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Laura
@lauropea.bsky.social
historian and philologist
rare books and manuscripts cataloguer
putting the t back in incunabula since 2025
wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)
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Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
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hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
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November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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VEB Blauhimmel
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
roadies of the rohirrim: 'where is the horse? it's on the rider. sorry if gondor calls then they need to fulfill the same obligations as any venue'
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
verwirrend, wie viele cafes ein sogenanntes 'wiener frühstück' anbieten, das ned amal a tschik und a 16er blech hat
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
this would 100% improve all library experiences
libraries should have vibe-check bouncers like berghain
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
it's a weird feeling writing about something thousands of years old (a cuneiform tablet) and including a sentence like 'this record of arrears under bala-taxation was once owned by J. H. Kellogg, aka "Mr Cornflakes"'
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
if there were a god he'd never have let americans read the bible
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
there is a certain type of person who goes to restaurants not to eat but because they consider the menu an affront to their authority which must be defeated by abusing the staff and it is zero surprise to learn that glinner is one of those
Fantastic little vignette about Glinner from today's @vittles.bsky.social newsletter (I highly recommend subscribing btw, if you're in any way interested in food).
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ME: sigh this acronym could have been a Sumerogram
February 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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ku-en-ni MUNUS.LUGAL
August 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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ya-aš-aš-ša MUNUS.LUGAL
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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there should be a realistic james bond movie where he just thinks he is being incredibly suave and daredevil but in fact he is just a middle-aged guy getting drunker and drunker and falling off shit
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished
June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
there should be a realistic james bond movie where he just thinks he is being incredibly suave and daredevil but in fact he is just a middle-aged guy getting drunker and drunker and falling off shit
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Edmund Ironside: 'dammit what happened to No Cnut November'
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I have been issued business cards, now i just need 7 boxes of people who care who i am to go with them
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
caesar's wife must be above aloofness
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
romance novel set in the auction-house world called NO RESERVE
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
my englisch is too german become
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Rethinking the Humanities in Light of Wanting People to Read My Stuff
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Edmund Ironside: 'dammit what happened to No Cnut November'
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Omg this is great. The initial reading is so bananas

www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
moon over the hofburg, this evening wearing some sort of projection
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM