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Adam Bishop
@adammbishop.bsky.social
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Professional crusadesologist. Independent scholar. Author of https://www.routledge.com/Robert-of-Nantes-Patriarch-of-Jerusalem-1240-1254/Bishop/p/book/9781032267043. He/him. I can name 200 popes, but only 6 digits of pi.
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 49m
Many years ago I downloaded an mp3 of She's All That by Big Sugar which someone must have recorded off the radio, because it ends with a phone ringing and Troy McClure saying "what the hell? Oh we got a call" (from Marge On The Lam). So now whenever I hear it without that part it sounds weird
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 2d
It happened again when she wondered why October has 31 days. Get ready to hear about the development of the Roman calendar, aw yeah
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 2d
The Escorial library digitized the manuscript of Usama ibn Munqidh's Kitab al-I'tibar!
Kitāb al-Iʿtibār / [Usāmah ibn Muršid ibn ʿAlī ibn Muqallad ibn Naṣr ibn Munqiḏ] · Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial · Real Biblioteca Digital
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 2d
Machine translation post-editing
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 2d
I'm full of Moderna's finest covid antibodies
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 3d
Ah, so much work has been done on the burgess assizes lately, it's great! My introduction to this edition doesn't need to be very long, everyone else's work can speak for itself

*accidentally writes 100 pages anyway*
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 4d
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 5d
I knew Drake's full name but I didn't know Kendrick's last name was also duck-related
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 5d
You know how you get a popup saying data may be lost if you improperly unplug an external drive and you always think "sure, whatever" and unplug it anyway? I think I actually did lose a bunch of files this way?!
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 6d
I'm in Canada where apparently only 6% of the population has A- in total, and presumably a much smaller number of donors
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 6d
Apparently I actually have A negative??! All this time I thought I had the universal blood type! Oh well, this is still helpful...
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 7d
I gamed The Algorithm so it's showing me nothing but Yankees fans crying and moaning
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 8d
Got that sweet sweet O neg
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 8d
We're editing a letter for the kids in my wife's class to bring home and it said "we ask that it is...", so naturally I said this is one of the rare instances where we need to use the subjunctive "be"

...they don't know what I'm talking about. But I know they've seen it before! It's not dead yet!
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 9d
holy shit Vladdy!
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 9d
holy shit Macho Man Trey Yesavage
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 9d
I'm a Leafs fan, but I did draft Ivan Demidov
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 9d
Once again it's the most exciting day of the year, fantasy hockey draft day!

Unfortunately not enough of last year's team wanted to play again so I had to join some random team
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 11d
I got several more Chuck III coins. I'm not sure why I find this so fascinating (a weird old tradition...but different??)

I have a George V penny somewhere too
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 12d
Finished the Beatles For Sale puzzle I got for my birthday. 1000 pieces, most of which seemed to be the white/yellowish background or the black coat pieces or their hair. The faces were a bit easier. Some pieces are only microscopically different so I put a bunch of them in the wrong spot at first
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13d
But it's a good opportunity to model normal adult behaviour for her by engaging in inane banter with the crossing guard. It's helpful to practise that sort of thing. I hate it too but neurotypical people might get offended if you don't do it! "Why?" she wonders. "I don't know bud, they're weird"
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13d
My daughter can walk to school and back home by herself, but she usually still wants me to come with her. I think it's mostly because there's an extremely chatty crossing guard along the way. It's too early in the morning to be that chatty! It's too much for any time of day!
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13d
We had that too but people actually brought their pets inside. I didn't see it but supposedly someone brought a horse to be blessed
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13d
"Yarr...I don't know what I'm doing" whenever I don't know what I'm doing which is surprisingly often
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 13d
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · 13d
Eventually someone would have to step in and get things back on track, like this guy does. Did the humans teach the AI to talk like that, or did the AI teach the humans?

Now I'm wondering if some of the other human workers were actually AI