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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 9h

Dillon Dingler is the AL Gold Glove award winner at catcher, beating out Alejandro Kirk and Carlos Narvaez. He's the Tigers' first Gold Glove winner since Ian Kinsler in 2016, and Detroit's first Gold Glove catcher since Pudge Rodriguez in 2007.

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 10h

This is why we can't have nice things.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 10h

Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14h

Chance (a friend of the pod) just let me know that this project translating Ancient Gazan literature only needs $200 more to be fully funded! Some wonderful pod listeners have donated since I put out a call on instagram, and I’d love if we could help get this over the finish line. 🤩

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 5d

One more push: please help spread the word about my crowdfunding effort to support Arabic-language access to ancient Gazan literature & financial support for a Gazan translator!

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 12d

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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”

i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

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A few days later came another night I'll never forget - the Israelis for Peace vigil marking two years since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
Hundreds gathered - Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Americans - huddled together on folding chairs in Union Square in chilly weather, under an open sky. As part of a wide-ranging lineup, from the stage, I read a message from Liat Atzili, whose husband Aviv was killed that day; a short, piercing story by Etgar Keret; and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish that hung in the air like a spell.
And there was Mamdani again, sitting quietly in the front row next to Lander. He didn't take the microphone.
He didn't try to center the event on himself. He was just listening. Bearing witness.
His presence wasn't performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.
That's when it hit me: This is what safety looks like. Not fences or slogans, not solidarity-as-branding - but the radical act of standing with people in pain, without needing to own or edit it.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

How every history and science textbook should start

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

manifesting this bsky.app/profile/jwhi...

Justin White @jwhite.bsky.social · 27d

Gonna be wild when Myles Straw walk off bunts against Sasaki for the last run of the World Series.

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Always Varsho with the bases loaded, wtf

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

A reminder that Slippery Creatures is on sale everywhere just for the weekend!

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 4d

It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

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Crash Outstein @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

For Game 7, the Dodgers are starting the most famous player in the sport, a multigenerational talent.

The Blue Jays are starting a discarded zombie costume they picked up outside the stadium last night, brought to life with the rage of the undead.

Honestly you have to think Toronto wins 5-2

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have think we need AI to perform all literacy-related tasks because you genuinely don't care about actual art or artists, or because you never got the reading intervention services you needed to help you get more out of a book than using Sparks Notes?

readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Like, if you think we need a modern day Sulla, is the problem that you don't care he's a murderous dictatorial villain in Roman lit, or is the problem that you thought he was a successful politician because you lack the literacy skills to pick up on the language, style, and themes of the lit?

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Periodically I contemplate how much of our current evil overlords' choices are based on character, and how much is based on lack of reading/storyline comprehension. Are they choosing to emulate villains because they're amoral in their quest for power/control/$$, or do they just not get the themes?

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I think one of the greatest and consequential failures of 21st century education systems globally has been the collective refusal to understand that reading books, watching films and learning to appreciate art are necessary for ALL fields, but especially STEM, and especially tech.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 2d

"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 1d

The best news I've heard in #histmed in ages: the Classical Association of the Middle West & South creates Anthony Fauci Award in STEM & Classics to recognize "undergraduate student who demonstrates outstanding work in both Classics & a STEM discipline" (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics).

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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Cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Katharine Gerbner. Features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom. The title is overlaid in large black serif font with the subtitle below in smaller black text and the author's name is at the bottom. A vertical red stripe runs along the left edge of the cover.

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Or just... not click the link

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.

Coooper: Recently, you heard President Trump suggest he is going to withhold federal funding and possibly send in National Guard troops if you’re elected. Andrew Cuomo kind of amplified that. What do you have to say to New Yorkers who say, is this worth the hassle of losing perhaps a lot of money in federal funding if you become the mayor?

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readsomemorebooks.bsky.social @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Or she can just share whatever she thinks is interesting because it's her own social media account, and the people who choose to interact with the post are the ones who can consider whether to pay or not to pay without unnecessarily commenting which?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

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Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

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katie honan @katiehonan.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 2d

once again I am asking you to check out the stuff on auction to support @casaforall.bsky.social including multiple sports things!! (Including a signed Ravens photo that thus far, has no bids.)

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d

Jesus already told them to and they didn’t listen to that either

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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Quote from article reading, "Vance then pivoted and made a historical argument, claiming early settlers to North America and ancient societies practiced forms of 'child sacrifice'. Historians have found no evidence of that."

Quote from article: "he went on to say archaeological sites associated with ancient brothels often include the remains of infants, calling it evidence that societies that 'discard innocent babies' also tend to mistreat women. 'There is a reason why Christian civilization ended the practice of child sacrifice all over the world,' he said. 'It's one of the great accomplishments of Christian civilization."

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 2d

👇🏼 HMU if you want some advice writing/pitching an opinion piece. Between this and Elon funding Roman archaeo for white supremacist purposes, it’s an all hands on deck kinda situation. 🏺

Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

This claim—that only Christianity was civilized because the other groups did bad things—was the justification for wholesale slaughter, and is being used for that exact purpose by an administration that is murdering people without due process.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

This whole thread, but let me add that the coming of Christianity to the new world created more human sacrifice than was ever practiced before.

It’s just that those dead bodies were made on the altar of human enslavement and capital accumulation.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

oh, are MAGAs of European descent getting all high and mighty about human sacrifice again?

did you know the ancient Gallic people of France once built racks for the bones of their defeated enemies that look a helluva lot like what the Mexica used to do

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