I'm seriously considering leaving twitter for good. If I do, you'll find me in the #Fediverse at scholar.social/@telliott
Why? Plenty of reasons (gestures expansively). Most recently, m-u-dge's testimony yesterday about security practices and the hiring of state operatives.
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So, somebody anonymous but using an IP address associated with the US Capitol wants you to read in that "has been accused of liberal bias":
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When every shitbag conservative politician from Reagan on down asked you to level your contempt on welfare cheats and queens and grifters, I don't imagine the image of Brett Farve and a coterie of white Mississippi politicians and bureaucrats entered your race-baited brain, eh?
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New post: a brief obituary of the pioneering Nina Garsoïan (1923-2022), who blazed new trails as both a scholar and an academic leader. She was a major donor to the library . isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/G #medieval #Armenian
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January 6th insurrectionist lied about his military service, claiming he was an Afghanistan veteran when the records show he is not. A disgrace to all veterans who served.
Now he’s running for Congress. #VetsForDemocracy
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Please register for Linked Pasts 8 in Archaeology Data Service, University of York, this Nov 24-28 (online) and Nov 29–Dec 1 in person seadda.eu/?p=1808
You may also suggest activities and topics for discussion/collaboration in the registration form.
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The latest exhibition (Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond) opened to the public today. We also rolled out all the web components, including a media-rich "digital complement" and illustrated checklist of objects. Access here:
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Need a simple and open source tool for authoring XML and TEI? A new version of the Scholarly XML extension for VSCode is out! With fixed XML ID validation.
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🚨 ¡ship graffito at pompeii claxon! 🚨
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#Pompei. Piccole rivelazioni dal cantiere di restauro in corso alle terme femminili del Foro. Il graffito di un volatile e di grandi navi riaffiorano durante la pulitura delle pareti.
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In June, a group of Proud Boys and militia showed up outside the McKinney, TX library during a Pride themed storytime event. Proud Boys assaulted a man who filed a complaint with police on the scene. I just got the report after being stonewalled for months. It's very odd.
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My department is hiring on the tenure-track, for someone who works on race, racism, and Greek & Roman studies! Job ad here, deadline Oct. 21: wfu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty_
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“In court documents, Black Warrior Riverkeeper says its staff and members documented seeps and discharges coming from the area on 21 separate occasions between May 2021 and August 2022.” -, al.com/news/2022/09/b
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BNSF, the railroad owned by Warren Buffett, has sent this letter to Congress urging them to pass legislation that would force rail workers to adopt a contract that contains ZERO paid or unpaid sick days.
In the letter, BNSF continues to lie about its sick leave policy.
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i have been thinking a lot about the recent stories out of mississippi — the jackson water crisis and the state’s defrauding of family assistance funds — and how this political economy of corruption and neglect is very much a legacy of jim crow
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On Friday, the US could see its 1st major rail strike and/or lockout since the 90s. MSM has *finally* taken an interest in covering this story but seldom from the workers' side. Here's a thread of our coverage this year on the long-brewing crisis in the rail industry
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In Alabama, the attorney general promised during a radio interview to prosecute anyone who would help women make arrangements for the abortion. So that poor woman would have been completely on her own here. Because control and fear are the most important things.
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A Louisiana woman carrying a skull-less fetus that would die shortly after birth was forced to travel 1,400 miles to New York City to get an abortion after her local hospital refused to provide the service for fear of violating state law. MAGA Republicans are monsters.
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Please stop calling Lindsey Graham's National Abortion Ban a "late term" abortion ban just because that's what he calls it.
He's lying about what it is. YOU DON'T HAVE TO REPEAT LIARS JUST BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO, media people.
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Pro tip: it's NEVER really about states' rights.
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The scan that detects many fetal abnormalities is not conducted until 20 weeks.
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This bill has no exception for severe fetal abnormalities, including those which make pregnancies unviable, and which are often found after 15 weeks
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JOB: "Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship" w/. "comfortable working remotely for a small organization" <smarthistory.org/andrew-w-mello>
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Y'all. We went in studio yesterday in #Nashville and I am so excited I had to share this video. It is sounding so good!!!
Thanks to my friends:
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I really feel like people are not appreciating that Warren Buffet and his friends are shutting down the supply chain to force Congress to mandate 125,000 railroad workers go to work with no weekends or sick leave.
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This, as my pastor used to say, is a lie straight from the pits of hell.
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BREAKING The Russian generals are losing so badly Republicans want to start erecting statues of them in the South
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With the passing of the great Joyce Reynolds (1918-1922), we can read Michael Crawford's tribute to her astonishing energy at the age of 100 and look forward to her friends and students continuing the efforts of her last years of scholarship to the field
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BILNAS is pleased to have published Joyce's two important collections, documenting the Greek and Latin epigraphic records of Libya in the Roman period:
📖 Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica
ircyr2020.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/en/
📖 Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/en/
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We were saddened to learn of the death of Joyce Reynolds, a founder member of the Society for Libyan Studies (now BILNAS); she would have celebrated her 104th birthday in December.
Please share her work, which is her legacy.
RIP Joyce
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Joyce Reynolds, our eldest member, celebrated her 103rd birthday last month. We are celebrating with the publication of a new version of her “Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania”.
Follow this link and click on the main image:
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Happy Birthday Joyce!
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Happy Birthday Joyce!
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The electrons must flow! And they are. Thanks for getting us back up and running. Just in time!
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One hour and counting ... I'd better start making plans to relocate somewhere to continue working since my battery backups will only last another hour. I wish this was not such a common experience for those of us living south of US72 on Moontown Road, but it is.
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Today, as I use the 's Scaife Viewer (designed by et al.) to prepare for my classes, I'm struck by how far we've come. I'm grateful to all of my digital humanities colleagues for the work they do to make information so readily and openly available.
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ABORT! New Shepard failed during first stage ascent. No crew on board.
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I see from the outage map that neighbors have started calling it in as well. We're sadly pretty familiar with this process.
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Welp, power from just went down hard in Moontown, followed by an audible BOOM from some distance away. Have opened a trouble ticket via the outage reporting line. Let's see how long my UPS lasts ...
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🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. NCDOT crews removed the stickers from the sign.
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These sticker leavers have clearly been moving intentionally through the area doing this to historically Black and/or “liberal” areas of the triangle - these popped up on a lot of the chapel hill and Carrboro exit signs a few months ago & I think also Hillsborough
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Someone has tagged the highway exit sign for NCCU - my alma mater and HBCU - with MAGA stickers. Some classmates wonder who we contact to have removed or if removing them ourselves will get us arrested? Someone local may know the protocol?
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DM JMR #epigraphy
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Nominate by 9/15! The AIA's Award for Outstanding Work in #DigitalArchaeology honors projects, groups, & individuals using digital technology in innovative ways in excavation, research, teaching, publishing & outreach. See past winners & apply here:
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