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This is the best way I've ever learned about a death

A lion? More like an alley cat, or a mangy dog.

"If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against Fascism,' and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: 'Common decency.'"
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

uh dracula is the phylum, yes all vampires are draculi

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Oh well, yes good idea 🖤

I don’t know that book. What’s the significance of the title? (The date is significantly pre-classical)

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.”

If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

You didn’t make any sense, try again, logic boy

My dude, ‘fascism’ isn’t the same thing as ‘authoritarianism’.

If we don't do something they can easily leverage, they'll make something up, lie and say we did, or weaponize something that has nothing to do with us. That's why the respectability policing—and thinking that if everyone moves and talks just so, they won't be able to escalate—is magical thinking.

Ye reap what ye sow

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…

Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.

And America shrugged and moved on.

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I’m hearing good things about pelican mouth

This reminds me of a grad school prof who said “just as digital cameras are now just called ‘cameras,’ one day ‘digital humanities’ will just be called ‘humanities.’”

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

ICE agents read the Diary of Anne Frank & thought it was a guide on how to catch fugitives in hiding

with alt text for accessibility. the New York Times has a long history of Nazism & a fascistic editorial bias.

It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.

"This is a Classicists List not a political one."

A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

I saw the thread in my email inbox. I thought I had unsubscribed. The Liverpool CLASSICS-L had always been a cesspit of crusty reactionaries but that thread takes the cake for utter bullshit.

I’m glad I’m not part of the classics academia community any more. Useless tossers.

I love how one of these full professors at prestigious universities spouting this nonsense puts in their lengthy email signature a Livy quote cherry-picked to justify their privileged detachment from their political reality.

Buddy, studying Livy doesn’t mean we should BE Livy.

Thought to date the C1st CE, this bronze amulet was found at Pompeii and is now held in the ‘Secret Cabinet’ at the MAN Napoli (inv. 27839). The amulet has a bird like body complete with wings, a phallic head, a phallic tail, as well as a phallus where you *might* expect one… Image credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons

May this ancient Roman tintinnabulum bring you all manner of good fortune this #PhallusThursday🍆

If good fortune can be multiplied by the amount of phalluses, well, this contender is certainly in the running!

#AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

All those talking about ‘GC Action’ in the various #tdf hors categorie mountain stages this year — do they mean watching Pogacar riding, still seated, up off the front from the other GC riders, or …?

Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only

What? Who are these idiots who think the Pope is Jewish? 😬

And there’s a term for “unidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.