medievalmvb
@medievalmvb.bsky.social
medievalist (researching climate in medieval literature) | working remotely at Durham University, UK | lost decade at The SunBreak & Seattlest | outdoor photographer see https://mikevanbaker.myportfolio.com/work
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Need the kidz bop version of the new Lily Allen album bad
🎵 “I didn’t know it was your puppy palace, puppy palace, puppy palace”
🎵 “I didn’t know it was your puppy palace, puppy palace, puppy palace”
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Need the kidz bop version of the new Lily Allen album bad
🎵 “I didn’t know it was your puppy palace, puppy palace, puppy palace”
🎵 “I didn’t know it was your puppy palace, puppy palace, puppy palace”
Vancouver-ing via Amtrak, stopped in at #VanArtGallery for cat art and then circled the Sunken Skating Place looking for a shot
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Vancouver-ing via Amtrak, stopped in at #VanArtGallery for cat art and then circled the Sunken Skating Place looking for a shot
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ok this joke might be a little too specific
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ok this joke might be a little too specific
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats
RIP Tom
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats
RIP Tom
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats
RIP Tom
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
R: I've frequently not been on boats.
G: No, no... What you've been is not on boats
RIP Tom
*forest ogre checks his email*
Ah, how nice!
Ah, how nice!
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
*forest ogre checks his email*
Ah, how nice!
Ah, how nice!
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please do not sleep on one of the best christmas movies that has ever been made.
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
please do not sleep on one of the best christmas movies that has ever been made.
hummingbird thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
hummingbird thanksgiving
an absurdist “all the pretty little horses” from Michael Maslin @newyorker.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
an absurdist “all the pretty little horses” from Michael Maslin @newyorker.com
‘Patria’ (HBO Max) is not a murder mystery but it is about the mystery (quasi-religious) of terrorism-sanctioned murder, here, Basque separatism as experienced by two families over the decades. I’m an easy touch when it comes to indomitable little old ladies so 5 stars.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
‘Patria’ (HBO Max) is not a murder mystery but it is about the mystery (quasi-religious) of terrorism-sanctioned murder, here, Basque separatism as experienced by two families over the decades. I’m an easy touch when it comes to indomitable little old ladies so 5 stars.
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thanksgiving dinner, candy hearts edition
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
thanksgiving dinner, candy hearts edition
#entrepreneurs giving this idea away free bc I would like someone to do for pedicures what Sports Clips has done for middle-aged guy haircuts—man-cave situation, go in get your soles sandblasted, toenails filed down etc AOR on the stereo everyone’s got a leather apron full beard maybe hot wings?
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#entrepreneurs giving this idea away free bc I would like someone to do for pedicures what Sports Clips has done for middle-aged guy haircuts—man-cave situation, go in get your soles sandblasted, toenails filed down etc AOR on the stereo everyone’s got a leather apron full beard maybe hot wings?
“We now have a skeleton layer 45 meters long.”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“We now have a skeleton layer 45 meters long.”
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I don’t know Mr Sheridan’s personal stance on things but I’m not sure how you’d write a show about people working oil fields *without* lots of reactionary politics & oil apologia? Billy Bob’s character isn’t meant to possess any Olympian perspective, he’s just trying to get his bag
Taylor Sheridan’s oil-industry drama, “Landman,” trades in gender stereotypes, reactionary politics, and blatant product placement. So why is it a hit even among a liberal audiences?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/landman-goes-down-like-a-michelob-ultra
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/landman-goes-down-like-a-michelob-ultra
“Landman” Goes Down Like a Michelob Ultra
Taylor Sheridan’s oil-industry drama trades in gender stereotypes, reactionary politics, and blatant product placement. Why, then, is it so damn satisfying?
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I don’t know Mr Sheridan’s personal stance on things but I’m not sure how you’d write a show about people working oil fields *without* lots of reactionary politics & oil apologia? Billy Bob’s character isn’t meant to possess any Olympian perspective, he’s just trying to get his bag
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A cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A cartoon by Liam Francis Walsh. #NewYorkerCartoons
do the facial moisturizer people know my eyes are in my face, why are they all made with copious amounts of Eye-Stinging Nettles?
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
do the facial moisturizer people know my eyes are in my face, why are they all made with copious amounts of Eye-Stinging Nettles?
RFK jr isn’t going to see your “heroin addict” sneer but the guy from Depeche Mode will be “wtf man?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
RFK jr isn’t going to see your “heroin addict” sneer but the guy from Depeche Mode will be “wtf man?”
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Also finding wider release this weekend, Joachim Trier's exquisite family drama 📽️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning (and a revelatory Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), it's among the year's finest films.
Neither art or family come easy in Joachim Trier's exquisite Sentimental Value - The SunBreak
It's been quite a year for films about fathers reckoning with the consequences of having prioritizing careers over family or making art as a balm for old wounds, none yet have come close to holding a…
thesunbreak.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Also finding wider release this weekend, Joachim Trier's exquisite family drama 📽️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning (and a revelatory Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), it's among the year's finest films.
Microsoft’s XE field-based indexing function has been around for more than 20 years without them fixing the part where your pagination is ruined unless 1) you hide non-printing characters (Preferences, not a toolbar button) and 2) remember to update the index one last time
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Microsoft’s XE field-based indexing function has been around for more than 20 years without them fixing the part where your pagination is ruined unless 1) you hide non-printing characters (Preferences, not a toolbar button) and 2) remember to update the index one last time
whoever the dp is for ‘Piste Noire’ (Prime), they still believe in cinema, even working on a French Alps* policier
*the police have discussed fondue, raclette, and cow v. goat cheese
*the police have discussed fondue, raclette, and cow v. goat cheese
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
whoever the dp is for ‘Piste Noire’ (Prime), they still believe in cinema, even working on a French Alps* policier
*the police have discussed fondue, raclette, and cow v. goat cheese
*the police have discussed fondue, raclette, and cow v. goat cheese
this was my little mom’s nightmare scenario and I’d always argue and say “come on how could that even happen” 👀
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
this was my little mom’s nightmare scenario and I’d always argue and say “come on how could that even happen” 👀
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No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
What It Feels Like to Not Have to Write Something Down
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
www.thechatner.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No :) I don’t need to do that right now :)
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
I’ll remember it
I'll remember it because it's important :)
www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842