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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18h

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a Cornell alum and a rape survivor, today seems a good time to repost this from that fight during Trump1. You are not alone. We are not alone. I will listen. medium.com/@annawaymack...

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Philomela on Campus

Content Warnings: pretty much all of them. Sexual assault, murder, mental illness, self-harm, other violence.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PSA: courtesy of President Trump, new Great Lakes mnemonic has dropped. Effective immediately we will be replacing HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) with SHAME.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The only thing I really want to add to the plentiful discourse around this weird behavior is that no one’s “child” goes to college. College students are legal adults more than capable of choosing to take some fun, critical, interesting courses without guys online being paternalistic about it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

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We have an even bigger problem than Graham Platner

The candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Ballpark 200 million American citizens over age 30. I feel like it’s not too big an ask, for a role that is literally rarer than one in a million, that senatorial candidates be decent human beings. Also, not hilariously vulnerable to blackmail.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It’s his day:

dril tweet: "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit”

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Always good to see the medieval version of No Really They Painted the Statues chez @sarahebond.bsky.social

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Right now there’s an award ceremony going on at the Kennedy Library in Boston. For courage. The honorees are Jerome Powell and the people of the Twin Cities. Earlier today I was set up at an artisan market nearby. A tourist(?) family—dad, grown son, son’s wife—stopped by.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Finished @tkingfisher.com’s A House with Good Bones two days ago. Just found a ladybug. In my bed. On Mother’s Day. Nopenopenope

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Two Roman era babies buried at York (late 3rd or early 4th centuries CE) were wrapped in Tyrian purple. It’s less about the cost than the fact that, for me, this makes the assertion that high infant mortality=babies weren’t loved as much as today, even more ridiculous. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Rare imperial purple cloth found in Roman infant burials in York

Two infants buried in Roman York were laid to rest in costly purple cloth normally reserved for emperors and members of the aristocracy, new research reveals

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Maybe news to non-sailors: Ted Turner could admit when he was wrong. The Chicago Mac is the longest freshwater sailing race in the world. Turner, in response to friendly warnings beforehand, dismissively called Lake Michigan a “millpond.“ The millpond gave him sustained 60 knot winds

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

As someone who was a persistent thorn in Kotlikoff‘s side for over a year, this is a hell of a thing to watch.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

my bees. everyone observe my bees

a medieval manuscript style illustration of some little bees flying into a conical hive. they look kind of silly and simplistic, as medieval bee illustrations are wont to do

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Coming across stuff like this I can’t help but think of my poor dad trying to get tiny me ready for swim lessons. He can’t take me thru the women’s changing room. Doesn't want to take me thru the men’s. And the moms in the “family” room complained when he entered.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/04/2026

if we actually get a senior political figure excommunication then just a heads up that every single medievalist on here, we’re gonna lose our entire shit

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

A long, skinny map titled: "Life and Travels of the European Eel" with a subtitle reading: "From the Eel's Perspective." A label at the bottom of the map reads: "Begin Here." The map top half of the map is an mirror copy of the bottom half.

I will put the full text of the column in the alt text in an image in the next post in the thread.

The map goes from the bottom of the page up, starting in the Sargasso Sea. An set of arrows show the eels paths to shore, then up a river and into a marshland. The arrows continue up the page to show the eel leaving the marshland and heading back downstream, and out to sea. The land is green and verdant at the bottom of the map, because the eels migrate upstream in the spring. The land is brown and dry at the top of the map, because eels migrate downstream in the autumn.

A column of text on the side tells about the eels' journeys and changes. It is more text than I can relate in the space allowed here. Each paragraph has an arrow pointing up to the next one, and they are designed to be read from the bottom of the page going upwards.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's the Equinox...time again for me to remind you about the EquineOx: that mythopoetic, all-knowing horse/ox hybrid. Mysterious bringer of socks & other sundry goodies. A godling of the changing seasons. Friends: may the EquineOx bring you many blessing this day!

Meme. Painting of a pastoral scene with two people standing next to a horse and an ox. The ox, black with a white splot on its head, harnessed to a wagon full of hay, & cream-colored horse has a collar on, but is not attached to anything. Both animals are turned to face the two people.

