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medievaliste.bsky.social
Gillian Gower, PhD
@medievaliste.bsky.social
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research: music, political culture, and identity in medieval England and beyond

academic editing and historical consulting ⤵️
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Why would someone do something so sick? What is wrong with you?
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November 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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This is Melon, or Melonious Chunk when she’s at home
Closeup of a small tan dog staring into the camera
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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that is certainly a way to describe La Boheme
View All Los Angeles Shows › La Boheme Rodolfo is a struggling poet burning his manuscripts to keep out the winter chill. Mimi is a fellow tenant with big dreams and a deadly illness. A chance meeting has them falling in love, but when you're at the bottom of Parisian society, every day could be your last. puccinis blockbuster operal returns to our stage starring Janai Brugger as the sweet but suffering Mimi and Oreste Cosimo as the lovestruck Rodolfo, with Gihoon Kim and Erica Petrocelli as the on-again-off-again lovers Marcello and Musetta.
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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lmao
What is Text With Jesus? Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, users candext questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan. While testing the app, Thompson was curious to ask Jesus why bad things happen to good people.
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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does anyone know what postage I need for this
a postcard addressed to chuck schumer. the handwritten message reads “retire bitch”
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The requirements for this job as an English professor appear to be roughly the same as those for a job at Starbucks
Assistant Professor of English • Communicating effectively and courteously with others, including employees, students, and the public, in a spirit of teamwork, respect and customer service.
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
medievaliste.bsky.social
remodeling my bathroom like a king
A medieval latrine in the guardhouse at Caerphilly Castle, Wales. A stone room with a thin, glassless window. The toilet consists of a board with a large round hole positioned on a small stone bench built into the wall.
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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haha well I am merely an interior decorating hobbyist but this spot behind the chandelier looks like shit to me
the most ahistorical bathroom remodel of all time
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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lol
two headline articles in the chronicle of higher education. Top: Pauses in PhD Admissions Are a Blessing in Disguise. Bottom: There has Never been a Better Time to Start a PhD.
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I definitely need to buy these gothic cathedral nail art stickers for research purposes, right?
product image of black nail art stickers in the shape of gothic cathedral windows on long white nails. more stickers are visible in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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time to cleanse your timeline with this little sun worshipper
A very happy tan chihuahua sunbathing. She is laying on green grass (fake, don’t @ me, we rent) and looking up at the sun with her eyes half closed and her pink tongue out
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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the wine moms demand action
Photograph of women suffrage activists wearing suffrage sashes demonstrating with signs at city street corner. Signs read "President Wilson How Long Do You Advise Us to Wait?", "Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Suffrage", "Wilson is Against Women," and "Why Does Wilson Seek Votes From Women When He Opposes Votes For Women." Police on horseback and on foot far right. Taken in Chicago, October 1916.
October 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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here come the normie wine mom shitlibs, so cringe
Women’s suffrage activists protesting President Woodrow Wilson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1917. The banners say “Mr President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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If you’re British, this could be the most upsetting photo you’ll see today
Supermarket shelf with Heinz salad cream and the smallest jar of Marmite you’ve ever seen priced at $10.49 and $9.99 USD respectively
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Targeted advertising is completely out of control
Edited image of a WhatsApp group chat (from an ad) Text: Team bride 8 members - we need a bach theme! - disco? - rodeo??? - goldberg variations?
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Please, her name is Kermeena
Kermit the Frog in drag as Kermeena. Kermina is wearing a red leotard, pearls, and a blonde curly wig
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
Miss Piggy embracing Kermit the Frog
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Democrats may not be great at messaging, but at least they didn’t put a tombstone that says RIP in a doctor’s office
Photo of a doctors office waiting room. A small faux tombstone sits on a side table. The tombstone reads “RIP” with a skull and crossbones below it. The skull even has red eyes.
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Mike Johnson’s office is using a government website to express his hope that the Democrats come to their “census” [sic] soon

These people aren’t just corrupt and selfish, they’re too overconfident and lazy to use spell check.
Screenshot of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s government website. Taken on 10/07/2026. Text: “U.S. CONGRESSMAN MIKE JOHNSON "The simple truth is Democrats in Congress have dragged our country into another reckless shutdown to satisfy their far-left base. That is the truth. Whether or not the government remains open or reopens is entirely up to them. There's still time for Democrats to pass this clean, bipartisan bill that's sitting before them. And we encourage our Democrat colleagues to do that. I certainly pray they'll come to their census [sic] soon, do the right and responsible thing."”
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Seems more like a shit sandwich replacing a perfectly good graduate program but what do I know
“Carnegie Mellon University is tapping its strengths in computer and data science to reframe one of its humanities doctoral programs in hopes of preparing graduates to navigate an increasingly tough job market. Starting next fall, the English department at the Pittsburgh-based institution will offer a Ph.D. in computational cultural studies, which it says is the first program of its kind in the country. The program will replace the traditional literary and cultural studies program and will train students to use computational methodologies to produce historical, theoretical and cultural scholarship. Christopher Warren, head of CMU's English Department, said creating the program-which has already received dozens of applications-was like "combining peanut butter and chocolate" in an era marked by the integration of computer algorithms into nearly every aspect of daily life.””
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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good news! graduate school in music related fields is now a Top Career
The B. A. in Music degree will prepare students in a wide variety of music related fields including performing, music management, music education, recording, and graduate studies in music. Top careers include: • Professional live and touring performer • Studio musician • Studio producer and/or engineer • Music educator • Composer/arranger • Singer-songwriter • Music business position • Graduate studies in music related fields • Music publishing • Multimedia music marketing • Music retail management • Music therapy practice
September 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I don’t know, I’ve never been to the Cornell campus. But yeah, MSE Library has 4 underground floors, known as levels A-D. By tradition, the levels get progressively quieter as you descend, meaning quiet conversation is acceptable on A-level but God help you if you speak on D-level.
Cross section of MSE Library at Johns Hopkins University showing the below-ground levels
September 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Meme post of modified Tweet by Lauren (@NotABigJerk). Text: "I'm not falling for that [Nature article]. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion."
August 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Good news! This manuscript has, in fact, been digitized and now we can all enjoy the *checks notes* "naked dolphin windsurfing", presumably to the dulcet tones of Dufay's Kyrie from the Missa Se la face ay pale
Partial leaf from a manuscript of medieval music. On the upper left side of the page there is a miniature painting of a nude woman paddle boarding on a dolphin's back (yes, really) surrounded by a gold leaf border. Musical notation follows: it's the superius (highest voice) of Guillaume Dufay's "Missa Se la face ay pale" showing the opening breves of the Kyrie. Vatican City, Vatican Apostolic Library, ms. Capp.Sist.14 (Italy, ca. 1472-81).
August 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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having a wild time finishing up this project
fol. 6v: Virgin, child, and praying monk fol. 14v: Virgin and child fol. 27v: naked dolphin windsurfing fol. 38v: blue, green, red, pink, gold ‘k’ fol. 47v: blue, green, purple, gold ‘k’ fol. 56v: gold, purple, blue, green ‘k’ fol. 65v: black, gold, blue, purple ‘k’ with God the Father holding the Book of Life and up 2 fingers fol. 76v: naked dolphin windsurfer tamed the dolphin and the wind
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM