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Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi.bsky.social |
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I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies. All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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Sarah E. Bond
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For those teaching, researching, or interested in visualizing Greek myth, there is an invaluable new interactive map & database of Greek mythic persons, objects, & places called MANTO. The raw linked open data alone is stunning but the maps are also fantastic [1/4] manto.unh.edu/viewer.p/60/...
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh, no, sometimes I don't think too closely about the implications of the thoughts I dash off, so it's useful to have people say you can see how this could be read the wrong way.
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh, no. I absolutely get that when you're star-struck you're star-struck. I'm just thinking about how lots of other people have acted surprised when they... outght not to have been, if that makes sense.
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Andrew Reeves
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The best thing about visiting England is that everyone has their own, "wow, England" that is nearly unique. For me, it's thirteenth-century pastoral manuscripts and also Warhammer World. For other people, it's All Things Beatles. And so on.
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Andrew Reeves
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Seriously, if a dude's whole mien and persona is "straight guy who's in theater largely in the service of his pecker" such that you can suss it out from his effing dust jacket photos, you really shouldn't be surprised if he turns out to take sexual advantage of women decades his junior.
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Andrew Reeves
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My friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social has occasionally made remarks about Waffle House being the foundation of a successor civilization, and when you see stuff like this, that makes sense.
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Andrew Reeves
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In general, they're just sort of in the Wow... England mode, so not ready to process the fact that it's not like the south entrance of the British Museum.
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Andrew Reeves
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I like the Cage Wicker Man because it's unintentionally funny. I don't like movies that deliberately try to be a Cult Classic (e.g., Buckaroo Banzai). But the vibe of the Cage Wicker Man is true Cult Classic. Funny, but not intenionally so.
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Andrew Reeves
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It's great taking Study Abroad students into the British Library. What's even more awesome is when they have questions that you can answer in great detail.
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Andrew Reeves
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Right, it was genuinely weird!
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh, I don't want to try and lay any obligation on you. But if you feel like hanging out, we fly back to America on 27 July, so basically the rest of the month.
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Andrew Reeves
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This can't just be an issue of Jaded Imperial Cynicism. Because somehow America always manages to default to Losing Our Innocence every thirty years in whatever foreign counter-insurgency we get involved in.
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Andrew Reeves
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Seriously, how *did* this island, in spite of having taken full part in OIF and OEF, manage to avoid the Thank You For Your Service nonsense that took hold in America-land?
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Andrew Reeves
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Somehow, in spite of having been a willing participant in OIF and OEF, your island -- also, we should try to hang out sometime in the next two and a half weeks -- has managed to avoid the whole Thank You For Your Service nonsense.
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh, that's Marines teasing each other. But after getting out, in Austin, TX? Yeah, people say, "You were in the Marines? Cool." and then the conversatoin moves on. I didn't realize how much I appreciated that until well over a decade of, "Thank you for your service."
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Andrew Reeves
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10 September 2001. I tell people I was in the Marine Corps, and they say, "Cool," and the conversation moves on. No "thank you for your service" or anything like that. Just the normal, healthy state of a liberal-democratic republic at peace.
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh, man. September 10, 2001. I'm in undergrad taking 300-level courses, I've been out of the Marine Corps for two and a half years, and I'm paying $225 a month in rent for my share of the 4 bedroom apartment in Austin, TX. It's the Long Now at the End of History. Just want it back.
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Andrew Reeves
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If Biden stays in, I will happily canvass for him and vote for him and do what it takes to get him re-elected. Even if he's undergoing cognitive decline, I 110% trust the coterie of advisers he's got more than the ghouls around DJT. If he steps down, I will be 110% Team Harris. Blue No Matter Who.
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Andrew Reeves
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I'm deeply frustrated by left-liberals here yelling at the center-left media for Not Following The Rules. For one, this isn't Old Twitter and cyber bullying journos doesn't work anymore. Also, I've seen Normie Libs on Facebook who were plenty freaked out by The Debate. This isn't all disinfo!
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Andrew Reeves
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A minor but vexing element of current software is not just the subscriber model, but getting pressured to buy a subscription to more AI and proprietary cloud services.
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Andrew Reeves
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That is actually really cool and I wonder why more disciplines don't follow seismology.
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Andrew Reeves
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If I could change one convention in the natural and social sciences, it would be that journals would publish null results. Like, I had a hypothesis, ran the numbers, and p-value showed no statistical significance, oh well.
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Richard J
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One very slightly taboo topic of the world wars is how startlingly horny they all were, and not just the soldiers.
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Pavel
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The danger of speccing entirely for fighting the 1 type of enemy you've seen so far
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Andrew Reeves
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I mean, look at Beren and Luthien. Luthien does basically all the work and Beren mostly tags along on the quest. And then there's Celeborn who's whole deal is basically, "Yeah, whatever my wife says, that's the plan."
