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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 8h

It's like Mad Libs!

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 10h

#PennState alums should donate to WHYY!

Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like public media platform at Penn State University will stay open, after news that Philadelphia public media outlet WHYY will take control of WPSU - which was slated to be the first public media outlet to close following loss of federal funding. https://loom.ly/4HCc8As.

Reverse card: Penn State trustees agree to transfer WPSU to WHYY

The university will no longer be required to pay a $17.6 million subsidy to WHYY as financial supporters are expected to step up to save the central Pennsylvania station.

whyy.org

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, good timing, I just signed up for PBS Passport!

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, some of the treatments are kinder than Early Modern & Modern! There's also some overlap with Ancient Greek/Roman treatments w/the humors and all.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 16h

"The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health" has several examples of Western medieval medical treatments for mental illness, if that helps?

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Book Birthday to author and friend of historians, Brandon Taylor. He is currently on tour for his new book, "Minor Black Figures." Tour details are over on his Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DPFI57KkYld/

Minor Black Figures: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

I will not be fooled into hoping for the Falcons again. I shan't!

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

Nevermind, it'll be the same old way, penalties.

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure they'll find a new and exciting way.

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure they'll find a new and exciting way.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

Henry Tilney is my favorite Austen hero. Unhinged? Probably not.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

I love Little Women screen adaptations. The book itself is a slog. 🙊

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

More Gaskell, less Dickens.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

435-2387 was my home # in kindergarten. We didn't have to use area codes for local calls because the whole southern half of GA had the same area code.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

This is art.

Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 1d

The kids are all right.

A group survey with the statement 'Abelard was a complete wanker'. 93.75% answered yes, and 6.25% answered no.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

Boss owns a shore house in NJ and a beach house in FL. Every year, one of them is getting flooded and he has to replace a bunch of stuff. But climate change doesn't exist, I guess.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder: Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day, fuck Columbus.

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

Grandma used to buy me a Belkie Bear for Christmas some years, but my parents never shopped there. 🤔

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

Baking this tonight!

smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social · 13d

It's time! 🍂 In the Smitten Kitchen, October 1st is the opening day of Pumpkin Bread Season and this is my forever one-can, one-bowl recipe, which towers with a crisp cinnamon-sugar lid that's impossible not to pick off in deeply satisfying bark-like flecks.

smittenkitchen.com/2016/10/pump...

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

I have done so many chores this weekend because we were supposed to be getting a bunch of rain from the Nor'easter. We've gotten almost no rain so far, I'm feeling a little cheated.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

Championing women's rights and women's wrongs.

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

Noooooooooooo!

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

Oof. Seems like a decent person, but a bad coach. Hopefully this doesn't cause recruits to back out, but I'm glad to move on from the Franklin era.

Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 2d

James Franklin's buyout will be around $50 million. His contract was fully guaranteed.

That will be the second-highest CFB buyout ever, behind the $77 million Texas A&M is paying Jimbo Fisher.

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry, Thomas. I read somewhere, around the time my own dad passed, that grief is love with nowhere to go. That felt like an apt way to put it. Sending my deepest sympathies.

Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 3d

It may be time to set up an Etsy shop.

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Scarry HAGerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 3d

That was... absolutely a time out.