Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialjulia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks 19236
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something I didn't appreciate about the Maryland Renaissance Faire until today is that they've been running a 30+ year real time performance of the life and wives of Henry VIII. They started with 1509 and every year the Faire bumps up another year. 1020135
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialTristan Salazar @ofnadwy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ada Palmer: I created the Gendered Sex Club as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At last we have created the Gendered Sex Club from the classic sci-fi novel, Look What Happens When You Have a Gendered Sex Club (apologies to @adapalmer.bsky.social for this gross mischaracterization of Terra Ignota) 311620
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialStephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026mmygod 1207936650
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Not sure if this is a commentary on Agnes Callard, or Twitter 913215
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth 223238798
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 02/09/2026You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You'd have to call it Blazing Samurai and then make it an animated kids movie and turn everyone into cats and dogs and cast Michael Cera as Bart and 12 years of hell later have a film so bad Mel will only let you release it as Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank 1314
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Reading about a painter called "The sodomite" who did a painting called "St Benedict repairs a Broken Colander through Prayer" where the saint is a side character because the actual focus of the fresco is a self portrait with a pet badger Iconic tbh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Sodoma 38526
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialrogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The great carnelian mystery – The Past the-past.com/feature/the-...the-past.comThe great carnelian mysteryJames A Harrell looks into the uncertain origins of ancient Egypt’s most popular gemstone: carnelian. 0114
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMeredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton took herself seriously in all the ways that mattered, and none of the ways that didn't. Her deeds are worth emulating, but so is her attitude--she held that too-rare sense of perspective that let her respect *and* laugh at herself in equal measure. 28515
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialDr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 24/08/2026On this day in antiquity: the final known text in Egyptian hieroglyphs is written down. These two texts from Roman Egypt, written in hieroglyphs and Demotic on the Nile island of Philae, are short, but they nonetheless give us their author's name and their date of creation: August 24th 394 AD. 730291
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Have to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories. 491228327
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialWord Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Separately, and always a favorite: Greek χαμαιλέων <khamailéōn>: "chameleon" is a calque of Akkadian 𒌨𒈤𒊭𒆠 <nēšu ša qaqqari>: "chameleon, lizard". <nēšu ša qaqqari> was translated literally as "lion of the ground" but would probably be better translated as "predator that crawls" 2163
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11/08/2026good on this guy, an underrated One Weird Trick to unfuck so much of California is to not allow Island Cities like Piedmont. If every border you have is with the same incorporated city, you are a tax dodge and you should not exist. 1133339
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...youtube.comThe Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKEDYouTube video by Miniminuteman 31608570
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 28/07/2026A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise. 1355148
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778532571
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialAmy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Extremely excited about the IG/TikTok content the Odyssey is giving us! Also thank you a million times to @archaeadne.bsky.social for sending me tiktoks because I simply cannot do that platform 49727
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialAbacus Wizard @abacuswizard.bsky.social · 14/07/2026One more little improvement because graphic design is fun 313138
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialM. Willis Monroe @willismonroe.com · 13/03/2026I'm once again asking scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity not to use "Ancient World" for book titles when what they really mean is ancient Greece and Rome... Fabian Horn's recent book (reviewed on BMCR today) looks like a fascinating collection of chapters looking at Conceptual Metaphor Theory, but... 2112
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialWil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia 20872001139
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.social🧙♀️ Annmarie Pisano 🧙♀️ @annmariepisano.bsky.social · 22/06/2026it cannot be overstated that the Cloisters is basically running a "weird Medieval guys" exhibit right now. You can see the tapestries AND these knives and it's barely even crowded. 648096
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialKnoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖) 393072708
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialHoosier Homer is reading The Best & The Brightest by Halberstam @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Lots of you may be wondering, "where do I find old maps?" and boy howdy let me tell you something: Go the United State Geological Survey's website. They have a ton of maps for sale or if you want to do something different, they have map files for download! store.usgs.gov/mapsstore.usgs.govMaps | USGS StoreThe USGS Store sells and distributes printed maps and scientific products, Federal Lands recreation passes, and other products from partnering U.S. Federal Agencies. Create an account and start explor... 66310
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 07/06/2026i'm moving forward with a new departmental home. but i want y'all to know that our college closed my former department -- a nationally-known one -- to save an operating budget of $121,825. don't ever let them tell you it's about the money, friends. it's not. receipts at p. 698:bov.vt.edu 324447
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/06/2026let me add too that we were ostensibly closed because our major was "unsustainable," but the state's - and university's - own metrics showed that our enrollment has been growing consistently since 2012 this wasn't about money and it wasn't about metrics. it was about something else. 329499
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialBridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Being Catholic is extremely normal. One day you’re reading a careful defense of human dignity in a world besieged by tech billionaires & warmongers written by the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and the next day the bishop of DC has to tell a priest he can’t say UFOs are demons. 1138584
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 03/06/2026UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita. 7612196
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026And we love them both #pride #transgender 8696158
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialHannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 29/05/2026to say the quiet part out loud: most PhD programs fund grad students with a mix of fellowships and teaching, but mostly through teaching. if TAs are replaced by AI, most PhD programs will cease to exist 516258
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 31/05/2026Saw CASABLANCA again for the first time in maybe a decade. So incredibly good. 2151419
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep. 18697282039
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialAskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 30/05/2026As a sidenote, we get asked all the time why historians don't recommend reading old, "classic" texts from authors like Tuchman. This is why - it's way too easy to internalise these kinds of unsupported claims made in passing. 17911
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialNeville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026Insanely overpriced edited volume? Brill issue. 58010
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29/05/2026This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...senate.ucla.eduJune 2: Senate Faculty Conversation on Education White Papers 815871
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialSam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 28/05/2026When a prince of Benevento sees an opportunity to steal relics from his neighbours in the 830s. (The relatable meme content that everyone was calling for.) #medievalsky 1133
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialariel @toomuchpiano.bsky.social · 25/05/2026modern standard arabic is neither modern, nor standard, nor arabic —ibn voltaire 2123
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialmyxozoan.bsky.social @myxozoan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026In the university special collections system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the faculty who investigate artifacts, and the National Art Crime Team who retrieve the stolen pieces. These are their stories. 28717
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Love this. The exception might be cuneiform…almost everything you read has not felt the light of day for thousands of years. Every ancient letter, receipt, star map, math problem, or fragment of a poem is new again. It adds to our knowledge and remembrance. It absolutely is thrilling 🧡 418925
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialAnkaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Philip the Fair: I have already expelled all Jews from France (because I owed some of them money) and got the Knights Templar destroyed (because I owed them money) oi pope Pope Boniface VIII: what is it my son? P the F: gimme some money 121614
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialScott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!! 4558602175
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia 341506323
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Wher ys the horse and the rydere? Wher ys the horne that was blowinge? Wher ys The Toast? Damn that was such an awesome websyte. 19113
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialMichael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026499 BC: Ionians: Hey Sparta, we hear you guys are wArRiOrs. Wanna help us with a war? Sparta: Maybe. Is is close by? Like three day march? Ionians: Across the sea. Here's a map. Sparta: WHOA! Sorry, we're not really into *expeditionary warfare.* Athens: FUCK YEAH. GET SOME GET SOME. 15411
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialJesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win. 143233691
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.social🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Btw did everyone already know that sign language can also exhibit metathesis?? 'cause nobody told me!! 14517
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 06/01/2026while i'm at it, gooey cheese (velveeta) is melted cheese with a decoagulant added (usually sodium citrate). you can again do it yourself quite easily. (fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.) 57814
Reposted by @longpaulduree.bsky.socialJay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Every recorded copy contains a series of varying hand-made corrections that seem to have been produced in the print shop itself. Often, these corrections are made using white paint to remove or alter notes. But notes are also scraped away, and or altered in pen, or simply reprinted. 5/8 1114
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American Sign Language
In American Sign Language, several signs which have a pre-specified initial and final location in reference to the body of the person signing (such as the signs RESTAURANT, PARENT, or TWINS) can have the order of these two locations reversed in contexts which seem to be purely phonological. While not possible with all signs, this does happen with quite a few. For example, the sign DEAF, prototypically made with the "1" handshape making contact first with the cheek and then moving to contact the jaw (as in the sentence FATHER DEAF), can have these locations reversed if the preceding sign, when part of the same constituent, has a final location more proximal to the jaw (as in the sentence MOTHER DEAF). Both forms of the sign DEAF are acceptable to native signers.[4] A proposed prerequisite for metathesis to apply in ASL is that both signs must be within the same region on the body. Constraints on the applications of metathesis in ASL has led to discussions that the phonology breaks down the body into regions distinct from settings.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ldv7gbrnwo3n7y5pwdmbrw6v/bafkreifwvowmygqmxgfw5cvp6hkqlrrqpthozd33ir2vdrgvvjlbeq2zka)
![An image of a reprinted red initial “D” ([D]um medium . . .) The previous large red initial had been printed in the wrong position and was corrected by painting over in white, which has since flaked away.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xp4fd6vosomzfncclehxz2gw/bafkreib3dveojexfahifglxems45kng5v6odqascgqh5m3c3cp54g4rjkq)
