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My thesis is here! "Deals With The Devil: Possession And Exorcism In Jacobean Drama." It was so tiring but finally its done yay hdl.handle.net/11693/117540
Deals with the devil: possession and exorcism in jacobean drama
This thesis investigates the relationship between Jacobean audiences and Jacobean plays that have dealt with demonic possessions and exorcisms that included earthly gains. The study uses historical an...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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We commemorate with respect and gratitude Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık, prominent Ottoman historian and founder of the Department of History at Bilkent University, on the ninth anniversary of his passing (25 July).
July 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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There's a whole lot of this throughout the entire Sun-Times Summer 2025 section, I can't find most of the people or publications referred to or quoted in any of this (some of the publications exist but i can't find the cited people in them)
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
May 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ppl on tiktok are going "omg we're about to have an art renaissance like in the 1920s, music and stories are gonna be great" girl how 😭 you already don't support the artists that we have right now and most of yall are using chatgpt and devaluing actual human-made artwork.
April 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Adobe situation was pretty funny
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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A recap of Adobe on Bluesky yesterday
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Pikachu played an important role in the Chilean uprising of 2019.

“Tia Pikachu” became an icon of the protests in Plaza Dignidad and ultimately won a seat in the constitutional convention.

Now Pikachu can be seen in the streets of Turkey, resisting the despotic regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Pikachu successfully evades police in Turkey
March 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
www.theverge.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wolfgang vs Pikachu
January 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Really wish my dog understood “it’s too cold to go on a walk, you will not like it” rather than begging until I bundle up just to walk for two minutes until she gets too cold and returns home.
January 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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The Department of History at Bilkent University and the Bilkent Historical Society invite graduate students to the 2025 Bilkent History Graduate Symposium which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 7th and 8th of May, 2025.
December 7, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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i love art, i love artists, i love art because artists made it, I love artists because they make art
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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you (plebeian, unrefined): Die Hard is a Christmas movie

me (worldly, sophisticated): Die Hard is a Christmas film
December 13, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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I have 214.6K followers, and I figure at least some of them are looking to gift books this holiday season, so:

HEY AUTHORS OF BLUESKY: In the comments to this post, tell us (briefly!) about your most recent book, and put in a link to where people can learn more and/or buy the book in question.

Go!
December 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Give banned books for holiday gifts this year.
December 12, 2024 at 5:19 AM