Very beautiful this evening

me watching Game 1 of a Knicks playoff series: I'm nervous but let's go Knicks!

me watching Game 2 of a Knicks playoff series: our opponents' physical weakness is only outpaced by their lack of morality

Thank you!

UT's leadership is not "submitting to political domination." The regents are all Republican loyalists installed by Greg Abbott to do whatever he wants them to do.

Texas universities will never recover unless the Legislature takes away from the governor the sole power to appoint university regents.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

We’re doing something like that in Virginia, I hope some people take notice!

Here’s a time lapse of me hitting 50 cool down shots

A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland

@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!

Things Hebrew Bible scholars should forget about, in no particular order: Oral African tribal genealogies, Hermann Gunkel, William Foxwell Albright

Who says 41 year olds can’t hoop? There’s me….. LeBron….. others…

"$6 more for no ads, $4 more for good ads, $2 more, only extremely graphic ads for laxatives"

Some of this is just what money FEELS like rn. Nobody needs Netflix at all but there's a certain feeling to living in a world where you get an email about your Netflix subscription going up $2 every other month or $4 if you don't want constant proctology ads or whatever

And above all, I think this is why so many kids want to be influencers, they've accurately sussed out that there aren't that many jobs that will deliver the kind of life that Homer Simpson enjoyed and they've decided to try getting really rich instead

On the most basic level, I don't know that it's that much more complicated than lots of people can afford eggs but only a very few kinds of jobs will see you through the constant 800 dollars for your car, 800 dollars at the vet, 800 dollars to fly home of it all with aplomb

I think a big part of the "vibecession" is just that one thing money is supposed to be for, viz. the American Dream, is gradually accumulating it so you reach a position of real comfort, and that's really the thing that's the hardest in a world of constant big $ problems

They sound so progressive, I wonder whats stopping them right nowthem, probably my skeets

They sure are! Was there a Roman monarchy? Who knows.

This whole thing is about the fiction of being able to write a history with too many details for the evidence, not all of the things that histories are

A lot of other different problems that have to do with the writing of history in general that I don’t object to

I don’t think so, I think I’m trying to articulate an important practical difference re: a specific problem, which is people pretending to be about to write histories with a lot of specifics about named people, re: this definitely happened during the reign of Jeroboam II and you’re articulating

Neither. I am saying there is inscriptional evidence out the wazoo for some things (not for many other things), that absolutely dwarfs what we have for Israel and Judah ( though not necessarily Mesopotamia). And is more explicit and specific

But they don’t have to as much for a lot of stuff, especially Athenian stuff, they just do it for fun

It’s not Herodotus! They genuinely have a lot more in the way of explicit material evidence and a much wider range of sources to work with! The problem comes when you RELY on Herodotus, which many historians of ancient Greece do. Which is a similar problem to relying on Samuel.

Not the point but I’ve always liked these mummy portraits bc they look like my people

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Heyyyy

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

I will say there still seems to me to generally be the difference that we have Kings, and they have Herodotus but they generally also have like five Athenian tombstones that say "I was killed at Marathon by a guy named Artazabarnes, it sucked," and it helps

that Abraham Lincoln was at the Republican Convention on such and such a date and we virtually never get that in the ancient world. Obviously you can also point out that ours is not the only unknowable historiography. What I object to is books that sound like David McCullough written about Aram.