Dr Eleanor Janega
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
https://eleanorjanega.com/
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Anyway last thing I’ll say on this is that I got my shit rocked all the time in college and I never cried to the media. TPUSA is their own concept of DEI for aggrieved white evangelical pussies and the fact that any group disproportionately wields this much power on campuses is fucking dumb
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Anyway last thing I’ll say on this is that I got my shit rocked all the time in college and I never cried to the media. TPUSA is their own concept of DEI for aggrieved white evangelical pussies and the fact that any group disproportionately wields this much power on campuses is fucking dumb
Blessed by a busker playing careless whisper in Tottenham Court Road Station. Signs and wonders.
Five is not enough but:
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
In this strongly pro-George Michael space, tell me, what are your Top 5 Wham!/George tracks
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Blessed by a busker playing careless whisper in Tottenham Court Road Station. Signs and wonders.
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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On #Crustmas we celebrate the entire diversity of crustaceans, especially the ones few people have ever seen before!
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
there's an entire superorder (very big category) of crustaceans called Syncarids, and like 99% of them are tiny white eyeless sub-millimeter things living in cavewater, except in Tasmania, where they just casually live on the surface world like regular shrimp. infuriating
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On #Crustmas we celebrate the entire diversity of crustaceans, especially the ones few people have ever seen before!
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Don't forget to follow the hashtag or the crab feed for them
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Every day is George Michael day.
And if you would like to hear a podcast with me and Dr J talking about this Sex Jam, here you go. (Sexy java refers to his cup of coffee, not javascript)
m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...
m.soundcloud.com/culturesexre...
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Every day is George Michael day.
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Imagine deliberately denying yourself one of the best Christmas songs ever, written and sung by one of the soundest people to ever live. Couldn’t be me, because I’m a good person.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Imagine deliberately denying yourself one of the best Christmas songs ever, written and sung by one of the soundest people to ever live. Couldn’t be me, because I’m a good person.
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Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
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Do you think George Michael died on Christmas Day so you could avoid him? Grow up
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Do you think George Michael died on Christmas Day so you could avoid him? Grow up
Five is not enough but:
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
In this strongly pro-George Michael space, tell me, what are your Top 5 Wham!/George tracks
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Five is not enough but:
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
Freedom 90
Freeeek!
Outside
Careless Whisper
Fast Love
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It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing
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I'm of two minds about the term "AI fatigue" because it's not a correct description of the phenomenon — it's implying that these AI widgets were at some point useful — but it's evidence that even ardent boosters are facing a level of resistance they can't ignore.
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I'm of two minds about the term "AI fatigue" because it's not a correct description of the phenomenon — it's implying that these AI widgets were at some point useful — but it's evidence that even ardent boosters are facing a level of resistance they can't ignore.
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 1: Snow at Kinryūzan Temple
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 1: Snow at Kinryūzan Temple
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
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Well we could talk about the fact that everyone I’ve met who has recently moved to Walthamstow appear to nearly all be white and from the home counties, and the homeowners are definitely armed with £500k from mum and dad
If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Well we could talk about the fact that everyone I’ve met who has recently moved to Walthamstow appear to nearly all be white and from the home counties, and the homeowners are definitely armed with £500k from mum and dad
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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Emergency🚨
It's winter in Gaza, and today the storm will begin. Our tents will be flooded by the rain & blown away by the wind, even though we are homeless & without shelter.
We desperately need your donations to buy a tent cover that costs $100.
Donate⬇️
urls.fr/DzYN15
@alexanderchee.bsky.social ✅
It's winter in Gaza, and today the storm will begin. Our tents will be flooded by the rain & blown away by the wind, even though we are homeless & without shelter.
We desperately need your donations to buy a tent cover that costs $100.
Donate⬇️
urls.fr/DzYN15
@alexanderchee.bsky.social ✅
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Emergency🚨
It's winter in Gaza, and today the storm will begin. Our tents will be flooded by the rain & blown away by the wind, even though we are homeless & without shelter.
We desperately need your donations to buy a tent cover that costs $100.
Donate⬇️
urls.fr/DzYN15
@alexanderchee.bsky.social ✅
It's winter in Gaza, and today the storm will begin. Our tents will be flooded by the rain & blown away by the wind, even though we are homeless & without shelter.
We desperately need your donations to buy a tent cover that costs $100.
Donate⬇️
urls.fr/DzYN15
@alexanderchee.bsky.social ✅
I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon!
'The Russell Group institution, one of the UK’s largest, has announced plans to expand beyond its traditional fully campus-based model of higher education and increase its digital and global presence, as well as its flexible learning opportunities.' 1/2
Half of Manchester students to be learning online in 10 years
Russell Group institution announces major pivot into digital teaching as universities evolve further beyond traditional models
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon!
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Ask who is providing the infrastructure. Ask what outsourced private IT firms are taking a cut, and how big it is. Ask about staffing and the frequency of syllabus updates. Ask.
'The Russell Group institution, one of the UK’s largest, has announced plans to expand beyond its traditional fully campus-based model of higher education and increase its digital and global presence, as well as its flexible learning opportunities.' 1/2
Half of Manchester students to be learning online in 10 years
Russell Group institution announces major pivot into digital teaching as universities evolve further beyond traditional models
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ask who is providing the infrastructure. Ask what outsourced private IT firms are taking a cut, and how big it is. Ask about staffing and the frequency of syllabus updates. Ask.
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found out where yer da lives
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
found out where yer da lives
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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it's genuinely laughable for an ostensible national research university to fire someone for giving an essay that lazy and braindead a failing grade. nothing means anything if that's a passing piece of work
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
it's genuinely laughable for an ostensible national research university to fire someone for giving an essay that lazy and braindead a failing grade. nothing means anything if that's a passing piece of work
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You don’t have a constitutional right to good grades?????
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You don’t have a constitutional right to good grades?????
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If you're faculty in any sort of public college in a red state, you're liable to have someone make a spectacle of your course, assignments, or teaching, run to social media, and get you fired for it because they disagree. You can't run a university like this.
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you're faculty in any sort of public college in a red state, you're liable to have someone make a spectacle of your course, assignments, or teaching, run to social media, and get you fired for it because they disagree. You can't run a university like this.