Christopher Walsh
@deflatermaus.bsky.social
PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Anglo-Catholic Episcopal layman.
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welcome to all the new followers and sorry in advance for all my very bad posts
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Week 1 poll, Intro to IR, Spring 2026:
"What is your first IR/world affairs memory?"
The modal answer so far is..."Election of Donald Trump (2016)." The kids are alright, but they have no frame of reference of "normal politics" at home or abroad anymore.
Also, yes, they're getting music lessons.
"What is your first IR/world affairs memory?"
The modal answer so far is..."Election of Donald Trump (2016)." The kids are alright, but they have no frame of reference of "normal politics" at home or abroad anymore.
Also, yes, they're getting music lessons.
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Week 1 poll, Intro to IR, Spring 2026:
"What is your first IR/world affairs memory?"
The modal answer so far is..."Election of Donald Trump (2016)." The kids are alright, but they have no frame of reference of "normal politics" at home or abroad anymore.
Also, yes, they're getting music lessons.
"What is your first IR/world affairs memory?"
The modal answer so far is..."Election of Donald Trump (2016)." The kids are alright, but they have no frame of reference of "normal politics" at home or abroad anymore.
Also, yes, they're getting music lessons.
This is the logic of a domestic abuser
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent:
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
This is the logic of a domestic abuser
It's Bibliography Week y'all, who's going to be in NYC with all the fine folks at the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ?
January 19, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It's Bibliography Week y'all, who's going to be in NYC with all the fine folks at the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ?
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the Iranians should do the funniest thing ever and restore the Qajars, just to make the Pahlavi camp lose their minds
If it happens, imagine how many of them are going to argue for Shah 2.0
looking forward to the looks on the faces of the American foreign policy establishment when it sets in that a democratic Iran will very much not be interested in it being 1953-1979 again
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
the Iranians should do the funniest thing ever and restore the Qajars, just to make the Pahlavi camp lose their minds
this was a cellphone. my mother had this exact model!
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
this was a cellphone. my mother had this exact model!
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every NYT headline is like…They expected pee: poo greeted them instead
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
every NYT headline is like…They expected pee: poo greeted them instead
you rangggg....?
December 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
you rangggg....?
born in the wrong time (too late to receive a formal 子 style name from my elders by which I am referred to in polite society)
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
born in the wrong time (too late to receive a formal 子 style name from my elders by which I am referred to in polite society)
my pronouns are 殿/下, please take note
Also 他 is gender-neutral unless you’re still using the gross Europeanizing neologism 她 for some reason. It’s 2025, get with the program
No thanks to CNN for marginalizing Cantonese in this article about Chinese gender pronouns:
🙄 Set in Hong Kong but first mention of Cantonese is 25 paragraphs in
🙄 Dismisses it as "an informal and colloquial language"
🙄 Writes 他 five times but refuses to write 佢 (Canto)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...
🙄 Set in Hong Kong but first mention of Cantonese is 25 paragraphs in
🙄 Dismisses it as "an informal and colloquial language"
🙄 Writes 他 five times but refuses to write 佢 (Canto)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...
December 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
my pronouns are 殿/下, please take note
Can’t argue with that!
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Can’t argue with that!
Youse is just a couple of
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Youse is just a couple of
“You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
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In Space, No One Can Listen to the Children of the Night or What Music They Make
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In Space, No One Can Listen to the Children of the Night or What Music They Make
Highly recommend this! I took several paleography and codicology courses through IES early in my PhD and they were excellent!
I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑💻👩💻👨🏽💻👩🏻💻🧑🏿💻🧑💻 📚
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Introduction to Latin Palaeography
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Highly recommend this! I took several paleography and codicology courses through IES early in my PhD and they were excellent!
"yamatologues" feels like some kind of internet pejorative
December 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"yamatologues" feels like some kind of internet pejorative
Summa Toyotalogica
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Summa Toyotalogica
Gotta wonder what Barthes thought of ramen. “Here the pasta is removed from the meaning we traditionally ascribe to noodles, which is Italianness”
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Gotta wonder what Barthes thought of ramen. “Here the pasta is removed from the meaning we traditionally ascribe to noodles, which is Italianness”
This is a crazy coincidence because just a few days ago I was at a shrine where they shot some of this film
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is a crazy coincidence because just a few days ago I was at a shrine where they shot some of this film
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.
See the King desired for ages
Reflections on Christ the King
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.