Dr. Christina Hotalen
@drchristinah.bsky.social
Roman historian working as a Program Manager. Alt-ac enthusiast. Gender, material culture, digital humanities, classical reception in metal music. I also make chain maille. Academic CV and links to my other pages: https://linktr.ee/infestissima
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It arrived today on the last day of the year, and I couldn’t be happier. It is very validating to see my name in a Cambridge University Press publication.
Not only is Spotify raising their prices in Q1 2026 but they’re also running ads for ICE now?
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Not only is Spotify raising their prices in Q1 2026 but they’re also running ads for ICE now?
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
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Time to look into your settings, folks.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Time to look into your settings, folks.
Harvard brutalizes students protesting a genocide but treat their professors with Epstein ties with kid gloves.
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Harvard brutalizes students protesting a genocide but treat their professors with Epstein ties with kid gloves.
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
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Excited to have been part of this volume on the intersection of forgetting and power in Greek and Roman literature. www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Forgettin...
Forgetting and Power in Greek and Latin Literature | 400014020
Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from t...
www.steiner-verlag.de
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Excited to have been part of this volume on the intersection of forgetting and power in Greek and Roman literature. www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Forgettin...
Evergreen meme
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Evergreen meme
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Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
Counterpoint: they’re both clowns, but one is more pathetic than the other
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Counterpoint: they’re both clowns, but one is more pathetic than the other
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#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
“You’ve got maille” update. I’m obsessed with gold electroplated stainless steel scales at the moment.
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“You’ve got maille” update. I’m obsessed with gold electroplated stainless steel scales at the moment.
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Here’s a preview of the 2026 official conservative position on Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Here’s a preview of the 2026 official conservative position on Epstein
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Epstein thought trump was gross.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Epstein thought trump was gross.
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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
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November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
For the love of all things good, can some of y’all stop lionizing Gavin Newsom who literally ripped apart a homeless encampment and threw people’s belongings in the trash bin? Have some damn morals.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For the love of all things good, can some of y’all stop lionizing Gavin Newsom who literally ripped apart a homeless encampment and threw people’s belongings in the trash bin? Have some damn morals.