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Dr. Carly Maris
@vintagehistorian.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of World History at Wilmington College, researching ancient women in Rome, textiles and empires

Also known as Vintagehistorian
Every ancient historian should read this article bc the implications 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It’s been a month and no one in our family has said anything about, what I think to be, the best prank ever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."

Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Now seeing accounts claim that AI being “trained on” art & books to generate content isn’t “stealing.”

When a student uses a book to generate a paper and doesn’t cite it, what do we call that?
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Someone write an academic paper on Heidi Klum’s Halloween costumes
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Meet Greg!
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I once saw an AI article all about how Titus Labienus (100-45 BCE) was a Roman Emperor so…
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I painted ur dog
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Immediately jumps on the bed I just made
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Me, in class: I mean if I were to steal these pieces from the Louvre, I’d break them down and sell the stones individually.

My students: 🧐🧐🧐 where were you October 19th
October 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
What if I started podficcing my fav ancient history fanfics on AO3? What then?
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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i think its so funny that he thinks to modernise the white house it needs a ballroom. when last you been to a ball?? Who are you inviting over? Madame Bovary? you want to modernise the place all you need is laminate flooring and a corner sofa. what a waste of money
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I’m sorry but it’s not up to you to decide if a student’s accommodations are unreasonable. if a student did everything necessary to get accommodations for “anxiety” then trust me, they need them. I once tried to apply for accommodations & it was so heartless & confusing I gave up.
October 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I’m dying Katabasis (R.F. Kuang) is so effing funny:

“To be honest she had never gotten around to trying Proust, but Cambridge had made her the kind of person who wanted to have read Proust, and she figured Hell was a good place to start.”
R.is
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
First paragraph and I’m hooked
October 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This isn’t my school but I’m so close to Cincinnati, apply so we can hang out! www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
FYI there’s a super convincing-looking fake PayPal phishing email saying you were charged for an iPhone or something. I just got it and checked my PayPal (no transaction there) and forwarded the message to phishing@paypal.com.
October 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I walked into the classroom and immediately could tell my senior seminar students were planning something.

What were they planning?

Getting flip phones and destroying their smart phones. So that’s where the history majors are at.
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
SCS AIA CAMWS
History, Literature, Art History
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM