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• Post #3922470

  The ICE agent who killed a legally qualified worker in Maine the other day has a long history of mental illness, PTSD and violence against family members. The military rejected him but was so desperate for recruits that they encouraged him to go off his bipolar meds for a year and reapply. And he did, successfully. Imagine your worst case scenario of abusive ICE agents and this reality ... is worse. However creative or florid your imagination is. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-must-r...

• Post #3648842

  @chaprot Do you know Adriano Russo's work (2016 dissertation & articles re "Florilegium Thuaneum", the underlying anthology of Vienna 277, Paris. Lat. 8071 and others? He argues (among other things) that Vienna 277 was copied at Lyon with new texts - Juvenal, Persius, Catullus 62, Pervigilium Veneris - into a lost intermediate text = ξ, during the time of Florus and Mannon. And THAT codex then traveled back to Francia where it was copied as Paris. Lat. 8071 by...

• Post #2164641

  Aldhelm was already growing on me, but this is awesome: (from wikipedia) "He was now an old man, but he showed great activity in his new functions [as bishop]. This included going into public places where he would sing hymns and passages from the gospels interspersed with bits of clowning to draw attention to his message. " @medievodons@fedigroups.social #medievodons @histodons@fedigroups.social #histodons

• Post #2053155

  Retraction Watch verifies the judgment against Carla Rossi, in favor of Peter Kidd, in the long-running #receptiogate scandal. Rossi has to pay back the equivalent of $51,000 for fraud in obtaining grants for two plagiarized books, and is banned from receiving grants for 5 years. She is trying to spin, as a victory, the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland's ruling that in a 3rd plagiarized book, "“only a small portion of the scientific work was taken from third parties withou...

• Post #2026755

  RE: https://fedihum.org/@avstockhausen/116517608028738836 This is the manuscript reading software I've been searching for (and trying to help make) for 5 years -- not just bleed through, but easily adjustable image enhancement generally. FOR FREE If you remember the late, great Retro Reveal, it's like that but 100 times better. #histodons @histodons@fedigroups.social @medievodons@fedigroups.social

• Post #1010592

  The Hill (no paywall): "Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December" https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/ #TrumpWar #hegseth #draft #iranWar‌

• Post #852970

  The #receptiogate scandal finally has a proper official verdict confirming plagiarism, per Oliver Schneider in Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland). Background: A Swiss adjunct prof named Carla Rossi collected grant money (tens of thousands in Swiss Francs) for books that were remarkably similar to other books and websites, including work by the admired British codicologist Peter Kidd. He objected; Rossi (and anon minions online) insulted Kidd and threatened lawsuits. Now, after 3 years, the Federal...

• Post #792667

  2/2 Of course Ross is spamming multiple websites to flood the internet with Trumpian spin about how the 3rd book ruling completely exonerates her of all charges, which is a blatant lie. It sounds like she has appeals left, but with any luck she'll have to pay it back and may face fraud judgments. Here's some background: https://thecritic.co.uk/receptiogate-and-the-absolute-state-of-academia/

• Post #685121

  2/2 So Trump is threatening China with denying Xi a meeting with Trump: Iran is offering them a financial windfall that would vault China past the US in the global economy. Further, Trump's fairly obvious goal is for the US to control Iran's oil as well as Venezuela's, which would give him massive power over China's oil-import-dependent economy (and everyone else, to). Should they help him achieve that, or help Iran maintain its independence while improving their global standin...

• Post #633220

  @joshua@social.mbbc.us @gleick@mas.to The DOJ -- again, before Trump, not under him -- was famous for not bringing charges against defendants unless there was overwhelming proof of guilt and near-certainty that a jury would convict. Biden's DOJ did not "go after" Trump, and it wasn't Biden's -- DOJ has always been independent, until Trump. DOJ prosecutors brought charges against Trump after they amassed overwhelming proof of his guilt. He had illegally retained document...

• Post #604159

  It's spring in Vermont, and the perennial bicycles are pushing up their first pedals!!

• Post #583562

  @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @joyce@hcommons.social To be clear, I know your distinction between smog and fog is accurate - I just think the wrong word is used in the colloquial phrase "London Fog." Per wikipedia, smog was coined in the early 20th c. particularly to describe a "pea soup fog" aka a "London particular" or "London Fog." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup_fog It goes on to say that a 1956 law banned coal burning in Lonfon after 4,000 di...

