Rebecca Quoss-Moore

A screenshot from the astrology app Costar, showing “trouble” in all the areas the app addresses: routine, thinking and creativity, spirituality, social life, sex and love, and self

Bruh.

When I showed this to my spouse, he quipped “data mining results: user likes onion rings,” but I think it’s really got legs as an explanation

Can I have it as experiential learning?

An image of a doggy daycare report, reading “Pocket was extremely resourceful and hid fully under our play equipment in an attempt to be forgotten before her bath! Unfortunately, the counselor is a hide and seek champion, and Pocket was retrieved for her bath, despite it all!” A list of other dogs is at the end of the report, with the last one reading “Mistletoe (The Missile.”

May I share with you the small joy that was my dog’s report card from daycare today?
(Bonus content: the name of the last dog on her friends list.)

Thank you! It was a really satisfying project!

CFP for a special issue on #Medieval #Asexualities!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Ty ty ❤️
And yeah, for sure; post away!

Thank you for the gorgeous, perfect yarn! This is exactly the red I wanted, and it feels so, so good 💕💕
I think next up is the baby alpaca/merino blend in Emerald Magi 👀

Just finished knitting my first sweater, using Republic of Yarnia’s ( @isasaxonists.bsky.social ) merino Aran!! Extremely pleased with it; already looking forward to the next one

More people voted for Kamala in Texas (4.8 million votes) and in Florida (4.7 million) than in New York State (4.6 million).

California had nearly the same number of Trump '24 voters (6.08 million) as Florida (6.11 million), and had only 300k less than Texas.

Does anyone else see the problem here?

*Out now in paperback*

'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social &‬ Ronan Hatfull
is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen.

bit.ly/3ZcDet2

Been thinking about that a lot lately. No reason.

I said, basically, harass your blue state representatives. Push them left. Their work is often our best shot at retaining rights and staying safe. And the person who had first asked kind of went “oh, well, I don’t think I have to worry about them.” And other auditors sort of nodded/agreed.

A couple years ago, I was in a workshop at SAA on using Shakespeare in times of political unrest. And as we moved to including the auditors, someone asked what they could do to support those of us who had done the workshop, almost all of whom worked in red states.

oh, it’s that skateboard trick you learn when you’re trying to learn to do a kickflip

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

Oh heck yeah

This is lovely, and it was a nice moment to pause and breath on a particularly awful day. Thank you so much for sharing 💕

(I mean, in medieval England, sure, but I did a quick search to try to find the citation for that info on iron deficiencies, which turns up that iron deficiency was a pretty widespread problem in the pre-modern world, and ????)

And so now I’m around to: were people just not eating their greens?

But then I remembered some research I was going last month on reproduction that included information on how widespread iron deficiencies were in medieval women.

Which led to: how much dirt did people eat before indoor plumbing?

Question one was just: wow, how did people wash their greens before indoor plumbing?

I’m processing garden greens, and it has led me to some Questions!

Why do I have a note on my calendar for tomorrow that reads “Zoom draft”? What does that mean? What could that beeeee?

Today is a work-from-home today, and I have accidentally left my planner on campus, and I cannot believe I was 30 before anyone figured out I had ADHD.

Five tired Shakespeareans of various genders, on a dance floor

We’ve done it! (Mostly #shax2025, but for sure #RSA2025 was part of the larger arc)

About to kick off the single most ambitiously scheduled conference day I’ve ever tackled (and it’s not as if the last two have been, uh, light). Highlights so far like Trans Milton and yesterday’s plenary suggest it will be worth it; time to get the day-that-doesn’t-end started at #shax2025 #RSA2025

Me!