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taoish

@taoish@mastodonapp.uk

Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar.
Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.

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pluralistic , (edited ) to random
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For Father's Day next Sunday, my 16-y--o daughter has agreed to watch a movie of my choosing with me.

I want to get her excited about one of the movies I love, but which she's been uninterested in watching thus far.

Should it be:

taoish ,
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@WolfeSuccinctly @pluralistic
Also great music treated respectfully, for the most part. They hired a great band, the Stax Records session myusicians iirc.

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@joncruz @WolfeSuccinctly @pluralistic

Some SNL band members but perhaps more importantly, several Stax stalwarts + LA session legend Tom Scott. Steve Crooper is shouted out by Sam and Dave in the original "Soul Man"!
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/blues-brothers-band-members/

ElleGray , to random
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If I was a university prof and a student's parent contacted me demanding that I change their grade I would get my mom to write back to them & tell them to leave me alone

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@ElleGray
Dear Mrs. Mom:

You should let your college age student live like an adult, and fight their own battles.

That's what I did, and my daughter became a college professor!

Cordially, Marina

nathanlovestrees , to random
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Are there any myths, narratives, stories, etc.—religious or otherwise—about men as caregivers? I’m very ignorant of what’s out there. The only ones that comes to mind, strangely, are the Homeric Hymn to Pan (19) and the way Jesus talks about children in the synoptic gospels. Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome!

taoish ,
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@nathanlovestrees
Don't know if you're interested in modern books, but Dave Eggers "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is excellent.

ml , to AcademicChatter group
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Let's get this @academicchatter moving with a question every academic can chime in on:

What are the top websites/blogs you go to for news of what's going on in your field?

taoish ,
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@IanSudbery @ml @academicchatter
The websites I like in medieval and classics studies tend to be individual blogs of musings:

Armand Angour, Little Latin and More Greek
https://armanddangour.substack.com/

And @mssprovenance has the wonderful Medieval Manuscripts Provenance
https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/

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    @ElleGray
    Sufjan Stevens it is, then! (See also "Casimir Pulaski Day" but this one's sadder.)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuepo6DP4k

    Kent , to histodons group
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    Just registered for ! Any other mastodonian medievalists attending this year?

    @histodons @medievodons

    taoish ,
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    @Kent @histodons @medievodons
    I'm considering attending online if it's not too expensive.

    flexghost , to random
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    This is insane

    The news shouldn’t be Alina Habba being removed from the Allen Weisselberg case

    The news should be how she illegally groomed a former Trump employee who was sexually assaulted to sign an NDA then settle for nothing

    Media priorities I guess.

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    @flexghost
    this is a super sketchy toot [a November article from Newsweek, which has been clickbaity since its sale years ago.] Anyone can file a lawsuit claiming anything as Trump and Alina Habba have shown. If you don't have a better, more recent source, this is nothing.

    pluralistic , to random
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    Your periodic reminder that if you:

    a) Dislike long threads and;

    b) Follow someone who routinely posts long threads;

    that is a YOU problem, which you can solve by unfollowing, and, if need be, blocking that user so they don't show up in your federated timeline.

    taoish ,
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    @pluralistic
    I'm a fan of @pluralistic and I like (many but of course not all) long threads.

    When I make long threads, I feel like it's courteous to set the 2nd and subsequent toots to "unlisted" instead of public, so that people who choose not to read that one thread don't have to scroll through a bunch of CW toots.

    Anyone who does read the long thread by clicking on the first toot will still see the whole thing. Others see only the first.

    taoish , to Medievodons group
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    Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!

    @histodons @litteracarolina @medievodons @chaprot @mssprovenance

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    @matz @histodons @medievodons @litteracarolina @mssprovenance @chaprot

    Sure! Be forewarned, the MS is very hard to read (which is why it remained for us to decipher.)

    Line 1: the start seems to be "Versus in baptisterio" but after that -- "Petri deleti"? maybe. Extremely hard to read.

    Line 14: we read "De petra manante"

    Line 1 of BL Harley MS 2735, fol. 1r

    taoish , to histodons group
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    Does anyone else remember this toy? (1970s, maybe 80s). When you lift the plastic sheet, it erases your writing.

    Turns out that ancient Romans used something very similar (wax tablets for erasable writing). Some say that the word verse (versus) comes from the stylus "turning" in the wax.

    @histodons

    taoish OP ,
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    @DemocracySpot @taoish @histodons
    Cool, but before my time.

    litteracarolina , to histodons group
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    This afternoon we went hunting for inside the bindings of printed books, with the help of an endoscope. We made some very interesting finds, from ninth-century strips to Gothic music.

    @histodons @medievodons @historikerinnen

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    @matz @histodons @historikerinnen @medievodons @litteracarolina @HistGymBib
    Bindings?

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    @matz @histodons @historikerinnen @medievodons @litteracarolina @HistGymBib

    The most obscure of these related English words is the "paste-up" -- there might be a better term -- which is the sheet glued directly to the inside of the cover board, usually with the leather of the cover tucked under it. And they also are sometimes made with fascinating .

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