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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch

@troynovaunt.bsky.social
3.9K followers 2.2K following 7.1K posts

she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.

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William Clarke @williamasclarke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Are men reading enough fiction? Are women eating enough Branston Pickle? Are Dutch accounts losing interest in motorsports? Do maths teachers buy enough bottled water? How can we encourage jockeys to knit? What will it take to lure left handed people back to the theatre?
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19h
Everybody on that show kills somebody so it counts ok
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19h
They’re saving the world so they can keep having amazing cable knits and soft angora pullovers
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19h
You know what show has inexplicably great knitwear is the Syfy reimagining of 12 Monkeys 🧶
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026
i grew up in oklahoma, so i have some bias, obviously, but the national political amnesia about the oklahoma city bombing drives me batshit, and it’s (somewhat) bipartisan
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The central premise of Middlemarch is WHAT
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There was an awful lot going on genrewise, to be fair
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I was unprepared for Below to have so much in common with Free Willy
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
say what you will about medieval kings, one thing they didn't do was kill fishermen hundreds of miles from their shores with unmanned drones so that the moral grotesques that voted for them would watch recordings, clap and salivate
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can someone do me a solid and photoshop pikachu into this
Bosch’s “death and the miser” painting
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don’t disagree but I’m losing it imagining myself trying to explain this to Hoccleve
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is there anything new to stream that’s, you know, fun?
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I know! I've been going through my camera roll and am appalled to see that I don't have any photos capturing his majestic pantaloons. Will rectify later.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep, I certainly would think so!
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My cat 🤝 this hawk Fierce pantaloon game
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"This LLM might be conscious." I have HUGE news for you about people in ICE detention right now.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Excuse me if I'm not wildly convinced of the ethical seriousness of the industry pouring money into the global right-wing neofascist project.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look, I'm not opposed to exploring what we owe to uncanny computer programs but I would like to see it happen in a context where we aren't systematically stripping whole groups of humans of their rights.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I do have my eye on this one! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Battenberg Blanket pattern by Sandra Paul
Good enough to eat…
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Possibly also the Oz books if you’re willing to have a very unspecific definition of “explain”
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Got em
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So I’m getting more adept at crochet, do we have any cool blanket patterns we recommend? 🧶
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He was aware that Hegseth had been accused of rape.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes very much please!!
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think I know exactly the recipe you’re talking about! I used to LOVE those.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That was texture, young whippersnappers
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now I’m thinking about those shredded wheat mini squares with the jam inside which were hard to find even back before my celiac dx and now are just forever lost to me like tears in rain
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But it’s so good when there’s jam inside the bale of hay!
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most widely cited and esteemed scholars I know published his first book (which changed the field) when he was 50 and by then had long been employed by a university. This was in the 1980s.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can’t say I’d stand there if I were Sam Altman
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m sure there are no lingering corrosive effects of this for society or the human spirit
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Fox News extended universe is neat bc you’ll just be going about your business and then log on and see some simulacrum has once again innovated some breathtakingly hideous thing to say to affront God and our shared humanity, and you just gotta shrug and say Megyn Kelly gonna Megyn Kelly I guess
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The concentration of power is itself malevolent
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s no such thing as a benevolent dictator. Unfortunately it is necessary to say this.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminding myself this morning that I don’t engage with MattY
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
My mother got certified in cosmetology and that’s part of how she was able to raise my three brothers and I. These people are assholes who experience the world solely through “takes” hinging on misogyny and the like.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ginger cat curled up inside a fluffed up blanket with squinty happy eyes
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, I'll be able to ask Ishmael what is his favourite Pokémon.
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Classics has a black mold problem but we don’t talk about that
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literature, meanwhile, has a coffee problem I mean it, we’re out of coffee, send help
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s an incredibly kind thing to say. Thank you. 💚
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anyway sorry to get maudlin on main, it just came upon me all of a sudden
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m in a pretty privileged position these days where I have tenure so in theory I don’t *have* to publish. I just find it hard to look at myself if I don’t and feel like I’m letting myself and my teachers down.
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