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Jeremy Bassetti

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🏛️ Professor of Humanities, PhD ✨ History | Culture | Ideas ⛰️ Working on Mountains More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Compare these two pictures, one from the early C20th, the other from 2023. Via @alpineclub.bsky.social and this article www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/alpine-...
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 01/10/2026
Just flashed a 5.11. Feels good to be back.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 08/09/2026
Good afternoon, everyone.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 07/09/2026
Need a 🚬 now?
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 07/09/2026
@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 07/09/2026
Good afternoon.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 05/09/2026
I’ve started a new YouTube channel that focuses on my mountain work. I did this because my old channel was a bit of a potpourri in terms of the topics I covered, and separating my mountains work will offer better clarity for me and for the platform’s algorithmic signals. www.youtube.com/@onmountains
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On Mountains
Exploring the human history of mountains.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One tries not to add to the burden of climate angst but anyone who has been on a glacier knows that the scale of this is... unimaginable.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 26/08/2026
We need more school administrators - especially at smaller, two-year schools whose students are less prepared than their peers at more selective institutions - to show some spine and start unplugging shit. Fewer screens and more books. While we are at it, smaller classes too. This is the way.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 21/08/2026
New Mountain Book: 'The Pyrenees' by Colin Duncan Taylor (@colinduncantaylor.com) jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
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New Mountain Book: 'The Pyrenees' by Colin Duncan Taylor
Colin Duncan Taylor's new book explores the human history of 'The Pyrenees.'
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Virtual Teach-In: Protect Mato Tipila Against Rare Earth Mining! 🗓️ Wednesday, August 26, at 6:00 p.m. MT / 7:00 p.m. CT Zoom registration link: ndnco.cc/matotipila #ProtectHesapa #Landback #NoMiningInTheBlackHills
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 21/08/2026
Una ciguapa
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Per my last tablet
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 15/08/2026
The beauty of a mic drop is that there is nothing further to discuss.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 14/08/2026
😉
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 14/08/2026
Today is the Entrada Folklórica for Bolivia’s Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña. This weekend is the mass and pilgrimage. Sad to miss it all this year. Here is a photo of me in a mine with my stone, which was confiscated by airport security on my way home.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 14/08/2026
Looks like a decent cup, for once. Are you in Italy?
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 23/07/2026
The four Americans returning home [in caskets] were Tyler James Feehan, Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Angel S. Rampersad and Isabella Gonzales. They ranged in age from 19 to 25, and hailed from the entire breadth of the United States, from Hawaii to North Carolina, New York to Texas.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 20/07/2026
The better team won. 🏆
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 17/07/2026
You've finished the manuscript. Now what? Join our AHA Online webinar on July 28 at 12 p.m. ET exploring the nuts and bolts of book publishing, from acquisitions and contracts to marketing. With Mike Baccam, Levi Stahl, and Elizabeth Townsend Gard. Register now.
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Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians – AHA
Book Publishing 101: Acquisitions, Contracts, and Promotion for Historians AHAOnline Tuesday, July 28, 12–1 p.m. ET You’ve written a dissertation or drafted a new manuscript and are in talks to publis...
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Shin Hanga Daily @shinhangadaily.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Paul Binnie - Mountain Temple in Yamagata #ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 16/07/2026
Is this what nature writing has come to?
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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 15/07/2026
UK National Domestic Abuse Helpline Phone anytime 24/7 0808 2000 247
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 09/07/2026
I wrote about the concept of "mountains" in Sumerian temples, via the Gudea Cylinders. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
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The Temple as Mountain in the Sumerian Gudea Cylinders
A look at the Gudea Cylinders, the E-ninnu temple, and one of the earliest known instances of the temple-as-mountain motif.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 09/07/2026
Tell them it is for your impoverished, ignorant, American cousin...
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 09/07/2026
@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Morning! Do you have a gift link to your review of Ed's new book "Upland" on the Literary Review? 😬
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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Publication day for my new book Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain's Mountains. It's essentially about how they were made, literally and in our heads, and how we used and abused them, and how they still carry us along. Enjoy!
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 01/07/2026
I posted some notes on mountains in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Read more here: jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
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Mountains in the Epic of Gilgamesh
What the world's first epic says about mountains, sacred heights, and revelation — roughly 1,000 years before the Old Testament.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 26/06/2026
Looking for an appropriate Mario gif…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 17/06/2026
What is the German term for the feeling one has that the book proposal you're working on is actually two different books?
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 02/06/2026
I ran 5 miles every morning until the birth of my son and never felt this “high.” Maybe a few starry hallucinations from deep breathing, but nothing that can be described as euphoria.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 27/05/2026
Link to the Encyclical here: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 27/05/2026
"the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 27/05/2026
Ancient metaphors of verticality inform and influence contemporary discourse. In his recent Encyclical MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, Pope Leo XIV coined the term "Babel syndrome," which he defined as...
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 20/05/2026
Why was Raul Castro not indicted in 1996? Because we need a pretext for war in 2026.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 20/05/2026
I first read this as MGMT and 🤨
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Nan ☮️ @naninaz76.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#ThePathlessLand is out in early September, but if you want to preorder, there's a 20% discount on bookshop.org until the end of the weekend, discount code PREORDER20: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Such a pleasure talking about the Greek mountains, the Prespa lakes and the unique Aoos-Vjosa river system spanning Greece and Albania for the brilliant Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast. @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @futuremountain.bsky.social msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/13/l...
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Lifelines
Jason König interviews Julian Hoffman about his book Lifelines and his latest project on the Aoos/Vjosa river.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 15/05/2026
The humanities aren't under attack. Institutional humanities are — universities, departments, funding. But artists and thinkers will keep creating. They did it before universities existed and will after. Institutions feed off the humanities. They aren't the humanities.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 15/05/2026
I’m going to start and end each class with a 20 min guided meditation next semester…
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 14/05/2026
One of the best books I've read this year was published in 1920. A. G. Sertillanges wrote "The Intellectual Life" as a guide for scholars, researchers, and writers who feel called to do serious thinking. It asks more of you than most so-called "productivity" books ever would. Exactly what I needed.
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 14/05/2026
A good kind of enshittification.
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Roland Allen gazes on the space where Chapter XVIII shall be @zibaldoni.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wax writing tablets, a short 🧵 What did you write on, in Europe, before the adoption of paper in late 13th Century? 1/n
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Roland Allen gazes on the space where Chapter XVIII shall be @zibaldoni.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Can we somehow ensure that every university administrator, every cabinet minister, every senior civil servant and every CEO sees this?
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 11/05/2026
Knausgard’s My Struggle book 1
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