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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Whew! It's been a while! Mississippi IPs are still banned from Bluesky, so I have to get as much info and connection as possible when I have access. What did I miss?

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I've decided that I'm going to have my students debate who was "greater": Alexander the Great or Phillip II. I want them to be brutal! 😂😂

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Counting Pigeons 9999 Maniacs

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.

A white woman with red hair and glasses smiling next to an open drawer within the drawer is a black and white picture of a very very large sheep that went viral a few years ago

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers. They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.

A white drawer with a black and white embossed label that says "STAMPS 7 WASHI" in all caps.

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Yaza Games 📖 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW! 🎉 @yazagames.com · 26/06/2025

It will cost you $0 to repost that SCRIPTORIUM PLAYTEST IS NOW LIVE 🎉 We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️ Play for free on Steam until July 10!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

A detail from a page of a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon: <3 . The typographical entity highlighted consists of a the letter "i", the number "3", the word "HOMO" (in which all letters are crossed out except for the "M"), a small "z" as part of the M, and the mentioned emoticon: a "V" with a "3" on top.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate. A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression. Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40... #booksky #bookhistory

a page from the mentioned book about dreams and their meaning from 1603. the page features the entry: "Bücher sehen oder lesen / Traurigkeit".

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Suave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Quelle excellente idée d'avoir réuni les éléphants médiévaux dans une seule œuvre! www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

Elephas Anthropogenus
Uli Westphal (2008)
After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe.
Since there was no real knowledge of how this animal actually looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant, thus reinventing an actual existing creature. This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025

I feel like people need reminding: We have acknowledged #Juneteenth here for generations, without acknowledgement from the federal gov’t or corporate sponsorship. We will continue to do so. Them folks can only gentrify our holiday if we let them. Some background: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...

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Juneteenth Digital Toolkit

A digital toolkit created with information about the origin of and how to observe Juneteenth, which is a time to celebrate, gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future.

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I made a quill pen! There's definitely room for improvement 😂

A rectangle metal baking pan filled with white sand on a stovetop. There are white goose feathers sticking out of it. The caption reads: Quill Making in 3 parts, Heating up the quills.

Those same white goose feathers in another rectangle metal baking tray with very clearly burnt ends. Caption reads: Whoops! I burned them and they smell like burnt hair!

A quill pen and an open bottle of calligraphy ink on a sheet of white paper that reads: Holy crap it works. Hello. Not perfect but not the worst thing I've ever made! Caption reads: is a start! I only destroyed 6 feathers and made my house smell like burnt hair... TOTALLY WORTH IT!!

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

As the coordinator of the North Regional MS History Day competition, I can genuinely say that this program changes students' lives. I volunteer my time because it matters. If you care about history education, please call your reps and make some noise!

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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I've updated my " #Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages" bibliography site. It now contains 6,250 entries & covers: — Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025 — 22 languages from Basque to Swedish — Array of digital & print sources — Themes, houses & individuals www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...

Screenshot of the Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages Bibliography website, showing a searchable bibliographic database.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

For a little light heartedness, my friends and I are playing pick 3 fantasy conclave. Here are the rules if anyone is interested 😂 I'm going to ask about wild cards

Black text on white background reading:

Fantasy Conclave: Pick 3 Edition

How to Play:
- Each player picks three Cardinals ranked A, B, and C
- Each player picks a team name
- Each player will submit a guess for the number of days it will take to choose a new pope
- Picks must be locked before the conclave starts

Scoring
- If your A pick becomes pope, you win!
- If no A picks hit, check B picks
- If no B picks hit, check C picks
- If no picks hit, the player with the closest number of days without going over wins

There is an example of how it all works, but I think it's pretty self explanatory, so I'm leaving it out of the alt text

Summary
3 picks. 1 days guess. 1 hilarious team name
First correct pick wins, or closest days guess wins
Good luck and may your cardinal ascend faster than a smoke signal!

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Someone tried to sell me anti-aging body oil, and my response was "Oh, no thanks, I'm pro-aging, thanks!" She didn't quite know how to respond. Peak middle-aged reached!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border

President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In order to bring more joy into my life, I have changed my text alert to a turkey gobble (I got a new phone and so had to choose something). It's not much in the scheme of things, but maintaining my joy fends off dispair and allows me to keep moving forward. So gobble gobble, turkeys!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Guild of Medievalist Makers (GuMM), a community for academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. Read more about us and the society on our new website: www.guildmedmak.com

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)

Thousands are seen spread out for hundreds of metres towards buildings in the distance. The mountains are seen on the horizon.

