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Christine Kooi
@christinekooi.bsky.social
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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Nov 12
Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 4h
I have never been able to finish that novel. I keep wanting to slap sense into all the characters.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 4h
"In Belgie zijn de mensen rijk en de staat arm" vertelde iemand mij ooit.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h
The Party of Partridge for the win!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h
Mooi geschreven. Ik herken het verdriet van dementie bij een familielid maar al te goed. Sterkte!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h
Wear that "too woke for Florida" badge proudly.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h
Also known as "Wilhoit's Law." slate.com/business/202...
The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
slate.com

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h
Thanks. I don't know who Tyler Rasmussen, the creator of this website, is, but he has done us Reformation historians a singularly great service.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 6h
Cui bono, indeed.
ulises-mejias.bsky.social ulises-mejias.bsky.social @ulises-mejias.bsky.social · 2d
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
www.aaup.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 6h
What's the kerfuffle about specifically?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19h
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
Lutheran Insulter
Insults by Martin Luther
ergofabulous.org

Reposted by Patrick Svensson

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 19h
The Luther Random Insult Generator was, as ever, a hit in my Reformation class this morning.

ergofabulous.org/luther/?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
The dementia simply makes the racism more blatant as his filters dissolve.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
This assumes, of course, that he posted it there himself. It may have also been done by one of his flunkies. Not that that makes it any better.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Unfortunately, because of family history, I know dementia when I see it. He's losing his filters rapidly. How long before he blurts out the n-word in public?
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. while the song ‘The Lions Sleeps Tonight’ plays in the background.”

@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Where in Texas?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
He's losing his filters rapidly. How long before he blurts out the n-word in public?

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Catholicisms, c.1450–c.1800 @catholicismsem.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to announce the 6th volume in the series will be published in June! Click here for details about the forthcoming 'Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age' by @ewatson.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...
#skystorians #CathHist #history #bookhistory #catholicism

Reposted by Jamie Morgan, Christine Kooi

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. while the song ‘The Lions Sleeps Tonight’ plays in the background.”

@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
I think misogyny is the original bigotry from which all others descend.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
😄

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Team patrijs for the win!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Uiteraard.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
En radijs rijmpt op patrijs!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
En nu, 130 jaar later, woon ik in Rodestok (Baton Rouge).

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
My great-grandfather came from Roodeschool. Still lots of Koois there--it's our ancestral village.

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Meteo Roodeschool @meteoroodeschool.bsky.social · 2d
@knmi.nl @rtl.nl @rtvnoord.nl @1vopiniepanel.bsky.social Schaatsen Roodeschool

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ulises-mejias.bsky.social @ulises-mejias.bsky.social · 2d
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor
AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.
www.aaup.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
And yet somehow it's news.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
"I'm exercising rational ignorance on that." Oh, boy.
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5d
Is this piece a parody? Every time I read an interview with one of these Fabergé martyrs who retreat to their Western Civ havens, I think — half-facetiously — does anyone want to interview *me* after leaving the academy + a presidential professorship bc of astronomical conservatism + dysfunction?
After 40 Years at Harvard, James Hankins Is Disillusioned. He’s Starting Over in Florida.
The Renaissance scholar on tensions with the conservative reform movement, his sanguine view of academic freedom in Ron DeSantis’s Florida, and the role of wine in Western civilization.
www.chronicle.com