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jenyth evans
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content designer @ aquila interactive 🌿 used to teach medieval irish lang & lit 🌿 views my own, not of my employer
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these thoughts have been rattling around in my brain for about a year and i finally had some time to scribble them down. some thoughts on how games might emulate the act of 'doing' history

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Historical interpretation as non-linear narrative
How games can reflect history as a discipline, not just historical facts.
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Never forget the all-time greatest placeholder asset, from Doom 64
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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they're lying in wait?? im lying in bed!!! you're the vizier, figure it out!! what am I paying you the big guilders for??
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
strongly considering cross-stitching 'LET THE LANDTHIEVES DO THEIR WORST!' & hanging it next to the HMO license in my gaff
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:

forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.

If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.

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November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍

These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895

© Trustees of the British Museum

#Roman #Archaeology
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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If you like your Halloween served with a heaped helping of book history, may I recommend ✨Book Curses✨, whose pages are darkened by curses from antiquity to the present day. Come for particularised gory threats, stay for perceptions of the material text. Written by some woman.
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Skeleton draped in a shroud Northern France, c. 1600

(Musée du Louvre)
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned:

youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
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October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I'm doing a side project linked to the cultural history of video games in 1980s Ireland and I'm finding exactly what I expected to find
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky!
➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars.
👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
excited is an understatement for how i'm feeling about Rhys' talk today! details in link below :)

if you are an Oxford uni member, please do pop along; if not but you're around Oxford, drop me an email; and if you'd like to attend virtually on Teams, please also drop me an email!
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Last night I attended the launch of Dublin in Deeds: Records of the Guild of St Anne, 1237-1778, @ria.ie The freely accessible digital resources and contextual essays are here on the Virtual Treasury website:

virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/g...

#Spéirghorm #MedievalSky
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Virtual Treasury
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October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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If you saw me present on Iolo's abolitionist poetry at the Glasgow @bars.bsky.social conference don't worry, this is about a different, much weirder poem.

Who doesn't like druidic transmigration of souls, eh?
October 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Speaking online/in-person tomorrow (17:15 UK Time) @oxfordceltic.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Iolo Morganwg's anti-slavery poetry and the slippery metaphor of enslavement in C18th radical Celticism

Email David Willis if you want a Teams link!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2dc...
Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in...
talks.ox.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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R.I.P. one of the last cornerstones of a functioning decent web.
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up!
For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM