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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch

@troynovaunt.bsky.social

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she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · May 22

Immigration is good, actually.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 4h

True innovation would be inventing a job that’s distinguishable from psychological torture, where do I pick up my Nobel in economics thank you for your attention to this matter

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s go fully fun, I’m recommending Dealing with Dragons

And roast beef with horseradish mayo

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 5h

Ok switching up the vibes. Everyone recommend a book you like. Or a sandwich or something

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 5h

Every Discourse on this site is evidence of how it's not good to treat K-12 history education the way this country has.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 5h

So many feelings about this

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 8h

Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 12h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 8h

Where do you stand on dorothy sayers?

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, he probably does. There are a FEW instances where he is attested by someone besides Victor and/or someone stuck in arctic ice. But.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not completely convinced Frankenstein’s monster actually exists

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 12h

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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

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The BlueCelt ♨️ @bluecelt.bsky.social · 1d

Object permanence is liberal decadence

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7d

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

The “That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low” meme, but edited to reference Brassica oleracea. Text as follows:

Jake: I'm an expert on vegetables
Jess: Oh yeah? Name ten vegetables
Jake: Brassica oleracea
Jess: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Changed a duvet cover, does this entitle me to a note exempting me from the rest of this week?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

FAULKNER, good grief, obviously Faulkner

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I just feel on quite intimate terms with the absurdity of the human condition since half the things that are supposedly normal don’t make much sense to me

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Or I guess, technically Caitlin Flanagan, whatever

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

“Bari Weiss girlbossed too close to the sun” by Sally Jenkins

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Endorsed

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

2nd this; Orwell’s essays are fantastic, Politics and the English Language is a must-read imo

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 1d

It's a shame Orwell is so often reduced to 1984 and Animal Farm, which are so commonly abused to have become worthless cliches, when his non-fiction is so interesting and still relevant today. His obsession with language and politics is particularly interesting to think about now

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

My existentialism actually is downstream of my neurodivergence in this essay I will

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

I'm begging for existentialists to add an ounce of neurodiversity to their politics.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously! There is an almost pathological thing on the lefter end of the spectrum where all wins, once achieved, immediately get called losses, because if it REALLY was a win you’d never have been “allowed” to have it. Do not do this! It is kryptonite for organizing!

Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

For truth, absolutely not. Seriously, as views that are wielding power right now. If someone is holding a gun on me, I better understand why they’re doing it.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' . (Mad Men gif)

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

This is why so many people in the understanding-things business right now are not ok, fwiw.

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