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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 7h

Boston area early modernists/Miltonists! Join us at the Mahindra Humanities Center @harvard.edu, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, on Thursday Oct 8, for a talk by Rachel Trubowitz (UNH). 5:30pm, Barker 133!

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Rural Japan offers a variety of transport options. (I would say “some of which are sentient” but then it’s not boring anymore!)

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m not optimistic about the success of Sprite’s new flavor, “Flea.”

Bottles of Sprite in a convenience-store cooler. The labels say “Sprite + Tea” but the fanciful typography means it looks sort of like “Sprite Flea.”

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Lin-Manuel Miranda gave Ron Chernow 1% of the profits for *Hamilton,* and he (LMM) also went to the archives to look at primary documents…guided by Chernow’s book, as he properly acknowledged.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Early modernists of the Boston area! Please join the Seminar on Women, Gender, & Culture in the Early Modern World for this talk by Sophie Richardson! “these curious arts”: the queer space-time of pant on the early modern stage Barker Center 024 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Thursday April 30 5:30pm

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/04/2026

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 20/02/2026

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

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That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Headshots of Michelle Dowd and Lara Dodds and an image of the cover of their 2025 book, with details of the virtual talk, superimposed on a background of Artemisia Gentilleschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I found this essay by Sarah Beckwith (yes, that Sarah Beckwith) absolutely shattering and brilliant. Further proof that if you want something terrible examined with laser-like precision and stunning clarity, get somebody who works on pre- & early modern literature

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The Violet Wanderers @violetwanderers.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Look, this is much simpler than that. When a billionaire says there's "fraud and waste" in the government, they mean "the government is giving money to non rich people which is a waste and those poor are frauds" That's it. That's the whole fuckin thing.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites you to attend its yearly remote seminar on April 10 at 5:30ET, featuring Urvashi Chakravarty (U of Toronto) giving a talk entitled "'Fair Breeders': Gender and Heritability in the Early Modern World."

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Still thinking about yesterday’s #Shax2025 books & sugar plenary with Kim F. Hall, @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & @bkadams.bsky.social 🍬📚As a scholar rather than a book collector I’ve indulged myself in politely ignoring the commerce side of “rare books” (while enjoying the vibes) — no longer.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thinking of everyone due to fly home after #Shax2025 through LHR in a couple of days — hope y’all aren’t panicking and that you make it home on time. Maybe they’ll offer you $ to rebook later and you can stick around for PrEMoTrans at BU! www.micahjgoodrich.com/premotrans

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Pre/Early Modern Trans Studies — Micah James Goodrich

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/02/2025

What we're currently living through is a patriarchal panic reaction. Our society came a little too close to acknowledging trans people as not merely quirky zoo exhibits to gawk at on the margins of society. Too close to acknowledging our humanity. The response to this has been sheer terror.

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I fear that people are going to forget this moment (image is a book from 2000) when there was an Internet but no Google. One would actually type the entire URL into the browser window. “Don’t use the quotes!” 😮

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I sometimes tell my kids about what it was like in the "bad old days" when I was growing up (seatbelts weren't the law, teachers could hit you, there was no chickenpox vaccine, etc) and it turns out my younger child thought I was saying "in the battle days" like I grew up in the Revolutionary War ☠️

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Sarah Wall-Randell (aka swallowsong) @sarahwalrus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If you see this, quote-post with a favorite photo of the sky that you’ve taken recently. (Good chance to practice making alt text!)

A landscape at dawn with a pond in the middle distance, trees framing the view, and the sky with bands of yellow and pink light in the background.

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