Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊
@sauthoff.bsky.social
Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
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The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”
I just got an ad for a podcast in which they called him RFK jay are. 🤯
January 25, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I just got an ad for a podcast in which they called him RFK jay are. 🤯
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Am seeing lots of posts about how right Orwell was. Just a quick reminder that he was born in Bihar, colonial India, & served in Myanmar, then part of British India.
1984 is as much thinly fictionalised reportage as prediction of a dystopian future.
#Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #colonialism #Empire
1984 is as much thinly fictionalised reportage as prediction of a dystopian future.
#Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #colonialism #Empire
January 25, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Am seeing lots of posts about how right Orwell was. Just a quick reminder that he was born in Bihar, colonial India, & served in Myanmar, then part of British India.
1984 is as much thinly fictionalised reportage as prediction of a dystopian future.
#Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #colonialism #Empire
1984 is as much thinly fictionalised reportage as prediction of a dystopian future.
#Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #colonialism #Empire
This weekend I had two giant dinners with friends, played Mario Kart for the first time in 8 years, AND saw a guy walking a tortoise. Not bad.
January 25, 2026 at 10:45 AM
This weekend I had two giant dinners with friends, played Mario Kart for the first time in 8 years, AND saw a guy walking a tortoise. Not bad.
A little cat break in the midst of your doomscrolling. Hope his shenanigans (he’s on top of the fridge) give you a moment to take a deep breath.
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 AM
A little cat break in the midst of your doomscrolling. Hope his shenanigans (he’s on top of the fridge) give you a moment to take a deep breath.
Oregonians, smoke more weed. It will help your community.
“The four and a half million residents who live here can’t smoke enough.”
Oregon’s Crashing Pot Prices Put Drug Treatment at Risk
Khushboo Rathore
www.wweek.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Oregonians, smoke more weed. It will help your community.
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If you work at on Call Of Duty, you have to ask yourself: is this what you want? Do you want your game to be associated with executing American citizens in the street?
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
If you work at on Call Of Duty, you have to ask yourself: is this what you want? Do you want your game to be associated with executing American citizens in the street?
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They're trying to hide the execution by disappearing witnesses.
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
They're trying to hide the execution by disappearing witnesses.
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🚨Source request!🚨
If you're a teacher battling ChatGPT, at any grade level, I'd love to talk with you. On background only is ok!
[email protected] and wwimbish.07 on Signal.
If you're a teacher battling ChatGPT, at any grade level, I'd love to talk with you. On background only is ok!
[email protected] and wwimbish.07 on Signal.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
🚨Source request!🚨
If you're a teacher battling ChatGPT, at any grade level, I'd love to talk with you. On background only is ok!
[email protected] and wwimbish.07 on Signal.
If you're a teacher battling ChatGPT, at any grade level, I'd love to talk with you. On background only is ok!
[email protected] and wwimbish.07 on Signal.
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If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies
www.sas.ac.uk
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
An amazing plate @hknumberplates.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 11:16 AM
An amazing plate @hknumberplates.bsky.social
The first time I watched Casablanca I was maybe 10 and they played in on PBS. It was colorized so I fiddled with the TV knobs to make it black and white.
As much as we love watching #Casablanca on TCM, if you’ve never seen it on the big screen, try to make that happen. It always shows around Valentine’s Day, here are a bunch of theaters all over the U.S. that will be showing it next month … #TCMParty www.flashbackcinema.net/new-blog/cas...
CASABLANCA — Flashback Cinema
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 (VALENTINES DAY) World War II love story and Best Picture Oscar® winner starring Humphrey Bogart as a cynical cafe owner who is...
www.flashbackcinema.net
January 24, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The first time I watched Casablanca I was maybe 10 and they played in on PBS. It was colorized so I fiddled with the TV knobs to make it black and white.
I was interviewed by a practicing alchemist about my research! vedicalchemy.substack.com/p/mythology-...
Mythology and Medicine: Diamonds in Rasa Shastra
An Interview with Patricia Sauthoff
vedicalchemy.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:12 AM
I was interviewed by a practicing alchemist about my research! vedicalchemy.substack.com/p/mythology-...
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The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.
Google Photos' latest feature lets you meme yourself | TechCrunch
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.
techcrunch.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Pass
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see...
we saw two different movies... and that's okay
we also live in two very different Americas and that's less okay
one that knows Black women... and one that fantasizes Black women
And that is truly One Battle After Another
we saw two different movies... and that's okay
we also live in two very different Americas and that's less okay
one that knows Black women... and one that fantasizes Black women
And that is truly One Battle After Another
January 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
see...
we saw two different movies... and that's okay
we also live in two very different Americas and that's less okay
one that knows Black women... and one that fantasizes Black women
And that is truly One Battle After Another
we saw two different movies... and that's okay
we also live in two very different Americas and that's less okay
one that knows Black women... and one that fantasizes Black women
And that is truly One Battle After Another
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What’s funny about the Oscar race this year is the CHUDs are mad at One Battle After Another because it’s “woke” and makes fun of white supremacists but they can’t derail it from winning everything because then the big winner would be SINNERS which is woker and makes more fun of white supremacists
January 23, 2026 at 1:53 AM
What’s funny about the Oscar race this year is the CHUDs are mad at One Battle After Another because it’s “woke” and makes fun of white supremacists but they can’t derail it from winning everything because then the big winner would be SINNERS which is woker and makes more fun of white supremacists
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“Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.”
It's always the same hallucination across time and space and in whatever country the mushroom grows in. Extremely weird.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:31 AM
“Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.”
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Straight to video Paul Verhoeven knock off ass logo.
Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Straight to video Paul Verhoeven knock off ass logo.
Today in ChatGPT can’t do my job: I tracked down library references for a list that was handwritten sometime between 1870-1881 from a four letter abbreviation in an unpublished spreadsheet and fixed two instances of link rot pertaining to said list. Now I just need to get a copy of the list.
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today in ChatGPT can’t do my job: I tracked down library references for a list that was handwritten sometime between 1870-1881 from a four letter abbreviation in an unpublished spreadsheet and fixed two instances of link rot pertaining to said list. Now I just need to get a copy of the list.
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X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew
January 22, 2026 at 4:29 AM
X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew
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Denmark should send military observers to Minnesota
January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Denmark should send military observers to Minnesota
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He needs It to not happen every second of every day, but we only need It to happen once
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM
He needs It to not happen every second of every day, but we only need It to happen once
If you all need a historian you let me know. I have an ankle length North Face puffy jacket ready to go.
It's that time of year again: we're looking for our next Antarctic team!
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
If you can imagine a job that’s needed to keep a small, remote community safe and running, we have it.
Escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica ⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 PM
If you all need a historian you let me know. I have an ankle length North Face puffy jacket ready to go.
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Here’s a calico cat smelling a sunflower to break up your timeline.
January 20, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Here’s a calico cat smelling a sunflower to break up your timeline.