From now on, we call it "hockey" and "men's hockey."
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From now on, we call it "hockey" and "men's hockey."
Screencap of post from tumblr user nitewrighter Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
tradcaths are like "why is the pope doing this" as if there aren't very famous examples of jesus christ meeting with people considered to be sinners or societal outcasts (e.g. matthew the tax collector) www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/14/p...
By banning “race or gender ideology“ in class, Texas A&M is actually imposing race and gender ideology by the white, hetero power structure. (NYT gift link)
Yes, or something the Victorians made up.
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
“AI” is not simply creating a cognitive crisis in learners; it’s also failing to deliver on its own terms (pedagogical “efficiency”) bc it demands that those still committed to educational quality devise nonsensical workarounds, turning our classrooms into bizarre Rube Goldberg learning machines.
"You trust the GOVERNMENT more than the free market?" Bitch I trust Henry Lee Lucas more than I trust the free market. The free market exists to crush the working class and beak-feed the mewling ruling class. The solution to this problem is socialized medicine, which is Good, Actually 3/3
Few things give me a chuckle these days, but the little drawing of the sword and dagger on this report of (one of) Caravaggio's arrest(s) is positively delightful.
No war but the class war.
Get thee to a nunnery ✝️
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Assyriologist: Du[ring] grad sch[ool] I [took?] a position ... [13 lines illegible] ... now.
This post started as a PSA but then I remembered that we live in capitalism and that for many of us, burnout warnings boil down to "drowning is really serious so make sure you don't get tired treading all that water."
And as other people said, the expectation itself is not gate-keeping, the expectation with no on-ramp for people not born with the systemic advantages almost always required for someone to succeed given current structures (e.g. access to languages at HS and UG, resources to do bridge programs, etc.)
1. How we teach and assess the knowledge of the classical languages *is* intentionally made more difficult (and therefore gatekeepy)
2. The lack of a living community of native speakers means that there are far fewer high quality resources for students to learn from, especially intermediate texts
Our sixth annual list of books by historians working off the tenure track.
Same with high school teaching.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading Orlando by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, holding The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading A Room Of Ones Own by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading The Bell Jar.
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
New post this week on Asturica Augusta (modern Astorga, Spain), the first of two parts on the city. Pictured, the medieval walls of the city built on the foundations of the Roman wall circuit.
www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...
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Fantastic news!
Has anyone done a deep dive into the epigraphy of Assassin's Creed Valhalla? Because I have become totally sidetracked by staring at all of the Roman inscriptions. And they are real!
Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean with the caption "The code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules."
The amount of my teaching personality that is just repeating over and over to students that things are "more like guidelines than actual rules" with Geoffrey Rush's voice in my head is...substantial.
Always love when my 9th grade students ask if there are any Latin curse words. Oh, my sweet summer child...
