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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 1h

A quatrain in honor of the man's arrival to his new home

PRID KAL DEC MMXXIII

Ninth Circle, Judecca (Betrayal of the Divine)

Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State

A gentle vapor wafts from deep in hell,
The orange smoke curling up to tell
The news of Lucifer's replacement:
Kissinger has moved into the basement.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 03/10/2026

A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to top the 1460 edition by Gutenberg himself: dpul.princeton.edu/gutenberg/ca...

Detail from Johann Gutenberg's 1460 incunable edition of the Catholicon , by 13th c. lexicographer Giovanni de' Balbi. A large, hand-decorated capital letter M with red, blue, and white vinework starts the M section of the dictionary. Next to it, he writes in Latin about the letter M. My rough translation: M, a dark letter when pronounced at the end of a word, as in 'templum'. Open at the start of a word, as in 'magnus'. Mediocre in the middle, as in 'umbra'. Likewise when it follows a semivowel or s, as in 'mutarum' or 'smaragdus'.

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some test (PSAT?) I took in 10th grade included career suggestions with your score. Everyone got a list of 2-3 nice normal jobs. I got one (1): Dictionary Editor Just remebering that for no reason at all as I rank my favorite early print editions of Giovanni Balbi's Catholicon (13th c. lexicon)

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pretty soon paleography is just going to mean reading cursive, isn’t it

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 27/09/2026

The minutes between 8:37am and 8:51 do not exist

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(intrusive thought discard pile)

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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...

statesman.com

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

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And he doesn’t consume any water

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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

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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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#EarlyModern friends: anyone know where Vittoria Colonna said “Conantes frangere frangam” (FAFO, more or less)?

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Went looking for ladies and found the devil

From John Florio’s note to the reader in his 1598 Worlde of Words (English-Italian dictionary):

Thinke they to set their teeth on tender stuffe?
But they shall marre their teeth,and finde me tough.
Conantes frangere frangam, said Victoria Collonna :
Those that to breake me striue, I'le breake them if I thriue.

An early modern doodle of a dantesque Lucifer (furry, six-winged, upside down) and a crest on the flyleaf of a tiny 16th c. book of poetry

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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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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I remember hearing about them but then forgot until I started seeing them in the wild

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just got mine and it’s so pretty 😍 (Plate has the family astrological sign rather than a serial number)

Left half of NC flytrap license plate. A red-eyed fly greedily probes the sweet orange bait inside a wide-open flytrap. The plate is overwhelmingly green with fuchsia flowers and a blue-green sky background, with “North” in tomato-red lettering at the bottom

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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 · 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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