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Ellen Muehlberger

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I am telling you: heist-from-billionaires show coming in the next two years It's Money Heist--->Helsinki Syndrome--->CSI: Redistribution City

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one last essay: we give white men, especially nice white men, a pass. this is from my anger translator @slyprofessor.bsky.social, who discusses the role of "himpathy" in accusations of abuse.

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Yeah, the people who use that phrase in reality only love one kind of "sinner"---the already-privileged guy they're trying to excuse

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In September, 2024, all four volumes of the Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings (CEECW) will be published in paperback for under $40 each! Order yours if you haven't already and spread the word!

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You're gonna crush it πŸ’ͺ

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seems like folks are, again, having the "but his body of work is so good" conversation.

here are two essays i read when academia had this conversation, yet again.

the first is a searing piece in eidolon by sarah scullin.

eidolon.pub/making-a-mon...

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Can you find last night's nightfall on this info graphic?

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Good news, he published the same take several years ago elsewhere, you can still get it

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Three Rivers and Sturgis agree? TAKE NOTICE, PEOPLE, THIS NEVER HAPPENS

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David, the guy lives in my hometown and whew, I have feelings about it

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Oh, Geoff, don't get me started, lol...I have friends I adore who studied there or now work there but, yeahhhhh

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That's the thing--- all these little places are so different, it gets under my skin when they get lumped together

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Having him republish his same take he's published elsewhere is definitely A Choice, that's for sure

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It's just such obvious cosplay, ughhhhhhh---like, live rural or don't live rural, but don't trade on it

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Of course he did---like, can't even have the courage of his so-called convictions

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Just chiming in as an actual person from Three Rivers to say: fuck this loser

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as expected: the dude voted. authoritarians want one set of rules for all of us and a different set for them. we should never, ever take their BS at face value.

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I'm just saying, unless you can tell me what *Topper's last name was, you're not actually from Three Rivers (*the dad of the family that ran the enormous seed corn operation, employed busloads of middle schoolers ever summer)

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It may be hidden to most, but that crack about not knowing why you detassel is theeee deepest shade that a girl from Michiana can throw

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I even know how to detassel corn and why a bandana is essential to the process---a *crucial* part of living in St Joe County--and I'd bet you a hundred dollars this piker, who appears to make much of his rural location, couldn't even tell you *why* you would detassel corn, let alone actually do it

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There are two people from Three Rivers in The Discourse, people, and I GUARANTEE I have better ideas to share

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Oooooh, I AM FROM ST JOE COUNTY, AND I HAVE THOUGHTS

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OMG, this dude--he lives in my hometown, and I'm telling you, if you need to hear a political take from someone from Three Rivers, here it is: Get over yourself; your job is to make it better for other people; we're strong together; mature people mind their own business and own their shit; go vote

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I would crawl across glass to vote for the dessicated carcass of a squirrel if Trump is the other candidate

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If I have knowledge of it, what they're like as a co-worker on projects (and thus will be like as a colleague). Like, I once wrote a letter for someone who I co edited with, and I could say with authority, "here's what I experienced working with them day to day on a long unruly thing"

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Wanna see something fun? Find your nearest academic, tell them it's July 1st, and then ask them how their writing project is going.

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No more adjectives πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

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Felicitas Pojtinger πŸŒ… β†’ @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy's avatar Felicitas Pojtinger πŸŒ… β†’ @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @felicitas.pojtinger.com
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Its finally done - #SkySweeper is ready for public usage! It is a service which automatically deletes your old skeets from Bluesky, similarly to how TweetDeleter deleted old tweets ^^ Just sign in with your Bluesky account, set a max. post age, and let it handle the rest for you: skysweeper.p8.lu

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"The slogan has become a reality" is such a massive self-own---very quickly translates to "we dismissed this before, how could we have possibly known?"

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still pretty wild---I wish you only tailwinds at the ultra!

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24m is a taper? wiiiiiild times---I'm stoked for you!

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My local library's summer game has started and I cannot be contained

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I love it I also have terrible news about any "stretching" advice you may have gotten

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Really can't be said often enough that this is the point. A world in which women cannot control their bodies and reproductive lives is a world in which women cannot be free and equal members of society.

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You know I could do it if David's CV weren't literally 32 pages long---we only have 150K words of text to play with

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The Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds that in just two years, abortion bans have already driven 1% of prime age women out of the paid work force. iwpr.org/2024-analysi...

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Okay, here's a niche Q: where, in the order of things in a festschrift, does the honoree's CV go? Post-dedication, pre-TOC? Post-everything, at the back? Another better place?

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"not meant to suggest a law trapped in amber"

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I'm not talking about getting subject area knowledge---I'm talking about developing as a thinker and writer, becoming responsive and good at responding

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Okay, that's the second part--I don't think people "develop," ie get better at publishing without also reading and reviewing; indeed, it's usually obvious, not in a good way, when an author has isolated themselves from the conversation by choosing to avoid the work that makes publication possible

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the post actually says that already, in the first two lines

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