D. Gibber

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

I absolutely love reading stories of confused peasants who have no notion of national identity being told they belong to a greater heritage and they just respond “idk man I just live here”

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@Andrew_Levidis I just received the worst example I’ve ever seen. Last straw with how total the disinterest from publishers has become.

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@Majora__Z And Oxford still charges the same price too despite lower quality. Even then, it feels like they sometimes just come up with a random number that’s way too high ($60 for a print on demand book?? You might as well print it yourself). These are supposed to be world class editions.

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@Majora__Z They’re generally lower quality, but specifically for OCTs they have the plastic cover and a very tight glue binding. An OCT used to be a blue cloth hardcover or recently plain black hardcover with a paper dust jacket. The print on demand are sometimes poor scans too.

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

A Roman history project in which I'm a participant figures in the recent judgement about cancellation of National Endowment for Humanities grants by DOGE.

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@Sinnoware Arx fatalis is honestly one of my favourite games. there's so much it delivers on and is so memorable

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@licinivs_stoic Wow, amazing collection!!

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@graeca_latina I use the Forcellinus dictionary since it is a Latin dictionary that defines everything in Latin itself. It's much more managable with the 'Forcellinus Recompositus' browser extension.

[D. Gibber @Melchizedek_]

@graeca_latina here is a digitized and searchable version of that dictionary. https://t.co/n7UKNm2yiO.

The main site, https://t.co/pSqvHyq9UO, is a very great repository of Greek and Latin Dictionaries.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

The Yates Thompson Divine Comedy has been returned online. Commissioned by Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily, this copy of Dante's work has illuminations on every single page (Yates Thompson MS 36)

Consult the whole manuscript online now:

https://t.co/Jea3qgfQ2f

[Joint English-language M.A. Program in Ottoman His @JointOttom4449]

Call for applications for the admission of students to the M.A. Program in Ottoman History!
https://t.co/IABdZ8Bm9V

[zhen huan jiejie❣️ @jinchenyyds]

the way athena chu invented winking in A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)

[coma @doomedsarcoma]

dust on the ground

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“A man with a normal background and education, an impecunious member of the provincial bourgeoisie in a backward kingdom on a war-racked island at the edge of civilization, turned out to be the greatest writer, and possibly the greatest artist of any kind, who ever lived. So far. That might be the most life-affirming fact in the entire history of humanity. Sometimes it makes me want to cry with joy. It’s such a celebration of what humans can be. To want the truth to be otherwise is an act of spite against the very sanctity of our species.”

—David Mitchell, Unruly

[Shire Propagandist @ShirePropaganda]

Genuinely unique world this one

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Just reading this and knowing it was nothing special for an intellectual in the nineteenth century is being forced to admit there indeed has been a steep decline in what we think of as serious reading.

[not lextorias @lextorias]

It’s very funny that people are still paranoid about Chinese spyware (in RAM, of all things!) when American tech conglomerates get caught actively selling your data like once a week