Dr. Christina Hotalen
@drchristinah.bsky.social
Roman historian working as a Program Manager. Alt-ac enthusiast. Gender, material culture, digital humanities, classical reception in metal music. I also make chain maille. Academic CV and links to my other pages: https://linktr.ee/infestissima
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It arrived today on the last day of the year, and I couldn’t be happier. It is very validating to see my name in a Cambridge University Press publication.
Maybe the CEO shouldn’t have ran his mouth about replacing teachers with AI.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Maybe the CEO shouldn’t have ran his mouth about replacing teachers with AI.
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#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
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👇 Ditch complicit AIA, ASOR, SCS, EAA, and WAC, and move your $ and energy to @americananthro.bsky.social MESA and @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social instead!
The American Anthropological Association, Middle Eastern Studies Association, & Society for the Study of the Past, showed their unwavering support for & solidarity w Palestinian people. We recommend archaeos nurture & promote these spaces, committed to equality, equity & justice
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
👇 Ditch complicit AIA, ASOR, SCS, EAA, and WAC, and move your $ and energy to @americananthro.bsky.social MESA and @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social instead!
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As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As 2025 comes to an end, we are reflecting on almost a year of organising as archaeologists of conscience, holding our representative organisations to account in the face of their negligence, silence and complicity. drive.google.com/file/d/1QPy8...
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Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
University of Oklahoma should have their accreditation yanked if they pass a student who can’t string together coherent sentences.
This is an extremely cool time to be a teacher. When students aren't using ChatGPT to do their homework for them, they're asserting they have a First Amendment right to get an A and your administration fires you if you don't give them an A.
I'm so tired.
I'm so tired.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
University of Oklahoma should have their accreditation yanked if they pass a student who can’t string together coherent sentences.
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Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
Public service announcement:
![“Fasten yo[our] seatbelt” sign under a stop sign](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jyj7y6zm3kdfddwbziz7ixbz/bafkreif5mz23sz4kiepillyn73ft7u263f3bzuqlesfmzjclwytd5nlbkm@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Public service announcement:
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
Wow, I had no idea that bands like Blood Incantation and Psychonaut were pioneers of writing about space and aliens despite the fact that Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, and Gamma Ray have always done that… (/sarcasm)
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Wow, I had no idea that bands like Blood Incantation and Psychonaut were pioneers of writing about space and aliens despite the fact that Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, and Gamma Ray have always done that… (/sarcasm)
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Not only is Spotify raising their prices in Q1 2026 but they’re also running ads for ICE now?
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Not only is Spotify raising their prices in Q1 2026 but they’re also running ads for ICE now?
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
Fuck this shit.
Please tell me what other platform I can use that doesn’t suck as much as Spotify (I listen to podcasts in addition to music).
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Time to look into your settings, folks.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Time to look into your settings, folks.
Harvard brutalizes students protesting a genocide but treat their professors with Epstein ties with kid gloves.
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Harvard brutalizes students protesting a genocide but treat their professors with Epstein ties with kid gloves.
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Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."
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Excited to have been part of this volume on the intersection of forgetting and power in Greek and Roman literature. www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Forgettin...
Forgetting and Power in Greek and Latin Literature | 400014020
Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from t...
www.steiner-verlag.de
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Excited to have been part of this volume on the intersection of forgetting and power in Greek and Roman literature. www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Forgettin...
Evergreen meme
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Evergreen meme
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Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
Counterpoint: they’re both clowns, but one is more pathetic than the other
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Counterpoint: they’re both clowns, but one is more pathetic than the other