Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot

A lot of Americans, while still technically alive, have already given their souls over to evil and are completely dead inside

Look we all know East Asia has never changed once. Don't get all PhDantic about history

I do not feel 41. I feel either 12 or 600. Middle age is weird (it is my birthday. A Pisces, you are surely shocked)

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

“The fact that Ellis was flagged for her name change alone suggests the state of Kansas is intensely monitoring transgender citizens.”

Oh you don't know about HRT? How about that referral boss.

Health care really is wild. I have basically stopped going to my straight pcp and just route everything through the queer nurse who actually listens and believes me. I had to tell my pcp what prep is, explain dysphoria, etc. etc.
I may be a Dr but, I'm only qualified to talk about the 16th century.

Appreciate this helpful and detailed review by @devinfitz.bsky.social

This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.

How do we know Pete Hegseth isn't trapped inside Pete Hegseth, forced to watch as he Petes his way through the world?

I can't imagine the horror of waking up every day as Pete Hegseth.

Everytime I read Yusek Komunyakaa, my admiration grows. But I also think of his child being murdered, and I simply cannot imagine ever putting myself together again.

Paul Giamatti is just amazing

Finally finished writing my book review for The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture, by Susan Huang. At over 1000K pages, the book is a total trove of information and erudition. I'll post the link when it end up on H-Net.

Just saw a tiny home ad.

It's a trailer! I loved when my dad lived in a trailer park. It was the only time he was free. I will fuck with a trailer park any day. Sure, some smelled weird, but it was also

Just a neighborhood. Just working class people. It was great.

I am forced to miss the RSA due to illness. Track record for this conference is wild. I have gone 5 times (counting this one, since I paid), and been sick 3, including the great Dublin covid disaster, which must have been the greatest conference pandemic ever.

"I just really want to hold one."

All hail this undergrad who is just here to look at cunieform tablets despite being unable to read them.

Hit me with some things to read! Anything after 1720 is out of my usual wheelhouse

Fortunately this field is wide open and super easy. (Actually would be fun to do with quartos (we have none). So will have to think 18th century collections, alas.)

Oh shit, someone wants me to do a Shakespeare book history/bibliography session. I've spent my entire career trying to prevent this. Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting

Damn. Now I'm going to be thinking about this. This is a real debate

Sort of a perfect patron. Bothered all of us to help, made people, even students, curious about incunabula. Curators are busy, but I always love trying to make 15 minutes to chat with people when I can.

It was very cute. His email was cryptic so I had to go pull the book out and check myself since he "didn't want to spoil the surprise!"

A visiting scholar found quite the provenance hiding in a heavily annotated book. Signature had been washed, but it's definitely
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The suffering politics of the left could learn that last shall be first and first last. We will get nowhere if we keep at it

God the left is so insufferable. Bitches people got rent to pay, kids to take care of. Can't expect everyone to have tapestries on their wall at 30 after mom and dad funded their liberal arts and continued partial employment (which is why you have so much time to fight for justice).

If you want ideological purity, do I have the place for you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_S...

If you want to virtue signal being woke first, get ready for more turns to the right, simply because you are an annoying fuck.