One of them is a young man in a coat a wide-brimmed hat. He is sitting. Standing next to him is a young woman in a green skirt & salmon-colored jacket. Her hair is golden, she's staring at the young man. They are at the base of a rocky outcropping. The man is likely eating, because next to him is a small black & white dog who is *clearly* groaking.

In all, it looks like the man is telling a story to a rapt (if mixed) audience. All are listening while he spins a yarn about the time he slid a flounder under his headmaster's door, or about how he was the inspiration for the song "All About That Bass." Will he impress the girl? Or, at least, the ox? No.

Meme text reads:
"part horse part ox
ALL AWESOME"

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Humans: wanting star stickers in their bedroom since at least the 15th c.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Apropos of nothing: in 1998, when she ran in the Democratic primary for IL-9, a much younger Jan Schakowsky trounced a certain J.B. Pritzker. It turned out not to be the end of his political career.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/03/2026

Hi, I just want to say a word in support of @meganwachspress.bsky.social. I heard from her this morning before she went public. I had not had a chance to respond yet because my father in law is in the hospital.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is my home district and this is an issue I’ve spent a lot of time on. Please, friends still in the area: this ought to absolutely disqualify Biss from being elected as a progressive to a position of power.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Answer: any of the dozens digitized and online in October 2023 that are not yet available again in March, 2026. Anger aimed at: 1) the lack of legislation of crypto that directly enabled the attack and 2) the shoddy funding of a national library that directly resulted in insecure digital footprint

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Because I am so very proud of them: first real completed pair of shoes. Box calf, linen and silk threads, handmade, own pattern, and so so much help from my teacher.

A pair of caramel brown leather ballet flats

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Got to attend a *fantastic* talk by @saboteusebespoke.bsky.social Monday and learned, among other things: -It's gender all the way down. "Handmade" shoes are allowed machine-stitched uppers because the uppers were traditionally women's work. -I want my own traditional MA 10ft freestanding studio.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Give yourself the gift of reading this article.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

First bloom of the spring has arrived, only a day after the snow melted: cheery winter aconite for the bees

A tiny bright yellow flower popping up from dead twigs

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

we have saved daylight but at what cost

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Well this just fried my brain and emotions, but..uh…did the DOGE crew think “critical editions” means we’re going about saying these Middle English texts are bad? Did that actually happen?

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Army Corps of Engineers in the Philippines in WWII, then a lifetime at Ma Bell Effed if I know, other than surprise bigamy WWII and then a sign painter (honorary grandpa)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Say what you will about the strikes on Iran and the resulting chaos, but Hegseth truly has captured the chivalric ethos of the original Crusaders (purposeless, unstrategic, basically slaughtering people for clout)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

As Kids These Days™ rediscover CDs, a good project would be a CD liner notes archive. High resolution pictures and descriptions & transcriptions of album art, lyrics, thanks, track personnel, all of it. Get living artists to comment on their choices and process. Think it'd be kind of dope.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

People are going to yell and be assholes today because they're upset. Not telling you how to respond! Just reminding you (and by you, I mean me) in advance that it's going to happen. 99% of cases won't really be about the thing you said or wrote. They're just furious, and you happened to be there.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Woke up from a nightmare. Picked up my damn phone. Can I go back to the nightmare now, please?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So when MAHA folks say you should eat "real" food and not "processed" food, they're talking about..... sausage?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holding up a huge slab of meat while holding onto the bone. He's standing in front of many other meats, including what appear to be ribs, brisket, and sausage

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Who are the best and coolest scholars on the Arthurian legend? I need some recent works and yes, it’s for the podcast. Also, I need some really cool people who know Greek history with some recent work also for the podcast. Any suggestions would be appreciated and please tag them here

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM

In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

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Bard’s President Should Resign Today

Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/02/2026

Roses are red, They look nice on a shrine Here is the skull, Of St. Valentine. (Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A fragment of the horror, for me: the sheer number of people ICE/CBP have been concussing. We don’t have great stats on the rate of post concussion syndrome, but it’s almost certainly double digits. And as I can testify, it can look mild in the moment but change your life and your very identity.

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