Medievalist. First Gen. Associate Professor, LSU. Disability advocacy, medieval stuff, and food/drinks. And cats. Opinions my own. he/him IG: rickgodden
Baton Rouge, LA
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You’ve heard of Tl;dr. The next time someone sends me a document or a deck that is CLEARLY ai slop, I’m just going to respond with ai;dr.
Hi all, LSU is hiring for the long 18th century. Come be my colleague!!
Please feel free to share and send it to anyone you might know that is on the market! I'm happy to answer any questions.
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The word 'clue' was originally a variant spelling of 'clew,' meaning “ball of thread or yarn.”
Our modern sense of clue, “guide to the solution of a mystery,” grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one’s way out of a maze.
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University: “We’re proud to announce our partnership with whatever this is. We’re sure you’re excited to integrate this into your class.”
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I am a doctor and “turbo cancers” are nonsense made up by pseudoscience grifters.
I’m not a doctor, but, yes, the COVID vaccines cause “turbo cancers.”
The creation of the virus and the vaccines is the crime of the century.
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I put LotR on in Italian to see if Gandalf refers to the Balrog with the formal or informal "you" in YOU SHALL NOT PASS
it's the informal, which raises a second question: is it because he doesn't respect the Balrog or because they boyz (both maiar)
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UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address.
Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.”
thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
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You guessed it folks, it’s the personification of Death from the 1957 Swedish thriller “Seventh Seal”
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"The choice of Epic Fury for this campaign tells me they haven’t been reading Homer at all. If they have, they have failed to understand what epic means."
neoskosmos.com/en/2026/03/11… via @NeosKosmos
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Bruce Campbell has shared that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
“Fear not, I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch and I have great support, so I expect to be around a while.”
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I’m excited about the influx of disability advocates! If you can, pls check out, Hazel’s Best Day, written by Adiba Nelson, illustrated by me. A story featuring a young Blk girl with cerebral palsy, who’s learning about accessibility in her neighborhood!
us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
ALT A black hand holding a book titled, Hazel’s Best Day: A story of community, accessibility,and pride in being yourself. On the cover there’s a black girl with cerebral palsy sitting in an electric wheelchair, holding a disability pride flag. She is surrounded by various people with disabilities. A service dog can be seen on the sidewalk on the right. The cover is brightly colored with various textures and patterns.
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Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.
In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.
Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.
Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.
Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.
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We know he hates women. This has never been hidden. But it's the male journalists who sit there watching him speak in the most insulting disrespectful manner to their female colleagues and won't say a word to back them up or condemn him for it, that should also disgust people.
