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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch

@troynovaunt.bsky.social

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she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · May 22

Immigration is good, actually.

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The BlueCelt ♨️ @bluecelt.bsky.social · 11h

Object permanence is liberal decadence

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

The “That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low” meme, but edited to reference Brassica oleracea. Text as follows:

Jake: I'm an expert on vegetables
Jess: Oh yeah? Name ten vegetables
Jake: Brassica oleracea
Jess: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 11h

Changed a duvet cover, does this entitle me to a note exempting me from the rest of this week?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 21h

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 15h

FAULKNER, good grief, obviously Faulkner

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 18h

I mean I just feel on quite intimate terms with the absurdity of the human condition since half the things that are supposedly normal don’t make much sense to me

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 18h

Or I guess, technically Caitlin Flanagan, whatever

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 18h

“Bari Weiss girlbossed too close to the sun” by Sally Jenkins

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19h

Endorsed

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19h

2nd this; Orwell’s essays are fantastic, Politics and the English Language is a must-read imo

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 19h

It's a shame Orwell is so often reduced to 1984 and Animal Farm, which are so commonly abused to have become worthless cliches, when his non-fiction is so interesting and still relevant today. His obsession with language and politics is particularly interesting to think about now

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19h

My existentialism actually is downstream of my neurodivergence in this essay I will

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 19h

I'm begging for existentialists to add an ounce of neurodiversity to their politics.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

Seriously! There is an almost pathological thing on the lefter end of the spectrum where all wins, once achieved, immediately get called losses, because if it REALLY was a win you’d never have been “allowed” to have it. Do not do this! It is kryptonite for organizing!

Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

For truth, absolutely not. Seriously, as views that are wielding power right now. If someone is holding a gun on me, I better understand why they’re doing it.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' . (Mad Men gif)

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

This is why so many people in the understanding-things business right now are not ok, fwiw.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

Dear all the people telling me I don’t have to:

You should always take seriously the opinions of people who wield enormous amounts of power. Feel free to ignore them for your mental health, but if you’re in the understanding-things business, as I am, you do have to take them seriously.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 22h

Also to be fair, First Things really used to be a much better and more serious publication that wasn’t so frequently engaged in apocalypticism or anti-pluralism.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

“Your disembodied cultural aggregation machine is the symptom”

is VERY important

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to ever hand it to AI, but in scenarios like "My disembodied cultural aggregation machine will tell me how to handle the most basic social niceties after I've given a woman a chance to peruse my social media," your disembodied cultural aggregation machine is the symptom, not the problem

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's basically true that what AI does to language/meaning (especially written language) provides us an opportunity to rethink how we study and teach language/meaning in our fields. It reopens central questions.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, strongly agree.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Well put. Maybe I just need to try some things in my community though and see how far I get. Sometimes interest and urgency can be turned into time and funding…sometimes less so…won’t know till I try.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Familiar with Montas, yes! Was a bit underwhelmed, and have been struck by seeing him invoked by people in the midst of hollowing out education, but probably need to read him more carefully. Will look forward to seeing your publication on this too.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Real question: do we have a movement yet? Is there an articulated and organized case for great books from the left or do we need to make it?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!

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