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@lauropea.bsky.social

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historian and philologist rare books and manuscripts cataloguer putting the t back in incunabula since 2025 wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Oct 22

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 36m

also if you could clean up after yourselves I'm sure the attendees of the next session will be grateful

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 42m

(chairing a session)

well i think we can say we've witnessed some truly seminal displays this afternoon. i hope you can all continue the scholarly vigour at the discussion circle later

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 55m

using 'seminal' to describe research that is either trailblazing or simply onanistic, and never making clear which sense i mean

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3h

confession: i have a horny alt and it's just a normal pic of me wearing reindeer horns

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3h

a few sips of black tea will make me wired and bouncing off the wall like espresso would never dare

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 6h

io: dottore, il mio dente mi fa tanto male 😣

lui: e chi se ne frega? NIZZA E FIUME NON SONO ANCORA LIBERATI 😠

io: minchia, sono andata dal irridentista

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY this evening
looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY tonight 🎶

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

Latest polls, Stock Photo Western European Country:

Change for Our Country (Nazi): 29%
Christian Democratic People's Party (Conservative): 21%
YEAH! (Neoliberal): 8%
Greens: 9%
Social Democrats: 14%
Left (Educated Urban Women): 10%
'Left', but make it No Homo: 4%
Assorted regional nationalists: 5%

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 10h

never appreciated 'hey jude' was actually a good song until i heard wilson pickett sing it

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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 17h

going to start up a rival journal to Nature and call it Nurture

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 21h

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY this evening
looking for some MOTTE STUFF
BAILEY tonight 🎶

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

giving every child a chat gpt account at birth and asking it to work out their life. it determines how they do at school, their jobs, their partners, generates pictures of it all and then we store it on the cloud and leave them to die because we've streamlined the process at greatly reduced cost

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

went for a roborock q10 x5

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

more or less this

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

any recommendations on robot hoovers? never had one but my wife's dust allergy is now so bad it would be good to have something that could do the flat every day. something available in the EU, please...

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

yeah. fash, but make it salonfähig

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 1d

GEN-ALPHA DICKENS: it was the skibidi of times, it was the toilet of times

BOOMER TOLKIEN: I did NOT spend decades inventing languages only for you to butcher this one. Just saying!

ZILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE: nah let him cook, brevity low-key the soul of wit fr fr

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

in most cases you run into problems anyway once you hit a pronoun, but for short sentences you can get away with it, which is often all you need (and otherwise of course you can lie, which is always okay to avoid outing yourself naturally)

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

it's funny as a queer person trying not to prematurely out yourself that there are different strategies in different languages. e.g. German with 'Freundin' leaves it vague whether it's your girlfriend or just a female friend, whereas Danish 'kæreste' specifies the relationship, but not the gender

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

gnocchi seauton

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

*lajos kossuth ist dem chat beigetreten*

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 2d

wenn du das habsburgerreich nicht magst heißt das österreich-ungern

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