Corgis. British shorthairs. English sheepdogs. Irish wolfhounds. Larry the Cat.
@vincent.northsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Corgis. British shorthairs. English sheepdogs. Irish wolfhounds. Larry the Cat.
Yeah, I just had to break it to my head of department that I can only apply for ERC Advanced Grant now.
What's My JND? 0.0029
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Yiddish wants you to know that it's OK, you have more important things to do than pick up the phone, it will just sit there, alone, in the dark.
Honestly dissociation gets unfairly maligned. There are some experiences it simply is not worth being present for.
Great bit of highly readable historical material here. Can't imagine it having any relevance to current events, of course, but history is always worth learning.
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I was born because my uncle decided to do a PhD... in Canada... in the early 1970s (and my father worked in his lab and met my mother while she was visiting on a school break).
Said uncle may or may not have been conceived in a bid to prevent my grandfather's enlistment in a previous war.
Landsman!
Every book I read in 2026 (or until I forget to keep track), no. 41:
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Nothing you buy for the cat will be as adored by the cat as the box it came in.
There is still time.
Daniel Mitsui has created merch based on the story of St Thomas Aquinas destroying an artificial talking bronze head created by Albert the Great. St Thomas the Botslayer, pray for us www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1789...
Every book I read in 2026 (or until I forget to keep track), no. 40:
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Every book I read in 2026 (or until I forget to keep track), no. 39:
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Every book I read in 2026 (or until I forget to keep track), no. 38:
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Just saying, some systematic theology gets a lot more interesting (albeit a lot less comprehensible) if you make that mental substitution.
I cannot be the only person who consistently mixes up Mikhail and Sergei Bulgakov.
Valuable thread.
Art.
Aaaaand now we appear to have a meeting of a men's choir practicing snapsvisor. Very lovely. Very melodic.
My noise cancelling headphones are still at the bottom of my suitcase.
The kid at the table next to me in the library is singing Come Together, including the guitar riffs, with his best Skåne approximation of a Scouse accent. The kids are adorable.
Also my noise cancelling headphones are at the bottom of my suitcase.
A close shot of foam clinging to the sides of a coffee cup. The shape formed by the foam resembles a screaming blob.
Same, airport coffee dregs. Hard same.
Someone needs to write this space opera.
Be happy anyways because fuck the concept of worthiness?
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Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @goodlander.house.gov [labels:] American Israel Public Affairs Cmte Blackstone Group Lawyers/Law Firms NorPAC Retired Donors Securities & Investment Joined Feb ’25 The Iranian regime must never obtain a nuclear weapon, and the President must come to Congress before he takes military action in Iran. The American people do not want or need another forever war.
This labeler stays winning.
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