@formtheturtle

Ancient Mediterranean, esp. Roman imperial literature & culture; unrepentant semicolon abuser; never speaks for employer; she/her. Mostly retweets, honestly.

Joined March 2020
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I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria! Lawrence Durrell Alexandria Quartet
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Please consider signing this if you object to the unauthorised use of authors' books to train AI. Five of my books have been used in this way without my permission. It's a disgrace.
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Democrats need to take a page from the Kendrick Lamar school of winning 1. Make clear your visible hatred for your opponent 2. Attack your enemy and their friends 3. Bring up the crimes again and again 4. Collab with talented allies 5. Keep coming out with hits
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Vee Em Cee retweeted
C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy6 Mar 2025
“Nero shrugged his shoulders when he heard the future that Apollo prophesied.” – Cavafy’s poem, “The Deadline”, here in a version by Ian Parks, is taken from an episode in Suetonius. #poetry #cavafy
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this type of content from an official government account is disgusting, concerning and weird and truly not enough of you are saying this is disgusting, concerning and weird
The White House
@WhiteHouse18 Feb 2025
ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight 🔊
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when you are a stickler for accuracy and just HAVE to depict all 30 piglets that the Lavinium sow gave birth to on your gem....
A gem showing a large sow seated right, surrounded by 30 smaller piglets on all sides

ALT A gem showing a large sow seated right, surrounded by 30 smaller piglets on all sides

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The entire USAID site has now been taken down, and historical datasets disappeared.
Senator Marco Rubio: Archived
@SenMarcoRubio22 Mar 2019
TB is now one of the world’s leading infectious disease killer. As we celebrate the incredible strides made in the fight against TB, we must recommit to supporting critical programs through @USAID and the @GlobalFund until we end TB for good. #WorldTBDay
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Save ancient history at Cardiff- a petition led by the students affected. You all know what to do chng.it/RdwyqtkDdS

Sign the Petition

Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

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Look, I just think more people ought to at least try out natural intelligence first
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can i just say the victim-blaming grok shit under the neil gaiman allegation tweets are fucking disgusting proof that this ai shit is harmfully biased
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incarcerated youth firefighters = child slave labor
People's City Council - Los Angeles@PplsCityCouncil12 Jan 2025
The incarcerated youth firefighters at Pine Grove are currently risking their lives on the fires in LA. Working 48 hour shifts with no sleep. These are their faces.
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I just stumbled upon a blog which has a family tree of all the noble families of the Late Republic, including intermarriages, which the author has been updating for TEN YEARS. This is the work of a madman. I mean just LOOK at it nobilitasnarrationostra.word…
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100s of jobs to go at @CanterburyCCUni As usual, the wrong people are sacked The over paid middle & senior management pick who to get rid of -- not addressing the terrible management at the university And the VC gives himself a pay rise for taking "tough decisions"
Times Higher Education
@timeshighered9 Jan 2025
Canterbury Christ Church University says it cannot rule out making compulsory redundancies as it seeks to make “pre-emptive” savings of about £20 million timeshighereducation.com/new…

‘Hundreds of jobs at risk’ in Canterbury Christ Church cuts

Institution plans £20 million in ‘pre-emptive’ savings but is threatened with strike action by union branch pointing to recent budget surpluses

timeshighereducation.com
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Shaping Roman landscape: ecocritical approaches to architecture and wall painting in early imperial Italy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.…
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🚨 #CallForPapers 🚨 We're accepting abstracts for our 2026 #AIASCS panel, "Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity, and the Asiatic Female," organized by @toriflee and Melissa Mueller. Abstracts due Friday 3/7. For more info: tinyurl.com/aaacc26
A painted watercolor background with feathered paint in shades of blue-gray and gold. White text reads "Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity, and the Asiatic Female"

ALT A painted watercolor background with feathered paint in shades of blue-gray and gold. White text reads "Yellow Gold: Ornamentalism, Antiquity, and the Asiatic Female"

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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. --John Harrington
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Ulysses 31 (1981). A manga retelling of Greek mythology, loosely based on the Odyssey. 26 episodes in all, and yes they do find the Kingdom of Hades and return home in the end! The Japanese original has a different theme tune to the European release; Denny Crockett and Ike Egan composed the version in this video.
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For #EpigraphyTuesday something not related to Christmas Eve, because I'm sick of the whole holiday already: a beautiful late #JulioClaudian #inscription from #Pompeii, now in #Naples, with its own tiny history of a nobleman's downfall. – at Naples, Campania
ENTRANCE INSCRIPTION TO THE BATHS OF CRASSUS FRUGI, 50-67 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI Marcus Crassus Frugi, consul in the year of the Great Fire, 64 CE, was a bathhouse entrepreneur. Not only did he own the thermae named in this inscription from Pompeii, but another in Stabiae which featured natural hot springs. This beautiful epigraph says "Thermae of M. Crassus Frugi. Seawater and freshwater baths. The doorkeeper is a freedman." But Crassus, scion of the family of the triumvir, fell from grace with Nero and was executed in 67, his properties forfeit to the state. This tablet was removed, turned over, and carved with a shield, when it was reused in the so-called Villa of Cicero as the back of a lararium.

ALT ENTRANCE INSCRIPTION TO THE BATHS OF CRASSUS FRUGI, 50-67 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI Marcus Crassus Frugi, consul in the year of the Great Fire, 64 CE, was a bathhouse entrepreneur. Not only did he own the thermae named in this inscription from Pompeii, but another in Stabiae which featured natural hot springs. This beautiful epigraph says "Thermae of M. Crassus Frugi. Seawater and freshwater baths. The doorkeeper is a freedman." But Crassus, scion of the family of the triumvir, fell from grace with Nero and was executed in 67, his properties forfeit to the state. This tablet was removed, turned over, and carved with a shield, when it was reused in the so-called Villa of Cicero as the back of a lararium.

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Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin. ⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen parerga.hypotheses.org/3516
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