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Home - remimo About REMIMO Money increasingly matters in immigration, and can determine whether you can enter a country, bring in your spouse, stay there over time, and have access to citizenship. This is the case ...

The project:

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Slide showing the text "underliggende budskap fra staten om innvandrere" (in English, underlying messages from the State on immigrants.

I'm at the end seminar of the REMIMO project (Regulating Migration and Membership through Monetary Requirements), & it's great & rather depressing. #migration #academicsky

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Update! I did see the dragon! 🥰

A green field and blue sky on the edge of Portishead parish

Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵

Update: the shoes are still there and it turns out the laces are blue. Also now accompanied by an empty vodka bottle.

Anyway, WE HAVE A DRAGON IN OUR COLLECTIONS!

And we will go see it today. Updates to follow 🥰 #academicsky #folklore

(This is a classic dragon migratory legend, known many places in Europe, e.g. in Brnó!)

At the place where the dragon fell and bled to death, there is now a small well with brown and dirty water, known locally as the "dragon hole".

The legend tells the story of a dragon bothering parishoners by coming each morning to rest on the church roof. Apparently the dragon looked like a snake with wings, and hair like a horse. There was nothing to do, until someone managed to kill it with a poisoned arrow.

Old drawing. A dragon in a landscape, which, according to the Italian inscription, lived in the swamps outside Rome on December 1, 1691.

However, in 1936, visitors to the museum told our curator that local legend claimed the bone came from a dragon!

(My friend & colleague Mattias Ekman has informed me that fossilised whale bones were used as proof of The Great Flood of the Bible, and popular in churches!)

Old black and white photo of a piece of bone.

In 1901, @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social was given some old valuables from the old church at Skiptvedt. Among the things were a vertebra of a whale that had supposedly been used as the foot of the old baptismal font.

Heraldic shield of Skiptvedt (municipality in Eastern Norway). The shield is a silver dragon on red background.

Today I'm going to see a dragon! 🧵
#museumlife

Oscar had been warned about the dangers of placing his tongue on his spear in minus 10° C weather, but he just couldn’t help himself - 8th/9th century, 
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v

Portrait of Steven Schultz taken with my grandfather's Hasselblad

This unacknowledged World AIDS day, I'm remembering my two beloved uncles who died of AIDS in the 90s: Steven Schultz (seen in the photo) and Don Reid. They lived on the upper west side of Manhattan, in a stretch of apartments along the West Side Highway and I vividly remember their small apartment.

My youngest attends a dual enrollment HS. Both the HS and the college go on AT LENGTH about not using AI for assignments.

Yet every bit of software on the school supplied computers has AI enabled with no way to turn it off since they can’t mod the software on a school supplied computer.

It’s the perfect time to mention that my book makes an unusual and fascinating Christmas present! Only 3 books left at Amazon but plenty available at Pen & Sword or Peterborough Museum

I may have to buy the book now! Seems super interesting.

I had so much fun talking to Jenn about Selling Out Santa!

Please have a listen:

Ingestion / Pontormo’s “Diary” | Elizabeth Pilliod Food and the management of the artist’s melancholy

What painter Jacopo Pontormo ate in 1554:
On Sunday, I ate lunch with Bronzino—chicken and veal—and felt well... In the evening I ate a bit of roasted dry meat which made me thirsty.
Saturday I went to the tavern: salad and omelet, and cheese, and I felt good. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/pi...

The best thing about the current Discourse is all the (latin) Americans making jokes. Also, this:

All I want for Christmas is no more journalists asking repetitive Christmas questions, and also that our amazing chain letter journal article is published before the year is over. #folklore

New #AIstories publication by @annesigrid.bsky.social! I love this one: it compares human-told variants of a folktale with LLM-generated variants, finding 1) the implicit is made explicit 2) floatif motifs (fascinating new concept) 3) sex is censored, cannibalism augmented doi.org/10.3390/h141...

Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

Definitely a hill people should stop dying on

all those years work pitching the value of the humanities and STILL when financial crunch comes and management consultants role in, they could not care less.

history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!

Frontispiece of the first (1547) edition of Balthasar Staindl's Künstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch held at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. The image shows a woodcut of a richly equipped and busy kitchen. The master cook is standing to the left of the large masonry hearth, tasting the contents of a large cookpot stood next to the fire while a cauldron is suspended above it. Two men in the background seem to be addressing him. In the right foreground, another man is cutting meat on a work surface set up atop a wooden trough on trestles. Carcasses and a large sausage are shown suspended on the wall in the background. Everything about this image - the size, the range of equipment, the exclusively male staff, the amounts of meat on display - signals wealth. This is the kind of kitchen you would expect to find in the house of a rich burgher or landed nobleman. The motif recurs in many German cookbooks of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.

Today, a set of recipes for cooking lungs and liver in spicy sauces. #Earlymodern German had no word for #offal, but some meats were less equal than others.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/26/l...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #organmeat

Don’t miss this wonderful talk with Roy Vickery looking at queer plant lore, can’t wait as this is such a new and unique topic! 🌸
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

A woodcut of three women in a thatched hut grinding maize, forming and cooking tortillas text reads: "Modo di fare il pane Le donne Molandaie che lo macinano pigliano una quantità di questo grano, & la sera inanzi lo bagnano con acqua fredda; la mattina con due pie[tre]..." ["Method of making bread The miller women who grind it take a quantity of this grain, and in the evening they soak it in cold water; in the morning, with two stones..."] https://archive.org/details/la-historia-del-mondo-nuovo/page/n123/mode/1up?q=pane

How to make tortillas, from Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo (Venice, 1565)