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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

I had an email today from “miss Tatiana oligarch” wanting to discuss a business opportunity. Honestly, that’s just phoning it in.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 8d

Sublime.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 10d

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 10d

The Latin word for dad joke is laughterfamilias.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 10d

a man with a mustache is smoking a cigarette and the word sublime is written on the screen .

ALT: a man with a mustache is smoking a cigarette and the word sublime is written on the screen .

media.tenor.com

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 12d

Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

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Publication – « A Companion to Byzantine Law. From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) », éd. Eleftheria Papagianni, Daphne Penna

The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern tradit…

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12d

Here’s how I sometimes start a new project.

First I buy a fancy new notebook.

Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page.

Third I never look at it again.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 13d

#AncientLaw - early November. Good line-up.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 13d

Such a sad end to Big Bird.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 14d

A justification is NEVER needed. Just saying.

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15d

A rush-through. Like a drive-through, but faster.

Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 15d

Well done! 👏

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 16d

Is HC ResearchGate?

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Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social · 19d

Preach it from the hilltops.

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 19d

Seriously peer-reviewers, this is not 19th century and we are (I hope!) no longer publishing in Mitteilungen der Akademie für Geschichte der Gelehrtengesellschaft Göttingen. Let people actually submit writing that others want to read and stop policing "academic style".