iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those of you (still) on FB, @dias.ie's account on that platform has a number of images and soundbites connected with the launch of Nauigatio St Brendani and our reception by Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly. www.facebook.com/DIASDublin

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 6h

We don't bury our iViking hoard away to be found centuries later! Instead, it's all available to scroll through both in app and on our website norsemap.eu. You could even go to the map section and look through Viking heritage location by location and they may surprise you!🗺 #NorseMap #MedievalSky

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 15h

The Wicked Witch of the West, when she threw a fireball at the Scarecrow. She. tried. to. MURDER him.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 20h

Pneumonia, which means it could spread person-to-person (but hopefully won't; modern Plague doesn't spread as easily as medieval)

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 23h

As a medievalist, I approve this message.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the mean streets of the big city, a lone figure stands against the darkness...

A cheerful red square robot, probably a food delivery 'bot, navigates the sidewalk of a major American city after dark

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On a scale of Mary's pets, how are you starting out this new week? Lewis: rawr. Might start a fight, might take a nap Hooch: just getting on with things Gandalf: ask me later Pumpkin: feigned innocence Róisín: just no

Top left: fuzzy gray cat loafing on a mat in front of a plastic sword
Bottom left: adorable brown mutt with cataracts trots forward
Middle top: sleek gray kitteh licks his butt
Middle bottom: fuzzy orange boi looks up at you with his eyes wide, as if he hadn't just tipped over the bin of cat food and spilled the entire contents across the floor
Right: long photo of a very pretty black and white husky stretched out napping on the floor alongside a sofa, with her head shoved under the sofa

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reasonably tidy selvedges and hem stitching. Not Friday, and the huck pattern is in no way #WeavingLikeAViking

An all-red weaving pattern. At the bottom, warp threads are gathered in bunches of five with a hem stitch holding the bundles in place against several inches of plain weave, which sits in the middle of the photo. The plain weave becomes a huck pattern, where a repeating pattern of floating stitches can be seen. Above that, is unwoven warp.

An all-red weaving pattern. At the bottom, a repeating pattern of floating stitches can be seen, with plainwoven border on the left and top. Above that, warp threads are gathered in bunches of five with a hem stitch holding the bundles in place against the plain woven top border. Above that, is unwoven warp.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

oooh, pretty!! You got your ingots (check), coins (check), armbands (really bracelets) (check), hacksilver (check). Nice!!

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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

While you’re finishing up your summer reading, we’ll be listening to our latest episode feat. @estellegvl.bsky.social - about women scribes! #medievalsky

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The heavens putting on a nice show for tonight

The moon in near total lunar eclipse. It looks like a crescent, with only the top right of the moon visible

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Medieval movies are nearly all about Vikings, Crusades, Robin Hood, or Plague. There's a thousand years of history work with -- why can't we have JUST ONE about something else?

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My dad was a construction worker. He also loved history & always had his nose in a book. I'm a history prof, but should I have started trade school when I was 9 instead? Call me crazy, but I thought the American dream meant your choices weren't made for you in childhood; that's dystopian SciFi stuff

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty early medievalists: The Lady with the Mead Cup

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Best quote from this semester's syllabus (handwritten notes assignment) -Exam-ready notes -Banger quotes -Historical anecdotes -Class material upvotes -Remember your footnotes Hoping the assignment goes better than my poetry ; )

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A Wrinkle in Time. Aahhhh, that would be so much fun!

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am a medievalist. I teach Joan of Arc. In the Vikings we read about Loki and Thor cross-dressing and Loki becoming female (a horse) and even giving birth. John/Eleanor Rykener, the Abbot who fell asleep a man and woke up a woman, Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein. And that's just western Europe!

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I keep thinking about this, and where does critical thinking fit in? What if faculty don't "indoctrinate" students by teaching specific topics (which we all know), but we do empower them by teaching how to figure sh!t out on their own?

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time'

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/08/2026

It's The Edge's birthday, so we are contractually obligated to re-post this ridiculousness in our archives.

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Postcards from “The Edge”

Aug 8 2020 8/8/23 8/8/25

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Update on the Odyssey discourse.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Everyone in Maine already knows this

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From Siembra NC: The US Forest Service shouldn’t be turning our creeks into ICE Checkpoints. Donate to Centro Latino 🔗 centrolatinohickory.org/donations and our Florece Fund 🔗tr.ee/florecefund to support the families of those detained at Wilson’s Creek.

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Donations | Centro Latino New

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Stoppe callinge them Data Centers and starte callinge them slop hellmouths

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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Paperback version of my book available for pre order for the exceptionally low price of €26. Absoloute bargain if I do say so myself, thanks to the good people of Four Courts Press. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...

fourcourtspress.ie

Four Courts Press | Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150

by Patrick Gleeson

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm just a girl, staring at a blue screen and getting absolutely nothing done, because her computer decided it had to restart just before a Zoom meeting.

An open laptop with a blue screen that has been "Applying Group Policy Registry policy" for the last 20 minutes

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I am lucky enough to be teaching the Osyssey THIS WEEK. And yes, we are reading Wilson's translation, and yes, I am sending my students this thread.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

CFP for DISTAFF-sponsored textile sessions at Leeds next year. #MedievalSky

Call for papers for IMC Leeds for papers on medieval textiles.

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Nathan Melson @nsmelson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I did this years ago on Twitter, but, here's a list of tools/utilities that every medievalist show know about and have bookmarked: #medievalsky

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Will be teaching my students the "what happened" part next week, and some may be very disappointed. Then again, we're also covering the reality of who fathered all their children and who the manly men of Sparta were really sleeping with this week, so I guess they should be prepared?

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Two Cú Chulainn-related posts in one morning!

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

From ten months ago, but we aren't monitoring y. Pestis? Doesn't anyone study history any more?

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And he's back home now, here in the High Country. Our neighbors deserve to be safer than having him around.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A colleague used to tell his students that the word "vandalism" comes from the Vandals because they always forgot that the correct order was to loot, then pillage, THEN burn. Waiting for the pool to fill with 4 million gallons of water before slashing sounds pretty on brand for those ancient Vandals

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