A topic that unfortunately feels very timely today: Paul Celan trying to make images and ideas concrete through poetry, basically rebuilding German from scratch, after nazis reduced the language to semantic rubble
I’m not surprised, the Catalogue of Ships is just really hard to digest
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Heart skipped a beat
Bluesky has activated the Emergency Pervert Filter, which makes the site basically unusable for known perverts. This filter was activated hours ago. Anyone struggling to use the site should notify their local police. Thank you!
Yes I have seen the Daily Wire post wherein MAGA identifies with Dante. No I will not link to it
Of course they’re wrong about why
May we soon savor the fruits of their lifelong exile from public life, too
Vance v. Pope broke Bluesky
Had me at Woe
A high-pile mat of vivid green Irish moss, sagina subulata, a dense thicket of soft antenna-leaves to tickle feet and shelter the tiniest ground-dwelling souls, bursting with buds that will dot this forest with tiny white blossoms tomorrow
Look at this moss
Longing for a time boring enough that I don’t forget there’s rabies floating around my neighborhood #ChapelHill #UNC
More lessons. Cello tennis painting drawing languages dance woodworking. Basically I would go back to high school or summer camp
Hortensia walked so Madonna Filippa could run
Most compelling theory of Vance v. Pope I’ve seen
brave man standing up meme
Both "I" and "we" are fine to use in a scholarly paper and can actually add a lot if used correctly.
Rainbow extending up to the dome of the LOC
Rainbow over the library of congress!
BELOW a lockdown? Close to or on the COLLEGE campus??
Errors like this (esp. the second) have the potential to spread panic where there isn’t actually shooter! UNC is in the clear
Truly. Everyone I know who went to Hampshire is smart and weird, and I worry-- for this and many other reasons-- that we are building a version of higher education that simply has no place for the smart and the weird.
accidentally ordered the Big American Joke Drink (xxl cappuccino) at a busy cafe this morning and the entire place erupted in laughter and cheers as the guy brought it over, placed it in front of me, and handed me a foot-long spoon to stir it with.. italy rocks
religious literacy — not to be confused with “religion” as such — is a civic good.
Hear me out
Diotima is WEAK on inflation
I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.
Research study: do jelly beans cure covid
Let’s go.
In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
I think we can safely assume JD Vance has been reading up on antipopes and how to declare #PopeLeo one