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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not to mention that he's an economist! And both of his examples are about economic theories. I get that we're all totally activated on everything, but it's not like he's saying "maybe homophobes are right".

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Make that 4:30-6:30. Drexel board gets there at 5. Based on info we currently have.

a pachycephalosaurus is MAD under the words "emergency protest today Demand Drexel Disaffiliate. Constitution center, 525 arch st Tuesday Sept 29, 4:30-6:30

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who says it's not?? I'll fight em

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just emailed 26,000 people about snail facts advent calendars. This better result in 500 snail sales. Snales. Wait that just sounds like snails. Is that a good omen?? Get a calendar here: SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All the which is to say, yeah, probably. And back then they also had to just keep going.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The letters Cicero writes during the fall of the Republic are always so fascinating to me - there's all this political crisis and death, but also there's like, I have a cold. I have a recommendation for a tutor for your son. Things move so much more slowly at the time. Life continues.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True, but I think the differences between them are probably less than as are advertised. The 24-hour ones let more oxygen through, but they're not like magically antibacterial

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People do wear 24-hour contacts! It's a thing

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's wild! My optometrist mostly knew what I was doing and didn't give me any dire warnings

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I might have preferred to have a supernaturally good mental health rather than eye health, but I guess I'll take what I can get!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You would think! But I did it for like 10-15 years, and the very first time my optometrist said I should wear my contacts less, I started looking at LASIK. I did eventually switch to weeklies designed to be worn 24h, I think?

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ooof I got LASIK right before the pandemic, but before that when I used dailies, I slept with them in and wore each until I felt any discomfort - usually a month or two. Sounds nuts now that I say it!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People need to learn the value of the 👀👀👀👀 emoji

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have successfully managed to avoid learning much about his politics and I'm sure there are things he has said I disagree with, but MAN is Hasan Piker cornering the market on "normal, reasonable person with a sense of reality" here.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"adding that no one was suggesting something went wrong " Uhhhhhh I would say that even reading the title of the article makes it clear that something sure did go wrong

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I can't speak to crochet but YES in the baking + knitting. Detailed understanding of the fundaments of the practice, then creative thinking, then careful planning involving arithmetic, then meticulous execution of the plan

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

That makes sense! And yet, there's nothing really for it but to cite Cleves a lot (which it sounds like Walden did) - no topic can be the province of only one historian or writer. Not how history works!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I would understand the hurt, but we don't always HAVE ownership over the stories we FEEL ownership over.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Really interesting! I have read neither book and don't know what scholarship existed on the topic before Cleves's book, but I wonder if the very fact that the relationship happened and is worth a full-length book of piecing it together is what she feels ownership of.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have not been following this controversy at all but I am absolutely assuming it mirrors the Phil Kessel discourse

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There is hope for the future though!!!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Oof, my brother was like that! I think at one point he had to go stay in his sleepaway camp's infirmary because it got her l bad enough that he was having a systemic reaction. Pretty sure it got better when he got older though!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Um. Naomi Novik. That'll teach me to finish a message quickly and then put my phone away!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Also, if you want to keep some period-fiction vibes, Naoko Novik's Temereraire series

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also to be clear I did not have to explain this to anybody outside of academia. Everybody else assumes that I, like so many other people, was born here and grew up here and plan to stay here and my mom lives two blocks away (for better or for worse)

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

(Ugh. No, not know. Stupid voice to text while I'm trying to do other things)

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's baffling. I moved back home and ended up with an academic job anyway, miraculously, but now have unfortunately lost that job and I keep having to explain to people that know, I will not be looking for another academic job where I would have to move!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm not sure it's a class thing. I think it's an academia and also certain regions thing? Like there's some places where people just hated living growing up, and academia expects nothing else in your life to be important. But where I live almost everyone left for a bit and came back.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is the Device Gods blessing you with notification freedom. Like a debt jubilee

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you're interested I could give you my PowerPoint slides but they're pretty bare bones

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I use it to talk about the fabricated citation problem as well as the entire concept of making recommendations (and arguments in papers) based on evidence, rather than going backwards to add evidence to preconceived ideas.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This isn't a link but a 'case study' I discuss - the HHS report under RFK Jr on autism that was found to have LLM-fabricated citations, and then they went back and fixed them to real ones.

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Who fucked up the calendar so October is the tenth month, not the eighth month, and WHY. (It was not Caesar or Augustus!!! That is not what happened! If anyone replies with that I am going to lose my mind.)

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not to make light of a serious subject, but this man has the face of someone who has tailgated at a Big Ten homecoming game

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Was that an ANGEL??? At least black people are canonically on-page in the Iliad, angels certainly are not!

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I hear you, but also the ancient Greeks would be FROTHING mad to imagine Alexander the Great as an example of Greekness! (Imho it's all very messy and pointless to try to worry about all that in modern movies)

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Polyphemus: And what is your name Odysseus: My name is Bophedes Polyphemus: Bophedes? Odysseus:

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My thoughts on Nolan's The Odyssey - it showed respect for the source material, which is what I'm basically looking for. I was a bit baffled by one of the main themes and of course they had to change stuff about Odysseus to make him not as much of a HUGE JERK. It was a version of the story for today

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Odysseus talks to many shades! Tons of em

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That was so baffling to me. Why were people expecting Achilles???

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Lauren K @violetconflict.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That looks great! I'm so obsessed with how the Frixion pens have changed everything for me - actually fun and easily readable, plus genuinely erasable! Would be awesome to do more fun stuff with that

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