dr. christopher

Every conservative pundit is gradually turning into a drag queen

hey so if you need yet another reason to delete your account on X, here's one more

You're more iridescent than the pause before applause begins

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

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I love that kazoos are banned, but you're allowed to bring a whole-ass trombone into the stadium

Okay but he made an impression and that's a win!

holy shit this is wildly infuriating to see

METS is an INDESIPENSIBLE tool in the college classroom when teaching early english literature and history

I can’t even crate train a dog and you’re telling me they managed to get their dog to play at least two instruments?

I'm teaching The Merry Wives of Windsor right now and it's delightful.

Literature as well, courses I've taught:

British Lit.
Intro. to Gender and Sexuality in Lit.
Intro. to Literary Analysis and Interpretation
British Lit. I (survey to 18th century)
Early World Lit.
Shax's Comedies & Romances
Shax's Tragedies & Histories
Medieval England
Studies of Medieval Lit.

[Exit Murderer.]

oh the flu is hitting our campus HARD

feed families. make school free. provide childcare.

literally anything but this

GOOD JOB LITTLE ROCK

Same reason I hate Dead Poets Society…poetry scares and confuses me and I hate when people have feelings

Submitting my third year interim review tomorrow—sometimes you don’t realize how much you’ve done until it’s organized in a spreadsheet.

Has liberating a country through bombing their children to death ever worked?

Medieval bureaucrat, scribe, and poet Thomas Hoccleve describes how he dislikes the wearing his glasses but notes that eyes hurt constantly for that very reason.

Premoderns are not so much different from us.

ok pokemon big fan of whatever this is

nothing but respect for MY president flavor flav

anything but fund actual artists

And how exactly did Anthropic query its data?

You give hope like a crystalline tortoise

probably a lot easier to resist the use of Canvas at an Ivy than it is than, say, a teaching college

no need to lose nuance in all of this

i’d be so lucky to fade into a cloud of rose petals

i’m turning 33 tomorrow and i’m not sure there is a less remarkable age to turn

i’m so tired

god i love middle english

This was me explaining my footnote rationale in my dissertation to my chair.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...