@getmedieval.bsky.social
Books, games, food, travel on repeat. Professor and author. Cat lady.
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And Trump’s administration asks what Denmark has done for Greenland. Well, Trump, what are you doing for North Carolina?
April 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
And Trump’s administration asks what Denmark has done for Greenland. Well, Trump, what are you doing for North Carolina?
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I think what amazes me most about this budgetary tight-fistedness is the way that, at the end of the day, it saves absolutely nothing on the bottom line
all these cuts and there's nothing but MORE red ink to show, because they're not actually "efficient," they're just *cheap*
all these cuts and there's nothing but MORE red ink to show, because they're not actually "efficient," they're just *cheap*
Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
ncnewsline.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I think what amazes me most about this budgetary tight-fistedness is the way that, at the end of the day, it saves absolutely nothing on the bottom line
all these cuts and there's nothing but MORE red ink to show, because they're not actually "efficient," they're just *cheap*
all these cuts and there's nothing but MORE red ink to show, because they're not actually "efficient," they're just *cheap*
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Stop scolding them about the TYPE of information they disclosed - start asking why they went offline with it - start asking them what else they are hiding from the public.
“What else are you back channeling?”
“What else are you back channeling?”
Warner: And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can't talk about it here. You can't have it both ways.
March 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Stop scolding them about the TYPE of information they disclosed - start asking why they went offline with it - start asking them what else they are hiding from the public.
“What else are you back channeling?”
“What else are you back channeling?”
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Was waiting to see what she thought.
March 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Was waiting to see what she thought.
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Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
March 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
Please help keep a progressive, inclusive Quaker college (in the South!) alive… we need places like this to survive. Donate anything you can to help! give.guilford.edu/campaigns/58...
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Please help keep a progressive, inclusive Quaker college (in the South!) alive… we need places like this to survive. Donate anything you can to help! give.guilford.edu/campaigns/58...
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Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Do you know how hard it is to anger Canadians?!?
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A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.
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What a wonderful idea…👇
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
March 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What a wonderful idea…👇
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
Let’s. Do. This. ✨
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You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
March 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
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Tonight is the best nights Beijing and Moscow has had in 30 years
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Tonight is the best nights Beijing and Moscow has had in 30 years
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This looks amazing! All my monster peeps should order Davies’ gorgeous new book
#HAMH
#HAMH
Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!
Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...
buttondown.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This looks amazing! All my monster peeps should order Davies’ gorgeous new book
#HAMH
#HAMH
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When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?
February 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?
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Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?
youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...
youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...
Where Are Our Leaders
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?
youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...
youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...
A fluffy cat to cheer you on this week
February 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A fluffy cat to cheer you on this week
Limoncello done just in time… practicing small victories to stay sane during the longest January ever
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Limoncello done just in time… practicing small victories to stay sane during the longest January ever
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Welcome to the Rebellion, Quakers! www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Welcome to the Rebellion, Quakers! www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Begging grown adults to read Jorge Luis Borges's fantastic short story "The Library of Babel" whenever they think GenAI is being useful
yeah ill bang this drum as many times as i need to, everything produced by generative ai is a "hallucination." Accuracy is a coincidence
i’m very open to ChatGPT having some utility. but a few times for If Books Could Kill i’ve asked ChatGPT to aggregate existing sources of criticism for a book. what it produces are without fail almost entirely hallucinations. and not just one, i mean lists of 5-6 articles that do not exist.
January 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Begging grown adults to read Jorge Luis Borges's fantastic short story "The Library of Babel" whenever they think GenAI is being useful
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“Grand Theft Hamlet” is notionally a documentary, but you can think of it “more as a crucible in which the solid forms of film, theatre, and video games have been stirred until they melt,” Anthony Lane writes.
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
A film about a performance of “Hamlet” within the world of Grand Theft Auto suggests that the moral environment of revenge tragedy is not far from that of video games.
www.newyorker.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Grand Theft Hamlet” is notionally a documentary, but you can think of it “more as a crucible in which the solid forms of film, theatre, and video games have been stirred until they melt,” Anthony Lane writes.
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Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.