Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
On this morning 162 years ago thousands of Black South Carolinians gathered for a celebration of newfound freedom. After a reading of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation at Camp Saxton they broke into song - the words of My Country Tis of Thee echoing through a live oak grove on a former plantation.
I was at a music party. I played a song she liked. Someone played a mambo and we danced.
cant sleep, stewing, thinking about how easy it is for men to be taken seriously as intellectuals, and how much ground you have to claw and claw to be taken with a quarter of the gravity, as a woman
"You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky & Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” J Baldwin
(My Gen Ed classes are entirely OER.)
One of the best things I ever did for myself was stop comparing my life trajectory to people who have support systems. I won’t say I never had help, but I’m just now truly understanding the difference between “assistance” and “support”.
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
I'd read the grapes of wrath like 25 years ago but i recently listened to the audiobook and was like holy shit this is a manifesto in prose form this guy must've caught a lotta shit when it came out so I looked it up n he got so many death threats he started carrying a gun
Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.
Yeah, sorry, not letting anybody in a country with universal healthcare guilt trip me about not feeling bad enough for the UHC CEO’s family
So UNC Chapel Hill can hire Bill Belichick for $30 million but humanities courses at UNC Asheville and UNC Greensboro cost too much money 🤔
This is your reminder that, if you're flying through JFK and have a layover, there is a heated swimming pool atop the vintage TWA Terminal & also multiple cocktail bars, and you can buy a day pass to the pool. We discovered this last year. Also, everything is holiday decorations. It's so great.
My dad died at 50 because it was pre-ACA and he could not get insured. I was 20 years old. My mom had to declare bankruptcy. That was enough to radicalize me. And there are tons of us with similar stories.
Sometimes, because parchment undulates, even in digital facsimile we can see medieval illuminations as they would have looked with an indirect light source. Light and shadow made the page come alive every time it was used, for example, in a liturgical context.
BSB Clm 22311, late 9th century
Very proud of my grad center PhD!
This is my school (Brooklyn College, CUNY). In the classroom we can feel this "propelling" action every semester. It's incredible how the value CUNY colleges provide the state and the nation seems invisible to those with the power to maintain and grease those propellers.
The “Americans think democracy can’t end in America because they’ve never seen it end here” is hilarious because uh my Black ass southern parents were basically full adults before experiencing democracy in America so there’s that
Listen: When a media outlet casually throws "medieval" into a headline, they aren't making an argument about legal history. They are using it as a casual pejorative to try and cast the current topic as non-modern. It's rarely correct history. It's never a rhetorical move meant to illuminate.
most of the time having two glasses of white wine will leave you in a good mood but sometimes having two glasses of white wine will leave you with the deep existential angst of a medieval emperor worried that his advisers are conspiring against him
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
My respect for the man once known as James Baldwin continues to grow unabated. 🗃️
Black Friday reminder:
You can save 100% if you don't buy anything!
At checkout. Older man grumbles to HS-aged checker that he can't get a rubber band for his egg carton "now that Democrats have banned them."
Checker doesn't say a word, just pulls out bag of rubber bands, bands his carton & shoots him the scathing look perfected by teens.
Some heroes wear nametags
I’m doing a confit.
the murder poem tradition is ancient and venerable, every icelandic saga involves this
I have twins. I learned when they were babies that 4 hrs of sleep = one sleep cycle, and it does enormous good to get it somehow.
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#proofofcat
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