Excellent meditation from Paul Musgrave. Notice the reference to “as if describing Versailles from the perspective of the Directory.” We are living through a (counter) revolution, even if none of the most prominent actors are using that language.
04.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
For me the only boundary is size. When they’re too big I would send them to the compost heap
04.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
😂
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I do this! I love it. I love them in general
04.08.2025 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Je suis pour, but oh my, the glut
04.08.2025 10:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
It’s the time of year when neighbours inviting you to eat say apologetically “it will involve courgettes.”
04.08.2025 10:51 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
04.08.2025 06:40 — 👍 200 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 5
Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."
Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.
Important details from this story:
1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."
3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
04.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 3726 🔁 1098 💬 75 📌 143
A pencil heavily chewed by a kitten
Remembrance of things past: digging for a pencil I find one from the @jcblibrary.bsky.social (last visited 2018? 19?) that has clearly been massacred by kitten Bertie in the great anti-pencil drive of 2022
03.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Glen is so so right about this.
03.08.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
a round olive oil cake dusted with powdered sugar with writer James Baldwin stenciled into the center. the stencil was a gift from a friend and I can no longer find the maker on the internet
Neighbor texted: Do you have a 6 inch spring form pan?
Me: No, only 9 inch for my James Baldwin chocolate olive oil cake.
Neighbor: ????
Me:
02.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 828 🔁 72 💬 24 📌 5
👀
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never forget this conversation between President Johnson and his tailor
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Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
01.08.2025 12:17 — 👍 2267 🔁 201 💬 81 📌 67
31 July 2025
Also:
Today is the last day of my wonderful
Department of English Literature & Creative Writing
60.5 years - over
31.07.2025 08:26 — 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 8 📌 1
I took a train (not this nice) on this route in maybe 1993 and met a wonderful older American who’d worked for the UN and told me all about the history of Haiti, now weirdly entangled with Central Europe for me. Trains are so educational!
31.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A must read for serious early modernists.
31.07.2025 14:24 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
back from the café: this tiny village, with a long tradition of refugee welcome, has taken in two families from Gaza in the last few weeks. proud to be part of a terre de refuge
31.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
À vos apparts vides : l’ @inalco.fr recherche des logements à Paris pour des étudiant·es de Gaza
31.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 30 🔁 65 💬 1 📌 2
have been wikipedia-ing and am amazed at Thérèse OF LISIEUX being, one a doctor of LOVE
31.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
looking forward to Balliol claiming Augustine as a visiting student or somesuch
31.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PROUD
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And meeee
31.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attention @trinityoxford.bsky.social, important alum news!
31.07.2025 13:11 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Okay, once again, I’m asking the people of the world, especially my fashion peeps, to locate this dress for me. It is worn by Tina Fey in the first season of 30 Rock. It’s a knee length black dress with a bubble skirt at the bottom. Where can I find it?
31.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
I’ve been saving water in buckets for the garden and this morning found a drowned mouse, floating face down like in a Hollywood swimming pool ☹️
31.07.2025 08:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”
31.07.2025 08:20 — 👍 142 🔁 59 💬 2 📌 0
Yes it’s true. (Weirdly am reading Villette right now and thinking about this.)
31.07.2025 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ann arbor mi, burlington vt, shanghai ch, occasionally nyc
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www.jamesrichardweir.com
Early Modern Literature. Folger Fellow 2024-25. Tutor in English at Oxford.
Daniel E. Flores, Obispo católico, Brownsville, Texas
https://amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/home/
Known to offer tea or coffee at the end of In Our Time episodes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes
Eclectic.
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @historytcd.bsky.social, researching sex and the Church courts in 14th century England
read more about my work: tesswingard.wordpress.com
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Early modernist. Honorary Research Fellow at Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Bibliophile, cat person, tea drinker. Views own. She/her.
The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20
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I help you do online experiments better.
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Doing my bit to make people strong and invulnerable.
Total sci-fi, comic book nerd (but not an armchair critic 🤣) like to road cycle (not fast but I make going slow look really cool)
Christian. Disabled. Queer.
Modern languages at Oxford uni.
Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teach 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies at Princeton.
Pet-sitter extraordinaire, around the UK and Europe; mainly cats but sometimes rabbits and pups, too!
All the cat chat all the time.
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Researching and publishing the history of Oxfordshire places as part of @vchlondon.bsky.social - landscape, settlement, buildings, economy, religion, society and more: www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/counties-z/oxfordshire