Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn
@kvmfinn.bsky.social
Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
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I offer a variety of services, including different types of editing for article- and book-length manuscripts, indexes for academic and nonfiction books, as well as fact-checking and sensitivity rea…
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Hello, new followers! There are a bunch of you all of a sudden. I'll be up front and admit that I'm mostly lurking at this stage, but that may change. I'm a recovering academic currently working freelance as an editor and indexer. Details: kvmfinn.wordpress.com/editing/
Also, 2 recent publications:
Also, 2 recent publications:
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Surely the party of Lincoln died with the failure of Reconstruction.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Surely the party of Lincoln died with the failure of Reconstruction.
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.
@annapwilson.bsky.social have you seen this???
Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
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If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
rb.gy/8hqqzb
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@annapwilson.bsky.social have you seen this???
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You know who would have published a good obit of Alice Wong? Teen Vogue.
But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win.
Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!
But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win.
Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You know who would have published a good obit of Alice Wong? Teen Vogue.
But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win.
Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!
But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win.
Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!
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once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
I ended up with a whole box of these as a child and read every single one. I also went on to read almost all the full versions at one point or another (sorry, Melville fans, Moby Dick and I did not suit).
Not a book but a series. I used to devour these mini illustrated classics in elementary school. They turned me into a lifelong reader.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I ended up with a whole box of these as a child and read every single one. I also went on to read almost all the full versions at one point or another (sorry, Melville fans, Moby Dick and I did not suit).
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
I want to thank my sister for keeping me diligently updated on the nail-biting election for Cat Mayor of the Somerville Bike Path.
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I want to thank my sister for keeping me diligently updated on the nail-biting election for Cat Mayor of the Somerville Bike Path.
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It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif
The hit jobs on Mamdani keep coming. I always called my parents' friends "Auntie" or "Uncle" if they were South Asian, didn't matter whether or not they were blood relations. I love how they're wasting time on this instead of investigating, you know, flagrant top-level government corruption.
Awful piece. Just because so many white people are culturally ignorant and don’t know that Aunt, Auntie, Cousin are all terms to describe family members or close friends of our parents - even if that’s not their blood connection. The racism, the desperation, the sheer…..smallness of these attacks!
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The hit jobs on Mamdani keep coming. I always called my parents' friends "Auntie" or "Uncle" if they were South Asian, didn't matter whether or not they were blood relations. I love how they're wasting time on this instead of investigating, you know, flagrant top-level government corruption.
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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“The Ohio State University will be requiring every single student, regardless of their major, to undertake AI “fluency” training as part of their degree.”
As an alum, (B.A., 2004), I am frankly disgusted with OSU’s nonsense—bowing to fascists, drinking the AI kool-aid…so deeply disappointed.
As an alum, (B.A., 2004), I am frankly disgusted with OSU’s nonsense—bowing to fascists, drinking the AI kool-aid…so deeply disappointed.
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“The Ohio State University will be requiring every single student, regardless of their major, to undertake AI “fluency” training as part of their degree.”
As an alum, (B.A., 2004), I am frankly disgusted with OSU’s nonsense—bowing to fascists, drinking the AI kool-aid…so deeply disappointed.
As an alum, (B.A., 2004), I am frankly disgusted with OSU’s nonsense—bowing to fascists, drinking the AI kool-aid…so deeply disappointed.
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Mayor Johnson is cooking
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mayor Johnson is cooking
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Work/life balance is so important!
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Work/life balance is so important!