announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
TOMORROW - 🎥🔴
Timothy Liam Waters, The Ohio State University
"Virtual Vikings: A Case of Identity Formation and Techno-Skepticism in the Digital Vernacular"
www.youtube.com/live/-pdDizg...
More about the Lunch with Digital Humanities lecture series:
mshl.is/vidburdir/lunch-with-dh
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade
What did he know?
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"
DNA is not the same as kinship.
Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:
• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research
Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
heated chivalry
Oh one more thing: If you cannot donate (no worries! I get it!), you can in whatever way you think best, spread the word about Callisto. We want people to know it exists. More info about the org & the April 24 Day of Reckoning (a free awareness campaign later this month): www.projectcallisto.org
It is also possible to criticize art that you enjoy, or find partially successful, because you love art and appreciate it in all of its expressions, and want to see the best from artists you admire!
I wrote this is a furious fugue state after reading Owen's skeet this afternoon. How I learned I can't trust academic online resources anymore, and what happened when I asked ChatGPT for some sources...
Academia is cooked.
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk/p/ai-lies
those of us in academia who are “not fancy enough” are in fact legion
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA SAMURAI MOVIE?
K I Y O S H I K U R O S A W A S A M U R A I M O V I E
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Hungary has chosen Europe.
Europe has always chosen Hungary.
A country reclaims its European path.
The Union grows stronger.
Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).
You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.
A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.
Excellent thread:
cis women transphobes are as embarassing as they are revolting because they will declare with their whole chest “I am less capable than a man and I demand you treat me accordingly by lowering your expectations!”
girl shut the fuck up there’s no gender advantage in CHESS
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Deadline: 3 June 2026 Independent Scholars Deadline: 27 May 2026
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl
HWAET
U of T Tolkien Club invites U of T Students and Faculty to participate in a Community Beowulf Reading on April 14!
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/uttc-...
People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.
When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong.
"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."
Let's start off with a banger: Our call is now live! What do you want to contribute to intersectionality and medieval studies? cims.hypotheses.org/412 Please share widely and send us your abstract until 31.08.2026.
🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth
