Antonia Eliason
@antoniaeliason.bsky.social
Law prof, international law, climate change, trade and space law scholar, occasional speculative fiction writer, history PhD candidate writing about women sentenced for political crimes in Stalinist Hungary.
AI is cooked. I'd been using it to create decent (minor edits required) PowerPoints from lecture notes, saving me hours. In the last month, ChatGPT5 stopped being able to do this accurately. It keeps extrapolating to what it thinks I should be covering. It's now mostly useless for this task.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
AI is cooked. I'd been using it to create decent (minor edits required) PowerPoints from lecture notes, saving me hours. In the last month, ChatGPT5 stopped being able to do this accurately. It keeps extrapolating to what it thinks I should be covering. It's now mostly useless for this task.
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
My mother is a lapsed Catholic. Her views on the Catholic church began changing with Pope Francis. Pope Leo's liberation theology speaks to the Christian faith that my ex-protestant atheist Dad has always espoused - what Jesus said is not what many so-called Christians today uphold.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My mother is a lapsed Catholic. Her views on the Catholic church began changing with Pope Francis. Pope Leo's liberation theology speaks to the Christian faith that my ex-protestant atheist Dad has always espoused - what Jesus said is not what many so-called Christians today uphold.
I feel like this video cut off far too soon. Where was the comically large anvil?
I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I feel like this video cut off far too soon. Where was the comically large anvil?
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Between these developments and Gaza, I fear that my 13-week seminar next semester on the Law of the Use of Military Force will have to be reduced to 20 minutes or so. Either that or I add "The History of" at the start of the course heading.
War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
The stance deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
The stance deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Between these developments and Gaza, I fear that my 13-week seminar next semester on the Law of the Use of Military Force will have to be reduced to 20 minutes or so. Either that or I add "The History of" at the start of the course heading.
That is quite the account.
You don’t get naturalists like the Very Reverend William Buckland (1784-1856) any more.
At least, I certainly hope not.
(Via everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-fun-is...)
At least, I certainly hope not.
(Via everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-fun-is...)
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
That is quite the account.
My favorite sitcom of all time is Fawlty Towers. It's the ultimate show about incompetence. Deeply uncomfortable to watch, but incredibly funny.
Prunella Scales made the show. She rose above the discomfort and awkwardness to become a sort of anti-heroine who you often sympathize with.
Prunella Scales made the show. She rose above the discomfort and awkwardness to become a sort of anti-heroine who you often sympathize with.
Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93
Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
My favorite sitcom of all time is Fawlty Towers. It's the ultimate show about incompetence. Deeply uncomfortable to watch, but incredibly funny.
Prunella Scales made the show. She rose above the discomfort and awkwardness to become a sort of anti-heroine who you often sympathize with.
Prunella Scales made the show. She rose above the discomfort and awkwardness to become a sort of anti-heroine who you often sympathize with.
All older women are aunties in Hungarian culture. As is the case in many cultures. In Hungary, it is disrespectful not to call a woman or man 10+ years older than you Auntie or Uncle. And when you become an adult, you will continue to call them that unless they insist otherwise and even then...
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
All older women are aunties in Hungarian culture. As is the case in many cultures. In Hungary, it is disrespectful not to call a woman or man 10+ years older than you Auntie or Uncle. And when you become an adult, you will continue to call them that unless they insist otherwise and even then...
My intl law class is centered around the question: whose intl law is it? I teach the Haitian constitutions of 1801 & 1804, because they fought for freedom in a way that set the path for the rest of the colonized world. The idea that there's something bad about Mamdani highlighting this is ridiculous
The University of Michigan has turned out odious right-wing bozos like Ben Carson, Tom Price, and Jeremy Peters but I don't remember any New York Times articles wondering if the school is indoctrinating students because the NYT only pretends that's a thing when it suits their agenda.
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My intl law class is centered around the question: whose intl law is it? I teach the Haitian constitutions of 1801 & 1804, because they fought for freedom in a way that set the path for the rest of the colonized world. The idea that there's something bad about Mamdani highlighting this is ridiculous
In centuries past, this would have meant Holy War.
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
In centuries past, this would have meant Holy War.
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
I think about how City Museum in St. Louis has cornices and other architectural features from demolished Chicago buildings. You can demo without destroying everything. As an Art Deco lover, this breaks my heart.
I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I think about how City Museum in St. Louis has cornices and other architectural features from demolished Chicago buildings. You can demo without destroying everything. As an Art Deco lover, this breaks my heart.
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year
Glad this is getting media attention.
I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Glad this is getting media attention.
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
This picture hit me because my mother in law is an Anglican minister who I have seen in a collar many times, and because I know that the Christian faith does not tell us to do what our government is doing.
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This picture hit me because my mother in law is an Anglican minister who I have seen in a collar many times, and because I know that the Christian faith does not tell us to do what our government is doing.
I am so sad to have simultaneously learned about these incredible Kris Kringle outfits and also that they have been replaced with more boring robes.
October 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I am so sad to have simultaneously learned about these incredible Kris Kringle outfits and also that they have been replaced with more boring robes.
Cats are such a gift. Living with little wild creatures that self domesticated but only on their own terms is such an amazingly ancient human tradition.
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Cats are such a gift. Living with little wild creatures that self domesticated but only on their own terms is such an amazingly ancient human tradition.
My newest tattoo. Added to my recent Bartók tattoo is Ditta Pásztory, his wife. My piano teacher when I lived in Japan as a teen was Erzsébet Tusa, who performed a lot of Bartók with his widow, Ditta. Erzsébetnéni was an incredible interpreter of Bartók so my connection to Bartók is through Ditta.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My newest tattoo. Added to my recent Bartók tattoo is Ditta Pásztory, his wife. My piano teacher when I lived in Japan as a teen was Erzsébet Tusa, who performed a lot of Bartók with his widow, Ditta. Erzsébetnéni was an incredible interpreter of Bartók so my connection to Bartók is through Ditta.
D. Definitely D.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
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September 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
D. Definitely D.
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I found out that the Detroit Nuggets hired a witch to put a hex on their opposing teams in the 1970s and I am obsessed with the photos
(thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for making me aware of this)
(thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for making me aware of this)
September 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I found out that the Detroit Nuggets hired a witch to put a hex on their opposing teams in the 1970s and I am obsessed with the photos
(thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for making me aware of this)
(thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for making me aware of this)
I have told my son this mantra every first day of school since Pre-K and I think this is the best advice I've ever come up with. Whatever you do,
Be kind.
Be compassionate.
Be smart. And
Be brave.
My husband's life philosophy is don't be a dick. It's the same advice.
Be kind.
Be compassionate.
Be smart. And
Be brave.
My husband's life philosophy is don't be a dick. It's the same advice.
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I have told my son this mantra every first day of school since Pre-K and I think this is the best advice I've ever come up with. Whatever you do,
Be kind.
Be compassionate.
Be smart. And
Be brave.
My husband's life philosophy is don't be a dick. It's the same advice.
Be kind.
Be compassionate.
Be smart. And
Be brave.
My husband's life philosophy is don't be a dick. It's the same advice.
A little bit about my story, "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf" in the amazing anthology, Fracture Reveries. Childhood images shaped this. storiedimaginarium.substack.com/p/the-girl-w...
"The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf" by Antonia Eliason
Fractured Reveries: Inspiration + an Excerpt
storiedimaginarium.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A little bit about my story, "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf" in the amazing anthology, Fracture Reveries. Childhood images shaped this. storiedimaginarium.substack.com/p/the-girl-w...