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Dr. Emily MN Kugler

@emnk.bsky.social

Associate Professor @ Howard Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them. I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social

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Robert Burns by Greg Moodie A page dedicated to Burns Night, Robert Burns's poems and contemporary responses to the life and work of Scotland's national poet.

Around #BurnsNight our website is the most popular poetry website in the world. 100,000+ hits on Address To A Haggis page alone. (Extra bandwidth required).

Our website has resources for anyone planning a haggis, whisky & poetry happening + much more.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/burns-night/

21.01.2026 12:56 — 👍 17    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

Truly one of the coolest library spaces out there. Any of my DC nerds need a fun night out where you feel like you’re actually making something better?

21.01.2026 16:06 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Query from a student: is there a place where option deals on books are made public?

21.01.2026 17:23 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

30.12.2025 01:50 — 👍 905    🔁 390    💬 17    📌 48

I moved off Canvas this fall, and have set up spring using Box folders with some refinements from my students: organizing everything in weekly folders, & adding a shared calendar they can subscribe to in order to give them the deadline alerts they miss from Canvas.

30.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 114    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 2
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@diplomatea.bsky.social wanted a moving jaw and interchangeable eyes so this friend is really best viewed in motion

01.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Emily Kugler and Emily Friedman

Emily Kugler and Emily Friedman

@emnk.bsky.social often holds me down at these cons. She insists she has fun, but she’s also there more & more as my handler: not because I’m beating off crowds, but because it’s hard for me to regulate. So it’s a godsend to have someone who gets it but isn’t IN this space, who came up with me.

29.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Trying to convince myself that I have enough tarot decks but 😍

06.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A little tidbit: @janeese4dc.bsky.social just told me that her campaign qualified for public financing in just four hours since launching. That required getting $40,000 in small donations from at least 1,000 D.C. residents. That's pretty fast.

01.12.2025 17:54 — 👍 72    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 6

Cheers to all of us still learning in our 40s and beyond.

13.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am excited to hear about the Steam release. @friede.bsky.social and I the game's praises at a Global Jane Austen conference this summer. It's also on one of my syllabi this semester.

13.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Amateurish anime style art of sprites with various expressions of a middle aged woman in an 18th century purple dress holding a fan in front of her face.

Amateurish anime style art of sprites with various expressions of a middle aged woman in an 18th century purple dress holding a fan in front of her face.

The same character drawn in a more detailed and competent style.

The same character drawn in a more detailed and competent style.

I've been slowly improving the Northanger Sprites in advance of an eventual Steam release, this is probably the one I was least happy with and it's definitely improved! Never think it's too late to improve your art, I was in my late 30s when I drew the first lot and am still learning in my 40s.

13.09.2025 02:54 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Wild to think @emnk.bsky.social and I have been teaching and publishing about this NA adaptation for damn near half a decade.

13.09.2025 03:01 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My super, mega boardgame nerd, totally brilliant at every game, would put up against anyone friend @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy HAS NEVER PLAYED CATAN, so we are playing this morning.

I am Player One.

This is my ONE SHOT to beat my genius friend.

Prayers please.

05.07.2025 15:14 — 👍 101    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Very glad to see this as @emnk.bsky.social and I prepare to nerd out about Austen games at Global Austen.

30.06.2025 04:16 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
special edition cover of THE LESBIAN HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN featuring audiobook cover on pink picnic blanket with jamie loftus on one side holding a hot dog and chuck tingle on the other side

special edition cover of THE LESBIAN HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN featuring audiobook cover on pink picnic blanket with jamie loftus on one side holding a hot dog and chuck tingle on the other side

presenting THIS HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN SPECIAL EDITION AUDIOBOOK read by true buckaroo @jamieloftus.bsky.social audiobook is FREE but we are asking for donations to LA STREET VENDOR FUND who are helping vendors impacted by ICE RAIDS www.patreon.com/posts/this-l...

26.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 602    🔁 156    💬 14    📌 22

the honor of a lifetime, sweating in my office and desperately trying to achieve the right degree of horny for a TINGLER!!!!

long live chuck, donate to the street vendor fund, LOVE IS REAL

26.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 567    🔁 79    💬 14    📌 3

Lol
Do you want an unopened box for it?

28.06.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Three sealed boxes of games: Decathlon, River Raid and Hero. Then a mystery: unboxed Decathlon, Hero and a third game.

Three sealed boxes of games: Decathlon, River Raid and Hero. Then a mystery: unboxed Decathlon, Hero and a third game.

Many issues of Computer Gazette from the 80s. Plus joysticks, Manuel's, cassettes, cartridges, floppies

Many issues of Computer Gazette from the 80s. Plus joysticks, Manuel's, cassettes, cartridges, floppies

Commodore VIC-20

Commodore VIC-20

Commodore with Adventure Land and some other games.

Commodore with Adventure Land and some other games.

A problem that I never thought I'd have: finding homes for multiple Commodores. Here's the latest one with the other things it was boxed with.

28.06.2025 16:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Analog Game Studies (@analoggamestudies.bsky.social) Analog Game Studies is a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of games containing a substantial analog component. Hosts of #GenerationAnalog https://analoggamestudies.org

Registration is now open for a fabulous, free online conference: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 2025 "PUNK" is Thursday, July 17! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... -- registration is free but required via EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... #staypunk #stayanalog!

19.06.2025 15:09 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

18.06.2025 20:27 — 👍 932    🔁 129    💬 3    📌 3

TTRPG folks: if you have worked on games involving the Early Modern period or Shakespeare, could you let me know?

26.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 40    🔁 24    💬 7    📌 0

Everyone 100% should check this out.

13.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Love this and Rachel and her work!!

13.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Stack of boxes, bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive

Stack of boxes, bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive

Strays you take in because you are unrealistically confident at the time you can find a new home. From bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive (for just one floppy).

13.05.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

THIS PART RIGHT HERE

01.05.2025 17:06 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas!

New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com

www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...

01.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 2204    🔁 542    💬 64    📌 29

i am not looking forward to more bearded white dudes in giant baby car seats surrounded in mausoleums of 80s and 90s nostalgia bathed in RGB giving the absolute shittiest socio-political takes because they miss the taste of Hi-C Ecto Cooler

01.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 229    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 0

Not an exaggeration to say I wouldn't be writing about games without Polygon. Every layoff hurts but this one is fucking devastating. These journalists deserved so much better.

01.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0