All strength just left me reading these posts...

Vaya con Dios!!!!

I turn 53 next month.

Doing some reading I just (re?) learned that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's dates were 1908-1961. 👀

No, I'm not feeling any kind of inadequacy, why do you ask? 😉

When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

Reading All About It “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘯.” ~ T.S. Eliot Ever since I was a little boy, libraries held mystery and adven…

It's #NationalLibraryWeek. In this post, I'm reflecting my long-time love of the humble library.

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I usually opt for "ancient rhetoric." You can try "rhetoric from the subcontinent." 😉

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Crystal Palace here, so I feel you.

🎉🎉🎉 for season tickets!

☹️☹️☹️ for the one victory.

My spouse, when she sees me watching my various teams (including Atlanta United): So, do you not like teams that win?

Also: I'm totally jealous that you're there!

May it be so!!! 🎉

Weird that they would fire the navy secretary who’s been overseeing a war we’ve won at least five times.

RFK Jr blames migrants for measles and other diseases in the US Trump’s Health Secretary dismissed any blame during hearing of House Energy and Commerce Committee

This is how you start pogroms. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

h/t @fiona-webster22.bsky.social

Another consequence of people believing in so-called “body language experts” on social media, many of whom grow their followings by “analyzing” abuse victims like Amber Heard to declare them liars

Pouring one out for all the librarians and archivists who are now confronting angry patrons demanding to see an item that doesn't exist because "AI told me it does."*

*story just recounted to me by a friend

🎉🎉🎉

Hegseth photo beside a bust of Caracalla from the Met

Whelp, the amazing Prof. @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social sent this over, as made by her art historian friend Susanna McFadden—and now I cant unsee Hegseth as Caracalla. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

h/t @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

h/t @jennycohn.bsky.social

h/t @wompanafrank.bsky.social

On the theme of #Animals, Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, looks at some of the ways that dogs appear in Arabic literature. Pictured: Illustration of a dog (kalb) from Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī’s (d. 1283) text on the “wonders of creation,” copied in 1761 CE. Collection of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Austria. (Cod. N.F. 152a; HMML project number 24606, fol. 271v)

World Book Day is tomorrow! Read about a book that you may not be able to read...

More than 100 languages are represented in HMML's digitized manuscripts. Curators & catalogers guide us into the stories, starting with specific themes found across the collections: hmml.org/stories/tags/editorials

Earthquakes and Gardens: Book Review Forum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW This review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in Biblical Studies and late antiquity, originally shared at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society.

Behind on your #AJR reading? Check out the full forum here: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

yes, this is totally something we should get our students so dependent on they cannot function without it

h/t @laurenginsberg.bsky.social

Hey have you looked at the list of names in the "America Reads the Bible" event other than Trump? Cause. I recognize too many of them or their organizations, and given who I am, and what I study, it's not great, Bob!

h/t @homophonous.bsky.social