we are playing a darksun campaign, so you know, not a lot of light moments or heroism there...
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we are playing a darksun campaign, so you know, not a lot of light moments or heroism there...
ah yes, what we really need is another english language bible translation for majority-culture speakers
Thankfully these days I live in a cave and just teach Greek and Latin to those who ascent the mountain to find me.
even though I'm ex-ac, or perhaps, 'never quite ac' is more accurate, i occasionally teach courses. it's wild that it's 1 week before a semester starts. Last week I was told that a course would run. Today I received an email from a prospective student telling me that the registrar said it wasn't.
Back with another instalment of Pliny genius, @gregorystringer.bsky.social teaching Pliny's Letters for #SeumasU
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starts Mon 23rd Feb
The new term at #SeumasU has just begun, and it's a pleasure to be in classes again speaking ancient Greek and Latin with students, reading classical and medieval texts, and generally having fun with languages.
Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Kicking off new #SeumasU classes in less than 2 weeks! Latin and Greek, oh my.
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Classics/ancient history friends, is there anyone at USyd who could scan this for me plz?
D'Agostino, B. (1974). "Il mondo periferico della Magna Grecia." In Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica, eds. B. D'Agostino, P. E. Arias, and G. Colonna,
pp. 177-272. Rome: Biblioteca di Storia Patria.
Now's about the right time to sign up for #SeumasU classes starting in January. Latin and Ancient Greek a plenty.
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At the risk of hugging the third rail, the truth of the academic job market, at least in history or classics, is neither DEI or anti-DEI.
It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years.
No one knows who is mediocre or not.
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The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
:(
How on earth did the Athenaze textbook become ***so*** expensive?? Ridiculous
ugh, trying to fit all the courses I'd like to teach into the tiny windows of time that I have for teaching.
A reason I can be in church without collapsing under the weight of cognitive dissonance is that I go to church with this family and many other congregants contributing in whatever ways they can.
Definitely don't
yes, I concur with this judgment.
Evergreen meme
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
Just to be clear, it’s all convos with Satan
photo of the First President of Tanzania - Julius Nyerere - with the quote, "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig anns a' chiste. better broken Gaelic than Gaelic in the coffin.
can't stop thinking about this Gàidhlig saying duolingo taught me
my kingdom for a font that can render macron, breathing, and accent on the same vowel without trying to stack them like the tower of babel
Favorite work on teaching classical languages? Especially blog/online/otherwise atraditional stuff that won't show up in a library search
today I started teaching two sections of a new course I'm developing, designed on the premise, "what if you wanted to learn conversational Ancient Greek, as if you were travelling to a modern country and wanted to have (CEFR) A1 level conversations?"
The National, Scotland, 13 October 2025:
I know where they can get those answers (and much, much more!) 😉 www.bolchazy.com/A-Pliny-Work...