Melissa W
@melissarw.bsky.social
Academic editor in Bavaria. Faulpelz extraordinaire. Medievalist in training. Vermonter. President of the Saif Ali Khan Fan Club.
I like a lot of things about Germany, but the fireworks obsession is *not* one of them. It's 10pm and our entire building is shaking from what sounds like actual bombs going off just a few feet away. The fact that people setting off fireworks in residential areas aren't arrested is insane to me.
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I like a lot of things about Germany, but the fireworks obsession is *not* one of them. It's 10pm and our entire building is shaking from what sounds like actual bombs going off just a few feet away. The fact that people setting off fireworks in residential areas aren't arrested is insane to me.
Or, and hear me out, we could make having an MBA absolutely disqualifying for anyone who wants to get within a mile of academia.
Universities shouldn't even have business schools. Go do an apprenticeship if you want to learn how to run a business.
Universities shouldn't even have business schools. Go do an apprenticeship if you want to learn how to run a business.
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Or, and hear me out, we could make having an MBA absolutely disqualifying for anyone who wants to get within a mile of academia.
Universities shouldn't even have business schools. Go do an apprenticeship if you want to learn how to run a business.
Universities shouldn't even have business schools. Go do an apprenticeship if you want to learn how to run a business.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
Homebound was tremendously good — available now on Netflix and absolutely worth your time. The entire cast (even Janhvi) impressed me to no end. Ishaan is such a presence.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Homebound was tremendously good — available now on Netflix and absolutely worth your time. The entire cast (even Janhvi) impressed me to no end. Ishaan is such a presence.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Ended the day watching a lone man row across the absolutely silent lake. What a beautiful day to be alive in the world.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Ended the day watching a lone man row across the absolutely silent lake. What a beautiful day to be alive in the world.
Karlstein or a little German hobbit village?
Either way it's an incredibly charming little place :)
Either way it's an incredibly charming little place :)
October 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Karlstein or a little German hobbit village?
Either way it's an incredibly charming little place :)
Either way it's an incredibly charming little place :)
Thumsee was showing off for us last weekend — I'm so grateful to have this beautiful lake in my backyard
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Thumsee was showing off for us last weekend — I'm so grateful to have this beautiful lake in my backyard
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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
Just started reading Yellowface (yes I live several years behind everyone else) and in the movie that plays in my head whenever I read something Athena is played by Gemma Chan. And then I learned that Gemma Chan is the same age as me, which I refuse to believe as she appears to be an ethereal 27.
September 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just started reading Yellowface (yes I live several years behind everyone else) and in the movie that plays in my head whenever I read something Athena is played by Gemma Chan. And then I learned that Gemma Chan is the same age as me, which I refuse to believe as she appears to be an ethereal 27.
We also saw this lovely couple celebrating their wedding. What a gorgeous spot for a photo!
September 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We also saw this lovely couple celebrating their wedding. What a gorgeous spot for a photo!
We've lived in Berchtesgaden Land for over five years and somehow only made it to Ramsau last weekend. Churches and hiking and more churches.
September 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We've lived in Berchtesgaden Land for over five years and somehow only made it to Ramsau last weekend. Churches and hiking and more churches.
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Tag yourself. I'm ARIZONA (the one in Idaho).
(If you decide to claim NONTИ CAROLINA for yourself, please be specific.)
(If you decide to claim NONTИ CAROLINA for yourself, please be specific.)
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Tag yourself. I'm ARIZONA (the one in Idaho).
(If you decide to claim NONTИ CAROLINA for yourself, please be specific.)
(If you decide to claim NONTИ CAROLINA for yourself, please be specific.)
Suffered through #MyOxfordYear bc I'm a sucker for the architecture and dear lord was it ever the worst kind of badly written, totally unbelievable slop. Terrible acting and *terrible* attention to detail (surely no one's reading Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Oxford English MSt 1830-1914 strand!).
August 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Suffered through #MyOxfordYear bc I'm a sucker for the architecture and dear lord was it ever the worst kind of badly written, totally unbelievable slop. Terrible acting and *terrible* attention to detail (surely no one's reading Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Oxford English MSt 1830-1914 strand!).
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I got mad and I wrote about it.
The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic'
It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I got mad and I wrote about it.
I once took a 6am flight from Dublin to Madrid where the sole passengers waiting to board were me, the friend I was traveling with, and Jason Isaacs. I awkwardly stared at the back of his head for most of the flight.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I once took a 6am flight from Dublin to Madrid where the sole passengers waiting to board were me, the friend I was traveling with, and Jason Isaacs. I awkwardly stared at the back of his head for most of the flight.
Hate when there's hot goss about someone's bad behavior on academic twitter and everything's been deleted and everyone's just hinting around the edges all day.
I'm nosy and I want to know! Don't tease us with vague-posting 👀
I'm nosy and I want to know! Don't tease us with vague-posting 👀
June 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Hate when there's hot goss about someone's bad behavior on academic twitter and everything's been deleted and everyone's just hinting around the edges all day.
I'm nosy and I want to know! Don't tease us with vague-posting 👀
I'm nosy and I want to know! Don't tease us with vague-posting 👀
Saw "The Critic" at our cute little theater yesterday — I don't think the trailers adequately prepared us for this movie. Ian McKellen was absolutely mad, in all the best possible ways.
April 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Saw "The Critic" at our cute little theater yesterday — I don't think the trailers adequately prepared us for this movie. Ian McKellen was absolutely mad, in all the best possible ways.
Beautiful day — had a little walk, got some snackies, and Brett bought me TWO books ❤️ Just in time for a week of rain
April 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Beautiful day — had a little walk, got some snackies, and Brett bought me TWO books ❤️ Just in time for a week of rain
Enjoyed a gloriously beautiful weekend in Berchtesgadener Land — we've been here five years and I still can't believe all this is just outside our door
April 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Enjoyed a gloriously beautiful weekend in Berchtesgadener Land — we've been here five years and I still can't believe all this is just outside our door
Cool, yeah, the world is burning down, let's add some more shit to the fire.
@hurleytennis.bsky.social look how they massacred our boy
@hurleytennis.bsky.social look how they massacred our boy
February 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Cool, yeah, the world is burning down, let's add some more shit to the fire.
@hurleytennis.bsky.social look how they massacred our boy
@hurleytennis.bsky.social look how they massacred our boy
Stressed out girls deserve a new book as a little treat
February 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Stressed out girls deserve a new book as a little treat
We used to have proper book titles:
February 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We used to have proper book titles: