Dr. Kristi DiClemente
@xpi.bsky.social
History professor, medievalist, and textile artist who loves cozy mysteries and her dog.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente
@xpi.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Shameless self promotion! If you like off-color medieval images and you cross stitch, I have the perfect patterns for you! I also have more traditional patterns, but sometimes you just want to be silly. I am just finishing up a fourth that will be posted soon.
kristiscornerneedle.etsy.com
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Whew! It's been a while! Mississippi IPs are still banned from Bluesky, so I have to get as much info and connection as possible when I have access.
What did I miss?
What did I miss?
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Whew! It's been a while! Mississippi IPs are still banned from Bluesky, so I have to get as much info and connection as possible when I have access.
What did I miss?
What did I miss?
I've decided that I'm going to have my students debate who was "greater": Alexander the Great or Phillip II. I want them to be brutal! 😂😂
August 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I've decided that I'm going to have my students debate who was "greater": Alexander the Great or Phillip II. I want them to be brutal! 😂😂
Slightly diminish a band:
Counting Pigeons
9999 Maniacs
Counting Pigeons
9999 Maniacs
Slightly diminish a band:
The Mountain Stoats (sorry sorry I hope he doesn’t see this)
The Mountain Stoats (sorry sorry I hope he doesn’t see this)
Slightly diminish a band:
Molly Butterknife
Molly Butterknife
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Counting Pigeons
9999 Maniacs
Counting Pigeons
9999 Maniacs
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
August 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
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If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers.
They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.
They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.
Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees
July 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers.
They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.
They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.
July 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.
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It will cost you $0 to repost that SCRIPTORIUM PLAYTEST IS NOW LIVE 🎉
We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️
Play for free on Steam until July 10!
We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️
Play for free on Steam until July 10!
June 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It will cost you $0 to repost that SCRIPTORIUM PLAYTEST IS NOW LIVE 🎉
We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️
Play for free on Steam until July 10!
We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️
Play for free on Steam until July 10!
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Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...
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The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.
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Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression.
Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...
#booksky #bookhistory
Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...
#booksky #bookhistory
June 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression.
Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...
#booksky #bookhistory
Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...
#booksky #bookhistory
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Quelle excellente idée d'avoir réuni les éléphants médiévaux dans une seule œuvre!
www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Quelle excellente idée d'avoir réuni les éléphants médiévaux dans une seule œuvre!
www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
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Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.
Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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I feel like people need reminding: We have acknowledged #Juneteenth here for generations, without acknowledgement from the federal gov’t or corporate sponsorship. We will continue to do so. Them folks can only gentrify our holiday if we let them.
Some background:
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...
Some background:
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...
Juneteenth Digital Toolkit
A digital toolkit created with information about the origin of and how to observe Juneteenth, which is a time to celebrate, gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future.
nmaahc.si.edu
June 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I feel like people need reminding: We have acknowledged #Juneteenth here for generations, without acknowledgement from the federal gov’t or corporate sponsorship. We will continue to do so. Them folks can only gentrify our holiday if we let them.
Some background:
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...
Some background:
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
I made a quill pen! There's definitely room for improvement 😂
May 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I made a quill pen! There's definitely room for improvement 😂
As the coordinator of the North Regional MS History Day competition, I can genuinely say that this program changes students' lives. I volunteer my time because it matters. If you care about history education, please call your reps and make some noise!
"If (students) can start looking into history and how they can find credible sources, if they can find their own arguments and have evidence to back that up, that makes them a more informed adult in the world," MDAH Outreach Programs Coordinator Bently Cochran said.
Mississippi History Day Continues, National Contest Defunded
Mississippi History Day, an affiliate of National History Day, lets students explore topics that go beyond what they learn about in classrooms.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As the coordinator of the North Regional MS History Day competition, I can genuinely say that this program changes students' lives. I volunteer my time because it matters. If you care about history education, please call your reps and make some noise!
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I've updated my " #Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages" bibliography site. It now contains 6,250 entries & covers:
— Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025
— 22 languages from Basque to Swedish
— Array of digital & print sources
— Themes, houses & individuals
www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...
— Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025
— 22 languages from Basque to Swedish
— Array of digital & print sources
— Themes, houses & individuals
www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...
May 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I've updated my " #Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages" bibliography site. It now contains 6,250 entries & covers:
— Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025
— 22 languages from Basque to Swedish
— Array of digital & print sources
— Themes, houses & individuals
www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...
— Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025
— 22 languages from Basque to Swedish
— Array of digital & print sources
— Themes, houses & individuals
www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...
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I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
May 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
For a little light heartedness, my friends and I are playing pick 3 fantasy conclave. Here are the rules if anyone is interested 😂 I'm going to ask about wild cards
April 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
For a little light heartedness, my friends and I are playing pick 3 fantasy conclave. Here are the rules if anyone is interested 😂 I'm going to ask about wild cards
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Someone tried to sell me anti-aging body oil, and my response was "Oh, no thanks, I'm pro-aging, thanks!" She didn't quite know how to respond. Peak middle-aged reached!!
April 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Someone tried to sell me anti-aging body oil, and my response was "Oh, no thanks, I'm pro-aging, thanks!" She didn't quite know how to respond. Peak middle-aged reached!!
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Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.
www.usatoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
In order to bring more joy into my life, I have changed my text alert to a turkey gobble (I got a new phone and so had to choose something). It's not much in the scheme of things, but maintaining my joy fends off dispair and allows me to keep moving forward. So gobble gobble, turkeys!
April 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In order to bring more joy into my life, I have changed my text alert to a turkey gobble (I got a new phone and so had to choose something). It's not much in the scheme of things, but maintaining my joy fends off dispair and allows me to keep moving forward. So gobble gobble, turkeys!