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Dr. Rachel Schine
@rachelschine.bsky.social
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Studying Ge’ez for fun. Will work for amulets. Maked this: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo236340054.html Professes Arabic and History @ UMD Now haunting @ IAS at Princeton https://www.ias.edu/scholars/rachel-schine
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · Dec 13
Alright, I wrote a rant about my feelings about the Global Middle Ages as institutional, historiographical, and moral paradigm. You can read it here.

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View of The Intricate World and the Mundane University | Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7h
Honestly? Good. Yimakh shemo.
eyepatchguy.bsky.social C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 7h
My wife’s 25 year old coworker asked who Dick Cheney was today
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 7h
you need to stop posting perfect content I'm trying to not be on here
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 18h
I feel like there were other clues lol
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
omg
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
Like a marriage between the Russian and British crowns with all the antics and bullshit but also good sex? Would watch.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
Bridgeton and The Great would be pretty ace too ngl
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
anything to bring back Firefly, I'm one of those...
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
yesss 😂
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
Firefly and The Expanse
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d
Name movie or tv universes that aren’t connected but should be.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d
ahhhh I would've gone with "on y yalla..."
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2d
Heyyyyy… I’m gonna regret this aren’t I? 😂😭
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 2d
Departure of Guillain’s caravan for Gueledi, from Mogadishu. ca. 1856
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2d
Imagine there’s a space between seem and to. First post back and already a hot mess.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2d
Medieval lexicographers debated whether kawkab was truly an Arabic word. Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi claims it is Ethiopic, but most seemto have recognized its distinct “Semitic” flavor, not that they called it that! Wonder what they would’ve done with cupcapes…
mattboot.bsky.social kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · Aug 25
toddler says "cupcapes", exhibiting a nice distance assimilation that counterbalances Semitic *kabkab "star" > كوكب kawkab
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
It's not about whether all Jews are targeted by these memes (they are), it's about what external perceptions of Judaism are being weaponized in their making. Now, uh, bye.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
Millions of years of evolution somehow made you and brought you to this moment in which you've magically completely missed the point
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
God did everyone acquire the same fucking brain worm for their shared two brain cells today? That poor worm is gonna starve.
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
Lol all good
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
like there's a reason the most viral versions of this explicitly are treyf
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
secondarily, it's, "Israeli Jews aren't real Jews because they lie about everything and other Jews like the hosts of myjewishlearning let them"
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Tiffany @webinista.com · 23d
At some point people started conflating “contrarian” with “smart.”
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d
It is clearly a parody, my dude. Google exists?
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23d
Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

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Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa
The political history of several African kingdoms included systems of governance that were variously referred to as national “assemblies”, “councils,” or “parliaments,” which limited the power of King...
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 24d
Welp
a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 24d
Honestly the graphics (not me) are better than the essay (me), but you get the pictures with the magazine lol
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