John Paul Newman
@johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
Political science
37%
Sociology
22%
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
What the hell is going on with TV schedulers in the US? Why have they sandwiched tonight’s Bad Bunny concert in the middle of about four hours of steroidal blokes in helmets slamming into one another?! Idgi 🤷♂️
Am I the only one who thinks that method-acting guru Lee Strasberg is not particularly good in this role ?
‘aroused controversy’
Logging off for some intensely cerebral academic cogitation and brainstorming.
Duolingo is luring me into a life of crime .. 🤷♂️
The final scene of the Melania movie is absolutely insane 🤯
Currently watching. Also hoping @martindbbrown.bsky.social will some day give us a follow up to ‘The Bondian Cold War’… ‘The Palmerian Cold War’ 🍿
Hell YES! My advice to discerning He Man fans? Lube up early and liberally: Fisto’s ‘distinctive metal arm’ will stretch this franchise to its limits. Seriously, my eyes are already watering 🥲
Who’s that a J6er ?
Four more members of Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ have been announced :
It’s what he would have wanted.
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
🤦♂️
That European armies now have to run exercises to ward off threat from … USA. Madness.
Khrushchev?
“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."
“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."
“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."
“Our beautiful ancient kind magical island story has reached a dark and dangerous chapter."
based on a true story
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
I don’t love it when people say ‘deliberately’ when they mean ‘intentionally’.. also describing something very big as ‘enormous’ (enormous meaning something is very bad, not very big) ..
University of Oklahoma Dismisses Teaching Assistant After Controversy About Student’s Essay
University of Oklahoma Dismisses Teaching Assistant After Controversy About Student’s Essay
University of Oklahoma Dismisses Teaching Assistant After Controversy About Student’s Essay
www.huffpost.com
Weasel words from UO. No way this was an academic decision. They got bullied and browbeaten by the Turningpoint mob. A junior academic’s career derailed by a right wing hit squad.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
Abject cowardice from the university. Shame on them.