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Alex Schweig

@aschweig17.bsky.social
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Historian of the Middle East, PhD @uarizona Ottomaniac he/him property is theft Hoping this all works out. Also @aschweig17 at "X" until it does.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The Jahili poem and ancient epics preserve another world for us, another mode of consciousness in which poets inhabit a shared matrix of existence with the world and its elements.”
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A Rupture in the History of Consciousness
Centuries of interpretation have separated the self from the world, but glimpses of an older mode of being can still be found, even in the most inward-looking modern literature
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tip #1: Be a tortoise
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very interesting art and life story
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The scene at RAF Fairford www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3d...
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Monty Python Mafia vs Army
YouTube video by Fugz
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sextremely sad news 🥲
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning #BlueSky from the nor’easter soaked NYC. 🌧️
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/09/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Emily Flake.
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.”
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'The Matrix' co-creator Lilly Wachowski on her clap-back tweet at Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump: "They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do." variety.com/2026/film/fe...
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Latest episode 📚📚 Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history. The conversation is based on his new book "The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Publishing) Listen below 👇🎧 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/09/01/b...
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Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk #277 – Benjamin Fortna, professor of history at the University of Arizona, on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Pu…
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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sounds like ELF, or the kinds of dangerous sabotage that occurred during the apex of the logging v. biological diversity (represented by the spotted owl) "controversy." Some people in Nantes apparently prefer trees to an immigration holding center.
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Ellen Meister 💙 @ellenmeister.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day from the Dorothy Parker Page
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is obscene. No one in the GOP will say a word about it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Fans of Dolly Parton around the world expressed shock and reflected on her legacy after her death on Tuesday at 80. nyti.ms/4iBcHQC
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade www.merip.org/2025/12/dirt...
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Dirty Work—The Hidden Machinery and Human Toll of Europe’s Broken Recycling Trade
As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gut wrenching
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Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every this comes up, people act like it’s the end of histor(iograph)y. But the point isn’t efficiently producing research papers. It’s humans thinking and communicating meaningful insights into the past. Whatever machines can do, the field of history will by definition be one step beyond that.
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Mike the Tiger @lsumikethetiger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Resting up for the start of the semester
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 10/08/2026
This Video traces the surprising history behind Europe's oldest surviving Buddhist temple, from its unique architecture to the local legends that might explain its resilience despite those who have tried to erase it
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The strange, circuitous history of Europe’s oldest Buddhist temple | Aeon Videos
The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Dangerous" as in safer for the rest of the world
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/08/2026
“When you spend $60 million to beat one person and they beat you, you just turned that person into David,” Abdul El-Sayed said, of Haley Stevens, his opponent in Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Xeeebq
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ajeeb the Wonderful, a chess-playing automaton made in 1865. Famous opponents incl. Houdini and Roosevelt though, of course, Ajeeb had a little help from the human hidden inside him making the moves. More from the Harvard Theatre Collection here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/c...
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@mariannedhe.bsky.social thanks I’ll see! And thanks (especially) for looking out for my time!
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Jane Hathaway on the Cairo Genizah's Forgotten Ottoman Centuries open.substack.com/pub/ottomane...
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Jane Hathaway on the Cairo Genizah's Forgotten Ottoman Centuries
What a neglected archive tells us about Ottoman Egypt's Jewish community and the empire around it.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
queck, queck, queck BL Add 49622, f.190v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I mean, I’d queck too
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Really unfortunate that the U.S. government doesn’t have a cabinet secretary or even an entire department dedicated to diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...
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As Ukraine War Escalates, Witkoff and Kushner Are Focused on Iran
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy one-hundredth birthday to WWII veteran and comedic genius Mel Brooks. And yes, everyone needs to watch The Producers!
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It really is the perfect event
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I am glad to announce the publication of my edited work. www.routledge.com/Eight-Armies...
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Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, reveal...
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
By an entire toe 🙄
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Wait, Mamdani did what??? (WSJ getting their bêtes noire crossed)
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
😡
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Go ahead, ponder for another decade
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yeah but the AI version of him said it. You gotta problem with that, Luddite?
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Uprooted twice: How land expropriations are transforming Turkey’s earthquake zone open.substack.com/pub/turkeyre...
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Uprooted twice: How land expropriations are transforming Turkey’s earthquake zone
SAMANDAĞ—From a restaurant on the road that links Antakya and Vakıflı, the views towards Mount Musa are spectacular.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Spotted on the NYC subway. “One prompt, job gone!”
An AI ad modified to read: “One prompt, job gone!”
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Art by Angus McKie
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Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
RIP Sonny Rollins, last survivor of the "Great Day in Harlem" photo among other things.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
A photo of Sonny Rollins
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Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New episode 📢📢 Jennifer Hattam (@jenhattam.bsky.social) on updating the Lonely Planet travel guide to Turkey. The conversation touches on the epic work involved, her impressions of places visited, and how Turkey has changed over the years. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/05/26/j...
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Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey
Turkey Book Talk #271 – Long-time Istanbul-based journalist Jennifer Hattam on her work updating the Lonely Planet travel guide to Turkey. The conversation touches on the immense amount of wo…
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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia 27.05.2026, 5:00 p. m. Philipp Ther (University of Vienna) Compositional Encounters between the post-Habsburg Musical Modernism, Turkey and Egypt Zoom-Link and further information: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/fachrichtung...
Bartók during his collecting trip in Turkey, November 1936.
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