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Katherine Ibbett

@eparpillee.bsky.social

Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.

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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.

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For me the only boundary is size. When they’re too big I would send them to the compost heap

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😂

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I do this! I love it. I love them in general

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Je suis pour, but oh my, the glut

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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

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Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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:

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👀

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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.

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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
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Le metteur en scène Robert Wilson est mort Celui qui a fait exploser l’idée de spectacle avec « Le Regard du sourd », créé en 1970, et renouvelé la conception de l’opéra grâce à « Einstein on the Beach » est mort le 31 juillet, à l’âge de 83 a...

thank you, thank you, RIP www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

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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!

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A must read for serious early modernists.

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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

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À vos apparts vides : l’ @inalco.fr recherche des logements à Paris pour des étudiant·es de Gaza

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have been wikipedia-ing and am amazed at Thérèse OF LISIEUX being, one a doctor of LOVE

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looking forward to Balliol claiming Augustine as a visiting student or somesuch

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PROUD

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And meeee

31.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Attention @trinityoxford.bsky.social, important alum news!

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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 ☹️

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now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

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Yes it’s true. (Weirdly am reading Villette right now and thinking about this.)

31.07.2025 07:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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