a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

See how fucking easy it is when you have a spine?

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm

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oh thanks man!!! that's really kind to say! :D

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

...And you thought you were stretched too thin!
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Wow! Brilliant for writers!

This is what we're talking about when we say we're excited to have honest-to-goodness sunlight in our new game, Mandrake.

Hazel was a delight to work with; look out for this one!

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

holy shit this video is gonna live rent free in my head for the next month ty

me choosing my gpu

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Hello?
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Slow down, what's that?
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Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out?
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And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited!
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Bye, love you too!

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Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences.

Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/

@lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

writing a new york times article for the upcoming indie game "consume me," and i'm looking for academics who can speak to the gender politics and history of games! I know the school season has just started again, but I'm really hoping to hear back this week before I must fly out. my DMs are open.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

"A five-month investigation . identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023 . who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany."

"Their story illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who . treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 . as targets"

How exciting is this!!!