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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 3h

An absolutely wild thread – well worth a read

Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12h

An underreported part of US campus repression post-2023 was the pivot to making “[IDF] military veteran” a protected class coterminous with “[pro-occupation Israeli/Jew]”. Students protesting the Gaza war were charged with *discrimination based on veteran status*. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who questions your prerogative to tell your little stories is participating in a betrayal on levels that no one’s ever seen

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 10h

I am really struck by this idea that criticizing someone’s scholarship amounts to suppressing their voice/preventing them from creating a name for themselves. I shouldn’t be surprised that that is what people think is the main purpose of historical scholarship, and yet

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 10h

I am at my wit's end for how to react to AI evangelism from people I truly admire in contexts where a mocking response would be inappropriate, but it's also clear that a conversation is not being invited because we each made up our minds ages ago and no longer inhabit the same information ecosystem

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13h

Philologist / archaeologist/ historian

We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 16h

Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13h

So, I guess, no.. is being my answer

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 13h

I enjoy reading about other people's work and writing, but I cannot relate to the people who say social media has made them better writers and thinkers, or helped them meet people. Wish I could say that! I can only do all those things (writing, thinking, meeting people) when I am not on here.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 2d

I am certain that if Zohran Mamdani had been accused of saying “these people and their fucking tree houses” about Jews and Sukkot Tablet’s response would decidedly not be, “Whether he said it or not, it’s an iconic addition to our Sukkot meme repertoire.”

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 3d

obligatory unboxing photos of *Mississippi Law* author copies from @uncpress.bsky.social! and check out the GENEROUS blurbs from Jane Dailey, Françoise Hamlin, Walter Johnson, and Jason Ward. they put a smile on my face. uncpress.org/978146968948...

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to a @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Culture, Engagement, & Community grant, I'm able to expand the "Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab" public zine distro's capacity (aka my tired zine-assembling hands), so our public racks of free zines should stay fuller + w/a wider rotation of zines 📚✨

Graphic showing a tall wire grid rack full of colorful zines attached with clothespins, then the same rack again with different zines and sometimes depleted as folks take zines before the rack is refilled. A wire bookshelf holding more zines is also pictured, next to the caption "(Added a second zine rack Spring 2025 to help keep them from emptying as fast)"

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 4d

Once I figure out how to take notes on articles as soon as I read them and not 5-8 weeks later, it's over for all you bitches

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, that's a very active AMA! Great questions and great answers all around

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4d

Fun word fact is that φοῖνιξ (phoinix)—meaning reddish-purple in Greek—is the basis for Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 and the word Phoenicians (the city of Tyre made some gorgeous purple, y’all). I’m fun at cocktail parties!

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5d

Star-shaped tile with a phoenix and stylized flower spray

Kashan, c. 1250 - c. 1324

(Rijksmuseum)

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, why indeed, signed, a fellow Cavalier

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 6d

I must ask you to never stop. Feed on the despair of lesser mortals

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 6d

Getting old is basically repeatedly asking “wait, HOW old was [x] fictional character that we were supposed to interpret as decrepit and basically on the threshold of death,” and the answer is usually, like, 45

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 6d

And of course it is. There is a dorm there named after him too

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 6d

Oh dear lord. I just googled him.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police

The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

www.bbc.com

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 7d

Can you die from writer’s block? Asking for a friend.

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 7d

Reading book acknowledgments for books published since 2020 always hit different because of the baseline of horror and depression that authors report having to fight to claw their book into existence.

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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 7d

come for the book on magic, stay for the real sorcery — copyright law that can destroy your most innocent desires

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 7d

i didn't get to include the epigraph i wanted but i really wanted y'all to know that i'd picked the following from terry pratchett's _the wee free men_: "it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done." (a good choice, right? but alas, permissions.)

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 7d

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.

so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

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