If you are unfamiliar with Sir Edward Chortlemuffin, see this explainer by 𝕊onja Drimmer twitter.com/Sonja_Drimmer/…

Had a little time this evening to find an answer to my question. It seems that this is a very contemporary case the Chortlemuffin Effect.

My UMass-issued laptop which UMass swears is not a refurb: “oh you wanted to run your browser, Word, and PowerPoint at the SAME time?”

It’s possible that l, as a human, peaked on Halloween 1987, when I declared that I wanted to be Empress of Saturn and my mom made my dream come true with a homemade work of art.

I gave a lecture on medieval manuscripts to high school sophomores yesterday, & I brought along a bunch of manuscripts leaves I own. Their faces were amazing to see when I told them they could touch the leaves and no, they’re not replicas, yes they’re real. It was a blast.

Semitic ppl = a race-scientific term derived from the idea that folks from SWANA--Muslim and Jewish (& notably often not regional Christians)--descend from Shem & have similar skulls & shit

We need not concede the ways racists define us in order to be in solidarity w one another

My Australian husband tried to tell me some anecdote about a guy named Bob Pork, which absolutely confused me.

Ladies and gentlemen, it was the prime minister Bob Hawke.

This is the accent I deal with every day

If you are in London tomorrow, 27 October, and want to hear me talk about maps, manuscripts and narratives I will be speaking and discussing cartography in contested spaces from Rome to China. And it’s at the British Library!

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I'm always concerned that I might forget to tell my students that the Chrysler Building is the most beautiful building in the world, but I remembered today, so I can relax now.

Someone do a mitzvah and fix the Wikipedia page for Benjamin Disraeli today.

Cats: wanting to bother you while you’re at your desk since at least the 15th century. A delightful surprise at the Walters Art Museum.

WOW this article is bad. Misses the point in so many different ways, so confidently. A thread, from someone who has studied medieval Alexander epics.

TLDR: From the beginning cultures worldwide have made Alexander into a pop culture figure fitting their own ideas ab heroism. 1/