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just airplanes driving superfast down the highway

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

we all know I have no life, so:

Hey folks I'm at UVA next Monday - in conversation about writing with Alia Habib (an incredible literary agent). Look for "Public Writing, Public Scholarship with Alia Habib and David Perry."

I'm very excited!

ihgc.as.virginia.edu/other-events...

I've been meaning to say - if you are a historian* looking to write about America 250, especially for a local or regional outlet, please let me know if I can help. There is and will be a lot of room for you to do this work, I think. /1

*as always, construed broadly

an extraordinary life and an extraordinary encomium from @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social!

Friends! I will be in Chicago for a few days later in May (after NAPS) and looking for recommendations — a nice neighbourhood to stay in, pleasant to walk around. Nothing too hectic, somewhere with a bit of character. Any suggestions very welcome! 🙏

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social

I got the info from the English department, but it's online here (no direct link, scroll down): ihgc.as.virginia.edu/other-events...

Public Writing, Public Scholarship book talk calendar entry Monday 4/27 4:30-6pm with Alia Habib and David Perry Bryan Hall 218, English Faculty Lounge, Reception to follow

just added @lollardfish.bsky.social's UVa event to my calendar for next week!

Picture of a chapter title from Stephen Rosetti’s _My Confrontation with Hell_, entitled “Financial Curses.”

you heard it here first, friends. student loans are the work of demons.

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The Public Scholar publishes one week from today. Please consider pre-ordering and/or asking your library to order. Authors really need your pre-orders to make a book go.

I think it's a useful book! More importantly, so do real scholars and writers!

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

me wearing an i voted sticker

Pokémon Go to the polls, Virginia!

Who are currently the go-to scholars for religion and authoritarianism? Particularly in the German speaking world?

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chance described her to me but she's more glorious than i could have imagined!

I like to imagine the connecting thread of a film fest made of whatever movies I feel like watching on a plane. For instance, A Goofy Movie and The Social Network are both about the lengths adolescent men will go to impress women, often to their own danger

oh no! maybe 3 or 4 times a week.

@meirazk.bsky.social's is better

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i can't help it, boss

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!

"sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo"

thanks!

oh and if you want to see the map I'm talking about in this introduction, it's online here!

images.natgeomaps.com/PROD_ZOOM/HM...

aside from C. Libby @libbylibby.bsky.social in their recent QTR article, linked below, who else has traced the way trans people have been labelled as a (new form of) "Gnostic" or "Gnosticism" ?
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...

Watch What The Constitution Means To Me | Prime Video Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

we never spent enough time talking about the radical questions and ideas raised by Heidi Schreck's WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME and how much our laws are constructed to protect the interests of abusers and their friends!

CC the cat curled adorably on a bright yellow beanbag under a window

CC has discovered the new beanbag chair