Ryan Eisenman
@eisenmanryan.bsky.social
History of Art, UPenn
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📍DC
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📍DC
once again Cardi B proves she is one of the greatest poets of our generation
September 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
once again Cardi B proves she is one of the greatest poets of our generation
have been back in the US for less than 24 hours and an old woman already catcalled me
August 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
have been back in the US for less than 24 hours and an old woman already catcalled me
Tim Ingold is writing for the Onion now??!
August 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Tim Ingold is writing for the Onion now??!
sending this gif with the message “sickening, no” to a straight colleague in response to news about DC and realizing the reference was in no way understood…
a woman in a red white and blue outfit with the word bam
ALT: a woman in a red white and blue outfit with the word bam
media.tenor.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
sending this gif with the message “sickening, no” to a straight colleague in response to news about DC and realizing the reference was in no way understood…
woke up from a nap and had a moment of blissful confusion and then realized, it is still today
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
woke up from a nap and had a moment of blissful confusion and then realized, it is still today
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Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
![[6] L To Calvisius.
Thave been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish.
"How is that possible," you ask, "in Rome?" Well, the Circensian games have been on, and that is a kind of spectacle which has not the slightest attraction for me. There is no novelty, no variety in it, nothing which one wants to see twice. Hence I am the more amazed that so many thousands of men * should be eager, like a pack of children, to see horses running time after time, and the charioteers bending over their cars. There might be some reason for their enthusiasm if it was the speed of the hors or the skill of the drivers that was the attraction, but it is the racing-colours which they favour, and the racing-colours that fire their love.
If, in the middle of the course and during the race itself, the colours were to be changed, their enthusiasm and partisanship would change with them, and they would suddenly desert the drivers and the horses, whom they recognise afar and whose names they shout aloud. Such is the influence and authority vested i one cheap tunic, I don't say with the common crowd, - for that is even cheaper than the tunic, - but with certain men of position; and when I consider that they can sit for so long without growing tired, looking on at such a fruitless, cheerless, and tedious sport, I really feel a sort of pleasure in the thought that what they take delight in has no charm for me. Thus it is that I have been only too glad to pass my leisure time among my books during the race-meeting, while others have been wasting their days in the most idle occupations. Farewell.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreieap7ojlbpperccfkitgfnxrufik6wdvrgrtfa6ssdm72ihbdhwqm@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
two glorious days at the Abegg-Stiftung surrounded by medieval textiles, breathing fresh air, and passing a morning with more enamels
July 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
two glorious days at the Abegg-Stiftung surrounded by medieval textiles, breathing fresh air, and passing a morning with more enamels
okay now we’re talking
Oh gosh yes. I wish I had called out the scholar who delberately HID a cool primary source with a false file reference.*
I worked out where it actually is, but too late, in my last visit to the National Archives. I need to go back sometime to dig it out but it’s a long way across London for me.
I worked out where it actually is, but too late, in my last visit to the National Archives. I need to go back sometime to dig it out but it’s a long way across London for me.
spent the afternoon writing an 800 word footnote about a (intentional?) misinterpretation of a primary source by a scholar almost 60 years ago and its repetition by many other scholars who could have checked the primary source themselves, and i do feel a little less annoyed at them all now
July 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
okay now we’re talking
spent the afternoon writing an 800 word footnote about a (intentional?) misinterpretation of a primary source by a scholar almost 60 years ago and its repetition by many other scholars who could have checked the primary source themselves, and i do feel a little less annoyed at them all now
July 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
spent the afternoon writing an 800 word footnote about a (intentional?) misinterpretation of a primary source by a scholar almost 60 years ago and its repetition by many other scholars who could have checked the primary source themselves, and i do feel a little less annoyed at them all now
ahhh yes, well the Netherlands does have a long history of *checks notes* pro-Catholic sentiment…wait…
June 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
ahhh yes, well the Netherlands does have a long history of *checks notes* pro-Catholic sentiment…wait…
how do you tell someone that in the year of our Lord 2025 there’s no reason to use portrait mode for every single picture ever
May 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
how do you tell someone that in the year of our Lord 2025 there’s no reason to use portrait mode for every single picture ever
you can’t be serious
May 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
you can’t be serious
sometimes i feel bad about not knowing exactly what my non-academic friends do for work but tonight one friend revealed to me he thought i was doing post doc and was confused why i kept saying i needed to “finish my dissertation”
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
sometimes i feel bad about not knowing exactly what my non-academic friends do for work but tonight one friend revealed to me he thought i was doing post doc and was confused why i kept saying i needed to “finish my dissertation”
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The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.
RFK Jr. is ending the federal Narcan distribution program credited with the recent steep decline in overdose deaths. This despite his own past heroin addiction and his own brother dying of a drug overdose in 1984.
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
www.latintimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.
girl just call him
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
girl just call him
saw an IG reel about “wig blindness” and realized i likely did not know wigs even existed until the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana, meaning i stopped believing in Santa before i knew a basic and longstanding form of hair fashion actually existed
April 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
saw an IG reel about “wig blindness” and realized i likely did not know wigs even existed until the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana, meaning i stopped believing in Santa before i knew a basic and longstanding form of hair fashion actually existed
did not pay attention and put my parents in the “walk up stairs” line of the Eiffel Tower 😬😬🙃
March 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
did not pay attention and put my parents in the “walk up stairs” line of the Eiffel Tower 😬😬🙃
s/o to the woman tapping the doorframes at Versailles to see if they’re really marble
March 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
s/o to the woman tapping the doorframes at Versailles to see if they’re really marble
something deeply unsettling about seeing a pigeon try to eat shwarma…
March 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
something deeply unsettling about seeing a pigeon try to eat shwarma…
okay 26 hours but sure
we’re 24 hours away from every drag queen posting reels singing “I can be your girlfriend for the weekend / you can be my boyfriend for the night” ; RuPaul already purchasing the rights for a lip sync for your life
March 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
okay 26 hours but sure
we’re 24 hours away from every drag queen posting reels singing “I can be your girlfriend for the weekend / you can be my boyfriend for the night” ; RuPaul already purchasing the rights for a lip sync for your life
March 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
we’re 24 hours away from every drag queen posting reels singing “I can be your girlfriend for the weekend / you can be my boyfriend for the night” ; RuPaul already purchasing the rights for a lip sync for your life
look I know there’s a lot happening geopolitically right now however I am going to need this trend of men with shaggy mohawks/short mullets to end expeditiously
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
look I know there’s a lot happening geopolitically right now however I am going to need this trend of men with shaggy mohawks/short mullets to end expeditiously