• Post #575565

  @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @joyce@hcommons.social Actually London was much more foggy in 1850, from what I've read, because "fog" was a euphemism for coal smoke. But I could be off-base.

• Post #556974

  Here are the newly released 16 pages of interviews with the young woman who said Trump raped her when she was 14. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27774249-new-epstein-files-related-to-trump/ NPR counted 53 pages that were missing, so you can bet that these are the 16 LEAST damaging. Now to get the other 37 released, #epstein #epstein_files #DonaldTrump

• Post #550430

  NPR's story on the newly released #epstein files that allege Trump raped a 14-year-old in 1983 does two important things that the NYT has bizzarely chosen not to do. 1) include a link to the pages (duh!) (Here's the link: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27774249-new-epstein-files-related-to-trump/) 2) check to see if that's all of them. (It's not; DOJ released 16 more pages, but 37 are still missing.) The NYT was either grossly incompetent here, or actively trying to...

• Post #549025

  @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt Before streaming, sick people watched soap operas and game shows, the only things that were on daytime TV. I still associate both with headaches, sore throats and a runny nose.

• Post #548957

  Under pressure (and a legal requirement), the Trump administration released FBI files on a woman who accused Trump and Epstein of raping her when she was a teenager (per NYT). Journalists going through the big release of files noticed an index describing the pages, but the actual pages were missing. The DOJ now claims that they were "mistakenly" marked as duplicates. As if pages alleging Trump raping teenagers were routine and common. Maybe they are? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/...

• Post #524889

  Thom Tillis *destroyed* Kristi Noem today. See? Republicans know how to do their jobs. Which is proof that only cowardice is holding them back. Until they decide not to run for re-election, and sometimes not even then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys-0r6sHV8M #Noem #dogs #trump #northcarolina

• Post #523687

  @chaprot@pouet.chapril.org I call that "drawing pictures of Greek letters".

• Post #523124

  You know how you wake up just enough to jot down a brilliant thought before it evaporates? This morning, my note said: Buns are the boobs of the butt.

• Post #497590

  Here's a tricky puzzle! This section of Greek text appeared in in the (Latin) Einsiedeln itinerary, Einsiedeln MS 326 (9th c.) amidst a bunch of Latin inscriptions and poems. It's Greek-ish, maybe Coptish, but we can't assume the scribe understood Greek as opposed to sort of drawing a picture of some Greek words. The word spacing seems off. Something about petra (either rock, or Peter, or both?) And what are the twisty Ys with a dot in the martini glass? Something like maybe "τ...

• Post #495484

  @openculture@toot.community She could not scream because she had no mouth.

• Post #477940

  @odaraia@mastodon.green

• Post #477939

  Do you consider OBAA an action comedy? That's what it felt like to me.

• Post #477874

  @mattbarrows@sportsbots.xyz Ducks fans could have told you that Kenyon Sadiq would rise out of the Niners' range. But who fell?

• Post #477451

  I love how coins circa 1st century BCE often had sad looking rulers, and in some cases (eg Bactrians) the rulers aged visibly and got old and saggy on their later coins. @lazy_dragon #numisatics #coins

• Post #444113

  Job opening: Special Collections director at Middlebury College. Good library, good town, and you get to work in the same building as ME! https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/F7664CF699/ #job #jobvacancy #library #histodons @histodons@fedigroups.social

• Post #442581

  @davidho@mastodon.world Don't forget this part from the same stiudy: "While being vegetarian appeared to be protective overall, the scientists also found that those who follow a vegetarian diet had nearly double the risk of the most common type of cancer of the oesophagus, known as squamous cell carcinoma, compared with meat eaters. This may be due to vegetarians being deficient in key nutrients such as B vitamins, the team suggested. Vegans had a 40% higher risk of bowel cancer whe...

• Post #442430

  @mathowie@xoxo.zone Looking over Wikipedia, I'd summarize them as: "Ungendered character comic from Boston with 3 comedy specials, "ShowPig" (2018, YouTube), "Hell" (2023, Peacock) and the new "Live at the Palace" (HBO). Best known for the YouTube series "Gayle." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Fleming_(comedian)

• Post #420030

  @chaprot@pouet.chapril.org !?!?! How old is the manuscript!!????