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Dr. Jim Getz

@jimgetz.bsky.social

Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Associate Prof of Intellectual Heritage at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk. he/they/Dr Philly AF. Speaking for no one but myself.

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More than that get your administration on board. I'm lucky in that my uni actually has boilerplate verbiage in place with penalties for students who violate them. Without your schools lawyers behind you, the syllabus statement is pretty meaningless when you are all over cable news.

02.11.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

02.11.2025 03:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3564    ๐Ÿ” 319    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

JFC this game.

02.11.2025 03:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
02.11.2025 02:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 374    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Gotta love a game seven.

02.11.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm constantly amazed they are this far into a rollout and haven't hired someone who actually understands people to run coms.

01.11.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Candy and nips of vodka

Candy and nips of vodka

Weโ€™ve got a bag of Halloween-flavored vodka shots for the adults here.

31.10.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ahhhhh, yes. Frankenstein. That inspired cautionary tale about what happens when a bright but arrogant student completely ignores the syllabus and just does their own thing, as completely befits the season of "2/3 through the semester and people are panicking."

31.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When we were kids if you had given us a potato we would have burned your house down. But the โ€˜70s were like that.

31.10.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

31.10.2025 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5558    ๐Ÿ” 1564    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

Every damn day.

30.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today, as the boundaries between worlds becomes thin, I performed the rites of elimination on the departmental coffeemaker.

30.10.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Holy shit!

30.10.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow. First pitch over the wall.

30.10.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesnโ€™t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. Itโ€™s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

28.10.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 545    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

โ€œMy life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christโ€™s return,โ€ he said.

28.10.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll be honest, I called it quits after the 11th last night. I watched the entire 7 hours 28 minutes & 18 innings of game 3 2018 WS when my Sox were in it, but I owe no allegiance to either of these teams.

28.10.2025 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if youโ€™d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

28.10.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 111    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britainโ€™s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

28.10.2025 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
28.10.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14571    ๐Ÿ” 4492    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 103    ๐Ÿ“Œ 89

That tracks.

28.10.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RETVRN

28.10.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

28.10.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 649    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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If you canโ€™t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one Always be manifesting.

This version of Total Recall sucks.

27.10.2025 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 339    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

I think the only way that I am going to survive these accursed times is by getting a corgi and dressing him in little outfits.

27.10.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm so tired of this fucking shit.

27.10.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a close up of a stuffed animal with a purple light coming out of it 's eyes . Alt: Dark Crystal scene of a gelfling having its life essence drained.

Big time Dark Crystal energy there....

27.10.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think itโ€™s the tan pants that I really dislike on these Steelers uniforms.

27.10.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman in a green hat is speaking into a microphone while standing in front of a crowd of people . Alt: Mayor Parker misspelling โ€œEaglesโ€

Hell yeah.

26.10.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still holding true.

26.10.2025 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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