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Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Could anyone with experience of working at Italian archives give my tips for planning my research trip? I need access to these archives ⬇️ - Archivio Centrale dello Stato - Archivio Storico Diplomatico - L'Archivio dell'Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito All help appreciated!

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is such terrible news in a sea of terrible news

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...

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The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Just some good news on the timeline! 2 of my graduating seniors got into their top grad schools, and another passed her Praxis II in Social Studies with flying colors! I love knowing when my students are off to bigger and better things 😍

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My autocorrect often changes "amazing" to "snacking" and I want that to be a new slang! "Your new shoes are snacking!" Or, "Women have bodily autonomy again? That's SNACKING!!" Let's get on that

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today marks the 400th anniversary of the death of King James VI & I. He presented this spectacular copy of his writings to the University in 1619. The sumptuous velvet binding – now a little worn – carries his coat of arms in gilt leather. UL Sel.2.83. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Engraving of James IV and I, enthroned with orb and sceptre. From UL Sel.2.83.

The sumptuous velvet binding – now a little worn – of UL Sel.2.823. It carries the coat of arms of James IV and I in gilt leather.

The sumptuous velvet binding – now a little worn – of UL Sel.2.823. We see a thistle motif in tooled gold.

A printed page from Sel.2.823 bearing a coat of arms.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Over the weekend I was one of the volunteer stitchers on this incredible memorial for the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The banner will be displayed today during the memorial ceremony. I encourage you to take a look it www.instagram.com/share/BALT3F...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What is the man of the left doing with his body?! Nothing models better how the value of learning is in the PROCESS of coming to understand something perplexing & not in the PRODUCT of simply knowing it than my discussion with students today of this gorgeous initial from the St Albans Psalter. 1/n

Two large and two small figures are contained within the initial letter 'A'. One large man points to the text and points to the ear of his neighbor who twists his body impossibly around the leg of the letter 'A' with a gigantic arm. The two small men flank the large central figures, and gaze up at them.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

never surrender

neil degrasse tyson: you are not a planet

pluto: you are not carl sagan

ndt: flips bird

pluto: flips two birds

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

In today's adventures I saw this absolute unit at @themerl.bsky.social

A woman with red hair and a stupid smile taking a selfie next to a drawer containing 2 pictures of an enormous ram

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#skystorians I'm going to see the Hereford Mappamundi tomorrow. I'M GOING TO SEE THE HEREFORD MAPPAMUNDI TOMORROW!!! This is bucket list shit, for real!

It is a medieval TO map with east facing up. It doesn't look recognizable as an accurate map, but you can see from the middle going straight to the bottom is awide dark patch that is the Mediterranean, with various rivers coming off of it. There are many landmarks and text.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7

Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar
Germany: Media Theory by Hand
Sonja Drimmer
Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

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Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Just a lil graph showing how close we are to bringing y'all an incredible card game! We just need a few strong days! If you want: - An intense co-op game - Great Afrofuturistic art - A chance to befriend dragons Keep spreading the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/115... #cardgame #kickstarter

Kickstarter funding chart showing a steady climb towards our funding goal, just 22% to go in 4 days!

A group of people having fun playing Prosper with Dragons in a gastropub.

Glamour shot of the Prosper with Dragons card game, dragon cards and decks laid out on a diagonal.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I saw an owl on campus about 30 mins ago. Our mascot is the owl so it felt like a sign. Not sure what it is a sign of, but it feels positive. Go Owls!

Large oak tree with an owl sitting on a horizontal limb. Behind the tree is a brick academic building and a clear blue sky

Large oak tree branches from below with an owl in the middle in front of a blue sky

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Update! It went really well. We watched a video about Elizabethan fashion, talked about sumptuary laws, and did some blackwork. I'll definitely add this to my repertoire going forward

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When you're a bit extra and make professional-looking blackwork kits for your in-class Elizabethan fashion activity, and stitch a model with varying thicknesses. I hope my students appreciate me! 😂

Pile of Tudor blackwork kits with directions, images, and a stitched model

A blackwork stitched model on white aida with different thicknesses of lines

A picture of Tudor blackwork that I took at the Met. It has different botanical motifs all filled with different blackwork patterns and outlined in black and gold chain stitches.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I promised my students that I would teach them about Tudor fashion on Tuesday... so I need to learn about Tudor fashion (any suggestions?) 😂😭 As part of that, I'm teaching them how to do blackwork embroidery, which I do know how to do. So that's my weekend plans sorted

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