Author | Lightnews

Dr. Rachel Schine

@rachelschine.bsky.social

11K followers 2.2K following 12K posts

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

press.uchicago.edu

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

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.

journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...

View of The Intricate World and the Mundane University | Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta

journals.library.columbia.edu

32 75 260

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like there were other clues lol

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

omg

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

Like a marriage between the Russian and British crowns with all the antics and bullshit but also good sex? Would watch.

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

Bridgeton and The Great would be pretty ace too ngl

2 5

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

anything to bring back Firefly, I'm one of those...

1 3

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

yesss 😂

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21h

Firefly and The Expanse

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h

Name movie or tv universes that aren’t connected but should be.

5 3 29

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 1d

ahhhh I would've gone with "on y yalla..."

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyyyy… I’m gonna regret this aren’t I? 😂😭

1 1

Reposted by Dr. Rachel Schine

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 2d

Departure of Guillain’s caravan for Gueledi, from Mogadishu. ca. 1856
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...

1 2

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine there’s a space between seem and to. First post back and already a hot mess.

1 5

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…

kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · Aug 25

toddler says "cupcapes", exhibiting a nice distance assimilation that counterbalances Semitic *kabkab "star" > كوكب kawkab

2 1 20

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.

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

1 2

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.

1 13

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

Lol all good

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

like there's a reason the most viral versions of this explicitly are treyf

1 1 21

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"

1 3 34

Reposted by Dr. Rachel Schine

Tiffany @webinista.com · 23d

At some point people started conflating “contrarian” with “smart.”

16 93 350

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

It is clearly a parody, my dude. Google exists?

Reposted by Dr. Rachel Schine

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23d

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/parliament...

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...

www.africanhistoryextra.com

1 33 60

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

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 .

media.tenor.com

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

Honestly the graphics (not me) are better than the essay (me), but you get the pictures with the magazine lol

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

Ah that was a fun one!!

1 1

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23d

This feels really emblematic of the way that evangelical and “white Christian nationalist” have become coterminous for people. Which is sad for… every other kind of evangelical Christianity

2 5