@kataplexis
Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
25 specialised panels at the International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Bologna, 30th Aug–4th Sept 2027) are seeking proposals of 20-minute papers. Deadline Sept 2026. Lots to choose from! site.unibo.it/epigrafia-gr...
1. Ancient Greek and Persian History
2. Roman History
3. Ancient Historians
4. Ancient Drama
5. Ancient Gender and Sexuality
6. Ancient Race and Ethnicity
7. Ancient Art/Modern Politics (Hitler, Mussolini, Confederacy)
8. First Year Ancient Greek
9. Advanced Ancient Greek (variety of texts/authors)
Finally an Alexander maybe done right.
Did you see that Jacob Tierney is going to be leading a new Alexander series for netflix? based on the golden mean.
He can only nominate.
Connor Storrie as Alexander?
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting a CNN segment. The text shows a back-and-forth between Collins and Mullin discussing whether something described as “obliterated” is being rebuilt. The embedded image shows a CNN studio set labeled “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” with Collins seated across from a male guest. A lower-third banner reads, “Massive military buildup looms over Iran talks.”
So their nuclear program grew back like Trump’s ear?
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Tom Nichols: “There are people in the Republican Party who think it’s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we can’t keep ignoring this and pretending that it’s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.
This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
Had to be at least a decade ago that a NPR show hosted a historian who had published a book on the Stasi and the SS. It turned out the SS et al., had not been the magical intelligence machines at all but had relied almost entirely on neighbors lining up to rat out each other.
Study proves what we’ve already know, Elon has turned Twitter into a right wing propaganda fire hose.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
It is almost as if this could apply to all the corporatization of youth sports. Let kids (and I mean all the way up to ... and through? ... college) have fun. Don't keep making youth sports a scholarship/trophy case monstrosity.
So we are skipping the obvious Teen Spirit?
Loved watching the women’s figure skating today. So much joy on ice. I’ll need to watch a replay of the women’s hockey, too.
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
NEWS: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection tied to his 2024 martial law declaration that triggered a constitutional crisis and military raid on the National Assembly.
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
trollmaxxing to the maxx.
I think we found the official title for @leavesdancing.bsky.social
Re-upping for the evening crew
Nooooooo! Love this elephant.
“I had not imagined this — admittedly — very conventional reading of the end of the poem was at all problematic, still less a form of “activist” teaching, a sin against God, or an incitement to civilizational suicide.”
