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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Is there a reason the Tolkein estate isn't suing all of these people?

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In an AI-horny hellscape, leading a pub-based community sea shanty sing is praxis, right?

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo

Graphic labelled "Types of Medievalist Paper" based on xkcd.com/2456/. 12 pictures of 'papers' appear with overlaid titles:

You Won't Believe What Nuns Were Up To
HEY, I FOUND A TROVE OF OLD RECORDS! THEY DON'T TURN OUT TO BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL, BUT STILL, COOL!
The Silk Road Is Not Just A Website for Buying LSD
Niche Tax Documents in Provence, 1370-1373
Everything That Happened in Asia, 622-1914
Ships Might Be Very Important
Introducing "Spatula' The New Journal for Medieval Studies
Globalizing the Middle Ages: An Examination of England *and* France
How l Got the University to Pay for My Trip to Venice
Did You Know? Arabs Had Science and Culture Too
We Remembered Spain And It's Right Where We Left It
More Viking Shit Found in Unexpected Place

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well, of course! Don't you know that the war against Iran can only be won on the playing fields of Eaton?

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026

"Professors didn’t choose the battlefield, but we’re no longer willing to pretend we aren’t standing on one." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | What professors gained by winning with El-Sayed

The American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every so often I teach someone how to spin yarn on a spindle. And I always tell them that the first yarn you make will not be good yarn, and it's not meant to be, because right now you are not making wool into yarn, you're making yourself into a spinner.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On this day in 1981, Richard Cobb got an honorary degree from the University of Essex. That may not seem significant to you, but it makes this afternoon the 45th anniversary of one of the finest graduation addresses ever delivered 🧵

A grey slate plaque with white lettering reads: Historian Richard Cobb got an honorary degree here on a sweltering day in 1981. His speech, in full: “Well, it’s very hot and the pubs are open.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026

Google long ago did away with ad-blocking on mobile devices (reverse engineering an app is a felony, which means an app is just a web-page skinned with the right kind of IP to make it a crime to protect your privacy while you use it). 29/

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I have heard the arguments as to how this is supposed to cool you down. I was even convinced to try it in the depths of a Yorkshire summer. All love and affection to my British colleagues, but: It's bullshit. Drink cold drinks and challenge your neighbors to water balloon fights like a normal person

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As an aficionado of the sea shanty, Applegate's inclusion of a chapter on work songs has my attention

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Empowerment is not emancipation & if AI does any empowering, it’s of the already powerful elite who are shifting our economy to accommodate the digital forms of arbitration and decision-making that these tools were devised to perform. Academics who shill for it are complicit.

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As much as I initially hated the brutalist architecture, I have to admit it did provide a convenient approximation of a medieval churchyard/monastic courtyard. In any other building, I might not have been inspired to have my undergrad class play Jeu de Paume. So...thanks, Mosse Humanities.

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This post sponsored by Bass-Liners Against Treble (BLAT)

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy #Pride, especially to the millions of people who are protecting and uplifting their local LGBTQ community in small, everyday ways. Each and every act which helps a single light in our constellation - including your own - to burn a little longer and brighter means more than you can ever know.

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that universities are institutionally disinclined to defend rights or democracy. Uni admin seemingly only hold polls/elections to justify doing whatever they already wanted to do. If the students/faculty vote incorrectly they're more than happy to ignore the results

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It is a lovely day in the Field Museum, and your wife is a Horrible Goose

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 23/05/2026

“It is not my job to compensate for a person’s erasure of me by making myself more present.”

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Julban, Amir of 10, Amir of 40, Amir of 100, Muqaddam Alif, Sultan

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

No, please, tell me more about how giving up more of the classroom to centralized third-party tech startups will make education more efficient. I'm just fielding emails from dozens of panicked students while digging through the physical backups of everything they've done this semester. I've got time

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Weird Polo Guy transformation now at 82% completion

OP at an arena polo barn on a very patient polo pony named Slick.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2023

A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Union automotive mechanic in Wisconsin and a high-school band director in Kentucky.

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

IBM Training Manual from 1979: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When I say this today what I mean is that a necessary but not sufficient step toward the US having any kind of future credibility in my nephews' lives, the GOP has to be run out of power and public life and treated like the Nazis after WWII. We will not have credibility in my own lifetime.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 28/02/2026

How I wept tonight. “We can endure this, & be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here.”

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is eminently true and also (in my opinion) a failure of rhetoric. Almost every alt-ac conversation I've ever been a part of has been implicitly framed as "ok so after you fail at this..." 🧵

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hey, @medievalsky, do any of you have institutional access to the British Library or U Toronto at present? If so, do you have the ability to get a scan (full or partial) of this book? search.worldcat.org/title/107574...

search.worldcat.org

Scaino on tennis | WorldCat.org

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Scare-ah Colonthree @sarah.northsky.social · 06/02/2026

Doing art badly is good and sacred

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just have the first lecture of my first we've class as Instructor of Record! #medievaljoy ... how do y'all manage to write three lectures a week while still doing research? Hell how do you manage to do that for multiple different classes? If y'all are wizards you gotta tell me! #medievalpanic

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The muddy, disgusting, surprisingly-shallow Ohio. 's a good fuckin river, though

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A little Midwest wisdom I've picked up over the years: If you want to be able to drive without fear of ice, you'll need to be ready and willing to salt the earth.

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Do any of y'all have friends in Morocco at the moment? Specifically Rabat? There are a couple of manuscripts in the Khazinat al-Ammah that I'd like to get eyes on and possibly images of, but the budget doesn't stretch to plane tickets. #medievalsky #research #academicsky

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Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition @mustachiomusketeer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

In the Mamluk Sultanate, these are the same group chat.

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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🧵 i have been dealing with an unbelievably shitty situation on Marvel Snap, wherein Marvel Snap's reporting system is being hijacked by bigots who report any LGBTQiA+ usernames and the system AUTOMATICALLY removes the person's username whether or not its actually violated any TOS (1/x)

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

But the people specifically focused on lamenting the decline in military history aren't interested in solidarity with other humanists, but in attacking "wokeness" while ignoring what is really hollowing out the academy.

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