Burton & @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social’s article is really superb.

the most annoying shift in my academic career

DH friends, take note!

Leibniz, looking at the universe: "Why is there something instead of nothing?"

Me, looking at my Outlook calendar: same

Chat on phone. A: X? Nah.. not touching that dark deep nasty pit. B: Haha, | hope it gets launched into outer space and dies. A: rofl emoji. A: Oh dear.. imagine one of those StarLink thingies floating off with a slice of X data.. and that's all some aliens ever find of us.. B: grimacing face emoji

Fifty Shades of Twilight: A Computational Approach to Textual Adaptation This paper analyzes the relationship between the Twilight Saga and Fifty Shades trilogy as a case study on the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction. We aim to develop computational me...

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken

"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan..

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

A page from prof. J B Hall's (amazing) readings an conjectures on Ovid's Heroides. Two volumes, each about 400 pages. All like this.

This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?"

They have played us for absolute fools.

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases.

Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE.

Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

A widget titled "How was your experience today?" to pick a mood from awful, bad, OK, good, to great. Below that a button with "Send feedback".

This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?

Fair's fair: it was up again in fifteen minutes.

Screenshot of a 500 internal server error as a result of trying to retrieve the link "https://pro.europeana.eu/post/keeping-digitised-heritage-accessible-the-case-of-broken-links".

Well, not to put a finer point on it…

Okay, I'm not going to whine a lot, but still a little. I'm in Lisbon for #DH2025. But currently I'm in bed with the cold that I apparently attracted at #IMC2025 last week. Bummer. Scrap today. Retry from start tomorrow.

Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.

Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine.

The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

What a cosmic dipshit.

For a next with far less pain: as soon as you feel any sign of attack, take 400mg of Ibuprofen and double up 6 hrs later. Repeat until cured. (Usually just a day, or two, if you're in time with treatment.) But talk to your GP first! There may be reasons why you should take Colchicine instead of Ibu.

Nope, those novelists weren't lying. I feel your pain, having gout as a returning 'friend' myself. A load of NSAIDs will get you through, or barring that for any reason, a load of Colchicine. They didn't prescribe you anything like that?

Image of an anti-vaxxer Instagram post reasoning that maybe exposing people to a weakened form of a virus might build antibodies. (I.e. what science suggested about 140 years ago :->)

There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!

Some chains should take an example from Bike House Coffee in Valladolid, Mexico 😁

I merely wanted a strawberry donut..

It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..

This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.

Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.