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Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/ avatar by Beverly Beverung

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · Jan 14

Storylife is out today from @yalepress.bsky.social

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Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare at The CUNY Graduate Center @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social · 15h

Curious about the Ph.D. in Social Welfare at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social? RSVP for our in-person open house this Wednesday, 10/15/25 from 5:30-7pm. Click this link www.gc.cuny.edu/even...

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Curious about the Ph.D. in Social Welfare?

Meet faculty, program administrators, and current students at our in-person open house.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
5:30-7pm ET

RSVP at this link https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/phd-program-social-welfare-open-house-oct-2025

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 18h

best part of their show. Saw a live concert for free in Portland (ME) that made me reconsider a band I had previously thought, well, a little cheesy.

Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 18h

apparently there is no number of times seeing They Might Be Giants Live that impresses my children. Perhaps even an inverse relationship.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 18h

told them I was at the HORDE festival the day jerry Garcia died and they needed multiple definitions before dismissing it

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 19h

Spouse: please don't tell us again how creative Bare Naked Ladies were with their medleys or how you crowd surfed at a Sponge concert.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone unimpressed at my decription of how electtic Better Than Ezra was in live performances in small venues.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 19h

[Conversation prompted by me recognizing a Toad the Wet Sprocket song from a mere half measure of drums]

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 20h

[Reporting a weekend murder]

Son (13): why is it called alt-rock? Altrrnative to what

Daughter (15): yeah. It all sounds the same anyway.

Me: [sputtering] well you had to be there

Son: were there like only 5 bands?

Spouse: kids. Your dad is a white guy from the 90s. This is his culture.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 2d

Son (13) made a spreadsheet of mariokart characters and variations.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 2d

Brekekekeks Koaks! Koaks!

mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 2d

A review of Rachel Lesser's great book, Desire in the Iliad that also includes Empedocles and Joy Division

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Desire in the Iliad: The Force That Moves the Epic and Its Audience by Rachel H. Lesser (review)

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I did not just laugh out loud at this. but we are who we are.

Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 3d

live the the life of the mind, they said

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 3d

Upper east side from the central park reservoir.

East manhattan from the central park reservoir, buildings in silhouette at sunrise

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4d

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, art historian Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, & the AAR summer school. Then, a video game on repatriation, the Nubian ivory trade, a new Roman wood workshop, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more.

Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)

This week, art historian and AAR Classical Summer School attendee Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, and lived experiences in ancient Rome. Then, a new video game allows you to "r...

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 5d

[Intently looking at my feet]

Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 5d

Daughter (15), upon watching Buffy season 1, decided that I am like Giles, but the nerdy parts, not the cool parts

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 5d

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

www.bostonreview.net

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 6d

Samuel Beckett was neighbors with Andre the Giant when Andre was a child, and would sometimes give him a ride to school

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 6d

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 6d

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Newspaper article about the Working Classicists Guide to National 5 Classical Studies, in today’s Courier (Dundee).

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 7d

so, that drive by Lawrence.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 7d

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 7d

"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, August 1941. Give it a read, play the game, see if you recognize anyone you know today. Sadly, it's going to matter. Brilliant, uncanny, timeless. Oh, and btw, RESIST like your life depends on it, bc it might. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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