Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Oh absolutely, it's just that JB makes it sound like this is something from the past 48 hours, which is part of why I'm admittedly curious to know what exactly he meant 0301
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Top contenders in my mind are the Ilhan Omar raid and the Putin gas deal... hmm 31544
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Amazing to read this and not know which one you mean, because there are so many But, I mean, I'm not doubting you're right 43798
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A friend of mine publishes under an androgynous pen name so their readers don't see their gender first, and the older we get the more this seems wise and not at all paranoid. Sigh. 000
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Oh, I'm glad to hear that. A close friend went through something similar and is also in the clear. But yes exactly, if anyone tries to institute a bathroom police, we will hopefully troll them all out of existence. It's just so shameful and absurd that it comes to this! 010
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sock Puppet, I thought about your comment all night. The whole topic is profoundly painful but I hope you're doing well 🫶 100
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Still thinking about it. So, like, I show them my lady parts and they are able to see that nothing is surgically altered? Do they even want to see that? Can they look after I pee or does it have to be before? So many questions 😳 130
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think about this all the time. I'm nearing 50 and have had three kids. I'm doing okay but don't really have much of a waistline. I don't wear makeup. If I cut my hair short and wear jeans, am I going to be assaulted? I'm comfortable being cis but if someone wanted me to prove it, how would I? 170
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Oh wait, sorry: Spring 2017. Losing track of time...but it was maybe two months after he took office the first time. 041
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Tom Nichols blocked me a while ago, but is he still banging on about how it's not fascism, for "reasons" that the rest of us are too illiterate to understand? I respect him as a writer but keep wondering if he'll ever admit he was dead wrong 050
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I was in a literal cathedral in former East Germany in Spring 2016 and had a deep conversation with a senior priest who warned me that "Fake News" was "Lügenpresse" and that it would lead to the same place. He said it with such sadness and compassion and I think about him all the time now. 1132
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yes: and that other pesky narrative that maybe terrorizing brown people doesn't play well with brown voters, just isn't interesting somehow 🤨 I mean it's not like *white* children are seeing their parents disappeared, so why even comment on that part don't mind me, just a heartbroken mom 💔 0141
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Interesting to think the track could become a causeway 040
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I mean, anyone reading about 1560s Scotland is a historian in my book. Whether you publish this info or get paid to do so or have advanced degrees is another matter...! But no matter what, sounds to me like you are doing history 🤓 000
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You are the historian creating the juicy arc from the dry archives! Like the "good parts only" version of the Princess Bride. It's satisfying once it's done but exhausting in the moment. (I say this as I prepare to stay up all night editing footnotes against a deadline 😭😂) 110
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Oh man, that kind of work can be so humbling. You think it's going to be fascinating and then you realize it's because past historians have only been telling us the juicy bits and the rest is a tedious slog. That was me + Westminster Rolls recently 😆 130
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I mean, Byzantine (derogatory) is mostly about bureaucratic excess that arguably only got even more elaborate in the early modern era post-Byz, but that's neither here nor there. 110
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm literally a medievalist with a PhD and tenure and books etc., and was just joking, but yes agreed to all this 330
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026OMG yes! Now you have me wondering if Byzantine (derogatory) actually means Ottoman, but we probably shouldn't go there 🫢 110
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The idea that some things can't be bought or bullied is breaking his pathetic little brain 030
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wait, is the five year old child also a thug I mean come on you lowlife piece of nazi trash, how stupid do you think we are 020
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A five-year-old child. I can't get past that part. Five. 1230
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026While a five year old child was in the car. Somehow MAGA does not care that brown kids have heartbeats too 💔 060
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In Marble Hill. It's a lovely, safe, friendly neighborhood full of young families. I mean, not that this should happen in any neighborhood, but still I just want to tell my non New Yorkers out there that this is happening in exactly the kind of neighborhood where we would all love to live 💔 060
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ohhhh interesting! But more to the point, I can easily think of art historians teaching in SLACs whose first book was published well after tenure and/but is an absolute must-read 🏆 020
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wait, what?? <desperately trying to guess who this is> 100
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I fight lots of oppression in my life, and that includes fighting in solidarity with my LGBTQ+ brethren. I am profoundly uninterested in putting my status as a cis woman on any kind of pedestal that harms trans people. Go away. 030
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Like, no, it's not actually essential that we define ourselves as women in a way that excludes trans folks. In fact I don't want to exclude anyone, anywhere, who agrees with us that the bodily autonomy of a pregnant person is the issue here, not that person's gender identity. 1120
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, that entire comment was just pushing back on "pregnant person" as a term, which is a really stupid hill to die on right now 🙄 470
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tempted to stick this on a wall at the Cloisters and see who notices 😂 010
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No, no, sorry, that's horrific and not at all what I meant. Just that she's famous as the person claiming the existence of trans folks in college sports has deeply affected her life, and that somehow this is the real misogyny we need to worry about, which is nonsense. Hope that makes sense 1393
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Riley Gaines has suffered immeasurably but the Cornell Jane Doe is just making trouble for some nice young men 🙄 2673
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026His wife's role in all this is profoundly disturbing. It gives MAGA cover to say "see, we aren't racist, we just require people to assimilate correctly" -- when the reality is that they are absolutely racist and the acceptance of Usha Vance hinges on an ability to pass in certain ways. 070
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I know it's unconstitutional, but, like, what's the Constitution compared to my feelings as a white man?" 125818
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wondered this in the moment, but how dumb do they think we are?? 110
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mean, just...not recognizing the name of any Big 10 team and assuming it must reference an NBA team instead is just bizarre. It's the equivalent of saying "Nittany Lions football? Oh you must mean the Detroit Lions" 🤪 0171
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The entire right wing world is built on the premise that some children are more important than other children 031
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Imagine pretending to care about college sports and not knowing about the freaking Hawkeyes 😂 2643
Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And good grief, this doesn't mean I don't care about Gaza. I care a lot. But if the D problem is Gaza and the R problem is Gaza + Iran + ICE + random fishermen + so many more things, then I will vote D every time. Pouting and crying and infighting doesn't magically end genocide. 0121
