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Dr. Syntax
@drsyntax.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
I enjoy dressing well. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to get dressed up to sit for 4 hours squeezed into a seat the size of a child’s lawn chair. Also, fuck you, Sean Duffy. You’re not living in the Real World.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If you see this, post a bad woman you love.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Hey, listen! . . . oh, um, I think that's pretty accurate.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ok, red wine. Do your job!
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Watching older faculty from my grad school gossip about their former colleague included in the Epstein files?
a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32
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November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In my 20s I travelled for weddings. In my 30s I travelled for births. Lately I travel for funerals. What a life this is.
a person is putting a rose in the dirt in front of a grave with the name gilbert
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November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Dr. Syntax
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for scholarship summarising popular perceptions of the British East India Company & nabobs in Britain in the 1780s/90s?
It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My uncle died on Monday. He was a pretty cool guy. I’ll miss him.
RICHARD DIAMOND Obituary (2025) - Framingham, MA - Boston Globe
View RICHARD J. DIAMOND's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Grey Kasey
Your GI JOE name is the color of your shirt followed by your first pet's name.

GO.
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if your academic advisees have three weeks to preregister for next semester's courses they will all wait for the final three days to schedule an advising meeting.
a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
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November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I have to wear my black suit for the third time in a year to say goodbye to someone close to me. I confess I'm getting tired of wearing it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Hell yeah.
Veruca Salt - Seether (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by VerucaSaltVEVO
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November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"What's your damage?"
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Morning ramble with the pup.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the index from Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy” asks some good questions.
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I love both of my parents equally.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.

Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
That bear behind you does not look real.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Why is it that whenever I'm in LA I'm surprised to find myself in LA.
a close up of a man taking a shower in the rain
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November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Why is the only person in jail for the Epstein affair a woman? (sigh)
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM