Dr. Fade
@fade.bsky.social
Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
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Another festive Percy bonus pic, for your post-holiday pleasure 🎄
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Another festive Percy bonus pic, for your post-holiday pleasure 🎄
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//shrieks
December 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
//shrieks
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vermeule: noooo!! you can't just incorporate new people into "our posterity" without imposing particular duties of filial piety and reverence!! you are distorting the classical understanding of justicinooooo
caracalla: haha citizenship machine go brrrr
caracalla: haha citizenship machine go brrrr
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
vermeule: noooo!! you can't just incorporate new people into "our posterity" without imposing particular duties of filial piety and reverence!! you are distorting the classical understanding of justicinooooo
caracalla: haha citizenship machine go brrrr
caracalla: haha citizenship machine go brrrr
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This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is extremely dumb for a variety of reasons but perhaps the most obvious is that the Romans didn't apply their adoption law to grants of citizenship.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
I cannot communicate how basic an error he is making here. Staggeringly elementary, a thing you learn in Roman Civ 101.
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this is a very funny comparison because Marvel’s approach is lore maximalist and Sanrio’s is “here are the five facts about Hello Kitty you are allowed to discuss. if you deviate from our brief we will shoot you in the kneecaps”
Hello Kitty, if the data is to be believed, has out-grossed Spider-Man. What can you tell me about Hello Kitty, except that she wears a bow?
December 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
this is a very funny comparison because Marvel’s approach is lore maximalist and Sanrio’s is “here are the five facts about Hello Kitty you are allowed to discuss. if you deviate from our brief we will shoot you in the kneecaps”
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most depressing billboard I have ever seen
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
most depressing billboard I have ever seen
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I have basically spent my whole day sitting in a chair with this cat, listening to an audiobook by @tkingfisher.com. Fantastic day.
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I have basically spent my whole day sitting in a chair with this cat, listening to an audiobook by @tkingfisher.com. Fantastic day.
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Smudge has decided that I have done enough typing for one day. I disagree, but then again I don't have claws.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Smudge has decided that I have done enough typing for one day. I disagree, but then again I don't have claws.
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Rex is on the Zabina Memorial Blanket.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Rex is on the Zabina Memorial Blanket.
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This is where one of my lecturers, in the course of trying to explain 19th century Scotland, eventually said wearily, in broadest Glaswegian, "Imagine a bag of cats. Dress them like Presbyterian Moderators. Now shake it. Do that for 300 years."
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is where one of my lecturers, in the course of trying to explain 19th century Scotland, eventually said wearily, in broadest Glaswegian, "Imagine a bag of cats. Dress them like Presbyterian Moderators. Now shake it. Do that for 300 years."
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We had this conversation amongst ourselves almost verbatim a few weeks ago.
![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
We had this conversation amongst ourselves almost verbatim a few weeks ago.
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anyway good night
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
anyway good night
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There are some great suggestions here, but I feel like Elrond deserved at least one F-bomb somewhere. “Men. Men are fucking weak.”
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
There are some great suggestions here, but I feel like Elrond deserved at least one F-bomb somewhere. “Men. Men are fucking weak.”
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Today was the 2nd time a German physician asked me what I think of Hillbilly Elegy and cause it made him kinda admire J.D. Vance and it just fortifies my believe that STEM people should take basic humanities classes
December 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Today was the 2nd time a German physician asked me what I think of Hillbilly Elegy and cause it made him kinda admire J.D. Vance and it just fortifies my believe that STEM people should take basic humanities classes
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I can genuinely and sincerely say that Mimecast, the podcast where I mime at my microphone for ten minutes, will never make the pivot to video.
That would be silly.
That would be silly.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I can genuinely and sincerely say that Mimecast, the podcast where I mime at my microphone for ten minutes, will never make the pivot to video.
That would be silly.
That would be silly.
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Subskeet: I know it’s hard, venturing into the world of transformative works for the first time, to accept that just as your clever work may not be everyone’s cup of tea, so what you find hopelessly cringe may also be valid and valuable.
