Mark Saltveit
@daoish.bsky.social
Medieval manuscripts, Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy,
palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c.
Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.
palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c.
Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.
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Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible job at Dartmouth
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible job at Dartmouth
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Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
Fellow Librarian | All Souls College
www.asc.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Senior Librarian role in Oxford👇 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/fellow-libra...
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just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
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I'm seeing people note that the message is the same but it's coming from a range of handles--some more plausible than others. So yeah, stay sharp, report etc.
I imagine this must work on some people, but as a phishing attempt, it's hobbled by the fact that its core claim is proven false by the very fact that I'm able to see the phishing attempt.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I'm seeing people note that the message is the same but it's coming from a range of handles--some more plausible than others. So yeah, stay sharp, report etc.
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I'll resurface what we found in the old thread where we discussed this.
1) The old URLs usually turn up if you google the shelfmark.
2) @ethiopic.bsky.social posted this link to everything archived under the base, "manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx": web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...
(cont'd next post)
1) The old URLs usually turn up if you google the shelfmark.
2) @ethiopic.bsky.social posted this link to everything archived under the base, "manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx": web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...
(cont'd next post)
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I'll resurface what we found in the old thread where we discussed this.
1) The old URLs usually turn up if you google the shelfmark.
2) @ethiopic.bsky.social posted this link to everything archived under the base, "manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx": web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...
(cont'd next post)
1) The old URLs usually turn up if you google the shelfmark.
2) @ethiopic.bsky.social posted this link to everything archived under the base, "manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx": web.archive.org/web/*/http:/...
(cont'd next post)
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Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Really enjoyed chatting with @kellyfaircloth.bsky.social about all things dirtbag medievalism, and delighted that the article is out now at Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Why are we so obsessed with the medieval right now?
From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @kellyfaircloth.bsky.social about all things dirtbag medievalism, and delighted that the article is out now at Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
"Reading is performative!" they yell, performing illiteracy.
I am so exhausted by the discourse
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Reading is performative!" they yell, performing illiteracy.
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I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
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Ellen Muehlberger,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Late Antiquity · 11/10/2025 · 1h 14m
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November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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Excited to be presenting this at my alma mater, the Universidad de Sevilla @unisevilla.bsky.social. It’s also the first time in years I present anything manuscript-related in Spanish… 🤞🏻
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Excited to be presenting this at my alma mater, the Universidad de Sevilla @unisevilla.bsky.social. It’s also the first time in years I present anything manuscript-related in Spanish… 🤞🏻
Controversial opinion: my favorite Patti Smith album in Radio Ethiopia. Fight me!
"Sometimes challenging, yet I could feel my own evolution in slow, but real time. It was painful, as though scrubbing centuries of skin, ash, debris, from an unearthed vessel coming at last into its own."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
Taking Stock: Patti Smith Looks Back on Everything
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Controversial opinion: my favorite Patti Smith album in Radio Ethiopia. Fight me!
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HSP and HSC aren't really competitors. HSC is for German-language manuscripts worldwide. HSP is primarily for manuscripts in German Collections. If you cite something, use the HSP formulation of the institution and shelfmark, not the HSC one.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
HSP and HSC aren't really competitors. HSC is for German-language manuscripts worldwide. HSP is primarily for manuscripts in German Collections. If you cite something, use the HSP formulation of the institution and shelfmark, not the HSC one.
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The Academic Research Segment
The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event…
The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event…
The Academic Research Segment
The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event taking place on 15 November 2025 from 3:30 to 6:30pm GMT. Please visit this link for further details. The participants are:
www.biblioiranica.info
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The Academic Research Segment
The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event…
The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event…
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Some really nice insights into the writing process here: the early germs of ideas, the writing and rewriting, the editing and re-editing, & having the strength to abandon 100,000 words when you know they're going nowhere and start all over again.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels
A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Some really nice insights into the writing process here: the early germs of ideas, the writing and rewriting, the editing and re-editing, & having the strength to abandon 100,000 words when you know they're going nowhere and start all over again.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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LORE (Palindrome-Haiku)
We name opal lore.
We sleep agape, else we roll
a poem anew.
We name opal lore.
We sleep agape, else we roll
a poem anew.
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
LORE (Palindrome-Haiku)
We name opal lore.
We sleep agape, else we roll
a poem anew.
We name opal lore.
We sleep agape, else we roll
a poem anew.
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Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments -
2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments “Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstructing the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Biblioclasts“ Friday to Sunday 21–23 November 2025 Hybri...
manuscriptevidence.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
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I’ll be at the Chester Beatty museum next week for Science Week Ireland offering drop-in workshops making iron gall ink and talking about Medieval pigments. It’s a fun way of opening up the world of the scribes who produced Early Medieval manuscripts.
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’ll be at the Chester Beatty museum next week for Science Week Ireland offering drop-in workshops making iron gall ink and talking about Medieval pigments. It’s a fun way of opening up the world of the scribes who produced Early Medieval manuscripts.
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
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Ben Shapiro was just ratioed by Nick Fuentes on X after Shapiro called out Tucker Carlson and Fuentes for their antisemitism.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Ben Shapiro was just ratioed by Nick Fuentes on X after Shapiro called out Tucker Carlson and Fuentes for their antisemitism.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.
The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.