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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 17h

🏺 On this day there was a procession from the Eleusinion in Athens to Eleusis for the Mysteries (τὰ Μυστήρια). It began late in the day and did not arrive in Eleusis (about ten miles from Athens) until nighttime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_My…

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 17h

Today (2026-Sep-30) is Boēdromiṓn 19, ἐνάτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Βοηδρομιῶνος, day 78 of 355 in the year 2026/2027.

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🏺 The Eleusinian Mysteries (τὰ Μυστήρια) were still going on this day, but we are not sure what happened (they are secret rites, after all). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_My…

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today (2026-Sep-29) is Boēdromiṓn 18, ὀγδόῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Βοηδρομιῶνος, day 77 of 355 in the year 2026/2027.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🏺 The Epidauria (Ἐπιδαύρια) was celebrated on this day, a festival for Asklepios, the god of healing, and sort of a separate festival within the Eleusinian Mysteries (τὰ Μυστήρια). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_My…

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today (2026-Sep-28) is Boēdromiṓn 17, ἑβδόμῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Βοηδρομιῶνος, day 76 of 355 in the year 2026/2027.

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🏺 Today was the second day of the celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries (τὰ Μυστήρια), “halade mustai” (ἅλαδε μύσται, “Initiates to the Sea”). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_My…

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today (2026-Sep-27) is Boēdromiṓn 16, ἕκτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Βοηδρομιῶνος, day 75 of 355 in the year 2026/2027.

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🏺 Today was the “agurmos” (ἀγυρμός, “Gathering”), the first day of the celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries (τὰ Μυστήρια) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_My…

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Ἡμερολόγιον @hemerologion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today (2026-Sep-26) is Boēdromiṓn 15, πέμπτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Βοηδρομιῶνος, day 74 of 355 in the year 2026/2027.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TRS-80 with *cassette tape* for storage

A silver and black TRS-80 computer with a cassette deck next to it (which is the computers storage) and a black and white box in the background labelled "Radio Shack TRS-80 Computer Cassette Recorder"

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Obviously the people making a stink about the B65 bus and open streets aren't concerned about sidewalk access or blocked bus stops. A lot of people's "accessibility" concerns only go so far as "Can I access a parking spot in front of my house and every destination in the city?"

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

100% don't bother reading that Bret Stephens "book awards are DEI now" piece but this from the comments... oh. my. god I want to ask this commenter so many things about their opinions on a) feminists and b) syphilitics

Reader comment from the NYTimes that says "No wonder there aren't any literary greats of the stature of Joyce and Woolf in the 21st century."

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you are writing about this crash and focusing on helmets or the fine print of the Citibike user agreement and not on the likelihood the truck operator either ran a red light or failed to yield then you are doing a terrible job and should reflect on it

The intersection where the crash occurred. There is no protected right turn signal; a bicyclist or pedestrian traveling west or turning on to 1st Ave would have the right of way

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But then again, what has the whale to say?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have another idea for you.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My take is that having a Muslim immigrant preside over ceremonies commemorating 9/11 in New York City is one of the beautiful things about America.

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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I worked for 20+ years trying to make education more engaging and personalized and the key isn’t fucking AI, it’s spending enough money that you can cut class sizes in half and then slowing the fuck down so you can have actual conversations. All that costs SERIOUS $$$, so eat AI instead, everyone.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I guess there's not always a long German word

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Since we're enjoying dialect maps again--a true child of Tidewater

A map of the United States showing that my dialect is broadly southern and centered on the Tidewater region of Virgina

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The future Armstrong Family Foundation is going to have to be *huge* to whitewash this guy's name. Congratulations in advance to all of the AFF's grantees!

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 28/08/2026

D791.3 Disenchantment fails because conditions are not fulfilled.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching a DOT bike lane proposal presentation and in Zoom you can see that the presenter is using a Dvorak keyboard layout. Hail the nerdliness

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I just saw someone write that “higher education needs to regain its soul.” Ok, but I’d prefer it regain forty years of public funding, which was cut to pay for prisons & tax giveaways to rich ppl. Grub first, then ethics

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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Of all this world at once. As when a scout, Through dark and desert ways with peril gone All night; at last by break of cheerful dawn Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill, Which to his eye discovers unaware III, 544-548

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ok, hands off *my* alma mater now

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026

this northwestern news is bad enough all by itself but it's far, far worse in this context: activist rightwing billionaires just pledged $35M *FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM* www.espn.com/college-foot...

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Northwestern gets $35M over next 3 years for football program

Northwestern announced Tuesday that the football team has received a $35 million donation from Liz and Dick Uihlein aimed at strengthening the program.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 16/08/2026

A2320.4 Why crab has no head.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Jesus, it's Plato's allegory of the charioteer except we're all just getting dragged across cacti by both

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's funny to me how now everyone knows how very old the Appalachians are, but this fact permeating into broader society is extremely recent. Plate tectonics itself only became the accepted theory in *1965* Your parents didn't know that the Appalachians include the Scottish Highlands.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The article uses the word "jump" a few times but its hard to tell if it's figurative or literal. I hope it's figurative because there is nowhere to jump off a carrier that isn't the same as leaping off a tall building

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you're watching the eclipse today, you're seeing why the Athenians called the last day of the month, ἕνη καὶ νέα, "the old and the new." As the moon passes by the sun we're literally passing from the "old" moon (ἕνη) to the "new" (νέα)

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today would have been Dad's 78th birthday. We're down in Cville as usual, to commemorate that occasion & celebrate my bday this coming Saturday. So I wanted to focus a special @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on six figures from my lifetime who embody the best of my hometown. 🗃️

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Considering History: A Birthday Week Tribute to the Best of Charlottesville | The Saturday Evening Post

Ben Railton shares a special birthday week tribute to a half-dozen figures from across the last half-century, iconic individuals who exemplify his hometown’s community and American story.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

tech ceos love to talk like it's impossible to know what the computer will do at any given time as if that's smart and powerful and amazing. the determinism was like, the best part of the computer though. removing the determinism is the opposite of smart. it's stupid

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another podcast idea. Called "Things We Used to Know", and each episode features a proper academic who's lost their career due to the collapse of HE, rather than their own hubris, talking about their research. There would be tens of thousands of potential episodes from the last three years alone.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is what Vietnam was like. In 1972 my mom was supporting McGovern while my dad was on an aircraft carrier (and there was a race riot on the carrier that year)

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a bad example because a lot of museum guards at the Met are talented artists. The battle cry of the Humanities is basically "humans are more than their jobs."

Put more simply: documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark.

“It’s like asking the museum guard to restore a painting in the Met,” said Charles Birnbaum, the president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit that has sued unsuccessfully to stop the work.

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Sean Redmond @rdmond.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This was just a dumb joke, but now I've seen it and I have to say the movie I might have enjoyed more would be just the part with Odysseus-as-Oppenheimer, guilty and conflicted over being the guy smart enough to destroy a city

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