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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ICMS 2026 registration is officially open! Be sure to register early so you secure your spot in limited workshops, concerts, and (limited) Tuesday arrivals. We can't wait to see you there! icms.confex.com/icms/2026/re...

A manuscript illustration of a green dragon with a silly, ferret-like face. Overlaid is a brown rectangle that says "ICMS registration is OPEN! Click here to register".

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The wind last night was so loud I didn't even hear this come down right across the street (the cones and machinery are from unrelated, planned work on the water service lines)

A bright sunny morning with the remains of overnight storm damage. There's half a tree down across the street, and in the foreground there's a big muddy hole in the ground marked off by traffic cones, and a partial view of a construction machine

Another view of a bright sunny morning with the remains of overnight storm damage. There's half a tree down across the street, and in the foreground there's a construction machine

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/05/2025

This is actually rather comforting

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025

You HAVE to celebrate good things. Even if they’re tiny and fragile and may blow away. In fact, you have to celebrate the fragile ones EVEN HARDER because who knows how many chances you get? If you constantly think how it will all go wrong, if every triumph is met with “but…” you will burn out.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I've been offline a lot lately because of *gestures wildly* all of this, but I gotta share some pictures from a fantasy-themed wedding I went to earlier this month, because how adorable are these lovely people?

@werewulver.bsky.social and my dearly beloved but not yet on bsky friend Scribe. They are standing next to each other beaming in front of a purple-blue mural. Their handmade wedding outfits are vaguely elven: Nate's shirt is blue, with a high collar and a darker blue woven belt, and Scribe's dress is purple with a translucent veil with a mushroom motif over the top. They both look tremendously happy.

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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Calling all medievalists! Registration for the 60th annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo opened this week! Head to our website to register and learn more about what to expect this May: wmich.edu/medievalcong... #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalstudies

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International Congress on Medieval Studies | Western Michigan University

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm angry about a lot of things. Outraged, frightened, you name it. But in the dark petty corners of my mind, I'm also just plain annoyed. Why do they get to take the small daily joys and triumphs and poison them with the guilt of "I should be doing more" and "but what about people with less"?

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mcc @dryad.technology · 03/02/2025

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

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Enhanced Drivers Licenses: What Are They? | Homeland Security

Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) are state-issued enhanced drivers licenses that provide proof of identity and U.S. citizenship.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

ok. because we all could use a little joy here are some silly medieval hedgehogs for hedgehog day:

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

COMMON GROUND
BEAUMONT TO DETROIT: 1943
Looky here, America What you done done—
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Cause everything that hitler And mussolini do
Negroes get the same Treatment from you.
Now your policemen
Let the mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
You tell me that hitler Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons From the ku klux klan.
You jim crowed me
Before hitler rose to power—
And you're sTiLL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour.
Yet you say we're fighting For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?
You tell me mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont That he had his start—
I ask you this question Cause I want to know How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER-AND JIM CROW.
-Langston Hughes, syndicated by the Associated Negro Press, in New York People's Voice and other papers, July 3.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Anyway what you need to see today is probably one of the 9 puppies that got dropped along with his mother near the ranch. Dad was probably a German Shepherd, mom is the kind of medium sized yellow dog with black mask you get from mutts after many generations.

A black and tan puppy with a short coat whose ears are valiantly trying to stand. They have made it about three quarters of the way. His front paws are both shiny white and enormous for his size.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"The outer leaf of each quire (quinio) is parchment, while the remaining leaves are papyrus." Look at this, y'all!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.

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Olivier Varlan @oliviervarlan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Le partage de Verdun (843) :

Un chat Lotharingie est écrasé entre un chat Francie occidentale et un chat Francie orientale.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Also, look at how someone in the 14th-c. rewrote the text on every page, which is itself written in 9th-c. rustic capitals. This is good evidence that later readers found rustic capitals challenging to read, as they had gone out of fashion by the time Gothic script developed.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Why did I not already have this bookmarked?! #medievalsky, you want this!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

NOW WHY DID THIS MAKE ME CRY

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

CAPTCHA: are you a human ME: yes CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 22/01/2025

Like, listen, do you think I am *not* a wobbly ball of horror whenever I let myself think about anything but the immediate task in front of me? But that feeling accomplishes nothing by itself, so I post about birds and the dog and coveting weird little cactus.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Classes are canceled again tomorrow. Today made sense - the high temperature was 2⁰ F - but Wednesday it's gonna be a balmy 16⁰ F (-9⁰ C). The only possible explanation: the university president wants to get in everyone's good graces before he retires at the end of the year

