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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sometimes a simple G&T is exactly the right choice.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every face tells its own story. Photo: Yuki Iwamura.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Edit: “poet, essayist, and classicist Anne Carson.”

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That ridiculous chant makes rooting for ATL difficult.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All of David Klein’s Fly TWA posters are wonderful. But his depiction of Venice is, even by his own ridiculously high standards, something very special indeed.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A bastion of Irish American excellence

Dropkick Murphys @DropkickMurphys
@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!
Love, Dropkick Murphys

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some evidence for papal infallibility

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My girl is looking especially regal this morning.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Future historians looking back at our strange cultural moment will quote this sentence from the Last Ditch Globe article: “The DJ is still playing EDM, and Matellian is alone on the checkered dance floor, making pensive, graceful loops on the stripper pole, KN-95 mask in place.” *Perfection*

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The details of Robert Lowell’s death are bananas. Eliz Hardwick discovered RL dead in a taxi from JFK to her apt still clutching Lucien Freud’s portrait of Guinness heiress Caroline Blackwood (LF’s 1st wife; RL’s 3rd). Whole story reads like a mid cent cultural bingo card. Here’s “Girl in Bed.”

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unfucked a problem at my place of business today. Rewarding self with a nice martini. Cheers, ragazzi.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice to see my father’s former student doing kind things.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Randomly recalling that most of the damage to the Parthenon was caused by a direct hit from a Venetian mortar shell in 1687, when the Ottomans were using it as an ammunition depot.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A shame they’ve no Leni Riefenstahl to film this rally.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seeing this just in time for Carthage lectures in my Roman Republic class. Fascinating article.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This guy is making me rethink my apostasy.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Celebrating today the one-year anniversary of an email from the father of a prospective UVA applicant denouncing me to the Dean of Students [sic] for a post he deemed insufficiently worshipful of the great martyr Charlie Kirk. LOL eat shit buddy.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sneaking a Dark ‘n Stormy in before the finish line of summer.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds." shout it from the rooftops, @profgabriele.com & @vox-magica.bsky.social! www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...

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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New York City bans AI in the classroom up through 8th grade!!! “Kids need to learn for themselves,” says the Mayor of My Heart

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Paul’s 1970s Red Sox cap would delight Bart.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love this so much “I’m often asked why close reading is having a moment. The renewed focus on our fundamental methodology must be connected to the austerity that has been inflicted on the humanities”

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

First week in books. Academia is crumbling, but my curious, committed, and passionate students buff the dents out of my pessimistic heart. Americano time. Sláinte, ragazzi!

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Matinee to see Tony at Buffalo’s great 1920s movie palace Northpark Theater.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me just barely getting my syllabuses done in time …

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“For people on the left, it’s sure easier to talk about the feral excesses of the right-wing press than the willful gullibility of certain elite progressives. But both contributed to the Arday disaster. Denying that won’t protect the left.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Opinion | After Jason Arday’s Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship (Gift Article)

Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Worth your time. Many thanks to Prof. Ma for this.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Fleabag season 2 ep 1 might be the best 30 mins of tv I’ve ever seen. Rewatch and enjoy a respite from (waves hand) all this.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Great video. Also: James Gandolfini. What a loss. What work we were robbed of.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

More liberal bias: Odysseus gets heroized for sneaking into a Turkish city; Trump gets shit for using his wiles to get out of one. Let’s just all admit they are both ‘complicated’ men, okay?

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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Registration ends Wednesday. I'd be grateful if you forward this to potentially interested teachers. Registrants so far from 14 states and abroad--should be a great discussion. T

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have the Irish learned nothing from their experiences in 1798?

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Beekeepers, beehives, and the extraction of honey, with Virgil beneath in the initial 'P'(rotinus) at the beginning of Book IV of the Georgics Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. G. 98; Virgil, Georgics; 15th century, middle; Italy, Milan; f.49v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wonderful mid-century cover design on this edition of Huizinga’s Homo Ludens from 1950. Acquired from a retired colleague.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's a source of great sadness to me that my university library has largely stopped buying actual books.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When I think of Homer, I think of the Homer statue at the University of Virginia—and the fact that for over 25 years, Ted Lendon has been making students (including me, once) learn how to march in a phalanx on the lawn. ⚔️

Homer statue with students behind him and Ted Lendon directing his phalanx for his ancient warfare class.

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