Same Old AKMA
@akma.bsky.social
AKMA is a priest, lecturer (New Test., Greek, Early Church, Crit Theory), writer, gamer; Glasgow, Oxford, now parish ministry in Abingdon-on-Thames. Will not try [in vain?] to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever.
http://akma.disseminary.org
http://akma.disseminary.org
Follow-up from my quote-reskeet of the treacherous eight:
What's the provenance of ‘Why is this man smiling?’ as a cultural catch-phrase? My first impulse leads me to suspect Mad Magazine, but that’s just a starting point and could easily be off the beam.
What's the provenance of ‘Why is this man smiling?’ as a cultural catch-phrase? My first impulse leads me to suspect Mad Magazine, but that’s just a starting point and could easily be off the beam.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Follow-up from my quote-reskeet of the treacherous eight:
What's the provenance of ‘Why is this man smiling?’ as a cultural catch-phrase? My first impulse leads me to suspect Mad Magazine, but that’s just a starting point and could easily be off the beam.
What's the provenance of ‘Why is this man smiling?’ as a cultural catch-phrase? My first impulse leads me to suspect Mad Magazine, but that’s just a starting point and could easily be off the beam.
Why are these people smiling?
Cavers. Turncoats. Chickenshits. Fuckers.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Why are these people smiling?
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Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
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University of Vienna, Tenure Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Tenure-Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural and religious history (from 1040)
Tenure-Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural and religious history (from 1040)
jobs.univie.ac.at
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
University of Vienna, Tenure Track Professorship in Jewish literary, cultural, and religious history
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
Mamdani is going to implement scirocco law. Watch out for that scorching Mediterranean wind (TIL also known as Ghibli…)
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Mamdani is going to implement scirocco law. Watch out for that scorching Mediterranean wind (TIL also known as Ghibli…)
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Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Job well done, Prof. Coviello!
Yep and NYTimes. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Job well done, Prof. Coviello!
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PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
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Faculty position in New Testament, St Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. FT/TT. Deadline December 1. nt4ox.link/meinrad26
Open-Rank Position in New Testament - The Catholic Biblical Association
Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology invites applications for a continuing-appointment-track position in New Testament in its graduate degree programs, beginning August 2026. Applicants…
nt4ox.link
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Faculty position in New Testament, St Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. FT/TT. Deadline December 1. nt4ox.link/meinrad26
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Happy International Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happy International Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
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Life tip: if you're laminating something you're gonna hang outside, cut the corners off before you laminate it, so that when you make holes for the string or pins or whatever you're using to hang it up with, the holes are just in the plastic and don't create an entry point for water into the paper.
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Life tip: if you're laminating something you're gonna hang outside, cut the corners off before you laminate it, so that when you make holes for the string or pins or whatever you're using to hang it up with, the holes are just in the plastic and don't create an entry point for water into the paper.
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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We should all be repulsed by this. I have little issue with some people being a hell of a lot better off than others, if the system that makes that happen also makes sure everyone has food and a roof over their heads. But we’re far beyond that now. We’re profoundly out of whack. Things must change.
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We should all be repulsed by this. I have little issue with some people being a hell of a lot better off than others, if the system that makes that happen also makes sure everyone has food and a roof over their heads. But we’re far beyond that now. We’re profoundly out of whack. Things must change.
Happy International Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happy International Fountain Pen Day, everyone!
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
Your pen doesn’t have to be gilt or sparkly or a collector’s edition or anything but satisfying to you (this has a wee burn in the plastic on the back, lest you think I’m getting hoity-toity with a Special Edition).
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The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid
Heritage Foundation having a normal one
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid
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Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Restful day at Enock House, starring Flora and Minke.
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Restful day at Enock House, starring Flora and Minke.
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Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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My children and grandchildren live in the USA. I'm so relieved by last night's results that I could cry.
Nothing is guaranteed — but that goes for *MAGA* and *DJT*'s grasp on power as well as on any particular politician or project that I m ight favour.
Nothing is guaranteed — but that goes for *MAGA* and *DJT*'s grasp on power as well as on any particular politician or project that I m ight favour.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My children and grandchildren live in the USA. I'm so relieved by last night's results that I could cry.
Nothing is guaranteed — but that goes for *MAGA* and *DJT*'s grasp on power as well as on any particular politician or project that I m ight favour.
Nothing is guaranteed — but that goes for *MAGA* and *DJT*'s grasp on power as well as on any particular politician or project that I m ight favour.
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Many don't realize that when Jesus talks about the evil spirit leaving and then returning with seven more (Mt. 12:43-45), he was actually referring to answering emails with multiple people copied.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Many don't realize that when Jesus talks about the evil spirit leaving and then returning with seven more (Mt. 12:43-45), he was actually referring to answering emails with multiple people copied.
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"...I've been saying that the secret to my success is ruthless competence..."
~the governor-elect on NPR just now
~the governor-elect on NPR just now
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"...I've been saying that the secret to my success is ruthless competence..."
~the governor-elect on NPR just now
~the governor-elect on NPR just now