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always happy to contribute to the downward spiral <3

after @apis-vergilii's genius text i simply could not contain my artistic inspiration

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.

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As soon as I subscribed to you, despite my numerous subscriptions, my entire feed is filled exclusively with your reposts. Completely. I already love you lol

?!?!?! I’m so sorry lol 🤭❤️

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13th century Florence dashboard simulator

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Urgent message for Prior oomfs.

Commoners dni.

#please be quick to reply #and yes mr alighieri already knows

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just spotted a cavicchia near porta san pietro

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is nobody gonna ask what the cavicchia was doing near porta san pietro? 👀

#cavalghieri #i know it you know it there's no denying it

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donna me prega di uscire di casa

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that's not what i meant

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being a politician in florence will have you in your 20s with a 52yo colleague like where tf ser giano della bella at today🤣

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sometimes i look back at the time my neighbour's son was dragged to my friend's bachelorette party and when i said i to him he puked and ran away

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it was me!! so you remember?

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how could I not you're our favourite inside joke

#"im so bored i wish i could run away" "like betta's party?"

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So proud of my son Guido for his achievements!

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sodomy?

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heresy?

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private violence?

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God's greatest punishment was my tombmate

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Good morning dear toombf❤️ Hope you have a wonderful day!🌹

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Don't talk to me.

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who up for a beach day??

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I'm a bitch every day but sure

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i feel like im nobody's number one, yknow

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aw man that sucks too bad i wouldnt know what that feels like

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tables can turn quickly.

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...tf was that for

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they should write a book about me and call it somethinf like. a court of disdegno and sbigottimento

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Hi

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sorry haha i’m just paralyzed with grief over the lives i never got to live and the hypothetical versions of myself who are all dead forever haha

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Personally I don't really understand why we are so anti-solidarity these days, but I don't like it.

"I relate to your struggle because it sounds similar to my struggle, therefore I want to help you with this the way I would have wanted to be helped myself" is pretty much the baseline of allyship. For whatever reason, though, it's almost become a matter of stolen valor and stealing the spotlight, and frequently I see it rejected outright.

I just don't get it. Personally I am thrilled when someone who Isn't Like Me reaches out to share help or even just an encouragement. I don't really see it as an out group "making it about themselves" if they're just trying to say they've experienced similar and sympathize.

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i am a hobbyist/enthusiast when it comes to history and literature. i am not a professional academic, or a teacher, or in any way a person who has a professional career she can be proud of, even though i’m probably the third-oldest person on this entire website, and this post is my confession/self-accountability that i will *let myself have hobbies* (while fruitlessly searching for a real job that will hire me). I am not going to force myself to turn a fondness for the classics into a self-imposed requirement to legitimize the interest by getting a degree. I am a loser, always have been and always will be, and nobody should even be internet friends with me, but I am allowed to just read and learn things without making them my entire identity.

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I need a sitcom with farinata and cavalcante as roommates

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A pitcher with a circuit board-inspired motif, since my sci-fi-loving brain can’t help but imagine traditional ceramic objects with technological elements. The carved design is inlaid with a metallic copper glaze.

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i promise i’m not turning into a football blog im just having a moment

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Tiny🥹😸🤏✨️

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well, or on his way to Milan…

An Angel on his way to heaven

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NEVER STOP POSTING OMG

i need to stop posting the fuck out of every single passage from any cavalghieri literature i read. but then again i am on the blogging website because of my yapper nature so. yeah.

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college AU has historical precedent!!!!

noemi ghetti keeps saying that dante studied in bologna together with guido. which is the first time i'm hearing this information and it's making all the wheels in my brain turn because for all we know guido was around a decade older than dante. if wikipedia's suggestion of dante's bologna period being in 1286-7 is correct, he would've been 22 and guido 29-32. i'm sure the age bracket for university studies was absolutely more loose and not as defined as it is today, but it probably would still be more common to see a younger man like dante venture into these studies rather than a grown nobleman like guido, presumably already married and well insterted into society (correct me if I'm wrong). this would mean that guido might have left for a year to follow his best friend to check out the latest philosphical studies they were both into. were they. roommates[GUNSHOT]

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Do you have any tips on doing accurate research for people without access to formal education

Sure! This can't be one size fits all for every field, but I can give some starting points for history.

If you're reading a book, here's what to consider:

1. Are there footnotes or endnotes? In academia this is our way of being transparent with each other about where you got information. If a book doesn't have them, they're more interested in telling a good story than being accountable to their peers. That's a red flag.

2. Don't trust claims that seem very specific but don't have a source. Broad claims can be the author's analysis. But specific things "so and so said this" "there was a rumor that (x)" should be coming from somewhere and it is the author's job to tell you where.

3. Look out for choppy quoting. Even if someone has a source, they may not be using it well. If someone is paraphrasing a lot and only uses bits and pieces of the text while also using a lot of ellipses, you will want to try to find the whole text to make sure it's being quoted fairly.

4. Look at the publication date. Knowledge changes with time and old books tend to be outdated. You don't have to stick to the academic rule of thumb of "25 years is the threshold for new scholarship" but do be aware that if something is over 50 years old, many many people have likely revisited and revised what it's saying. Not that new books can't also be bad and incorrect, but they tend to be working with better tools generally.

5. Look up the author. I cannot stress this one enough. The author's background and political convictions can matter a lot to how they interpret things. For example, one of the biographies people tend to pick up about my dissertation topic is from the late 1920s by a man who later applied to join the NSDAP. That fact really can't be separated from his interpretations no matter how hard people try.

6. Stop reading if someone is making a lot of moral or personal judgements on a historical figure. I'm talking about the "Elizabeth I was a frigid hag and men found her ugly"-esque takes, not things like calling historical atrocities morally bad. Does it feel like bitchy gossip? That sort of thing is unprofessional, uninformative, and means someone has an axe to grind. Spite can be motivation for research, but axe grinding shouldn't show up clearly in published work.

These are things to keep in mind to make sure you're getting better information. Others are free to add on for their field or if there's something I forgot.

One very important thing to add: professors and academics like people emailing them about their research. You can do that! You can ask for copies of pay walled articles. You just have to go through the mortifying ordeal of expressing interest in an email.