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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13h

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Babe, new cover for Derrida's "The Animal that therefore I am" just dropped

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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA Creative Writing hiring a fiction writer apply.interfolio.com/192511

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UVA faculty are like "sorry I can't make it to the meeting, my car is:

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Martyrdom is rough but I bet that feels amazing

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That awkward moment when it's the Last Judgement but you're at the nude beach

Mural in the capilla de San Blas, catedral de Toledo

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Selim36 in Toledo was AMAZING! So grateful to be among Uch brilliant scholars 🤗 And in such a gorgeous city!

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have you lost sleep wondering about Old English influence in Old Norse poetry? Babe, I got you. New open access article just dropped: benjamins.com/catalog/sigl...

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally, rankings that matter (slightly annoying Hoosier here)

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I regret having to cut this from my book

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vikings: let us in, we want to trade English, behind gates: ...just to trade? Vikings:

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join me as I chat all things infernal with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

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The Invention of Hell | Gone Medieval

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why, yes, your email did indeed find me well, unusually well, in fact, because you see I have recently come into possession of a very fine cask of amontillado wine. If you would kindly reserve your place on the outlook calendar to come and view it in my unorthodox cellar arrangement…

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@uvalibrary.bsky.social just acquired a new book of hours! I'm smitten. We had an event tonight to introduce it to grounds The esteemed Amy Ogden (French dept) gave an illuminating talk

PowerPoint for the talk that says bumpy baby blue beast bedazzles medieval studies. Featuring the eponymous baby blue beast from the MS margin

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They walked so we could "it's on the syllabus"

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If surnames are what your ancestors did for a living then I assume a Fitzgibbons is someone whose forebears were unrivaled at cramming apes into crates

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Celebrate this weekend's heatwave with a hot new podcast interview about my book on hell!

The Medieval Podcast, hosted by Daniele Cybulski, featuring me and my book translating hell

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lo, the pale horseman of the apocalypse, plague in train, astride his steed (Yup, it's back to preschool season)

Toddler on a hobby horse, merrily spreading every germ with reckless abandon

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Petition to translate "empanada" as "embreaded" Sign below:

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yeehaw apocrypals! Join me as I talk about what Icelanders used apocrypha to do 700+ years ago!

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What do I love more- Marlowe's Dr Faustus or hating on AI? 🔥🔥🔥 Either way

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We had a massive thunderstorm a couple nights ago and I managed to get a shot of Thor in action 🤘⚡🔨🤘

Photo of a lightning bolt above my backyard

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This illustration of Þorsteinns þattt skelks is GOD TIER!!!

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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social I made some art inspired by the tale of Thorstein Shiver that I thought you might like ...

a black and white illustration of a medieval Icelander in a cludgie being startled by a demon regaling him about Norse pagan heroes in Hell.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Fun fact: "Dr. Seuss" was a pen name. His real name was Theodore Geisel. Funner fact: "Geisel" is a German cognate to the archaic Old English "gisl", which is inscribed in runes on the back of the Franks Casket

Close up of the back panel of the Franks Casket, extreme lower right, runic "gisl" (hostage)

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When Axl Rose said "welcome to the jungle", I don't think he meant Upton Sinclair's

Screenshot of eye drops recall tweet, with RFK jr Next to it for some reason

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No one: Literally nobody: Etymology nerds: my favorite movie is *dʰreibʰ-

Still from Drive, with caption I'm going to drive my *kwekwlos into a *doru

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Even more visitors will be flocking to Iceland for the solar eclipse, so here’s a much-requested phrase in Icelandic (“Hello. I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”). Icelandic pronunciation tips: youtu.be/ivLPqkEaKOI

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Conlangers have a chance to do the funniest thing ever

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 287 (8/2/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

ICYMI: had an amazing time chatting on @americanmedieval.bsky.social about apocrypha, the Midwest, and why I'm not an archaeologist podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...