Retweeting #twitterstorians mastodon handles this Sunday morning, to encourage migration away from this site, which is unleashing violent hate speech and seeding violence in the real world #ScholarSunday
Today's #Mastodon pitch: @torstenkathke's open-access spreadsheet of historians who've made the leap now has more than 350 names. There are similar lists of lit scholars, philosophers, astronomers, etc. going around. See next tweets for sign-up tips: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@torstenkathke First time I looked at Mastodon I found it visually confusing. I'm 46, not an internet native. I needed to go to preferences and adjust the appearance before it made sense. For me that meant: 1)site theme: light, advanced view, and ( vital) SLOW mode so it didn't auto-scroll +
@torstenkathke I was also confused about servers (or instances). Mastodon is decentralized. There are many different independent servers, which are are all linked together (federated). You can join any server and follow people on any other server. I joined the biggest Mastodon.social
Hate to say it, but Foucault was not alone. Tunisia was a destination for child prostitution in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can read about the history of the eroticization of Arab boys in Joseph Allen Boone's work or in my recent book Unspeakable. thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
Norman Douglas, subject of my new book, wrote all about his travels in Tunisia and the beauty of the naked boys who jumped into the Baths of Gafsa in his 1912 book "Fountains in the Sand."
The famous pederastic photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden - whose pictures were collected by John Addington Symonds and Oscar Wilde - traveled to Tunisia in 1901 to take pictures of the boys there.
Should I work on the article I have due, or should I post historic French food-related terminology for sexual acts?
Thread. The people have spoken. 1. aller au beurre: <to take in the cream> to copulate
One of several terms involving beurre. There's also: 2. aller de son beurre: to orgasm more than once, of women #foodandsex
A few French food words for penis? 3. Anchois (anchovy, implication of puniness) 4. andouille (cooked sausage) 5. Anguille (eel, i.e. the live sausage) 6. asperge (asparagus)
people ... that's just a few from the As ...