A.E. Whitacre

Medieval lit phd from Indiana University. Working on werewolves and watching Star Trek. They/them

[A.E. Whitacre @AEWhitacre]

History Channel Viking: Axes, grittiness, leather, cool hair, blood, conquest

Saga Viking: You know what's great though? Convoluted legal cases.

History Channel Viking: .....

Saga Viking: Also the extensive backstories of particular farms and how big they are.

[Vogue Magazine @voguemagazine]

In 2021, 28-year-old Texas mother Josseli Barnica died after doctors delayed treating her miscarrariage, becoming one of numerous US casualties of anti-abortion policy. https://t.co/l0UUl7TIqW

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Gen AI doth offer "excitinge new opportunityes" for higher ed the same way that the web of a spyder doth offer "excitinge new opportunityes" for a flye

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

another great tweet by my newest friend

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

"Talk to the rib!"

Prague, Musée nat., detail of Speculum humanae salvationis, c. 1420. #medievaltwitter #talkingheads

[Ahmad El-Amine @ahelamine]

When Israel bombs a civilian hospital and massacres tens of civilians it’s an underground Hezbollah- or Hamas-run military base. When an actual Israeli military base is bombed the headline makes no mention of it having been a military base.

Complicit.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

The ideal marriage is when your spouse runs the worm unit

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

IDK I think most of us would be fine visiting Jim Crow America for a week and then declaring it an apartheid state— and this is Coates’ specific analogy. He even provide analogous examples of the way he saw and experience the treatment of Palestinians and separate and unequal.

[Mia @boygrrI]

my apologies indiana i wasnt aware of your game

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” https://t.co/bDsBxZMbah

[michael wave @michael___wave]

seems almost pointless to ask since an airstrike on beirut was apparently called in from within a UN building yesterday but: is lebanon a sovereign nation or not? is every neighbour of israel only its own country until the idf decides otherwise?

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

this can’t be the new normal. we can’t live with this terror every day

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘A monastery, much like a modern university, is an institution that transforms symbolic power into land, buildings and funds.’

@irinibus visits Reichenau Abbey in southern Germany, for three centuries ‘one of the leading educational centres in Europe’.
https://t.co/E9WeY2agn5

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

This is like the Queen died on here but only for New Yorkers

[quirk chungus SHODAN @kyotocosmology]

"years of lovely towers in the distance"— from 'on knowledge' in Bluff by Danez Smith

[Arthuriana @Arthuriana_Jrnl]

The So What (our open-access, online public humanities arm) welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025. Full CPF: https://t.co/A3VK4NB1fB

[Cristian Daniel Reyes @_objet_petita]

This just arrived in the mail. So excited to read this book @badinfinity2!

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

I find this kind of thing so annoying. Does this chart look like a steady decline? Or does it look the number *plummeted* between 1960 and 1975 and then stayed *incredibly steady for the last 50 years*?