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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 9m

Though please do keep Spouse in your thoughts and prayers, their risk of exposure to college football has never been this high.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 10m

The availability of ESPN does not solve the problem of timezones, so I guess we're watching Practical Magic instead.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 19h

During Argentina’s “dirty war,” the military dictatorship killed or disappeared tens of thousands of people. Somewhere between 2-3000 of those were Jews, about five to ten times more than their share of the population. This was not called “the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust…”

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 23m

Me, finishing up a movie and switching over to Disney: I just want to see what's on ESPN, sorry not sorry. Spouse: What if it's baseball? Me: THEN I'll be sorry.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 6h

You might think that the fact that I am constantly petting her on pain of being screamed at would make getting work done difficult, and you wouldn't be wrong, per se, but being effectively immobilized for hours at a time balances that out and I am getting much better at typing one handed.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 6h

But she will only sit on my left hand side. If I sit with the couch arm directly to my left she screams until I move to make room for her. I love this cat so much.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 6h

Eldest Feline has always been a bit standoffish--her routine is usually to stand *just* outside of arms reach and scream for petting. She is decidedly not a lap cat. Except recently, she insists on being curled up next to me so close she is very nearly on top of me, nearly every time I sit down.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 7h

Though we can note it was for a 6th book, so they probably had some very good idea of what sales would look like. The brilliance of that spreadsheet is that it helps set expectations both at the low end *and* give us some idea of how things might change over time.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 7h

Apropos of nothing in particular, certainly not as a prelude to any sort of personal or professional news, this seems like a good time to remind everyone of the existence of the brilliant @jlgittinger.bsky.social 's Academic Publishing Rates Sharing spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

Academic publishing rates sharing

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 12h

You are brilliant and perseverant AS EVIDENCED BY the fact that you published a *critically acclaimed* book *and* associated media this week.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 12h

That is a statement of fact, not a compliment.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 22h

Let us not neglect Werewolves of London.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 22h

I had forgotten about this show. I LOVED this show.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 23h

Guess who just realised that ESPN is bundled with Disney+?

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🌭 Sid Oozeley 🌭 @oozeley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

like many things, there are x-men comics about this

Kitty Pryde murdering the shit out of a bunch of fascist Orchis goons during the Fall of Krakoa

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Paul Prins @paul.urbanmonastic.org · 08/10/2026

As the #AAR #SBL conference approahes, I wanted to remind you all that I manage a feed that agregates all the related hashtags. It's a great way to follow along with #AARSBL26 (the feed updates every ~10-15 mintues & I bounce out unrelated accounts). ❤️, 📌 & share the feed! bsky.app/profile/paul...

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ZL (she/her) @jcw1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Consumption of violence is a choice; it radicalizes. In a world that thrives on instantaneous gratification, we all know why folks spend their time watching videos that produce hateful "righteous" indignation rather than doing something productive like volunteering or even talking with a neighbor

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i take this back, fully retract it, and i apologize for how i phrased this. i posted this while angry at the constant barrage of years of my life witnessing senseless murder in palestine, and this is no way to express my opinion, which is an end to all conflinct in the region. i’m sorry

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Starting to put together my schedule for #AARSBL; I'm in Denver Friday-Monday morning, with a panel Sunday 15-16.30. Who am I having coffee with?

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am only refreshing my email a normal amount.

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reupping this in case you beautiful humans attending #aarsbl26 in Denver haven't seen it (or forgot): I'm recording Holy Hot Takes and I need YOUR help, YOUR hot takes! The deadline to sign up is on the 12th - only four more days left!

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Arriving today: author book copies! Hurray!

Six copies of the book _A Theology of Particularity_, lying on a walnut table. The books have a black cover; a photograph on the front shows a detail of a body with the lorem ipsum text written on it. Photograph courtesy Alana Vincent.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

What day is it? Why, it's @haldbeg.bsky.social receives author copies day! My favourite day!

@haldbeg.bsky.social holding a copy of A Theology of Particularity

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Theology, at its best, is a discipline of accountability: we ask ourselves, and the communities in which we work, to examine the traditions that we inhabit, to render an honest account of what those traditions have enabled, and to take responsibility for what we choose to facilitate as inheritors"

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really delighted to see that my introduction to a Literature & Theology special forum on how we engage with fascist thinkers in the field is now available on advanced access: academic.oup.com/litthe/advan...

academic.oup.com

Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology

Abstract. The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you like this you are really going to like the thing that @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and I are working on.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 08/10/2026

As always, read Dr. Vincent!!!

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Please reassure us that people can be neatly sorted into Good and Bad, spare us from the terrible knowledge that the world contains only people, some of whom do bad things." Grow the fuck up.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

"We long for a return to a morally simplistic world which never really existed" is so much of current politics.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

This presumes that my loved ones are not also extremely online.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

academic.oup.com

Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology

Abstract. The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

8 or 9 for eating, 10-13 for mashing into yoghurt, 13-15 for baking.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have no particular reason for pondering this, of course.

A small blurred black cat giving her favourite scratching post absolute hell.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Where is the forensic procedural where they're puzzled by the multiple small lacerations in various stages of healing scattered all over the victim's body, hypothesise wildly, throwing the investigation way off course, only to discover, eventually, that the victim had a cat?

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/10/2026

Wherein I ask, what happens if you take the IHRA’s working definition of Holocaust denial and distortion and apply it to the way Jewish institutions talk about Gaza?

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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The symposium issue on "'Race' and 'Religion' in the Law of Migration: Comparing E.U. and U.S. Contexts" I co-edited with Rose Cuison Villazor is finally out! Lots of it makes for grim reading, but it's stellar scholarship. Have a look (open access):

rutgersjournaloflawandreligion.com

Volume 25 – Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

...it probably helps if you are at least a bit ambivalent about your kids.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fuck I just remembered the one table in my monograph and the text looks really fucking stupid without it.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the last two weeks I am 0/2 for proofs coming back without requiring major changes and... please no more.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

The next thing I send to press will be straightforward text. No charts, maps, illustrations, or tables. Please.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here it's that they never ask which arm to jab, they ask which hand you write with and want to jab the other side (is side sleeping that unusual?) so I have to remember to provide the information they are actually seeking instead of answering the question actually asked.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 07/10/2026

Folks, I have once again wrested the #1 spot on Amazon's "Scientology" bestsellers away from L. Ron Hubbard No comment on this other than "Whoa" beckbook.com

scientology bestseller chart on amazon, with josie in the #1 slot and LRH's Dianetics in #2

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nurse: Now, which hand do you write with? Me, ignoring the throbbing pain in my left ear as I triumphantly remember that I always need to ask for the nonstandard vaccination site: Oh, I'm right handed but I sleep on my left side!

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