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So my latest "I need another project to pass the time in unemployment" is...
1 Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ᾽ ἀείδειν,
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Let us begin to sing of the Muses who dwell on Helicon,
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Let us begin to sing of the Muses who dwell on Helicon,
January 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
So my latest "I need another project to pass the time in unemployment" is...
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When you're paging through a MS of William of Malmesbury looking for the part on Aldhelm and you're like, There he is! William has reading Aldhelm. A lot of Aldhelm.
Magdalen College MS Lat 172, fol. 81v, from book 5 of the Gesta Pontificum.
Magdalen College MS Lat 172, fol. 81v, from book 5 of the Gesta Pontificum.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 PM
When you're paging through a MS of William of Malmesbury looking for the part on Aldhelm and you're like, There he is! William has reading Aldhelm. A lot of Aldhelm.
Magdalen College MS Lat 172, fol. 81v, from book 5 of the Gesta Pontificum.
Magdalen College MS Lat 172, fol. 81v, from book 5 of the Gesta Pontificum.
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These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.
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Tja, zoals Vondel in 1604 al zei: "Van citaeten opt Internet salmen qualijck achterhaelen connen ofse waerachtig sijn."
nos.nl/artikel/2597...
nos.nl/artikel/2597...
Rector universiteit Gent gebruikte door AI gegenereerd nep-citaat van Einstein
"Ik betreur dat ik in deze val ben gelopen, ik kan dit niet ongedaan maken. Dit is een goede les en zal het debat rond AI verder aanzwengelen", reageert rector De Sutter.
nos.nl
January 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Tja, zoals Vondel in 1604 al zei: "Van citaeten opt Internet salmen qualijck achterhaelen connen ofse waerachtig sijn."
nos.nl/artikel/2597...
nos.nl/artikel/2597...
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I had no idea so many English people went to university in Canada, @theguardian.com.
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I had no idea so many English people went to university in Canada, @theguardian.com.
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4 Jan 1581: b. James Ussher future Archbishop of #Armagh, scholar, editor of early texts, student of the early #Irish church, chronologer (calculated creation of world to 23 Oct 4004 bc) in St. Nicholas parish #Dublin #otd (Bodleian)
For his letters see
@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
edition.
For his letters see
@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
edition.
January 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
4 Jan 1581: b. James Ussher future Archbishop of #Armagh, scholar, editor of early texts, student of the early #Irish church, chronologer (calculated creation of world to 23 Oct 4004 bc) in St. Nicholas parish #Dublin #otd (Bodleian)
For his letters see
@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
edition.
For his letters see
@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social
edition.
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There are a lot of Venezuelans who hate Maduro and might have stayed quiet in response to regime change, but privatizing and stealing the patrimony of an entire nation can galvanize a very angry resistance. Trump can’t help but make himself the villain in this scenario.
Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth "goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country"
January 3, 2026 at 8:18 PM
There are a lot of Venezuelans who hate Maduro and might have stayed quiet in response to regime change, but privatizing and stealing the patrimony of an entire nation can galvanize a very angry resistance. Trump can’t help but make himself the villain in this scenario.
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Wat een literaire armoede voor de regionale auteurs in Nederland. Geen regionale recensies meer in Literom, zal denk ik vooral de Fryske literatuur schaden. @afbdijkstra.bsky.social @tresoar.bsky.social www.tzum.info/2025/12/nieu...
Nieuws: Lucas Zandberg reageert op besluit NBD Biblion om alleen Randstedelijke recensies op te nemen in de Literom - Tzum
Twee weken geleden publiceerden we een artikel over de Literom ('de beste recensies vind je in Literom') die sinds enige tijd weigert om recensies uit
www.tzum.info
January 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Wat een literaire armoede voor de regionale auteurs in Nederland. Geen regionale recensies meer in Literom, zal denk ik vooral de Fryske literatuur schaden. @afbdijkstra.bsky.social @tresoar.bsky.social www.tzum.info/2025/12/nieu...
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#BookHistory Help needed! I have trouble identifying this incunable page (back pastedown in a 1491 Cologne legal treatise, ISTC is00496000). Starting at "Non solum" seems to be a paraphrase and commentary on Decret., Lib. II, Tit. XV, cap. VII. Early provenance: Italy, c.1500.
Sharing=😘, solving=😍
Sharing=😘, solving=😍
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
#BookHistory Help needed! I have trouble identifying this incunable page (back pastedown in a 1491 Cologne legal treatise, ISTC is00496000). Starting at "Non solum" seems to be a paraphrase and commentary on Decret., Lib. II, Tit. XV, cap. VII. Early provenance: Italy, c.1500.
Sharing=😘, solving=😍
Sharing=😘, solving=😍
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For #FindsFriday the Hiddensee hoard, found in the 1870s in Neuendorf, Lkr. Vorpommern-Rügen. Scandinavian style and Christian crosses suggest a late 10th C date. The neckring is 13.5 cm, the brooch 8 cm, the cross pendants 5.1–6.9 cm. Total weight: 595.5 g pure gold. Now in Stralsund Museum.
January 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For #FindsFriday the Hiddensee hoard, found in the 1870s in Neuendorf, Lkr. Vorpommern-Rügen. Scandinavian style and Christian crosses suggest a late 10th C date. The neckring is 13.5 cm, the brooch 8 cm, the cross pendants 5.1–6.9 cm. Total weight: 595.5 g pure gold. Now in Stralsund Museum.
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Alessandra Bonvicino / Il Moretto (1527), Ritratto di gentildonna come Salomè
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Alessandra Bonvicino / Il Moretto (1527), Ritratto di gentildonna come Salomè
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
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Soms vind je boeken met een minder 'mooie' provenance.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Soms vind je boeken met een minder 'mooie' provenance.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
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File under: treasures I hadn't realized were online. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 64 Weiss. is a palimpsest with Isidore in a very challenging 8c North Italian cursive on top and, inter alia, a fragment of Ulfilas' Gothic translation of Romans below. Here's part of that section, f256r. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
File under: treasures I hadn't realized were online. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 64 Weiss. is a palimpsest with Isidore in a very challenging 8c North Italian cursive on top and, inter alia, a fragment of Ulfilas' Gothic translation of Romans below. Here's part of that section, f256r. 🧵
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it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday
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I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
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My baby is finally getting published!
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My baby is finally getting published!
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
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Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum historiek.net/muntvondst-b...
Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum
Meer dan vierduizend laat-Romeinse munten uit Buggenum tonen hoe bronsgeld in Limburg bleef circuleren terwijl het Romeinse rijk afbrokkelde. Nu te zien in Venlo.
historiek.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum historiek.net/muntvondst-b...
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1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien) www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien)
Das Institut für Geschichte und das Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Universität Wien) schreiben eine Postdoc-Position für Spätantike und Frühmittelalter für sechs Jahre ab den 1. Jul...
www.hsozkult.de
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien) www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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New from 404 Media: the Trump administration's top nuclear scientists think AI can replace humans in power plants.
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants
A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New from 404 Media: the Trump administration's top nuclear scientists think AI can replace humans in power plants.
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
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More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
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Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
Coin finds suggest that in the ninth century the northern Dutch provinces – Friesland above all, but also Noord-Holland, Groningen and Drenthe – were different not only from the rest of Francia, but a...
works.hcommons.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
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Eigenlijk is het zonde om zo'n boek te herstellen, want dan zie je die oude perkamenten stroken met tekst niet meer.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Eigenlijk is het zonde om zo'n boek te herstellen, want dan zie je die oude perkamenten stroken met tekst niet meer.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.