I’m buying it. Where my 12th centuryheads at
C. E. Aubin
@ceaubin.bsky.social
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"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of nazis & america @ Yale ◦ whitney humanities center fellow @yalewhc ◦ author - THE HOMELAND, Cambridge UP 2026 ◦ host of This Guy Sucked, the world’s meanest history podcast
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Having a normal time at the record store
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I showed my psychoanalytic therapist boyfriend this and he just said “wow there is good stuff on TikTok after all”
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Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so).
"PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase
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Periodic reminder that the Humanities are often financially in the black due to lower overhead.
Also freshmen composition/communication courses are cash cows for universities and that $ is often “disappeared” from the discussions of English or Rhet Comp budgets and needs.
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One of the great tests for politicians in the 2010s and beyond is whether they are capable of being interesting and appealing on social media by themselves, or they choose to pay for a bleak approximation of an online personality
Who is running his comms dept
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Who is running his comms dept
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Mightily I struggled to find the motivation for packing my meager possessions ahead of our long journey to the East, when, like a flash of lightning, I was struck by divine wisdom. Resounding through the heavens, He did speak to me and He did say: Salt Shaker by the Ying Yang Twins
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JOB: TT Assistant Professor in the Renaissance Mediterranean & Digital Humanities, Middlebury College
Applicants with specialties in architectural history and/or curatorial studies are especially welcome to apply.
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It's 2025, norms are dead, eat garbage
