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jenyth evans @jenyth.com · Jan 4
these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for about a year and i finally had some time to scribble them down. some thoughts on how games might emulate the act of 'doing' history

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Historical interpretation as non-linear narrative
How games can reflect history as a discipline, not just historical facts.
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ceej.online
You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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hopesteffen.bsky.social
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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nikgunn.bsky.social
New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.

If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.

nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ria.ie
The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍

These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895

© Trustees of the British Museum

#Roman #Archaeology
Two copper alloy brooches with double-headed, long-eared, hare-like ends, inlaid with red and blue enamel decoration, both stained green after centuries in the soil
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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eleanormaybaker.bsky.social
If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Skeleton draped in a shroud Northern France, c. 1600

(Musée du Louvre)
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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paulduane.bsky.social
OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned:

youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
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October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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mauricejcasey.com
I'm doing a side project linked to the cultural history of video games in 1980s Ireland and I'm finding exactly what I expected to find
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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soccelteuropaea.bsky.social
The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky!
➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars.
👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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pduffy1.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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excited is an understatement for how i'm feeling about Rhys' talk today! details in link below :)

if you are an Oxford uni member, please do pop along; if not but you're around Oxford, drop me an email; and if you'd like to attend virtually on Teams, please also drop me an email!
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
Last night I attended the launch of Dublin in Deeds: Records of the Guild of St Anne, 1237-1778, @ria.ie The freely accessible digital resources and contextual essays are here on the Virtual Treasury website:

virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g...

#Spéirghorm #MedievalSky
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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rhyskamjones.bsky.social
If you saw me present on Iolo's abolitionist poetry at the Glasgow @bars.bsky.social conference don't worry, this is about a different, much weirder poem.

Who doesn't like druidic transmigration of souls, eh?
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism

Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...
Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...
talks.ox.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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understatesmen.bsky.social
aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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jamescummings.bsky.social
R.I.P. one of the last cornerstones of a functioning decent web.
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25d
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ctlnkane.bsky.social
Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up!
For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.
Schedule for Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group with image of the bearded St. Wilgefortis surrounded by the pride flag. Dates and times for meetings: 11th November 2:00-3:30pm, 25th November 2:00-3:30pm, 9th December 2:00-3:30pm. Email caitlin.kane.18@ucl.ac.uk to sign up.
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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roaringgirle.bsky.social
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
Paddington in The Wicker Man (1974)
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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themoonis.gay
See how fucking easy it is when you have a spine?
nomorerobots.io No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · Oct 9
Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm

www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...
The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy
During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.
www.ria.ie
October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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lauropea.bsky.social
tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM