Elias G Saba
@egsaba.bsky.social
Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Left a ceramic mug on my car roof this morning heading out to drop off the kids. It was basically turned to dust by the time I got back. RIP green mug
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Left a ceramic mug on my car roof this morning heading out to drop off the kids. It was basically turned to dust by the time I got back. RIP green mug
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Yes, true.
@flaminghydra.com is $3/month, it is a coop 100% owned by 60+ writers / artists who make it
Recent unpaywalled pieces:
@samthielman.com on Platner's tattoos:
flaminghydra.com/boys-lives/
@josie.zone and @zachrabiroff.com on Marvel's secret ghostwriter:
flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...
@flaminghydra.com is $3/month, it is a coop 100% owned by 60+ writers / artists who make it
Recent unpaywalled pieces:
@samthielman.com on Platner's tattoos:
flaminghydra.com/boys-lives/
@josie.zone and @zachrabiroff.com on Marvel's secret ghostwriter:
flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Yes, true.
@flaminghydra.com is $3/month, it is a coop 100% owned by 60+ writers / artists who make it
Recent unpaywalled pieces:
@samthielman.com on Platner's tattoos:
flaminghydra.com/boys-lives/
@josie.zone and @zachrabiroff.com on Marvel's secret ghostwriter:
flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...
@flaminghydra.com is $3/month, it is a coop 100% owned by 60+ writers / artists who make it
Recent unpaywalled pieces:
@samthielman.com on Platner's tattoos:
flaminghydra.com/boys-lives/
@josie.zone and @zachrabiroff.com on Marvel's secret ghostwriter:
flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...
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How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.
Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).
Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).
Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.
Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).
Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
Becoming Arab by Yossef Rapoport arrives next week on 18 November (13 Jan UK pub).
Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
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turns out it wasnt "just manchin and sinema" (it never was)
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
turns out it wasnt "just manchin and sinema" (it never was)
Three days of wrestling practice and suddenly my six-year old wants gold chains for Christmas.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Three days of wrestling practice and suddenly my six-year old wants gold chains for Christmas.
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Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
At least once per day. I need an automated reply.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
At least once per day. I need an automated reply.
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
At least once per day. I need an automated reply.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
Unfortunately, AP lit does not fulfill the Literature distribution requirement.
At least once per day. I need an automated reply.
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I am increasingly skeptical of the whole AP thing. In the past ~5 years, I've had a consistently growing number of first year students crash out in the science, math, and language classes they've placed into on the basis of their AP scores. Acing the exam ≠ the ability to apply that knowledge
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I am increasingly skeptical of the whole AP thing. In the past ~5 years, I've had a consistently growing number of first year students crash out in the science, math, and language classes they've placed into on the basis of their AP scores. Acing the exam ≠ the ability to apply that knowledge
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I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article...
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death
| Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
journals.uio.no
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article...
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
#plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
Saw today I have a contact saved as "Unknown." Who could it be?!
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Saw today I have a contact saved as "Unknown." Who could it be?!
I've long been using a LaTeX file for my academic CV, but now running into a problem where copying all of the Latex language doesn't actually reproduce the finished product. Bah!!
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've long been using a LaTeX file for my academic CV, but now running into a problem where copying all of the Latex language doesn't actually reproduce the finished product. Bah!!
This but for the NBA Cup.
I have a modest proposal that the MLB should not play World Series games on Halloween.
My favorite Mets postseason story is nine years ago when my parents were visiting and agreed to watch my then-baby twins on Halloween so we could pass out candy and take the older kid trick-or-treating and they backed out 30 minutes in because the twins were distracting them from the World Series.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This but for the NBA Cup.
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Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
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Save 70% on @petersinger.info's Consider the Turkey through 10/31! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
With #Thanksgiving only a month away, now’s the perfect time to learn more about the centerpiece of countless holiday dinners. 🦃
#Philosophy #Holidays
With #Thanksgiving only a month away, now’s the perfect time to learn more about the centerpiece of countless holiday dinners. 🦃
#Philosophy #Holidays
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Save 70% on @petersinger.info's Consider the Turkey through 10/31! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
With #Thanksgiving only a month away, now’s the perfect time to learn more about the centerpiece of countless holiday dinners. 🦃
#Philosophy #Holidays
With #Thanksgiving only a month away, now’s the perfect time to learn more about the centerpiece of countless holiday dinners. 🦃
#Philosophy #Holidays
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I am reminded that in 1998 I taught a full-year honours seminar on the 19th-century British novel for which we read twelve. twelve! yes, twelve! novels, including *both* Vanity Fair and Middlemarch. (Looks wistfully at the scant list of four books assigned for her current one-term class.)
