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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the question of the high moral standards, practical ability & intellectual capacity of parliamentary deputies is for every people living under a democratic regime a question of life and death of prosperity and decadence, of soundness or perpetual unrest." www.vatican.va/content/pius...

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Radio message "Benignitas et humanitas" for Christmas (December 24, 1944)

RADIO MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS XII TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD Sunday, 24 December 1944

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

item: "since the center of gravity of a democracy normally set up resides in this popular assembly from which political currents radiate into every field of public life—for good or ill—

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2/2 the more or less numerous exploiters, who have known how to use the power of money and of organization, in order to secure a privileged position above the others, and have gained power." www.vatican.va/content/pius...

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Radio message "Benignitas et humanitas" for Christmas (December 24, 1944)

RADIO MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS XII TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD Sunday, 24 December 1944

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/2 from pius xii's radio christmas message 1944: "the only survivors are, on the one hand, the victims deluded by the specious mirage of democracy, naively taken for the genuine spirit of democracy, with its liberty and equality; and on the other,...

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

look at you go, j-t! #thebaid is next up. (we're reading #lydgate 's "siege of thebes" in my weekly medieval english reading group, so i'm doing some constellating in preparation for the next time i teach epic.) go verlaine!

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a couple of gorgeous (half) lines that really encapsulate the matter of troy. totoque in pectore troia est. irrita uentosae rapiebant uerba procellae. #latin #poetry #statius

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

just finished _the achilleid_. as folks say now, i see you, #statius. i see you.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

just read the _ilias latina_ in #translation with some glances at the #latin. on to statius's _achilleid_, preparing for the next time i teach #epic in a long game crouch.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2/2 ...men and women who, when viewing the tv ads and the display windows of the stores, rejoice w/ satisfaction in their own freedom & are able to exclaim, "what a lot of things i can do without! how free i am!" #jesuit #ignatian

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/2 fr. arrupe in the full version of 'men for others': "we need to form truly liberated men and women who are not slaves of consumer society—...

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dreamt all night of playing cards on a playing surface made of craggly soil filled with earthworms, grubs, and so many small ants gathering and moving eggs. ????? my 5yo says: did you see the queen? me: no. my god, is that what it was all about?!

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

before school, walking down the hall, w/o context i sang "thanks for the filing cabinet, / i don't know what i did without it". 14yo: i bet anything that's a @themountaingoats.bsky.social song." dear reader, she was right on the money.

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Tanuki’s Ghostie Revenge @tanukisrevenge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Capitalism has fooled many into believing that consuming is a hobby

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i've never told you all this, but i tried making absinthe in my basement back in '02. it just felt like the right time to let you know.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

tom waits's _rain dogs_ on the stereo, some wuyi oolong, and second full time thru #magnificahumanitas, and breeze rolling thru the open windows for a thursday afternoon.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is as good as #wisconsin weather gets. beneath a nearly full moon to boot.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

done. a hell of a #poem. can't wait to return to the medieval and early modern reception and re-imagining of the material w/ renewed vigor.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

st. bartholomew's day. among other things, the anniversary of st. guþlac's move out to croyland in the fens to found his hermitage.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

also, a cooper's hawk was hanging out in the backyard for 15-20 mins. just looking. flew to about 6 ft from the window for a while. good sunday visiting.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

basil harvest day. and that means pesto making in the riyeff household. an adult friend from my teen years showed me that one can grow lots of basil and make your own pesto for the year. it was a real gift. #plantwatching

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

if you need me, i'll be in the hammock finishing book iv, clinging to the last vestiges of summer break.* *please read "break" generously, as i'm part time admin and have three kids home with me during the summer. ;)

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

an impromptu re-reading of _the aeneid_ to end the summer. (lombardo's translation, tho it's making me want to get back to the latin sometime.) hadn't thought much of it the first time all the way thru, but it's got its claws in me this time. #epic #poetry

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I understand entirely why my own research area (the relation between the AI industry and museums/art) may seem untethered to the broader subject of our democracy and economy, we see everything I’ve been describing here happening to cultural institutions like museums. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

When I look at Eckhout's and Amaral's paintings, I see bananas. But what I also see are contexts that lie beneath and to the side of the subjects that they represent. When we charge an algorithm with processing these images, it can only tell us with some probability what lies on their surface, and it is frequently wrong even about that. Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education.26 It is only sight blinkered by a narrow focus on what computer vision does that cannot perceive this truth.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

having several nuns for friends, i take the stranglers' song "non-stop" without any irony whatsoever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqWe...

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Non Stop

YouTube video by The Stranglers - Topic

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

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Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

going on a #milwaukee bookstore crawl for the 14yo's birthday. didn't know there was such a thing, but i'm down.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

2/2 God, who have dedicated this glorious day for us thru the passing away of your blessed confessor Æthelwold, kindly grant that we may obtain the joys of heavenly life thru the intercession of the one through whose erudition we have been imbued with the light of your truth. Amen.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

1/1 Deus, qui hodiernam diem beati confessoris tui Adeluuoldi episcopi transitu nobis honorabilem dedicasti, concede propicius ut cuius eruditione ueritatis tue luce perfundimur, eius intercessione celestis uite gaudia consequamur. happy st. æþelwold's day! litpress.org/Products/CS2...

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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict

Awarded 2019 Best Edition or Translation of an Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-Latin) Text by the International Society of Anglo-SaxonistsSt. Æthelwold (904/909-984), abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester,...

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Celi senator inclite Sancte pastor ecclesie: O Adeluuolde supplices Tuos exaudi seruulos!

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"home is a black leather jacket fitting sweetly to my brain" --the stranglers, 'death and night and blood'

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

it's incredible how rarely this very basic fact ever comes up in education.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

also, i had gathered some holy basil earlier in the evening & as i finished the dishes my 14yo asked if i'd like to hear her read _twelfth night_ while i finished the dishes & we drank tea. this is peak dad time for me.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

just went to put the van in the garage (10pm central) and on the way back to the house heard a bird call i've never heard. it's an eastern screech owl. so that's cool. down here below the big dipper. #milwaukee #birdlistening

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

serious mist after the thunder storm. #milwaukee river.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

first glass of génépy the other evening.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i don't know, i think they just dug them. the three extant mss don't have the latin, and rarely are close translations, sometimes pretty different. similar to proverbial collections like durham proverbs and alfred's. ???

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ne ondræd þu ðe deaþ to swiðe for nanum wite. ðeah he ðe ful god ne ðynce, he bið ælces yfles ende, 7 ne cymð he næfre ma. do not fear death too much on any account. though you will not find all good in it, it is the end of every evil, and does not come again. -- #oldenglish dicts of cato

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

kalends of july. 16th moon. +aaron, brother of moses.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

listening to @wmse917fm.bsky.social's jazz show, deep cleaning the bathroom, & listening to catholic theologian taylor nutter's structural critique of the neocolonial, neoliberal, sociocultural project we call "ai": www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_dc... as close to my view as i've heard out there.

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Dr. Taylor Nutter, Dr. Mark Graves | "Theological Responses to Socioeconomic Implications of AI"

YouTube video by Orthodox Observer

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

it's incredible to me that the "the real reason that..." click bait thing still works after all these years. wild.

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

my 11yo has entered his first essay contest. i'm a very proud essayist.

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