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@venetus.bsky.social
“The ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” - WB Yeats
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"The housing crisis is because of the illegal immigrants" they say and their base keep drinking that sweet sweet koolaid...
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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As the weekend kicks off, some of you may be considering a trip to a theme park or fair. Spare a thought for leisure seakers of the last century...

The entrance to a circus attraction from France, 1920. A kind of weird, creepy catterpillar ride. I'm intrigued but I wouldn't go in! 🐛
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November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised.

The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
Here's what each federal department plans to cut under Budget 2025 | CBC News
Tuesday's federal budget  offers a glimpse into how dozens of government departments plan to rein in spending following this summer's comprehensive expenditure review. Here's a department-by-departmen...
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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It's good weather for reading ghost stories
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Dear tech companies:

Stop offering AI solutions that will do the thinking and creating for me. Thinking and creating aren't the obstacles to my goal... they're the whole point of why I wanted to do it in the first place.
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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April 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Btw, there are only 3 prints of this left in @markjarrellart.bsky.social’s shop! ↓
March 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Pablo Picasso, Woman in the Studio, June 10, 1956 #stlartmuseum #artmuseum
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Excited to be teaching a new seminar on "Order and Anarchy in Twelfth-Century England" in January 2025.

I'll be posting some of the illuminations I'll be using in the class to Bluesky. This one's interesting (to me, at least). For more info, see the Alt text.
December 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Women couldn't be outlawed in 13th-century England because they were never put in law. Instead, women accused of crimes were ordered to be waived if they failed to appear at trial. The consequence of waivery was the same as outlawry's: execution (often immediately and without trial). 🧵1/4
November 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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I am angry at the lack of social housing in my city, in my province, and in my country.

I am angry at the lack of mental health services in my city, in my province and in my country.

I am angry at the lack of supportive housing supports and lack of public toilets so even when I want to use a
November 12, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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When legal cases begin like a joke:

Three men and a priest are having a drink in the house of Libert the merchant...

Wanna know how this case from the year 1235 ends? Libert got killed, the accused fled and the priest buried Libert before the coroner arrived to examined the body.
October 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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A Picasso face drawn in the year 1250 at the top of a plea roll (a record of court proceedings) made by Justice Henry Bath's clerk.
October 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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Well-behaved Yale professors seldom make history
July 16, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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"Slavery made the planters very rich, but it made the South very poor." - @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social
aeon.co/essays/capit...
Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy
aeon.co
April 4, 2024 at 1:54 AM