Hispanic pixie dreamgirl
@bocadelperro.bsky.social
Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
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Anyway, here is Pope Leo asking if he needs to wear gloves to touch a Renaissance Bible and being told "no," so gently www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNj... 📚 📜
Pope Leo Flips through Italy’s most precious illuminated manuscript | Borso d’Este Bible
YouTube video by EWTN News
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February 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Anyway, here is Pope Leo asking if he needs to wear gloves to touch a Renaissance Bible and being told "no," so gently www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNj... 📚 📜
A nutritionally complete meal includes carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber. Therefore a banana split is a complete meal. In this essay I will...
February 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
A nutritionally complete meal includes carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber. Therefore a banana split is a complete meal. In this essay I will...
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this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget
SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The full user guide here:
The full user guide here:
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM
this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget
I'm always thinking about Onfim
Constantly thinking about little Onfim, who drew on his homework like all of us
February 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I'm always thinking about Onfim
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at last: low church catholicism
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
at last: low church catholicism
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"She completed a PhD in public administration at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg in 2000"
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
"She completed a PhD in public administration at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg in 2000"
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I think we all need an amber bear today
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I think we all need an amber bear today
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I have controversial thoughts about the state of higher ed & the ethics of keeping PhD programs so that research-active faculty can have cheap labor that enables their research programs (e.g., funding models that prioritize 'fit' w/ grant funded research rather then encourage research independence)
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I have controversial thoughts about the state of higher ed & the ethics of keeping PhD programs so that research-active faculty can have cheap labor that enables their research programs (e.g., funding models that prioritize 'fit' w/ grant funded research rather then encourage research independence)
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Absolutely staggering stuff in this episode: Lena Horne had to have her own hairdresser when working for MGM, because Union of Hairdressers members weren't allowed to touch her. 😱
Performing USO shows in WWII, she saw prisoners of war (ie enemy soldiers) being seated in front of black US soldiers.
Performing USO shows in WWII, she saw prisoners of war (ie enemy soldiers) being seated in front of black US soldiers.
You're Dead to Me - Lena Horne: racism and resilience in the Golden Age of Hollywood - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about singer and Hollywood actress Lena Horne.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Absolutely staggering stuff in this episode: Lena Horne had to have her own hairdresser when working for MGM, because Union of Hairdressers members weren't allowed to touch her. 😱
Performing USO shows in WWII, she saw prisoners of war (ie enemy soldiers) being seated in front of black US soldiers.
Performing USO shows in WWII, she saw prisoners of war (ie enemy soldiers) being seated in front of black US soldiers.
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It does, however, sound an awful lot like the Catholic League in about 2003 stammering "it's not pedophilia because the altar boys were teenagers."
February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
It does, however, sound an awful lot like the Catholic League in about 2003 stammering "it's not pedophilia because the altar boys were teenagers."
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My friend Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social has started a blog called "Margins speak: Hidden voices from Christian Arabic manuscripts". Big bonus: Posts are in both English and Arabic. Check out Vevian's fascinating first post on a "thief blessing":
Reversing a Curse, Blessing a Thief
Ownership Notes in MS Sinai Arabic 441 In the library of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, Egypt rests a manuscript known as MS Sinai Arabic 441, which contains a collection of saints’ lives, h…
vevianzaki.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
My friend Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social has started a blog called "Margins speak: Hidden voices from Christian Arabic manuscripts". Big bonus: Posts are in both English and Arabic. Check out Vevian's fascinating first post on a "thief blessing":
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Finally had a chance to go through some of our finds from last year's excavation at #CerneAbbey & thought I would share this gem. Book clasps are quite common finds on monastic sites but this little fella is the finest I've ever excavated & must have come from a pretty fancy prayer book or psalter
January 21, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Finally had a chance to go through some of our finds from last year's excavation at #CerneAbbey & thought I would share this gem. Book clasps are quite common finds on monastic sites but this little fella is the finest I've ever excavated & must have come from a pretty fancy prayer book or psalter
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!!! #LowCoutries outside the #LowCountries!!
Next Monday (February 9th), Hielke van Nieuwenhuize talks about the role Dutch Seamen played in Sweden's expansion beyond the Baltic Sea during the Swedish "Stormaktstiden". Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #skystorians #earlymodern #maritimehistory
February 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
!!! #LowCoutries outside the #LowCountries!!
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A nice thread on a slice of 16th-century social history.
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM
A nice thread on a slice of 16th-century social history.
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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Did my duty as #Reformazing lecturer and introduced the First Years to the Luther Insult Generator.
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
Lutheran Insulter
Insults by Martin Luther
ergofabulous.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Did my duty as #Reformazing lecturer and introduced the First Years to the Luther Insult Generator.
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/
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All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities
Conservative Catholic man minimizes and handwaves child predators and CSA. 😤
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Conservative Catholic man minimizes and handwaves child predators and CSA. 😤
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Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
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@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.”
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.”
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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The complete elusion of the epistemic weapon aspects of slop really bothers me, as does the reductive invocation of a supply-demand relation. The existence of human imagination is not an equivalence to infinite demand. Keynes would cringe.
The majority of slop is also not directly human-prompted, but is used to destabilize information environments with nullformation. Slop matters as an epistemic weapon. It does not respond to collective taste so much as attack the aggregation and assessment of collective aesthetic demands.
Yes: let's assert our expertise as humanists in assessing slop as a new aesthetic category.
But: I'm surprised this (fascinating!) essay (by many I love!) argues that slop is demand-driven w/o detailing the platform economy Big Tech context in which slop must produce clicks. Much demand is coerced.
But: I'm surprised this (fascinating!) essay (by many I love!) argues that slop is demand-driven w/o detailing the platform economy Big Tech context in which slop must produce clicks. Much demand is coerced.
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
The complete elusion of the epistemic weapon aspects of slop really bothers me, as does the reductive invocation of a supply-demand relation. The existence of human imagination is not an equivalence to infinite demand. Keynes would cringe.
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Gendered violence forms a twisted social capital across all classes, too— with silence and complicity bargained back and forth in the same way, no matter the milieu.
February 5, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Gendered violence forms a twisted social capital across all classes, too— with silence and complicity bargained back and forth in the same way, no matter the milieu.
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the great sphinx
February 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
the great sphinx
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I feel obliged to remind everyone that there are plenty of countries where higher education is either completely free or cost a token amount of tuition money and that many of these countries offer top notch teaching and research. It’s a political choice.
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I feel obliged to remind everyone that there are plenty of countries where higher education is either completely free or cost a token amount of tuition money and that many of these countries offer top notch teaching and research. It’s a political choice.
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“A company that promises—however jokily—to do your thinking for you is, not even subtly, also threatening, somewhere down the line, to scoot you off the stage for good.”
What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise?
If human workers don’t have to read, write, or even think, it’s unclear what’s left for them to do.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“A company that promises—however jokily—to do your thinking for you is, not even subtly, also threatening, somewhere down the line, to scoot you off the stage for good.”