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Will Hanley
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Settler. Middle East history #fsu #digitalHumanities #legalHistory #tallahassee #cycling #running #wikidata

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WikiFlix is Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting. Who doesn't love free entertainment?

https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 PM
whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
كلنا خالد سعيد
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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A small Friday-evening project came to fruition. Analysing data on the dimensions of Arabic periodicals from #wikidata, a quick and simple plot allows for a number of observations: Firstly, newspapers and magazines are of different sizes and the former […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]
A boxplot of page heights along a temporal axis for Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Each periodical is recorded with its first year of publication and a single measure. In the cases where Wikidata returned multiple measures, these were averaged into a single data point. The plot divides the data set into newspapers (blue) and magazines (red) based on an explicit classification provided by Wikidata.
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Excited to see that #grokipedia has conjured an entry on a certain "Will Hanley" who's a combination of me and a professional basketball player with the same name. What a versatile guy! https://grokipedia.com/page/will_hanley
Will Hanley
Will Hanley is a legal and social historian specializing in the Middle East, particularly the history of international law and its development in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an associate professor of history at Florida State University, where he has taught for over 15 years, Hanley focuses his scholarship on overlooked regional contributions to global legal frameworks, including projects centered on Cairo's role from the 1890s to the 1930s. His work integrates...
grokipedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Really pleased that #mesa and #AAUP are zealously defending academic freedom. Assertiveness gets results--assuming this proposal becomes an order. Awful that it is members-only, though. Sorry that #aha and other societies did not join the action […]
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January 16, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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https://www.fsunews.com/story/news/2026/01/14/faculty-slam-bog-regulations-for-corefsu-as-censorship/88107026007/
‘This is censorship’: BOG regulations for CoreFSU cause controversy
What are the 2025 CoreFSU regulations set by BOG, and how do they affect FSU students?
www.fsunews.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Think we should make a #wikipedia category called Kidnappings of Heads of State? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Lebanon%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_dispute
2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Silly find of the day: they're no fools in Constantinople.
Scottish Cured Herrings and other Fish Difficult to increase demand for
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Anyone reading this news who has previously read a book about history--any book really--ought to say hmmm... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/barnard-faculty-eeoc-text-jewish.html
April 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Signing up for a trail race in England, I see a new version of the ethnicity dropdown menu. Fascinating variants of an arbitrary schema.
Ethnicity Choose one option that best describes your ethnic group or background. IF Other, Please Describe: White English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British White Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller E Other White Background * Einerdeney Contact Namd White and Black Caribbean White and Black African * Emergency Contact Telephone: White and Asian Medical Conditions: Other Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Background Indian Medication: Pakistani [ Bangladeshi Chinese Other Asian Background Di¢ African . i Caribbean Do youhave any Dietary Requirement=g Other Black/African/Caribbean Background Arab De Other Ethnic Group Prefer not to say THERE IS NO VETTING - this just helps us understana our competitors.
April 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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News has just reached us, way out here in the provinces, of the Matthew Connelly/Gary Wilder/Columbia boycott controversy. They're counting angels on the head of a pin. Some of us could have benefited from that performative solidarity energy half a decade ago...

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April 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Quakers are definitely the problem. As usual.

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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MJ Lenderman's "Rudolph" video is to America
as
PJ Harvey's "Let England Shake" video is to England?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QevZ5z9Cq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Qlb0qFLFE

#pjharvey #mjlenderman
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM