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Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
Could live both más and free
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
Could live both más and free
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
Could live both más and free
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
Could live both más and free
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From the Archives: "Moby-Dick does not care about our expectations of what it is, what its story is, what a 19th Century novel is, maybe even what a novel is."
culturalgutter.com/2021/04/15/r...
culturalgutter.com/2021/04/15/r...
Rolling in the Deep with Moby-Dick
This month at The Cultural Gutter is Switcheroo Month. Traditionally the editors write something outside of their usual domains. This time, though, we are faced with a domainless Gutter. And so thi…
culturalgutter.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
From the Archives: "Moby-Dick does not care about our expectations of what it is, what its story is, what a 19th Century novel is, maybe even what a novel is."
culturalgutter.com/2021/04/15/r...
culturalgutter.com/2021/04/15/r...
I have a feeling that once this kid masters reading I'm never going to see her again. She's just always going to have her nose in a book.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I have a feeling that once this kid masters reading I'm never going to see her again. She's just always going to have her nose in a book.
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
5yo: I learned a secret from the skeletons.
Absolutely no one:
5yo: I learned a secret from the skeletons.
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
5yo: I learned a secret from the skeletons.
Absolutely no one:
5yo: I learned a secret from the skeletons.
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“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
Sometimes I just buy things that make me smile. Now I own a marinated herring box.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sometimes I just buy things that make me smile. Now I own a marinated herring box.
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Fondly remembering this @theonion.com classic
Gaywads, Dorkwads Sign Historic Wad Accord
ROCKVILLE, MD—In a historic show of wad solidarity, delegates representing gaywads and dorkwads signed the first-ever Wad Alliance Treaty Monday in the cafeteria of Adlai Stevenson Memorial High Schoo...
theonion.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Fondly remembering this @theonion.com classic
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combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I should be working on my research, but did you know that the memes today are really top notch?
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I should be working on my research, but did you know that the memes today are really top notch?
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The problem with elite institutions has never been leftists or wokeness or the coddling of the American mind or whatever other asinine thing conservatives drone on about. The problem with elite institutions has always been powerful, wealthy, elite people.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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traveling back in time to visit an 18-year-old version of myself and she asks "do we work for the new york times now" and I just quietly hop back in my time machine
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
traveling back in time to visit an 18-year-old version of myself and she asks "do we work for the new york times now" and I just quietly hop back in my time machine
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my politics are that i just want a world where there are no 17 year olds desperate enough to let Matt Gaetz exploit them
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
my politics are that i just want a world where there are no 17 year olds desperate enough to let Matt Gaetz exploit them
Econobros are triumphalist modernists...their models need to explain the world that is perpetually being created ex nihilo, that cannot care for the past because that past can show alternatives - possible worlds that have existed or that could exist in the future.
it is exceptionally fun to stumble onto a discourse about "the dark ages are real" discourse by 2 dudes, both historians, who are neither of them medievalists
both are, you'll be shocked, military and political historians
anyway, just gonna post this until the heat death of the universe i guess
both are, you'll be shocked, military and political historians
anyway, just gonna post this until the heat death of the universe i guess
You Gotta Do the Reading, Man
Why does the idea of the "Dark Ages" mean so much to econobros?
buttondown.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Econobros are triumphalist modernists...their models need to explain the world that is perpetually being created ex nihilo, that cannot care for the past because that past can show alternatives - possible worlds that have existed or that could exist in the future.
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downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
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everyone interested in the fate of American higher education should read former UVA president Jim Ryan's letter rehearsing the intense pressure placed on him to resign last summer
it offers a precious glimpse not only on DOJ's assault on higher ed, but the readiness of many other stakeholders
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it offers a precious glimpse not only on DOJ's assault on higher ed, but the readiness of many other stakeholders
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
everyone interested in the fate of American higher education should read former UVA president Jim Ryan's letter rehearsing the intense pressure placed on him to resign last summer
it offers a precious glimpse not only on DOJ's assault on higher ed, but the readiness of many other stakeholders
1/
it offers a precious glimpse not only on DOJ's assault on higher ed, but the readiness of many other stakeholders
1/
My mother today learned about opera nomads (i.e. people who travel around to see operas in different locations) and now she wants to be one.
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My mother today learned about opera nomads (i.e. people who travel around to see operas in different locations) and now she wants to be one.
Lol. LMAO.
(Seriously he's a sex pest and probably a r*pist and that whole family needs to go away, but the dissolution of this bit of right wing cope is hilarious)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
(Seriously he's a sex pest and probably a r*pist and that whole family needs to go away, but the dissolution of this bit of right wing cope is hilarious)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Jeffrey Epstein Said Bill Clinton Was ‘Never On the Island’ In Newly Released Emails
Dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein said former President Bill Clinton "never" visited his so-called "Epstein Island," according to newly released emails
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Lol. LMAO.
(Seriously he's a sex pest and probably a r*pist and that whole family needs to go away, but the dissolution of this bit of right wing cope is hilarious)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
(Seriously he's a sex pest and probably a r*pist and that whole family needs to go away, but the dissolution of this bit of right wing cope is hilarious)
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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The American government removed 2 monuments to Black American Soldiers in the Netherlands. Now the *Dutch* government is demanding they be returned.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed
Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The American government removed 2 monuments to Black American Soldiers in the Netherlands. Now the *Dutch* government is demanding they be returned.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Nostalgic for a time when my knowledge of the mechanisms of totalitarian governments was as useful to my daily life as my knowledge of the three field system if farming.
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Nostalgic for a time when my knowledge of the mechanisms of totalitarian governments was as useful to my daily life as my knowledge of the three field system if farming.
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For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology.
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer
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I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful".
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra
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