Laura
@lauropea.bsky.social
historian and philologist
rare books and manuscripts cataloguer
putting the t back in incunabula since 2025
wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)
rare books and manuscripts cataloguer
putting the t back in incunabula since 2025
wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)
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Laura
@lauropea.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
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As a researcher I would rather people illegally access my work than pay a journal for it
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As a researcher I would rather people illegally access my work than pay a journal for it
(marge simpson voice)
woot? do kids still say 'woot'?
woot? do kids still say 'woot'?
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
(marge simpson voice)
woot? do kids still say 'woot'?
woot? do kids still say 'woot'?
learning i have a bacterial infection and thinking 'wow, this feels awful, if I didn't have antibiotics I could just die in my early 40s of this easily treatable thing, imagine living before antibiotics, what did people do? oh wait yeah they died in their early 40s'
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
learning i have a bacterial infection and thinking 'wow, this feels awful, if I didn't have antibiotics I could just die in my early 40s of this easily treatable thing, imagine living before antibiotics, what did people do? oh wait yeah they died in their early 40s'
not sure what a cloudflare is but honestly we've done the 70s revival we're back to clouddrainpipes this year geez read a magazine
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
not sure what a cloudflare is but honestly we've done the 70s revival we're back to clouddrainpipes this year geez read a magazine
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This is SO EASY to use seriously if you've ever written anything go check if you're owed money
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is SO EASY to use seriously if you've ever written anything go check if you're owed money
Manuscript
I'd
Like to
Foliate
I'd
Like to
Foliate
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Manuscript
I'd
Like to
Foliate
I'd
Like to
Foliate
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The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
latin literature of the 5th-6th centuries AD
we asked 12 leading experts why everyone feels like shit and they all said, "heresy".
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
latin literature of the 5th-6th centuries AD
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Britain has brexit to be closer to its natural allies, latin american countries with their long history of unwanted american interference in our politics
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Britain has brexit to be closer to its natural allies, latin american countries with their long history of unwanted american interference in our politics
oh. oh my. oh no. what a shame that would be. dearie me. mustn't let all those authors (iirc the average professional author earns c. 12k a year) put the techlords out of their vital business of stealing from them and every other creative person to produce worthless slop
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
oh. oh my. oh no. what a shame that would be. dearie me. mustn't let all those authors (iirc the average professional author earns c. 12k a year) put the techlords out of their vital business of stealing from them and every other creative person to produce worthless slop
this is off the hook btw even if i say so myself
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this is off the hook btw even if i say so myself
beginning to suspect that onions and lentils are the two ingredients recipes gaslight you about the most
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
beginning to suspect that onions and lentils are the two ingredients recipes gaslight you about the most
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theory is way harder to make things work in than people make it sound
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
theory is way harder to make things work in than people make it sound
wondering if the uk will to some extent go the way of the first Italian republic, with tories and labour both being wiped out like democrazia cristiana and the partito socialista
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
wondering if the uk will to some extent go the way of the first Italian republic, with tories and labour both being wiped out like democrazia cristiana and the partito socialista
my new AI startup will spin your dumbass prompts into gold but you have to guess its name
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
my new AI startup will spin your dumbass prompts into gold but you have to guess its name
i am yet again sick and it's cold af and pissing with rain out. i want to make the cuntiest warmest richest dal known to womankind
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
i am yet again sick and it's cold af and pissing with rain out. i want to make the cuntiest warmest richest dal known to womankind
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It would still be a hateful policy either way, but it is fucking cheeky to justify seizing family heirlooms to pay for asylum costs when foreigners seeking citizenship are charged 1000%+ of the administrative cost at every step of the way.
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It would still be a hateful policy either way, but it is fucking cheeky to justify seizing family heirlooms to pay for asylum costs when foreigners seeking citizenship are charged 1000%+ of the administrative cost at every step of the way.
the political culture of britain is that of the schoolyard, and this is not just all the public schoolboys around but seemingly a whole cultural fascination with the bully: see a bully, don't call him out or stand up to him, toady up to him, then try to out-bully him
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
the political culture of britain is that of the schoolyard, and this is not just all the public schoolboys around but seemingly a whole cultural fascination with the bully: see a bully, don't call him out or stand up to him, toady up to him, then try to out-bully him
the fact that we import black friday, the non-holiday devoted to crass consumption, but not thanksgiving, the actual holiday it exists in reference to, says something about the US-europe relationship, but tbqh happy to forego a holiday that's just boring food and conversations with bigoted relatives
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
the fact that we import black friday, the non-holiday devoted to crass consumption, but not thanksgiving, the actual holiday it exists in reference to, says something about the US-europe relationship, but tbqh happy to forego a holiday that's just boring food and conversations with bigoted relatives
religions don't cavort enough these days. with catholicism you have pomp but no one can be bothered to cavort. where are the bacchae
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
religions don't cavort enough these days. with catholicism you have pomp but no one can be bothered to cavort. where are the bacchae
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you guys would have been posting the michael jackson popcorn gif when hitler had ernst röhm killed
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
you guys would have been posting the michael jackson popcorn gif when hitler had ernst röhm killed
the monumental abandoned care home, Lainz, Wien 13 if any of you have a horror film idea
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
the monumental abandoned care home, Lainz, Wien 13 if any of you have a horror film idea
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"...he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never play the Dane'"
what’s your favorite line delivery
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"...he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never play the Dane'"
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in my roman empire arc (extremely into having a nice bath)
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
in my roman empire arc (extremely into having a nice bath)
aside from the conservatism and shops being shut whenever i'm not at work the thing that sucks most about austria is how pretty much every old church has been baroquised
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
aside from the conservatism and shops being shut whenever i'm not at work the thing that sucks most about austria is how pretty much every old church has been baroquised