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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
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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Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
Galumphing towards Bethlehem.
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What.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
An orange cat curled up on a windowsill.
A black and white cat batting around a stick.
A brown tabby cat loafing on the floor of the Blue Mosque
Two calico cats, one noticeably larger and fluffier than the other, loafing on a marble ledge
Have a small selection of the many cat photos I have taken in Istanbul.
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FUCK YEAH.
Shaul’s new translation book is out and Open Access—making accessible selections from the writings of the Satmar Rebbe (i.e. Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum) w/focus on recovering his significance as a political thinker @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/jewish...
Only Labour Can Defeat Reform In The All Important Race For Top Loser
The real creature was the friends we made along the way
With #IR48's CFP still open for submissions, @drfstewart.bsky.social talks about the UK conference, and its theme of "Knowingness, Agency and Authority".
CFP: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic...
To submit your abstract: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/ir-uk-...
Tapping the sign
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