October 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I am reminded that in 1998 I taught a full-year honours seminar on the 19th-century British novel for which we read twelve. twelve! yes, twelve! novels, including *both* Vanity Fair and Middlemarch. (Looks wistfully at the scant list of four books assigned for her current one-term class.)
Can't believe I sat here moping online instead of tuning in to the game.
Austin Reaves with 51 points & 11 rebounds, the first 50-point double-double by an undrafted* player since Neil Johnston in 1954.
It's just the fourth 50-point game by an undrafted* player in NBA history.
It's just the fourth 50-point game by an undrafted* player in NBA history.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Can't believe I sat here moping online instead of tuning in to the game.
Sixers going undefeated. Write that down!
Of the four remaining unbeaten teams in the NBA, only the Oklahoma City Thunder (3-0) made the playoffs last season. The Chicago Bulls (2-0), Philadelphia 76ers (2-0) and San Antonio Spurs (3-0) were all in the 2025 lottery.
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Sixers going undefeated. Write that down!
Incredible Sixers game again, but crushing for the producer to show the moment a young Hornets fan in the crowd had their spirit destroyed.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Incredible Sixers game again, but crushing for the producer to show the moment a young Hornets fan in the crowd had their spirit destroyed.
I don't find the White House stuff compelling at all, but he's deciding to undergo major govt. spending during the shutdown. Karoline Leavitt said that the ballroom was his #1 priority! Maybe the fact that most will never step foot in a ballroom is all the reason to talk about it!!!
What happened to Gretchen Whitmer? I care about the destruction of the country, I really do. A lot of Americans do. 7 million of them came out in the streets last weekend. Why do so many Dem pols insist on saying it doesn't matter?
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I don't find the White House stuff compelling at all, but he's deciding to undergo major govt. spending during the shutdown. Karoline Leavitt said that the ballroom was his #1 priority! Maybe the fact that most will never step foot in a ballroom is all the reason to talk about it!!!
I've been using the techniques from the Sinykin and Winant book in teaching a first year writing class. It's going well, but I DID NOT have any of this background on what high school curricula are doing. Explains much.
. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I put CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY together to help connect what undergrads do in assignments with what we do as scholars
then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers
slate.com/life/2025/10...
then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers
slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I've been using the techniques from the Sinykin and Winant book in teaching a first year writing class. It's going well, but I DID NOT have any of this background on what high school curricula are doing. Explains much.
Burke is totally correct here, but I have been surprised how discussions of NBA betting scandals have all focused on the complicity of the player (player betting on his unders) and almost nothing about coaching and training staff.
a reminder as always that indictments are NOT descriptions of things that actually happened, they are descriptions of what PROSECUTORS say happened
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Burke is totally correct here, but I have been surprised how discussions of NBA betting scandals have all focused on the complicity of the player (player betting on his unders) and almost nothing about coaching and training staff.
This Halloween, I'm dressing up as the "Lord" from "The Lord of the Rings."
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This Halloween, I'm dressing up as the "Lord" from "The Lord of the Rings."
Is anyone here going to the MESA conference in DC next month?
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is anyone here going to the MESA conference in DC next month?
Born wealthy, risk enthusiast, vet, blue collar job. Pretty clear picture honestly.
![Early life
Platner was born in 1984 in Blue Hill, Maine. 111[21 He was raised in Sullivan, a coastal town in rural Maine near Acadia National Park, and Ellsworth. 131 14] 151 He is the elder of two sons born to restaurant owner Leslie Harlow and lawyer Bronson Platner. (51 (31 121
His grandfather was the modernist architect Warren Platner.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Born wealthy, risk enthusiast, vet, blue collar job. Pretty clear picture honestly.