Rebecca Shapiro
@rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
This is, I believe, the most Jewish question.
Hey #Jews! Is it possible to be *religious* and not believe in G-d? If so, how does it work? Tell me please!
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is, I believe, the most Jewish question.
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5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
I'm guessing 50% for my classes today.
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm guessing 50% for my classes today.
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Well well well!
Munida is a squat lobster and Pylocheles is a wacky symmetrical hermit crab. In fact, both are Anomura (false crabs just like Paralomis
🦀 #CarcinizationNation
Munida is a squat lobster and Pylocheles is a wacky symmetrical hermit crab. In fact, both are Anomura (false crabs just like Paralomis
🦀 #CarcinizationNation
🌊 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator
Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909.
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Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well well well!
Munida is a squat lobster and Pylocheles is a wacky symmetrical hermit crab. In fact, both are Anomura (false crabs just like Paralomis
🦀 #CarcinizationNation
Munida is a squat lobster and Pylocheles is a wacky symmetrical hermit crab. In fact, both are Anomura (false crabs just like Paralomis
🦀 #CarcinizationNation
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Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War
We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.
werehistory.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
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Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...
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I have a food pantry in my front yard. It is used heavily. We can't keep it full & could use some help covering the cost of shelf-stable supplies. No one is using this pantry unless they need the help. We supply beans, oatmeal, onions, etc. It's not gourmet food.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...
Donate to Help Keep Our Neighborhood Pantry Stocked, organized by Celeste Headlee
In 2021, my neighbors and I installed a little free pantry on my front lawn,… Celeste Headlee needs your support for Help Keep Our Neighborhood Pantry Stocked
www.gofundme.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I have a food pantry in my front yard. It is used heavily. We can't keep it full & could use some help covering the cost of shelf-stable supplies. No one is using this pantry unless they need the help. We supply beans, oatmeal, onions, etc. It's not gourmet food.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...
Sure. I've been calling out Steve Sonstein for 40 years. He keeps doing it and the police believe us but the DA won't file charges. Maybe someone else wants to take a crack, I'm fucking exhausted.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Sure. I've been calling out Steve Sonstein for 40 years. He keeps doing it and the police believe us but the DA won't file charges. Maybe someone else wants to take a crack, I'm fucking exhausted.
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A grand day out: Wallace and Gromit star in London exhibition
A grand day out: Wallace and Gromit star in London exhibition
Aardman studios to put props, sets and storyboards on show for its 50th anniversary event at the Young V&A
Aardman studios is known around the world for its seamlessly animated stop-motion train chases, hacked “smart gnomes”, tea-consuming heroes and villainous penguins.
Now fans will get a behind-the-scenes look at the studio’s best-known projects and see how they went from rough ideas sketched out on a kitchen table to Oscar-winning films in a major exhibition at the Young V&A in east London. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A grand day out: Wallace and Gromit star in London exhibition
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Want to look stylish while supporting language revitalization? ELP's winter 2025 shirts launch today - now with sweatshirts and hoodies!
Speak up for Indigenous languages with this year's "Raven" design, and tell the world: Our Languages Will Live! endangeredlanguages.myshopify.com
Speak up for Indigenous languages with this year's "Raven" design, and tell the world: Our Languages Will Live! endangeredlanguages.myshopify.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Want to look stylish while supporting language revitalization? ELP's winter 2025 shirts launch today - now with sweatshirts and hoodies!
Speak up for Indigenous languages with this year's "Raven" design, and tell the world: Our Languages Will Live! endangeredlanguages.myshopify.com
Speak up for Indigenous languages with this year's "Raven" design, and tell the world: Our Languages Will Live! endangeredlanguages.myshopify.com
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New Publication Alert
Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
Christopher Hamlin, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2020), pp. 933-935
www.jstor.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New Publication Alert
Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Ahhh the memories of the Liehmann's women's dressing room . . . Zero modesty there.
pursuant to the thread about modesty I think there are... escape valves that we very much do not have in America w/r/t what in Japanese would be referred "skinship" - the kind of friendship where it'd be reasonable to expect to see someone naked
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Ahhh the memories of the Liehmann's women's dressing room . . . Zero modesty there.
