Maggie Fritz-Morkin
@emeffem.bsky.social
Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
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A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
antifascism good, antisocialism bad
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
antifascism good, antisocialism bad
❌ cancelleresca
❌ mercantesca
Must be Italianists
❌ mercantesca
Must be Italianists
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
❌ cancelleresca
❌ mercantesca
Must be Italianists
❌ mercantesca
Must be Italianists
When I said my best writing was fueled by spite,
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
When I said my best writing was fueled by spite,
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[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
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Hahahhahaha
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hahahhahaha
🚨SIX SEVEN🚨
Just got the pre-prints for my new essay “Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio’s Madonna Filippa (Dec. 6.7)”
Kindly request that grown-ups slow the killing off of #sixseven so I can one more swing on publication day in a few weeks #medievalsky
Just got the pre-prints for my new essay “Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio’s Madonna Filippa (Dec. 6.7)”
Kindly request that grown-ups slow the killing off of #sixseven so I can one more swing on publication day in a few weeks #medievalsky
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🚨SIX SEVEN🚨
Just got the pre-prints for my new essay “Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio’s Madonna Filippa (Dec. 6.7)”
Kindly request that grown-ups slow the killing off of #sixseven so I can one more swing on publication day in a few weeks #medievalsky
Just got the pre-prints for my new essay “Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio’s Madonna Filippa (Dec. 6.7)”
Kindly request that grown-ups slow the killing off of #sixseven so I can one more swing on publication day in a few weeks #medievalsky
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I know, I know, media is DYING right? But LOCAL media is still out here doing the work, showing up, donning masks to breathe in fewer petroleum fumes and delivering the information our communities need. Allow me to demonstrate.
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I know, I know, media is DYING right? But LOCAL media is still out here doing the work, showing up, donning masks to breathe in fewer petroleum fumes and delivering the information our communities need. Allow me to demonstrate.
If you’re not recruiting students to the MEMS minor are you even living #UNC #medievalsky
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you’re not recruiting students to the MEMS minor are you even living #UNC #medievalsky
Manifesting a democratic future #vote #electionday
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Manifesting a democratic future #vote #electionday
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The passworde for the vydeo surveillance server for the Uffizi ys simplye "Uffizi."
[Thys ys a joke! Yf thys ys trewe plese do not blame me and plese chaunge yower passworde]
[Thys ys a joke! Yf thys ys trewe plese do not blame me and plese chaunge yower passworde]
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The passworde for the vydeo surveillance server for the Uffizi ys simplye "Uffizi."
[Thys ys a joke! Yf thys ys trewe plese do not blame me and plese chaunge yower passworde]
[Thys ys a joke! Yf thys ys trewe plese do not blame me and plese chaunge yower passworde]
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Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
Gosh I hope he doesn’t try to punish a Democratic governor by poaching the state university’s shiny new Super Bowl coach
This is not a political party, it is a bizarre cult. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
LSU Needs a New Football Coach. The Governor Wants Trump to Make the Pick.
In an address from the Louisiana state capitol, Gov. Jeff Landry asked for the president’s help in solving a statewide emergency: finding a new head coach for the Tigers.
www.wsj.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Gosh I hope he doesn’t try to punish a Democratic governor by poaching the state university’s shiny new Super Bowl coach
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Still trying to wrap my head around this
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliat...
www.thecrimson.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Still trying to wrap my head around this
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Always asking me for money but never asking me for financial advice. Smh
The elite university spent billions chasing the Ivies. Now it's Exhibit A in the financial reckoning confronting colleges around the U.S.
🔗: on.wsj.com/43BdHfq
🔗: on.wsj.com/43BdHfq
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Always asking me for money but never asking me for financial advice. Smh
Move over, Dante
Just in time for Halloween, a new Pictish vision of hell
In PSAS 153, 2024 @socantscot.bsky.social Jane Geddes argues the weird 'beehive' surrounded by headless corpses on Sueno's Stone, Forres, is the furnace of the damned
Nice shout-out to #CrucibleOfNations as a bonus
doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
In PSAS 153, 2024 @socantscot.bsky.social Jane Geddes argues the weird 'beehive' surrounded by headless corpses on Sueno's Stone, Forres, is the furnace of the damned
Nice shout-out to #CrucibleOfNations as a bonus
doi.org/10.9750/PSAS...
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Move over, Dante
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there are only two genders online: Abelard & Heloise
My thesis is that the far left (and substantial quantities of the far right) want to be monks but have no idea they can just do that, so they're trying to drag us into the monastery too
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
there are only two genders online: Abelard & Heloise
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The fact that school computers have ANY advertisements ought to be a scandal. This is just obscene.
Just found out my 12yo is getting recruiting ads for ICE on his school computer. “Help your country. $50k signing bonus.” Depraved and predatory
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The fact that school computers have ANY advertisements ought to be a scandal. This is just obscene.
Just found out my 12yo is getting recruiting ads for ICE on his school computer. “Help your country. $50k signing bonus.” Depraved and predatory
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Just found out my 12yo is getting recruiting ads for ICE on his school computer. “Help your country. $50k signing bonus.” Depraved and predatory
If Petrarch were alive today he’d rewrite the Secretum as a dialogue with Chotiner instead of Augustine
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If Petrarch were alive today he’d rewrite the Secretum as a dialogue with Chotiner instead of Augustine