humanities and going back to school for a Master's of Liberal Arts

Horizons Podcast Inquiry Innovation and Global Connection

Dean Mark Trodden and Ramanan Raghavendran, Penn alumnus and Chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees, discuss how Horizons positions its students and faculty to lead in a changing ...

omnia.sas.upenn.edu

It's Official Publication Day for the first plays in the Arden Shakespeare 4th series! Been working toward this moment since 2015. Been using Arden editions since Shakespeare class in 1991. The very first Arden edition was Hamlet, 1899. I'm so proud to be part of this historic editorial project.

A novelist I'm married to is good at the meme, it appears. Pre-orders are a huge boost, so if you are interested, repost! and pre-order The Emilys by @heatherabel.bsky.social at a local bookshop, or at www.bookmoonbooks.com, which will send you an artist's map of the book's Western MA locations.

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