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I do not care about any-fucking-Epstein-Trump-Summers-Chomsky because they're nobodies. I want your father, brother, best friend, neighbor, husband. Random famous men who we DO NOT KNOW are meaningless. It's the ordinary men who do the crimes so fucking get them, cowards.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I do not care about any-fucking-Epstein-Trump-Summers-Chomsky because they're nobodies. I want your father, brother, best friend, neighbor, husband. Random famous men who we DO NOT KNOW are meaningless. It's the ordinary men who do the crimes so fucking get them, cowards.
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
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Three Chomskys = one Labov
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Three Chomskys = one Labov
What the fuck Chomsky is 95??
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What the fuck Chomsky is 95??
It's really not the mezcal talking!
I do not care about any-fucking-Epstein-Trump-Summers-Chomsky because they're nobodies. I want your father, brother, best friend, neighbor, husband. Random famous men who we DO NOT KNOW are meaningless. It's the ordinary men who do the crimes so fucking get them, cowards.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It's really not the mezcal talking!
I do not care about any-fucking-Epstein-Trump-Summers-Chomsky because they're nobodies. I want your father, brother, best friend, neighbor, husband. Random famous men who we DO NOT KNOW are meaningless. It's the ordinary men who do the crimes so fucking get them, cowards.
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I do not care about any-fucking-Epstein-Trump-Summers-Chomsky because they're nobodies. I want your father, brother, best friend, neighbor, husband. Random famous men who we DO NOT KNOW are meaningless. It's the ordinary men who do the crimes so fucking get them, cowards.
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sorry to be a freak online but does anybody have a nice, relatively short cappucino mug that they really like? i am trying to find something cute, and perhaps even large, that is also shorter than a coffee mug
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
sorry to be a freak online but does anybody have a nice, relatively short cappucino mug that they really like? i am trying to find something cute, and perhaps even large, that is also shorter than a coffee mug
At my neighborhood bar me and the guy from Senegal . . .
Me: So you speak English, Wolof, and French???
Him: I want to fuck you in every language.
Me: [white women are too nice] heeheeheehee. Oh ok.
Me: So you speak English, Wolof, and French???
Him: I want to fuck you in every language.
Me: [white women are too nice] heeheeheehee. Oh ok.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
At my neighborhood bar me and the guy from Senegal . . .
Me: So you speak English, Wolof, and French???
Him: I want to fuck you in every language.
Me: [white women are too nice] heeheeheehee. Oh ok.
Me: So you speak English, Wolof, and French???
Him: I want to fuck you in every language.
Me: [white women are too nice] heeheeheehee. Oh ok.
Good Shabbos yo
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Good Shabbos yo
Drunk austistic, all truth no filter
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Drunk austistic, all truth no filter
We've never really thought that; the trope of a stranger jumping out of bushes is a nice story men tell to each other so they aren't responsible for their actions. Or those of their friends and family. Look at the etymology of the word and you'll see it's always been a crime against property.
Like, it’s really starting to dawn on us as a society that rape isn’t just a guy jumping out of the bushes and dragging a woman away by the hair (women have been saying this forever, of course, and that was Feminist Discourse) but MeToo made it mainstream discourse.
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We've never really thought that; the trope of a stranger jumping out of bushes is a nice story men tell to each other so they aren't responsible for their actions. Or those of their friends and family. Look at the etymology of the word and you'll see it's always been a crime against property.
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I searched on "perlocutionary effect of hate symbols" and the first article to pop up looks promising: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) PERFORMATIVE HATE SPEECH ACTS. PERLOCUTIONARY AND ILLOCUTIONARY UNDERSTANDINGS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
PDF | The first part of this work analyses the concept of hate speech and its legal-philosophical foundations linked to freedom of speech, through the... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
www.researchgate.net
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I searched on "perlocutionary effect of hate symbols" and the first article to pop up looks promising: www.researchgate.net/publication/...