only a Puritan or a musicologist

Your trusted source for neat ninety-two-proof grad school stress. Guaranteed to taste worse than rum.

[shelomit]

Sure, "JoRean Sicks" is an unlikely-sounding name. But do you really think a biostatistician is more likely to be named "Korean Socks"?

[elucubrare]

i wish my brain were not full of gludge. i would like to be using it & because of the gludge i cannot do that.

[shelomit]

I can now add to my long history of viola-, singing-, and music-book-holding-related injuries a melodeon-related one (tried to stand up from the keyboard; learned that my non-pedaling foot had fallen asleep; learned this too late to stay upright).

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Attempted to tell someone I was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel w/r/t dissertation; actually told them I was "seeing the end of the light." Welp.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[subtextsays]

This only applies to the modern show breeds of sewing machines. Heritage breeds like the Singer 27, 15, 66, and 201 are docile and extremely hardy. They're easy keepers, requiring oil and the occasional light bulb to maintain working condition. Treadle and crank varieties thrive on an electricity-free diet. Injuries, while rare, are quickly resolved thanks to a thriving aftermarket parts trade. In cases of severe neglect, percussive maintenance via sledgehammer can restore motion.

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My faithfulish steed:

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[shelomit]

I see you, termination of projects at will. . . >.>

A colleague pointed out to me that the disallowing of publication fees (200.461) conflicts with the current requirement for NIH-funded research to be made publicly available as soon as possible.

[maryfitzroy]

What Movement Would You Have Joined in Early Modern Europe? A Typology Quiz — theodramatist

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, merce

babe wake up new quiz dropped

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Purtain, natch

[shelomit]

Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment of the Humanities Funding in Historic Case - AHA

Statements from American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association on the Ruling FOR IM

Gonna tell my landlady that my joblessness is unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect ( ;

[shelomit]

Dashboard (and moots) working correctly, I see.

[nonbinaryjudean]

anyways here have some medieval jewish dragons (and other creatures)

[shelomit]

Shavuah tov!

[nonbinaryjudean]

passover seders in art

Lynne Feldman / Yelena Bryksenkova

Siona Benjamin / Oxana Zaika

Malcah Zeldis / Flora Rosefsky

[shelomit]

Shabbat shalom!

[shelomit]

Here we go, fellas--I'm on the plane toward myon-campus interview. Big day's tomorrow,should you have any benevolent vibes to toss my way approximately 9:00-2:00 Eastern.

[fusdoq]

dedication by Umm Kulthum to her fans in Tetouan, Morocco (1961)

[ketubahring]

I keep thinking about Miriam’s Well and how the legends say it followed the women through the sand for years, causing plants to bloom wherever it went. In my head, that water was made of starlight. It was the only thing keeping everyone’s spirits up when the world felt so bleak.

Shabbat shalom 🤍

Copyright © 2026 Ketubah Ring. No reproduction, printing, resale, or use without permission.

[shelomit]

Shavuah tov!

[tekhelet]

The Jews at Prayer by Ivan Trutnev. 1911.

[shelomit]

Shabbat shalom!

[shelomit]

Overall I'm in favor of languages following their noses past the point of bewilderment, but man, does it take a leap of faith to believe that English 'puerile' or 'Pietism' should be pronounced That Way.

[shelomit]

Artist's interpretation of average work-study kid enjoying the Great Reshelving Interregnum (movable shelving. . . no longer moves. . .)