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Andrew Reeves
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One of the fascinating things about LotR is that the only time you see the words "policy" used are when it's Saruman talking or the mostly omniscient author talking about Sauron.
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Andrew Reeves
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Blech. Hope you get to feeling better!
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Andrew Reeves
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I think 5e is really good, better than 3.5! It's got less cognitive load on players and (especially) DM, but there's enough crunch that you can still be decently simulationist. But because of that, yeah, people wnt to be outside of the mainstream, to feel like they've got their own niche thing.
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Andrew Reeves
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I sort of get the frustration if you discover a new system and nobody in your circle wants to try it out. But I also suspect that lots of these people are very young and very keen to show that they're Above The Common Herd.
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Andrew Reeves
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Seeing people over on Txitter trying to diagnose POTUS for Parkinson's and it gets me to thinking in general about looking to people in the past and trying to diagnose them with even less evidence than twenty minutes of TV.
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Andrew Reeves
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One thing I like about Bluesky's blocking mechanism is that it's tailored to prevent rubbernecking. I like it!
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Andrew Reeves
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I can read this post and thus probably confirm that you're not in a horror movie, but man, it sure *sounds* like you're posting this from a horror movie.
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Gwen Pepperoni
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Every August, typeface designers flock to the middle of the desert for a week of sex & drugs, and they erect a large wooden word with all the spacing fucked up. They call it Kerning Man
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Andrew Reeves
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The r/rpg subreddit seems to devote a disproportionate amount of time to hating on DnD 5e.
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Andrew Reeves
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OTOH, I think that one reason that BHO did so well in both is election and re-election bids is that lots of voters find gross, open racism to be off-putting. Racist uncles forwarding bone-in-his-nose emails actually harmed Team R, IMO.
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Andrew Reeves
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Also: I've been very good at eating the Stilton I bought in moderation, since I know that suddenly assaulting my system with too much blue cheese could be... catastrophic. (Blue cheese wsa something I found gross until the first time I tried a Stilton, and then I found out that I loved it.)
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Andrew Reeves
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There's a Korean market right down the street from where I'm staying. So if I decide to eat a microwave Cornish pasty from Tesco Express or bread and stilton, I usually eat kimchi on the side, and I think that both of those combinations are amazing.
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Andrew Reeves
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The main thing I do differently at fancy grocery stores that differs from regular grocery stores is spend way, way, way too much money at the olive bar.
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Andrew Reeves
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I made a post related to panic and then went off to read manuscripts in the rare books room of the British Library. I took a break at two in the afternoon, opened my phone... and had to mute said posts. OTOH, I'm finding some really neat stuff with my manuscripts!
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Andrew Reeves
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So, I'm a mostly vanilla guy, but don't people into kink who are responsible try very hard to make sure everything is laid out and agreed to beforehand to avoid issues like this?
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Andrew Reeves
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One reason I like working with MSS (aside from the fact that I like visiting England) is that it's super-hard to measure the "give a shit" factor: was a priest just a time server or did he take it seriously? But you *can* point to, e.g., a guy hunting down exemplars, canonical texts, etc.
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Andrew Reeves
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One of these I'm looking at is a priest's book that's a "paperback," with only stiffened parchment covers and it's got extracts from Gratian, Peter the Chanter, and just all sorts of stuff that indicate this guy has *got* to have gone from library to library extracting "the good bits."
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Andrew Reeves
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I think I'll give that a look--because yeah, there's just so much out there that's a line in a catalogue here, a scribble in a missal there.
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Andrew Reeves
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Okay, for the last year, I've assumed that people calling the Times acctively right-wing are just engaging in hyperbole, but JFC, maybe not.
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Andrew Reeves
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Oh yeah, there's stuff like that that crops up here and there. My favorite is a rector who borrowed a book from Ely Cathedral library--that was returned by his executors after he died. (Makes me feel less guilty about my own late book returns.)
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Andrew Reeves
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He disappeared through the Magic of Stories.
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Andrew Reeves
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Even in theoretically transcendent religions, your lay believer often has notions like this, sometimes not explicitly articulated.
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Andrew Reeves
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I also Do Not Like that the very worst people are picking up that particular baton with the whole Classical Curriculum thing. But that's all the more reason not to concede historical memory to The Bad People.
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Andrew Reeves
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Was the old Columbia-inspired Western Civilization sequence problematic with its teleological focus on Western Civilization as Science, Freedom, and Democracy? Yes. I also think that connecting American undergrads to the pre-history of American culture, ideals, and institutions was a Good Thing.
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Andrew Reeves
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It's seriously great to find these things! Because yeah, we've got the ones that were definitively Kerred to a parish library, but there are so many others out there. I've got a strong suspicion (with *some* evidence) that priests were consulting the libraries of big institutions when they could.
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