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Maggie Fritz-Morkin

@emeffem.bsky.social
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Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
13yo walked in the front door, solemnly recited the pledge of allegiance in Spanish, and bitterly emended the ending: con libertad y justicia para... ALGUNAS personas 😡😤 "just trying to be accurate." he's not wrong
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This cello is seriously distracting me from my emails, trainings, observations, and reports
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well and imagine if a former women’s studies and philosophy student became an investigative journalist who reported on lawmakers abusing the power of their office? better to simply cut all that curriculum www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who else wants to show off their Planned Parenthood beads? @ppfa.org winning at swag #fitcheck
Wine mom hand (white, crêping) with a beaded bracelet that says I heart Planned Parenthood and has black, hot pink, bright blue, and light blue beads. It perfectly matches the wine mom’s bright blue corduroy pants and black shirt/ sneakers
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Diagramming the dolce stil novo: can you guess which sonnets my students read? Answer in alt text #medieval #dolcestilnovo #Italian
Student diagram of Guido Guinizzelli’s sonnet ‘Lo vostro bel saluto e ‘l gentil sguardo’. Center: A face is split down the middle, half in delight and half in agony at the sight of a woman. A stabby knife points at its eye. At left, an anthropomorphic crenellated tower is struck through the window-eye by lightning and is consumed by flames. Its windows make a face contorting in agony. At right: a torso cut off from its legs with the word’vuoto’ indicating that it’s hollow inside, like a bronze statue Student diagram of Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Pegli occhi fere un spirito sottile’. A star with pretty eyes sends a star toward a gazing eye, which has an idea cloud of a star and a bed at sunrise. An arrow leads from there to a big heart full of little stars, which have keys. These spirit-stars are either happy or sad. Another arrow points to a nice lady surrounded by hearts. Off to the side: a big spirit-star is raining
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
two years gone, forever here
Fredric Jameson cairn
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Move over AI, my kid just offered to do my reading and write a lecture for my grad course tomorrow
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only way to put it is that I’m getting absolutely fucked by Bach
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Extar’s author headshot (she obviously writes Cold War spy thrillers) #caturday
A thicc brown tabby in loaf pose on bright red and blue geometric rugs. She’s under a spindle-legged chair covered in yellowing sheep fleece. Extar’s front paws are crossed and she stares into tge middle distance
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am Dad
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
8 of the 9 undergrads who were in my 13th c. Italian Poetry class today are pumped to read Dante in Italian with the grad students in my spring seminar. #UNC #Tarheels #goated #Medieval
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you like puzzles and hate money, philology might be right for you, I soberly counsel my young students
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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nick Cave with a speech bubble at the bottom
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not every day that they set up your special collections visit in the Fearrington ✨🤓💫 #UNC @unclibrary.bsky.social
A grandiose university library with checkerboard floors, perimeter bookshelves with locked collections , chandeliers , big tables with brass lamps, oval ceiling frieze, architectural details I don’t know the words for
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fine, I’ll do it
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would have blocked that guy
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Serena Williams could care less what this guy has to say lol
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Evan Prellberg @evanprellberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Internet meme factory. ESPN just showed an image of some guy (he may be famous but he’s just some guy to me) talking to Serena and Serena looking wholly uninterested. Someone needs to make it the new version of this:
The meme image of the guy talking to a woman at a sporting event and her looking entirely uncomfortable and uninterested.
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a ban edible: Beet oven
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Everyone in this interaction is a petty bitch but at least I’m not a pedophile warlord #IRS
A check to the United States Treasury for the $40.33 they’ve been pestering me about for ages. In the Memo line: “Illegal wars and pedo bunker”
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tante @tante.cc · 08/09/2026
The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh no I went to an algorithm site and learned about bird checking. Xennials saw a toxic courting behavior and put a bird on it
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Highly significant that this news about one of the country's top historians, Lonnie Bunch, should immediately shoot to the top of Bluesky's "Trending" list.
"Trending" notice on Bluesky at 10:01am MST, with "Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch resigns" at top.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#MedievalSky That "1300" includes you, too!
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
happy labor day from your local bsky unionist! in one another there is power, in one another there is smarts, in one another there is joy, in one another we win
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/09/2026
*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
On the diversion of several billion dollars from #NIH to the Department of Defense (NYT today reports it’s up to “one third of the NIAID budget” and that Trump NIH director Bhattacharya signed the deal.) The big question I have: Is this is an end run around peer review? 1/
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NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
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Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @ DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military. Led by the National I Show more
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NOTUS 2 @NOTUSreports • 20h
As the military faces a war-driven cash crunch, Rep. Rosa DeLauro said it would be "outrageous" to siphon that money from disease research. notus.org/congress/delau...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Codicological genomes". Not a term I expected to hear, but I guess it will become part of the medievalist vocabulary now. Great summary of an intriguing study. (And no, fellow codicologists, you still do not have to wear gloves. The DNA in your books is too degraded to do any damage.) #MedievalSky
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead.
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
According to the collective wisdom of my charming students and one medieval Italian poet (Bonagiunta Orbicciani), “Tutto lo mondo si mantien per…” A) pasta B) Aperol C) sesso D) fiore E) Tinder F) gatti [All the world depends on… pasta/ Aperol/ sex/ a flower/ Tinder/ cats]
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Jimmy Two Hands (summerjimbo era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck
This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Incredibly honored to receive the Best Related Hugo, and so proud to be recognized by the Worldcon community that means so much to me! I've uploaded my acceptance speech video here, for those who weren't there to see it live!
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2026 Hugo Acceptance Speech: Best Related Work for "Inventing the Renaissance" | Ada Palmer
The news broke in the wee hours of the morning Italy time, and late at night Los Angeles time, that Inventing the Renaissance has won the Hu
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mischa🌻 @mischamouse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've never felt compelled to wear a Pope themed item until this Pope. I'm more of a t-shirt gal but this is pretty neat! Happy Sunday, fellow fans of Pope Leo.🕊 blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/27/p...
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Pope Leo Given His Own White Sox 'Pope Hat' During Visit With South Side Priest
The world's most famous Sox fan was gifted a nicer version of the pope-style hats passed out to 40,000 fans at a game earlier this month.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Jackson State choir. And God.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Put her name on the Kennedy Center
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every now and then they do something I like
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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ok I admit… this made me laugh out loud
If your girl:
-drinks a lot of water
-causes drama 
-remembers everything 

That’s not your girl, that’s a data center
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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Throttled public university: don’t drink it, there’s lead
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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