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Progress? Progress! (now's the time I always start questioning the wisdom of cutting cloth up into small triangles and sewing them back together into different triangles and squares, however)

The same fabric pictured in the quoted skeet, but now the dark red quarter-square triangles have been sewn to half of the denim triangles to make half-square triangles, and the bright red quarter-square triangles have been sewn to the other half of the denim triangles. They're placed next to the sword-and-shield half-square triangles to show that the next step is sewing them together to turn them back into squares. Nothing has happened to the square pieces of dragon-and-knight or dark red fabric yet.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In the name of not forgetting the small joys, I'm spending my snow day today at the craft table

Six piles of fabric pieces stacked on a cutting mat: dark blue flannel squares with a knight-and-dragon motif in white, dark red corduroy squares, white flannel half-square triangles with a sword-and-shield motif in dark blue, and three sets of quarter-square triangles in dark blue denim, dark red corduroy, and bright red corduroy.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/01/2025

nonzero chance at this point that I may be able to counteract a significant amount of my despair about the next four years with incredulous laughter about how stupid all of it is it’s so stupid

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Reading old books (and teaching other people how to read them)

A closeup picture of two hands (mine) leafing through a manuscript book.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Delightful discovery while proofing the @kzooicms.bsky.social program: two unrelated papers in unrelated sessions, both with titles beginning with the same quote from *Pearl*

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12/01/2025

Asheville and WNC should have shown everyone that there are no climate havens. Not even the Upper Midwest or Canada or Alaska. We're all in this together. If our neighbor's home is burning 2000+ miles away, and I depend on that neighbor for my survival, then I am in danger, too.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The fact that Greenland won’t happen helps the larger MAGA tactic of portraying Trump as harmless and ineffectual. But there are competent villains who will be doing very real work that does a lot of damage while he yaps about Greenland.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/01/2025

Everybody; Victorian ladies were gracious, proper, well behaved and never silly. Victorian lady;

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today my paleography students chose the leaves and binding fragments they're going to work on for their semester projects. Sometimes this job is pretty great.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Firaxis—the studio behind the Civilization series—is hiring a historian. An *actual* historian. And note, when they ask for "4+ years as a Writer, Narrative Designer, or other position with commensurate duties," that includes teaching, writing, and research—i.e. your Ph.D. in History.

boards.greenhouse.io

Historian

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, United States

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

why is that financial company spelled Schwab and not əb

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/01/2025

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

Telegram sent by author Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley on December 31st 1929.

Text reads.

You come right over here and explain why they are having another year.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Meanwhile, this alpaca has a real Día de los Muertos look going on

Front view of a dark gray alpaca at the Potter Park Zoo with black ears, eyeshadow, and chin, and a white mask on the rest of its head. Its face looks kinda like a skull.

Side view of a dark gray alpaca at the Potter Park Zoo with black ears, eyeshadow, and chin, and a white mask on the rest of its head. Its face looks kinda like a skull.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The blep! Cats are cats are always cats

Kota, a large male African lion lounging on a pile of straw in the indoor part of his enclosure at the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing. He's looking at the camera, and his tongue is poking out just a little bit.

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Oh thank goodness, the city is taking responsibility for the sewage backup. I guess that's the silver lining to having liquid (euphemism) oozing up out of the access point in the front yard?

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mcc @dryad.technology · 13/12/2024

If you are cis ("not transgender") I need to explain this to you. Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/12/2024

This efficiency ghoul wants to raise our costs and worsen our health. This ain’t efficient for anyone.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is my cue to tell the story of these two quarantine signs I saw at the El Dorado County History Museum. First of all, always go visit those small local museums. They hold odd treasures.

“INFANTILE PARALYSIS KEEP AWAY” quarantine posting

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Pretty sure there's a squirrel running around inside the walls right now

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Marjorie Harrington @mlkharrington.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is the cutest dang thing in the world

A small book with a wooden cover, on which the letter M has been engraved. The M is modeled after an early insular illuminated manuscript initial: it is made up of an elongated dragon-like beast twining around itself.

The same small book, standing upright, opened slightly and emitting a mysterious warm glow

The same small book, now lying open with its pages fanning out above it. The book is glowing brightly. If you look very closely, you can find a USB-C socket embedded in the front cover.

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