Marjorie Harrington
@mlkharrington.bsky.social
Medieval manuscripts, SFF, cats, quilts.
Trying my best in Kalamazoo.
Black lives still matter.
Trans rights are still human rights.
Trying my best in Kalamazoo.
Black lives still matter.
Trans rights are still human rights.
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My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
The wind last night was so loud I didn't even hear this come down right across the street (the cones and machinery are from unrelated, planned work on the water service lines)
May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The wind last night was so loud I didn't even hear this come down right across the street (the cones and machinery are from unrelated, planned work on the water service lines)
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This is actually rather comforting
Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests
New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
arstechnica.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is actually rather comforting
Apropos of SO MANY things
95% of the potential implications of this are horrible and the other 5% are ABSOLUTE HILARITY
May 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Apropos of SO MANY things
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You HAVE to celebrate good things. Even if they’re tiny and fragile and may blow away. In fact, you have to celebrate the fragile ones EVEN HARDER because who knows how many chances you get?
If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.
If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.
March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You HAVE to celebrate good things. Even if they’re tiny and fragile and may blow away. In fact, you have to celebrate the fragile ones EVEN HARDER because who knows how many chances you get?
If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.
If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.
I've been offline a lot lately because of *gestures wildly* all of this, but I gotta share some pictures from a fantasy-themed wedding I went to earlier this month, because how adorable are these lovely people?
March 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I've been offline a lot lately because of *gestures wildly* all of this, but I gotta share some pictures from a fantasy-themed wedding I went to earlier this month, because how adorable are these lovely people?
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Calling all medievalists! Registration for the 60th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo opened this week! Head to our website to register and learn more about what to expect this May: wmich.edu/medievalcong... #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies
International Congress on Medieval Studies | Western Michigan University
wmich.edu
February 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Calling all medievalists! Registration for the 60th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo opened this week! Head to our website to register and learn more about what to expect this May: wmich.edu/medievalcong... #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies
I'm angry about a lot of things. Outraged, frightened, you name it.
But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?
But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?
February 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'm angry about a lot of things. Outraged, frightened, you name it.
But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?
But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?
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Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in:
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Vermont
Washington
You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Vermont
Washington
You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)
Enhanced Drivers Licenses: What Are They? | Homeland Security
Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) are state-issued enhanced drivers licenses that provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship.
www.dhs.gov
February 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in:
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Vermont
Washington
You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Vermont
Washington
You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)
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ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:
February 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:
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I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK
February 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK
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Anyway what you need to see today is probably one of the 9 puppies that got dropped along with his mother near the ranch. Dad was probably a German Shepherd, mom is the kind of medium sized yellow dog with black mask you get from mutts after many generations.
January 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Anyway what you need to see today is probably one of the 9 puppies that got dropped along with his mother near the ranch. Dad was probably a German Shepherd, mom is the kind of medium sized yellow dog with black mask you get from mutts after many generations.
"The outer leaf of each quire (quinio) is parchment, while the remaining leaves are papyrus."
Look at this, y'all!
Look at this, y'all!
Geneva MS lat 16 is a fun Uncial one: 7th/8th c., mixed papyrus and parchment codex! A fun contrast to exactly-contemporary English Uncial bc it's just as late an mannered but scriptio continua. e-codices.ch/en/searchres...
e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library. On the e-codices site, complete digital reproduction...
e-codices.ch
January 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"The outer leaf of each quire (quinio) is parchment, while the remaining leaves are papyrus."
Look at this, y'all!
Look at this, y'all!
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It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/?
(Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)
(Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)
January 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/?
(Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)
(Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)
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Le partage de Verdun (843) :
January 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Le partage de Verdun (843) :
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Also, look at how someone in the 14th-c. rewrote the text on every page, which is itself written in 9th-c. rustic capitals. This is good evidence that later readers found rustic capitals challenging to read, as they had gone out of fashion by the time Gothic script developed.
January 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Also, look at how someone in the 14th-c. rewrote the text on every page, which is itself written in 9th-c. rustic capitals. This is good evidence that later readers found rustic capitals challenging to read, as they had gone out of fashion by the time Gothic script developed.
Why did I not already have this bookmarked?! #medievalsky, you want this!
Addendum: if you're interested in pre-800 MSS, as I am, there is an outstanding and open, user-friendly way in: Earlier Latin Manuscripts at Galway, a digitization with updates of CLA, lets you filter by library, sort by date, and much more, with simple clicks: elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue
Manuscript Catalogue NUI Galway Project
A listing of Earlier Latin Manuscripts
elmss.nuigalway.ie
January 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Why did I not already have this bookmarked?! #medievalsky, you want this!
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NOW WHY DID THIS MAKE ME CRY
I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.
January 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NOW WHY DID THIS MAKE ME CRY
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CAPTCHA: are you a human
ME: yes
CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry
ME: yes
CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry
January 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
CAPTCHA: are you a human
ME: yes
CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry
ME: yes
CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry
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Like, listen, do you think I am *not* a wobbly ball of horror whenever I let myself think about anything but the immediate task in front of me? But that feeling accomplishes nothing by itself, so I post about birds and the dog and coveting weird little cactus.
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Like, listen, do you think I am *not* a wobbly ball of horror whenever I let myself think about anything but the immediate task in front of me? But that feeling accomplishes nothing by itself, so I post about birds and the dog and coveting weird little cactus.
Classes are canceled again tomorrow. Today made sense - the high temperature was 2⁰ F - but Wednesday it's gonna be a balmy 16⁰ F (-9⁰ C).
The only possible explanation: the university president wants to get in everyone's good graces before he retires at the end of the year
The only possible explanation: the university president wants to get in everyone's good graces before he retires at the end of the year
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Classes are canceled again tomorrow. Today made sense - the high temperature was 2⁰ F - but Wednesday it's gonna be a balmy 16⁰ F (-9⁰ C).
The only possible explanation: the university president wants to get in everyone's good graces before he retires at the end of the year
The only possible explanation: the university president wants to get in everyone's good graces before he retires at the end of the year
Progress? Progress!
(now's the time I always start questioning the wisdom of cutting cloth up into small triangles and sewing them back together into different triangles and squares, however)
(now's the time I always start questioning the wisdom of cutting cloth up into small triangles and sewing them back together into different triangles and squares, however)
January 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Progress? Progress!
(now's the time I always start questioning the wisdom of cutting cloth up into small triangles and sewing them back together into different triangles and squares, however)
(now's the time I always start questioning the wisdom of cutting cloth up into small triangles and sewing them back together into different triangles and squares, however)
In the name of not forgetting the small joys, I'm spending my snow day today at the craft table
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In the name of not forgetting the small joys, I'm spending my snow day today at the craft table
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nonzero chance at this point that I may be able to counteract a significant amount of my despair about the next four years with incredulous laughter about how stupid all of it is
it’s so stupid
it’s so stupid
January 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
nonzero chance at this point that I may be able to counteract a significant amount of my despair about the next four years with incredulous laughter about how stupid all of it is
it’s so stupid
it’s so stupid