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Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
The Bulgarian national railway operator has purchased a bunch of modern electric trains from a French manufacturer courtesy of the French taxpayer and the first unit arrived for testing a few days ago.
Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...
Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...
Alstom Coradia Stream EMU arrives in Bulgaria for testing / ЕМВ на Алстом пристигна в България!
YouTube video by Ivo Radoev
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October 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Bulgarian national railway operator has purchased a bunch of modern electric trains from a French manufacturer courtesy of the French taxpayer and the first unit arrived for testing a few days ago.
Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...
Bulgarians are acting like it's the Concorde lmao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sfh...
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We might take the letter as a laudable attack on the sexual exploitation of the socially inferior: confessors w/ their confessees, monks of oblates &c. But Damian (as w/ Alain of Lille's Complaint of Nature) seems to be unable to conceive of sex between people of equal rank, between *men* in short
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We might take the letter as a laudable attack on the sexual exploitation of the socially inferior: confessors w/ their confessees, monks of oblates &c. But Damian (as w/ Alain of Lille's Complaint of Nature) seems to be unable to conceive of sex between people of equal rank, between *men* in short
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Just read the intro (75 pages) to a Very Catholic translation of Peter Damian's 11th-century letter to the Pope Leo IX on sodomy, called, since the 14th c, The Book of Gomorrah. Having just taught Damian's letter in David Rollo's translation (for Brill), I thought Hoffman would be enlightening.
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Just read the intro (75 pages) to a Very Catholic translation of Peter Damian's 11th-century letter to the Pope Leo IX on sodomy, called, since the 14th c, The Book of Gomorrah. Having just taught Damian's letter in David Rollo's translation (for Brill), I thought Hoffman would be enlightening.
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@kalinah.bsky.social And Lichtenstein. Idkn why everybody underestimates them - they are rich foljs too you know.
August 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@kalinah.bsky.social And Lichtenstein. Idkn why everybody underestimates them - they are rich foljs too you know.
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Hugos were last night, and just grabbed the winner of Best Related Work and read on a train journey - it's a quick read, tracing fascist tropes and fascists through sci-fi. Especially good on fascists readings of works and also proto-fascist nerd-wish-fulfilment Mutational Romances.
August 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hugos were last night, and just grabbed the winner of Best Related Work and read on a train journey - it's a quick read, tracing fascist tropes and fascists through sci-fi. Especially good on fascists readings of works and also proto-fascist nerd-wish-fulfilment Mutational Romances.
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in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
The ethics are certainly an issue, fully agree. But with regards to the image in se, there is no reason to consider an AI-generated image of, say, a Roman city less ´historical´ than a drawn image of a Roman city - and we´ve always accepted the latter.
August 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
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If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
Like, the surveillance tech adds nothing that doesn’t exist with basic human interaction
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If anything, I think the point of the surveillance tech is to remove the need for basic human interaction so that profoundly antisocial people can still benefit from the transactional effects of having real human relationships
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ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.
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Is there anything you need to confess to Hummingbird Jesus before it is too late? Be honest.
August 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Is there anything you need to confess to Hummingbird Jesus before it is too late? Be honest.
В Бургас животът е така.
August 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
В Бургас животът е така.
Saw the new Superman with my friend who works for NATO and when they showed the LuthorCorp building she whispered, “That’s where my next job is going to be.”
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Saw the new Superman with my friend who works for NATO and when they showed the LuthorCorp building she whispered, “That’s where my next job is going to be.”
There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.
July 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
There’s a modest half-pipe ramp in my local park and this is how the youth make use of it.
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This is a very troubling claim: someone who the Lemkin Institute - genocide experts - clearly believes is an expert in photo interpretation says there is evidence of an expanding mass grave near the CECOT prison in El Salvador… where the Trump regime sends detainees.
@jmkorhonen.fi https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/mass-grave-complex-mgc-identification-and-analysis-of-grave-site-candidates-gsc-1-2-at-cecot
Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT.
Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane imagery for the identification of very specific features and identifying landmarks to locate sites of genocide.I have worked in multiple undisclosed areas and have experience in not only the identification & reporting, but also the boots-on-the-ground investigations.I unequivocally stand by the analysi
www.lemkininstitute.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is a very troubling claim: someone who the Lemkin Institute - genocide experts - clearly believes is an expert in photo interpretation says there is evidence of an expanding mass grave near the CECOT prison in El Salvador… where the Trump regime sends detainees.
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The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since.
Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social
on.ft.com/40NNZmt
Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social
on.ft.com/40NNZmt
July 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The US US discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since.
Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social
on.ft.com/40NNZmt
Excellent article by @bhgreeley.bsky.social
on.ft.com/40NNZmt
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It never gets old. I'll be talking about this MS at #IMC2025 ( @imc-leeds.bsky.social) tomorrow. And I can sit here, in Phoenix, consulting it online tonight. It was written sometime around 1075 at the monastery of Monte Cassino, under the supervision of its translator, Constantinus Africanus.
July 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It never gets old. I'll be talking about this MS at #IMC2025 ( @imc-leeds.bsky.social) tomorrow. And I can sit here, in Phoenix, consulting it online tonight. It was written sometime around 1075 at the monastery of Monte Cassino, under the supervision of its translator, Constantinus Africanus.
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Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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July 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Two proposals were selected for $10,000 Projects for Peace grants to fund student initiatives this summer. Learn more: www.reed.edu/newsroom/sto...
July 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Two proposals were selected for $10,000 Projects for Peace grants to fund student initiatives this summer. Learn more: www.reed.edu/newsroom/sto...
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Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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July 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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If you are a member, please vote!
July 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
If you are a member, please vote!
First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
First time I’ve received a physical copy of Speculum in the mail and it made it all the way from Chicago to Bulgaria. Maybe the Medieval Academy of America membership fee is worth it…?
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Guys in the Azores today I saw the best dinosaur sculpture and maybe the best sculpture I've ever seen
June 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Guys in the Azores today I saw the best dinosaur sculpture and maybe the best sculpture I've ever seen
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Budapest Pride thread, from the ground
June 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Budapest Pride thread, from the ground