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What I'm getting here is that working at the DNA swab factory is the perfect vehicle for getting away with serial murder

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 7h

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's only appropriate to bring iced coffee for an afternoon zoom interview (hot coffee for morning ones, obvs). For in person interviews, it's a sign of submissionto bring your own (& you don't want to start a job on that note). Ideally, place your coffee order with the interviewer when you arrive

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a lot that's wrong with this but putting Game of Thrones, a show that shat the bed so badly at the end that no one can talk about it without mentioning how bad the last season was, that many spots above Deadwood has made me mad enough that I didn't even keep reading down the list

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The humanities take bold new steps in their defence strategies.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Missed opportunities, Nolan.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @caeliambulator.bsky.social discusses Hormuz & his new book on Indian Ocean Trade ⛵. Then, ancient mosaics enshrining pets, Aristotle in the antebellum South, medieval Denia, a new dinosaur in Brazil, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!

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Pasts Imperfect (9.10.26)

This week, ancient historian Jeremy Simmons discusses Rome, India, and his new book on ancient Indian Ocean trade networks. Then, new mosaics may honor two beloved ancient pets, a new book on Aristotl...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

priests in Rome in 320 AD trying to explain to Emperor Constantine who their temple is dedicated to worshipping:

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm just going to throw this out there, academic freedom isn't meant to protect things that have have been emperically disproved by a preponderance of actual evidence by actual scholars in the actual field. Would these people be equally mad if a flat earther were fired from a science department?

Abhishek Saha, professor of mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, who is among the signatories of the supportive letter, said those seeking Cofnas’ dismissal “misunderstands both philosophy and academic freedom” and that “academic freedom exists precisely to protect contentious, controversial and offensive work”.

The American Association of Physical Anthropology in 2019 issued a statement rejecting “racial realism” as incompatible with the scientific evidence, while commentary published in the journal Philosophical Psychology described his work as belonging to “a group of ideas that insist on their legitimacy in spite of disproving empirical evidence”.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How on earth am I supposed to get any work done when this one has already called dibs on my lap, no room for a laptop

A picture of a brown lab mix with very big and cute eyes with her adorable face on my lap

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap, with a laptop in the background

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap, with a laptop in the background, and with her big, pretty eyes looking adorably at the camera

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Someone tell the New York Post they are free to use the headline "Natalie Imbroglio"

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ummmm, idk if anyone is familiar with Brotato but it's a bullet hell game where you're a potato with weapons who (in this particular version) is fighting for its life against malicious underwater critters. Unclear on the premise of you get to respond or have to survive a year to get the money but...

Screenshot of a bullet hell game with a large jellyfish-like feature emanating red bulletsand lots of small, nondescript worm-ish creatures swarming around. In the middle is a very beleaguered potato with guns trying to survive the 51 seconds left in the wave

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The new season of Reacher has a very large man with a very tiny kitten and for that reason alone, this is a very good season

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Omg you guys, my local library listened to all the millennials out there who have been clamoring for someone to bring back summer reading programs and let them win pizzas for reading!

Screenshot of an email with a graphic that says Summer Reading and the following text

Keep Reading, Keep Winning This August!
There’s still time to make your summer reading count! When you read 15 days this month, you could win:

Kids and teens can earn a free entry ticket to the Spokane County Interstate Fair.

Adults can earn a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut and an entry into our grand prize drawing, with prizes including Spokane Symphony tickets, tattoos, gift cards and more.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Found some Latin out in the wild! I would take a few points off for a bit of trouble with singular and plural, but still, I love me some found Latin that's mostly correct!

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're back! Cramming ourselves once more into the water-logged, toilet-water horse that is podcasting, we return once again to finish our conversation on Christopher's The Odyssey (2026). @apistone.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social Listen now at movieswedig.com!

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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

TODAY! Join me and @apistone.bsky.social to talk about how universal design can increase student agency and accessibility in your classes!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wow, HUGE day for scholars of yacht rock, it's the perfect time to get those grant applications in!

Screenshot of a press release with the headline "The Senate of the United States Confirms Michael McDonald as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities"

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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Annnnd we're back! @apistone.bsky.social and I are leading another couple of pedagogy workshops for the WCC to kick off Fall chaos, I mean, course planning season! Join us for this Teaching Idea Exchange TODAY!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Man, I really miss living in Michigan on election days. We have this really good system where everyone votes mail-in and it's a great public policy thing but I DO NOT GET A COOL STICKER 😭😭

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Man it is WILD that they have had to put out so many announcements to this effect because jagoffs won't stop flying drones and private planes IN THE WAY OF THE FIREFIGHTING AIRCRAFT. What are we even doing here

