Dr. Torie Burmeister
@mercurywitch.bsky.social
VAP in Classical Studies at Wesleyan. PhD on witches/space in Latin lit (BU). “If I had to describe Torie’s interests in one word: Dark.” - my advisor
have written here: https://mercurywitch.wordpress.com/
She/her
have written here: https://mercurywitch.wordpress.com/
She/her
i’ll admit to being in the point of the semester when i’m mostly looking forward to the relief of winter break, but man, sometimes you get to read some work so rad that it just makes you excited to keep going
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
i’ll admit to being in the point of the semester when i’m mostly looking forward to the relief of winter break, but man, sometimes you get to read some work so rad that it just makes you excited to keep going
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no idea how this dog has such poise
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
no idea how this dog has such poise
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
confirmed today that /Dark Side of the Moon/ remains the most perfect album of all time. “what about money” well i’m sorry that one too many bassists at guitar center hurt you but 1. it rips and 2. those cash registers and coin drops add the squeeze of lemon the dish needs to reach perfection
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
confirmed today that /Dark Side of the Moon/ remains the most perfect album of all time. “what about money” well i’m sorry that one too many bassists at guitar center hurt you but 1. it rips and 2. those cash registers and coin drops add the squeeze of lemon the dish needs to reach perfection
hockey is ON
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
hockey is ON
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Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
everybody celebrate by donating money or food or time to your local food banks or food shares!!
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
everybody celebrate by donating money or food or time to your local food banks or food shares!!
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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“In my years of being involved in the community, the prospect of cutting off SNAP benefits is one of the most inhumane, callous, cruel and immoral acts I've ever witnessed,” New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said Friday.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10...
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10...
Amid SNAP crisis, CT cities try to connect residents to food aid and ways to help their neighbors
Municipal leaders across Connecticut are getting the word out about ways to find food and ways to support food aid organizations.
www.ctpublic.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“In my years of being involved in the community, the prospect of cutting off SNAP benefits is one of the most inhumane, callous, cruel and immoral acts I've ever witnessed,” New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said Friday.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10...
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10...
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It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
Classics and Africa CFP
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, …
resdifficiles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
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I have an amazing student about to lose childcare on Monday due to the shutdown. Child Care Assistance (CCA) programs in Iowa are lifesavers for many families also on food stamps. She works, she is a student, & she has children. The federal refusal to continue funding these programs is devastating.
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I have an amazing student about to lose childcare on Monday due to the shutdown. Child Care Assistance (CCA) programs in Iowa are lifesavers for many families also on food stamps. She works, she is a student, & she has children. The federal refusal to continue funding these programs is devastating.
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Sure. Fine. Whatever.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
something so goofy about carving out my october-march morning schedule like “gotta prioritize my 15 min by the lamp!” and then sitting as close as possible to a little rectangle blasting light at my face. and the consequences of forgetting are Depression
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
something so goofy about carving out my october-march morning schedule like “gotta prioritize my 15 min by the lamp!” and then sitting as close as possible to a little rectangle blasting light at my face. and the consequences of forgetting are Depression
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gift link.
How D’Angelo Made His Masterpiece, ‘Voodoo’
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
gift link.
i had a dream i made a post that went viral and it was just “Kenneth Branagh i know you’ve got another one in you”
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
i had a dream i made a post that went viral and it was just “Kenneth Branagh i know you’ve got another one in you”
hockey is ON
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
hockey is ON
been thinking about this old episode of radiolab a lot a lot lately, particularly the reaction of one interviewee to questions about the ethics of the technology they were actively developing. Anyways!!!!! radiolab.org/podcast/brea...
Breaking News
Today, two new technological tricks that together could invade our past selves and rewrite the rules of credibility. Also, we release something terrible into the world.
radiolab.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
been thinking about this old episode of radiolab a lot a lot lately, particularly the reaction of one interviewee to questions about the ethics of the technology they were actively developing. Anyways!!!!! radiolab.org/podcast/brea...
Aeschylus is just fucking sound after sound (complimentary)
September 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Aeschylus is just fucking sound after sound (complimentary)
I am re-watching the movie Snatch once again but do NOT!!! Ask me!!!! To describe the plot of this movie!!!!!!!
September 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I am re-watching the movie Snatch once again but do NOT!!! Ask me!!!! To describe the plot of this movie!!!!!!!
Y’all, I just want to go back to posting song lyrics
September 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Y’all, I just want to go back to posting song lyrics
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It’s my birthday. This year the idea of the future and living in it has been harder to hold with hope. I’ve always felt some comfort in the inextinguishable hope I somehow continue to keep alive in myself, and perhaps my greatest accomplishment in my 33rd year has been that hope’s baffling survival.
September 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It’s my birthday. This year the idea of the future and living in it has been harder to hold with hope. I’ve always felt some comfort in the inextinguishable hope I somehow continue to keep alive in myself, and perhaps my greatest accomplishment in my 33rd year has been that hope’s baffling survival.
Detroiters, Castle Rock
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Detroiters, Castle Rock
This is my first year seeing spotted lantern flies in central Connecticut and I’m f*cking pissed #nutmegsky
September 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is my first year seeing spotted lantern flies in central Connecticut and I’m f*cking pissed #nutmegsky