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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.
#vibes of the very specific second-antiquity-after-tech-apocalypse sort of sci fi#god i need to reread a canticle for leibowitz
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i promise i’m not turning into a football blog im just having a moment
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Tiny🥹😸🤏✨️
#if somebody asks me why i support croatia first and italy second in football i could ramble about my distant relatives in Istria#or i could just say that 2018 was otherwise one of the worst years of my life and the Vatreni dragged me through a horrible depression#and brought me a joy that i will never truly earn#if somebody asks me why luka is my favorite player of all time i could show them any video from any game he’s played for the past years OR#i could just point to this picture bc LOOK AT THE TINY LITTLE GUY I FEEL SO REPRESENTED#vatreni#modrić
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well, or on his way to Milan…
An Angel on his way to heaven

#luka modric#sorry not sorry for the footballposting but this man is a precious beloved#forced to watch milan all season. aaaaargh#i made one tenth of a split second of eye contact with him last week and suddenly my motivation to go to the gym & play sports has returned
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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.
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YEAH EXWCTLY LIKE THAT ACTUALLY WTFFFF




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(commentary by Hollander to Purgatorio 22 and Inferno 1, lines from Virgilio’s final dialogue in Purgatorio 27.)
#ILAAAAAAA#every time i think we’re making this all up and seeing the virgin mary on a piece of burnt toast#we get more toast#cavalcanti and virgilio have ruined my life#<— prev yeah me too
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Vabbè.
(commentary by Hollander to Purgatorio 22 and Inferno 1, lines from Virgilio’s final dialogue in Purgatorio 27.)
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I think it would be better for discussions of decision-making in general, and decision-making by young people in particular, if we reframed decision-making from "avoiding regret" to emphasizing that: -It's okay to change your mind at any point, and -Your feelings at the latest/most recent part of your life are not more important than your feelings at any previous part of your life.
If someone says "You'll regret that in 20 years!" -- first of all, they don't have any possible way to know that, but secondly, what they're really saying is "I expect you to get 20 years of happiness out of that decision." 20 years of happiness is nothing to sneeze at. If you get married and 10 years later, you decide you don't want to be married anymore, and you get divorced, then, okay. You get to make that choice, and you got to be happily married for 10 years.
This whole cultural attitude is based on the assumption, not only that changing your mind is impossible or shameful, but that your life is a linear process of working your way towards a True Final Form, and that if you undergo any changes between [past age] and [final age], that means your [past age] self was not your True Final Form and should have been considered too young to make decisions. It's the underlying premise that at some point in your lifetime, your self-identity (sometimes synechdoche'd as "the brain") stops changing (spoiler: it doesn't), and then and only then are you your True Self; then and only then should you truly be allowed to make your own decisions, because your selfhood is fixed and your decisions will be free of regret.
It doesn't work like that. The self is constantly changing. Just go with it.
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me 🤝 Luka
being The Old of the situation
Everyone has that 40y old co worker that they’re best friends with
#you follow me you occasionally get football content sorry not sorry#to be clear i don’t give a shit about real madrid BUT#i did happen to catch the briefest glimpse of Luka Modric in person the other day#and can officially state for the record that that vibe? aura? radiance? that some great artists have? some athletes have it too#million dollar smile didn’t hurt either but goddamn#i have been blessed by the presence of a football god and my devotion must be to uhhhh go to the gym occasionally fuckdamnit
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