But it’s worth the effort.
But it’s worth the effort.
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Subskeet: I know it’s hard, venturing into the world of transformative works for the first time, to accept that just as your clever work may not be everyone’s cup of tea, so what you find hopelessly cringe may also be valid and valuable.
But it’s worth the effort.
But it’s worth the effort.
Oh heck now I want one for my classroom.
I still use a daily, handwritten planner as my calendar. Which means I am a big fan of the ancient device known as the παράπηγμα (parapegma); essentially a Greco-Roman calendar and weather predictor with peg holes where you could keep track of the days and months. archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/24...
December 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Oh heck now I want one for my classroom.
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Orrery from the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow #photography
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Orrery from the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow #photography
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Minnesota, North Dakota, Indiana -- check this list. It's EXTENSIVE
(unsanitary storage of goods)
(unsanitary storage of goods)
Just throw away everything www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
Gold Star Distribution Inc., Issues Recall of Certain FDA-Regulated Products in Three States Including Drugs, Devices, Cosmetics, Human Foods, and Pet Foods
Gold Star Distribution, Inc. (Gold Star or “the Company”) is recalling all FDA regulated products listed in this press release due to the presence of rodent and avian contamination.
www.fda.gov
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Minnesota, North Dakota, Indiana -- check this list. It's EXTENSIVE
(unsanitary storage of goods)
(unsanitary storage of goods)
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How to tell whether you're on social media: someone is explaining comic book stuff to @gailsimone.bsky.social
Another tipoff: Gail is asking in response, "What's a comic book?"
Another tipoff: Gail is asking in response, "What's a comic book?"
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How to tell whether you're on social media: someone is explaining comic book stuff to @gailsimone.bsky.social
Another tipoff: Gail is asking in response, "What's a comic book?"
Another tipoff: Gail is asking in response, "What's a comic book?"
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"Netflix and Chill" has been replaced by "Sanskrit and Floating," please update your cultural references to stay hip with the kids
Hey sorry about the whole speaking in ancient languages and levitating thing last night. I had a really great time and would love to see you again.
December 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Netflix and Chill" has been replaced by "Sanskrit and Floating," please update your cultural references to stay hip with the kids
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Steam'a end-of-year sale is poppin' off, so I treated myself to another (highly rated, well reviewed) Japanese language learning game.
store.steampowered.com/app/2701720/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2701720/...
Save 25% on Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey on Steam
Wagotabi is an educational RPG teaching Japanese from the ground up. Immerse yourself in the language through interactive dialogues, quest-solving, and puzzles, all while exploring Japan and its rich ...
store.steampowered.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Steam'a end-of-year sale is poppin' off, so I treated myself to another (highly rated, well reviewed) Japanese language learning game.
store.steampowered.com/app/2701720/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2701720/...
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"Do you want to play the game of laundry? Can you find the correct energy-efficient setting that will wash your clothes in only six hours? One wrong choice begins a cycle that takes seventeen hours and leaves a permanent orange residue on your clothes."
#McSweeneysTop25of2025
#McSweeneysTop25of2025
Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb
Our 24th most-read article of 2025. - - -Welcome to this tiny fifth-floor Airbnb, your home for the next four days in a major European city. Can y...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Do you want to play the game of laundry? Can you find the correct energy-efficient setting that will wash your clothes in only six hours? One wrong choice begins a cycle that takes seventeen hours and leaves a permanent orange residue on your clothes."
#McSweeneysTop25of2025
#McSweeneysTop25of2025
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And here's a semipro tip for free: treating your professional colleagues (let alone people to whom you aspire to be a colleague) as background characters in your story is a lonely road and a risk to the career you're trying to build.
December 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
And here's a semipro tip for free: treating your professional colleagues (let alone people to whom you aspire to be a colleague) as background characters in your story is a lonely road and a risk to the career you're trying to build.