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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch

@troynovaunt.bsky.social

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she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · May 22

Immigration is good, actually.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3h

You’re very welcome!

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, I definitely read it in small doses

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Literal

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Third Reich of Dreams

“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state—or is worried they’re about to find out.”—Zadie Smith,...

press.princeton.edu

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 5h

I’m only two chapters in but appreciating it so far. It’s surprisingly easy to read and short.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway back to reading this book about nightmares people were having in 1933 Berlin I guess

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 17h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16h

German Buchhandelsgeschichte - English speaking #bookhistory - French style Histoire du livre

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 15h

How’s that going? Jury’s still out on the group chats.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

That was a good hyperfocus. Sadly my hyperfocus is now…I dunno, trying to keep various institutions from self-destructing through the power of group chats? It’s bleak.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I have GOT to get back to cooking, I cannot afford to eat like this

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

What the hell, I have ice cream too, lfg

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Resetting my “days without an emotional support hamburger” counter back to zero, I’m afraid

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1d

O Brother with Sinners fresh in your mind: wow

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway it got really quiet. It was bleak. Then we started talking about organizing so there is that? Hey please join @aaup.org folks.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Resetting my “days without an emotional support hamburger” counter back to zero, I’m afraid

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 1d

Sorry but you actually can’t hold me accountable because the computer did all that bad stuff. Unrelated, the computer is now alive.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 2d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"meme" is short for memento mori

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 2d

Coming soon to a law review, "The Originalist Defense of Tyranny"

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jam @socialistboat.dad · Jul 6

proprioception was a mistake. why should I know where my limbs happen to be at any given time. how is that any of my business

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 2d

God's daisy chain

A NASA.gov picture of deep space galaxies. Stars everywhere, swirling clouds of gas rendered in stirring deep reds and lilac purples

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I see a post about Young Sheldon I think about this

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · Mar 6

Most people don’t know this, but Sheldon is actually the New Sun

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Mar 6

It’s Young Sheldon but older than Young Sheldon while not being as old as regular Sheldon and much less old than Old Sheldon, if you want a slightly older Sheldon to Regular Sheldon you have to watch Young Old Sheldon! Not Older Young Sheldon! What don’t you people get?!?!

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Also you know Madeleine Bassett would clean up on instagram

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2d

Yesssss