Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
I’m glad someone has written this idea up formally. It really is so true, and the fact that it happened the week before Thanksgiving felt like a bat signal to all of us.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m glad someone has written this idea up formally. It really is so true, and the fact that it happened the week before Thanksgiving felt like a bat signal to all of us.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/u...
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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“subject area expertise” *swoons*
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“subject area expertise” *swoons*
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
I would read 10,000 words on this. I really did not understand or appreciate book production until I started seeing some really dreadful ones in the last few years.
Very here for these shots being fired. I know that academic publishing is a tough business and margins are tight, but the precipitous drop in production quality across the board in recent years (without a corresponding drop in prices!) has really been something to behold.
I recently got a volume from Brill's series, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, and the poor quality of the paper and binding would be surprising at any price: much more so at over $200. Caveat lector et emptor.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I would read 10,000 words on this. I really did not understand or appreciate book production until I started seeing some really dreadful ones in the last few years.
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In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025
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I refuse to believe that a dust jacket is an insurmountable expense for a UP or major European academic publishing house. What customer will pay $100 for a volume who wouldn’t pay $115+ for one with a plain cover and dust jacket? /3
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I refuse to believe that a dust jacket is an insurmountable expense for a UP or major European academic publishing house. What customer will pay $100 for a volume who wouldn’t pay $115+ for one with a plain cover and dust jacket? /3
Shout out to all the cats who had to suffer this weekend while their humans were at AAA, AAR, SBL, MESA and various other acronyms that were mysteriously deemed more important than sitting on the couch with a furball pressed up against you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Shout out to all the cats who had to suffer this weekend while their humans were at AAA, AAR, SBL, MESA and various other acronyms that were mysteriously deemed more important than sitting on the couch with a furball pressed up against you.
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No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
No email from a library system stirs the imagination like a notice my scan is ready to download through WORLDCAT. The great cat that surrounds the world? That nuzzles the roots of the world-scratching-tree? The great world cat who is and was and shall be? That cat???
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
A terrifying but worthwhile long read. It’s so important to emphasize, as this article does, that these are people who don’t even have charisma, just a desire to get rich and the good luck of living in a time when they can reach millions
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A terrifying but worthwhile long read. It’s so important to emphasize, as this article does, that these are people who don’t even have charisma, just a desire to get rich and the good luck of living in a time when they can reach millions
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Some of the most interesting conversations I’ve had at this conference have been with people commuting to jobs or working remotely while academia-adjacent and figuring out what it means to build a professional community in that context
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Some of the most interesting conversations I’ve had at this conference have been with people commuting to jobs or working remotely while academia-adjacent and figuring out what it means to build a professional community in that context
And if he did this, then that means I too have the power within me
I need to know exactly what prior life experience Zohran Mamdani had, and with which desi uncle, that made him capable of doing this
Trump: "I feel very confident that [Mamdani] can do a good job." (He's being very complimentary.)
Each is avoiding opportunities to talk about ways they've insulted each other.
Each is avoiding opportunities to talk about ways they've insulted each other.
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And if he did this, then that means I too have the power within me
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
I need to know exactly what prior life experience Zohran Mamdani had, and with which desi uncle, that made him capable of doing this
Trump: "I feel very confident that [Mamdani] can do a good job." (He's being very complimentary.)
Each is avoiding opportunities to talk about ways they've insulted each other.
Each is avoiding opportunities to talk about ways they've insulted each other.
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I need to know exactly what prior life experience Zohran Mamdani had, and with which desi uncle, that made him capable of doing this
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A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Medicated myself, lit some candles, just about ready to recite some spells. Lord (f.), quiet the voices in my head and let me write this damn essay.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Medicated myself, lit some candles, just about ready to recite some spells. Lord (f.), quiet the voices in my head and let me write this damn essay.
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a near hemispheric story to tell as enslaved people were trafficked to Egypt who were from the lands of the Franks, India, the Byzantine realm and beyond. But Nubians and other peoples from northeast Africa were the most exploited by enslavers in Egypt. 2/3...
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
a near hemispheric story to tell as enslaved people were trafficked to Egypt who were from the lands of the Franks, India, the Byzantine realm and beyond. But Nubians and other peoples from northeast Africa were the most exploited by enslavers in Egypt. 2/3...
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why write few words on many days when can write all words in one day and despair the other days
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
why write few words on many days when can write all words in one day and despair the other days
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
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I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
why write few words on many days when can write all words in one day and despair the other days
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
why write few words on many days when can write all words in one day and despair the other days
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.