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12.03.2026 05:12
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This entire thread is bluesky at its best!
Note to script writers: please don't use the word ontology in a college drama unless you're really, really sure you're doing so appropriately. For us pedantic academics it's like punching a fist through the fourth wall.
Collage of two tv series posters First is for Rooster. Second is for Vladimir.
I watched Vladimir and started watching Rooster. Have to say, as college shows go, I much prefer Rooster.
Deleted for typo, but yes, not all Americans. We need an edit function. (It was a culture shock when I moved to the US and discovered that none of my friends grew up reading Enid Blyton)
My backspace key just fell off my keyboard. A timely reminder that you can't go back again.
You could solve this by just putting Queen Anne on the fiver
youtu.be/w6O6wR44AY4?...
Also no Magic Far Away Tree
Explaining to my students what a Gaul is, I mentioned Asterix and Obelix. No one knew what I was talking about. Americans have such impoverished childhoods.
You mean the other coast, right?
Another exquisite surprise is stumbling across the begijnhof in Amsterdam, an oasis in the heart of the city, accessed through an unremarkable door in a wall.
www.iamsterdam.com/en/whats-on/...
Such a good show.
Recently rewatched the whole thing while sick and it absolutely holds up. Just don't expect too much from the final season. The rest is excellent.
I don't think I've had it in hamantaschen but my grandmother - Lithuanian - used to bake babke with thick seams of povidla.
They look great. Are they poppyseed? If so, I would be happy to dispose of them for you.
If Talarico loses in November but starts to move the dial on reviving a social gospel Christianity in the face of Christian nationalism it will be worth it
There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!
Saw this fantastic production of Amadeus last week. The cherry on the top was how often the Salieri character shittalks Rossini.
variety.com/2026/legit/r...
Just started the new McEwan. Not sure yet whether he's doing something interesting or just being self-indulgent.
As an academic I have been silenced! Yesterday I taught three classes with a cold and now I have no voice.
Gorton and Denton? The Demon Barbers of Fleet Street? The No Win No Fee Workplace Accident Solicitor Firm? The scientific names for the upper row of teeth and the lower row?
Styles of facial hair named after famous Victorian generals?
I would throw in King Lear but otherwise perfect!
A Taiwanese Lunar New Year dinner cooked by @fredchichih.bsky.social
Bowls of rehydrating jujube, goji, shrimps, tofu skin, black woodear fungus and shitake
Food prep for a belated lunar new year feast with @fredchichih.bsky.social
Hollywood: has a Scots, Irish, English name because of all those Scots, Irish, Englishmen who built it.
And doing double work for Brooks and Hume.
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
This is the one I remember from childhood. I was of an 'artistic' temperament.
youtu.be/xxl97VXAIjU?...
Steve Bell cartoon of john major with voluminous union jack underpants over his suit in john wayne stance. Speech bubble says: underpants on stun.
C'mon it's obvious