Screenshot of an Instagram reel from the Washington department of natural resources with a graphic that says "if you fly, we can't" and beneath that "don't fly drones near wildfire". Above the graphic is a text box that says "please stop flying your personal drones over wildfires. They can ground or collide with our firefighting aircraft, disrupting time critical firefighting and threatening people's homes. Your photos are not worth someone's home"

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Frankly, I think the best thing to come out of this movie is the possibility of drag performances referencing Homeric works and the high likelihood of someone using the name Gagamemnon.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If there is not an Etsy store selling replica cups with these designs, people are absolutely leaving money on the table!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just turned 40 this year so I had to go get my first mammogram and I have to day i am VERY disappointed that the technician didn't conclude my visit with "wham, bam, thank you mammogram"

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Missed the opportunity to call it Twigmalion

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Extremely excited about the IG/TikTok content the Odyssey is giving us! Also thank you a million times to @archaeadne.bsky.social for sending me tiktoks because I simply cannot do that platform

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Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have now seen The Film (and read The Review) and I have Opinions! But my first question for #Classics folks on here: obviously, we've got to milk this for all it is worth! What #Odyssey content are you planning to engage students this Fall?

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I know that a lot of people are reasonably tired of the Odyssey discourse and the discourse ABOUT the Odyssey discourse but my feed here is full of opinions about something I care about (it's truly been the summer of monoculture!) and also I'm a messy bitch who loves drama. 10/10 no notes all around

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

They should let LeBron review the Odyssey,, and let Emily Wilson sign with the Sixers!!! <the guy pointing the gun at me starts yelling> I'm sorry. I don't know what else I can jam into this

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Movies We Dig Podcast @movieswedig.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A great read! I can't wait to discuss/debate some of these points with @apistone.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social @sentantiq.bsky.social and @ecfleming.bsky.social tomorrow!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I wrote up some preliminary thoughts about the Odyssey and I'm very prepared to have people point out how and why I'm wrong, but I wanted to jot down my own thoughts before reading a bunch of reviews. www.amypistone.com/some-prelimi...

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Some Preliminary Thoughts on Nolan’s Odyssey - Amy Pistone

WARNING THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS IN HERE WHICH IS WEIRD FOR A MOVIE BASED ON A 2500 YEAR OLD POEM BUT ALSO, IT’S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND THERE ARE SOME ACTUAL SPOILERS. My colleague at Gonzaga, Dave Oost...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One of the biggest challenges to teaching right now is trust, which has been eroded by gen AI — for professors AND students. Copware isn’t the way to get it back.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ha ha ha so no cyclops then hee hee hee no circe no athena. stop. he means white. all white characters that’s all he means. plus he’s not actually going to do it. he’s just saying ‘i want to continue my latest interminable chud fixation’

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A lot of this is my own baggage, but I did my PhD at Michigan, a department that was well represented in things like the Women's Classical Caucus, and I nonetheless absorbed the implicit sense that people who "work on gender" (however we would want to define that) aren't "real philologists."

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I didn't realize HOW far west he was intending to go!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm out here laughing at the weirdest Odyssey takes that have crossed my bluesky path and meanwhile, on Facebook, there's levels of wacky content showing up in feeds that I can't even imagine.

A screenshot from Facebook of what I assume is a thumbnail of a YouTube video titled "Did Odysseus Discover America?" With Odysseus' journey mapped out and Thriniacia located around Maine or Nova Scotia, Charybdis nearby, and Scheria near the Florida panhandle

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obnoxiously pitt girl @opg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

From a very normal National Review article about the Odyssey and I'm fascinated by the straws people will grasp to insist that their opposition to this movie isn't ginned up, overly- online racism. There are things you could fairly criticize but not while staying on brand, so IMAX it is, boys!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The follow up doesn't really feel like it undermines the subtle cattiness here, @sentantiq.bsky.social. Please take this as my official notice that we are fighting!

“I was surprised by how many academics liked it,” Christensen says. “I had to be restrained a few times by my wife. Everybody knows that I’m the worst audience for the film.” After a long pause, he continues, “I’ve been saying to myself: ‘This is not Homer’s “Odyssey.” This is Nolan’s “Odyssey.” And it needs to be judged on different terms.’”

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think my favorite part of the Odyssey movie was the post-credit scene where we got to see all the other guys in Hades and Achilles kept insisting on doing bits. Casting Carrot Top as Achilles was a weird choice but I do think it worked.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Very excited to be able to participate in this important discourse now that I've seen it!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

IMPORTANT UPDATE: IT WAS VERY GOOD AND I LIKED IT A LOT

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

CHECK YOUR WATCHES IT'S ODYSSEY O'CLOCK!

Selfie of me and my partner making silly faces on the movie theater. And I'm wearing an Odysseus shirt

Selfie of just me that better shows my Odysseus shirt

Picture of the back of my shirt (from archaeotees!) with a band tour listing for Odysseus that shows all the stops on his journey home

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