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Magister et Linguae et Ludi 🏺🎲. Tiro armorum artium ⚔️🔨. Co-Chair @centralindsa.bsky.social . Anti-stoicist.
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Tē vīdī mīsisse meae clam scrīpta puellae,
capte fidē falsā, dum mea metra cano.

//you're in her DMs, I'm writing her poems
Ludebam hodie cum discipulis ludo Versipellis, cum ut solet quidam a versipellibus erat occisus. Rogante igitur me quomodo interficeri deberet, alius respondit, “kirkificatus est” 😮‍💨😮‍💨😭😭😭🥀🥀🥀💀💀💀
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Shout out to past me for making desk work for all my Monday classes 😌
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Refusing to hear that I don’t make a habit of celebrating my birthday, my students ambushed me in my room to give me a cake and sing happy birthday to me in Latin.

I later learned that they found my birth date by through my voter registration information
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Dūrat ab amne memoria fluēns vīvāx Michigantis
Ad mare pervastum, nōmine Gitchi Gumī
Aequor id effātur nōn umquam reddere captōs
Cassiopēia cum fert hiemem orta polō
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Infinitesimally closer
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We’re getting there
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Got a book deal, made friends, learned to speak a dead language, played DnD in said dead language, developed my political consciousness and found my local political home (now very much an IRL thing for me!)

A lot of things in my life paid off this year that all started on social media
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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two weeks to go until the new term of #SeumasU
I'm feeling excited and enthused about language teaching, which is a great thing!

thepatrologist.com/shop/
SeumasU : Online courses in Latin and Greek
Visit the post for more.
thepatrologist.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Quī populō rapuit quoddam capitāle tribūtum
Illō prō miserō lacrima nūlla mihi.
December 4, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Mortifer heus pistōlā pulsus humī jacet ipse!
Quid tamen est nōbīs? Hic status ante fuit.
December 4, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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*Vel fiat ut sis in casula rudi
Vel fiat ut sis in aliis solis
Vel fiat ut sis cum rapidis rotis**
Villāve pulchrāve sponsā
"Quomodo," tunc roges, "adivi?"

"Dies adedi," me premat haec aqua.
Dies abivit, sic subeunt aquae
Et aere defuncto volemus.
Amnis ad inferna vita solum est
a man in a suit is dancing in a row
ALT: a man in a suit is dancing in a row
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Alii [Galli] immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.16
May 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A coworker got mad at me this morning because the children of her student from 30 years ago took my class instead of hers lmao
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On one hand the subtext of Ishmael and Queequeg’s first nights together is about as subtle as a freight train. On the other hand Ishmael being entirely oblivious and simply going on like they’re just very good friends is so, so much funnier
My hold came in just in time for a weekend at the forge 🐋
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When a bar serves you warm beer, you should be able to take the owner out back and whip him with a scourge
September 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My hold came in just in time for a weekend at the forge 🐋
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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to state the obvious: everyone in the regime believes it is someone else's kids who are going to be stitching the shoes together in the factories. but i think the majority of their supporters also think the factories are for others' kids. there's only so many jobs where you go to yale law like JD
I think no matter the number of speeches they make saying rhe opposite; the amount of "it's other people who are the sucker's who believe this shit" is radiating off the govt way too much for "becoming a soldier" to tick up as a career path outside of necessity.
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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lutnick et al are bringing the shoemaking jobs back for all of our kids. there isn't any more world in their plan where you have a side hustle flipping houses and everyone is elon musk. the colleges are closing, there's no more yale to PE pipeline for us rubes. surely you must see that guys
September 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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EVERY 30+ WHITE GUY NAMED JIMMY IS MR BEAST TO ME
September 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thinking abt this but from Phaedrus’ speech in relation to the endings of NGE and End of Evangelion, as phantoms and punishments. It’s interesting to me also that this version of the story is only found here in the Symposium
September 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Heartbreaking: Lin Manuel Miranda is a writing credit on your favorite band’s new album
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It's Friday night baby
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Real. I’ve had multiple students come up to me and say this. I’m so glad I’ve been following this closely enough that I was able to debunk it. I’d say utterly irresponsible, but I’m almost certain WSJ was just chomping at the bit to start a trans panic
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
From the Charlie Kirk press conference:
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Incredibly funny thing to get this mad about
September 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM