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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 31m

Using this comic as the image for my Archives Assignment for my Research & Bibliography seminar (fourth-year course, but we should really make it a 3000-level thing).

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 1h

Bumping into and surprising Maggie Kilgour outside of her Milton class this afternoon was as delightful for me as I assume it was for her. What a wonderful person.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 9h

Someone get a Ouija board: I've some questions for Roland Barthes.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 19h

Man, is Andrew Cole's Literature & Heresy overrated.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 29/09/2026

There are a few European languages in which the word for 'world' comes from words and roots to do with light – the world being the place lit by the sun. Lithuanian pasaulis 'world' is especially etymologically nice, as literally the under-sun (pa-saulė).

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...

campus.kennesaw.edu

Careers - Human Resources

find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an outstanding refutation of PM Carney's double-speak on proposed Canada Labour Code amendments, from Colleen Bauman and Mark Rowlinson: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont.... Previous misuse of Section 107 would be codified & routinized, even though it's still facing court challenges. #canlab

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Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fifth-place finisher in a four-person IQ test

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Airlines need to stop letting people aboard when they're doused in perfumes. I can barely breathe.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just gonna leave this here. For reasons.

A poem and a drawing. The poem starts at the top left of the page, is titled "Humanities" and is made up of a set of 6 haikus. The first and last ones are on the left side of the page, but haikus 2-5 are increasingly indented, The text of the poem reads:

Who needs history?
Literature? Languages?
Art? Philosophy?

These can only help
you to better understand
our humanity.

Best to let machines
read your books. And write your books.
Do your art for you.

You will never need
to think. Never need to learn.
You’ll learn to like it.

And when the end comes
you’ll have never burdened your
soul with any growth.

Someone selling this
sees profit in destroying
your humanity.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

The drawing is at the top right. It's a black and white ink pen drawing made of abstract shapes and lines. It might look like a tree made of bird heads.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first MS dates c 1280 and comes from the southern Nethernlands. It is from a psalter-hours. The second is c. 1450 and is from France. The third, also c. 1450, is from a devotional collection that likely belonged to a house of Magdalens.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"and I said, I said- hey, these days? what ISN'T an archive?" - cocktail party erupts into clapping and laughter

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The three manuscript leaves I purchased for our campus library's rare books and special collections (w/ a grant through our Scholarship in the Arts fund) arrived today. Corner Brook, Ferris Hodgett Library, MSS 1, 2, and 3.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.

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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Episode 1: The Doctor Visits A Renaissance Faire (And Is Very Bitchy About It) Episode 2: Guess Who Just Arrived From Porlock To Ruin Coleridge's Day Episode 3: It's Just One Dalek, How Bad Can It Be? Episode 4: How Have We Never Done A Groundhog Day Episode Before?

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Students are not customers. They are not employees. They are students.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Specific Oxbridge candidate pays 3:2 Canadian- or European-educated candidate pays 5:1

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is so fucking stupid on so many fronts. but also: 162,000,000 ÷ 10,000 = 16,200... How much of that goes to MITACS overhead? If it's like tri-council grants, it's 25%, so each internship is $12,150 pre-tax.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder if we (literature-focused medievalist academics, primarily) should enter into the predictions market to start betting on who gets the two pre-1700 jobs at Berkeley. Like, if you pick which Ivy school the winner is from, you get a 10% return. If you pick the Ivy candidate, 2:1.

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A young turnabalist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her canvas tent studio is, for me, one of the best things the National Film Board of Canada ever recorded: 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait NFB Archives

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no! My work on Clanvowe is making me start to deal with, and even slightly care about, The Clerk's Tale.

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Upstream Timeout @rosegold.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

feminize a band name Foreplay

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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my dept sees a hopscotch version of this: -majors decline & class sizes contract -students love their smaller classes -…so much so that their friends start to take our classes -majors go up, enrollments per class rise -kids hate big classes …rn majors are up 25% from AY25 but I know what’s coming

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wait: is this a Jeremy Catto joke?

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is absolutely a gag cutaway from an Arrested Development ep where a tech CEO has been convicted of “light” genocide

Screenshot: story header from The Guardian where Zuckerberg performs a sickly rictus of good humor while holding an AI whatsit aloft, behind him looms the cutesy mascot in red plaid that ordered the bodies burned

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People are not ready for Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841).

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In an effort to appeal to the middle class and suburbanites, the former New Jersey governor has changed his name to Ruth's Chris Christie.

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Camp Miasma Recreation Director @thepalinode.com · 26/09/2026

Bringing in an entire Ruth’s Chris to make a porterhouse and handing the bill to the HR rep.

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New job: Associate Professor of Art and Architecture of the Medieval World, 400-1450 Johns Hopkins University - Krieger School of Arts & Sciences jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70472

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teachers have NOT asked for AI training courses. FFS, you guys. You are useless on this. #QP

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

David Cochrane is running circles around Evan Solomon on the digital asbestos issue, and Solomon keeps touting useless, voluntary measures and absolutely ignores the fact that the Americans won't allow any global regulation. The fact that Solomon is on this file is *boggling*. #PnPCBC

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

funny how the government is considering jailing parents for the crimes their kids commit, but not jailing tech ceos for the crimes their ai agents commit

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my family, we say Oy vey Smyrna

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy bi-day, babes! 🥂 to all our perfect, sparkly selves. ❤️

One of my fave stickers!! From @gateau (Hotsy Flashy). One is on the back of my phone; I have not committed the second yet. It’s a white oval with an iridescent border, and in the middle says in black, “We’re here. We’re queer.” And then in a brilliant rainbow underneath, “Oy vey iz mir!”

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am generally against both prisons & capital punishment but I would gladly man the electric chair in the dungeon where the people who made this magazine belong

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooh I know this one

Oregon Trail frame with wagon and the caption “you have died of dysentery”

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

See full thread for a lovely surprise!

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