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É rir para não chorar | Medieval to modern Iberian world, ecocriticism, ethnorace, al-Andalus, לאדינו, modernism, translation | adammahler.net | incoming postdoc at cornell | entre lisboa e algures
[webinar] Bodies Outside the Law: Syphilis, Deviance, and Jewish Literary Resistance in the Early Modern World
CPS Event: Hernán Matzkevich (Spanish & Portuguese Studies, UMN) Friday March 20 cla.umn.edu/premodern/ne...
pliny the elder DID mention aioli in his historia naturalis! i found the quote!!! his contemporary columella also mentions beating garlic and oil with a pestle but suggests administering it via nostril to those afflicted with tongue distemper, so im discounting that. for ONCE a primary source!!!!
bitumen?
Witch hazel (I think) in bloom in Cambridge, MA today.
We are finally, finally , approaching the season of bloom-scrolling here.
The psychotic level of hype alone should be a big blinking warning sign, before we even discuss the epistemological implications, the fraud and theft, the slop, the unethical uses, the environmental problems, etc.
But oh yeah, I forgot, pointing out the environmental costs of progress is bad.
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Deleted a previous thread where I was being ~vulnerable~ but I will say: I am increasingly confident in my theory that there are writing academics and there are talking academics and, as a class, we do not enjoy shifting modes very much.
The totally non-democratic structure of US foreign policy is quite the impediment to change
In this innovative intellectual biography, Oded Yisraeli offers an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of Rabbi Moses b. Nahman, or Nahmanides (1194ca. 1270), one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and writers of the Middle Ages.
www.sup.org/books/histor...
#ReadUP
Granta was saddened to hear of António Lobo Antunes’s death. In honour of his life and work, we have made his writing for the magazine free to read.
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We love diasporic Jewish languages!
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
Who would have thought that Landry would have been one of the two on Friday Night Lights to become major movie stars. Michael B. Jordan was destined for greatness obvi, but I would have expected Coach or Tim Riggins.
this made me cackle all the way through
Worst Abbey Road recreation I’ve ever fucking seen
Most people will hopefully respond to this statement by Gottheimer by saying “I recognize that it is false to accuse Newsom of antisemitism for this.” But some will say, “If this is antisemitism, I don’t care about antisemitism.” Which is why this sort of rhetoric is so irresponsible.
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
The great Antonio Lobo Antunes passed away. A psychiatrist profoundly impacted by the colonial war in Angola, Lobo wrote brilliant visceral books about violence and otherness, doubling down on the legacy of modernists like Celine.
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I am so looking forward to reading this.
A Galp anunciou esta segunda-feira um resultado líquido recorde de 1154 mil milhões de euros em 2025, um aumento de 20% face ao ano anterior.
Devemos estar quase a sentir a bonança nos nossos bolsos, é só esperar mais um pouco.
Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.
I wish I had this job
"Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order...the beginning of a harsh reality where large power geopolitics is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On the other hand, I would like to tell you that other countries...are not powerless. They have the capacity to support, with Regrets."
This bronze coin from around the time of the name change bears the word "BENVENTOD", showing the old D ending of the ablative case that's lost in later Classical Latin – that is, 'from Beneventum'.
In ancient southern Italy, there was a settlement known as something like Malies in the local Oscan language, rendered in Greek as Malioenton.
This became Maleventum to the Romans, but that by accident sounded unlucky (like 'evil-wind'). So, it got renamed Beneventum – today, the city of Benevento.
Red States: Only teach approved christian nationalist content
Blue States: Teach anything you like as long as you hire an adjunct to do it cause you ain't getting faculty lines in the humanities lol
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Email your representative: No War with Iran! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...