The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
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To read all its wit and wisdom, get a copy from a local bookstore or library.
Antiquity in Media Studies (AIMS) @antiquitymedia.bsky.social Reception Studies 📚, Classics🏺,
and the Ancient World 🌍
AIMS is a not-for-profit educational society
The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social Affordable Housing, Health Care for All. Liberal Texas Yellow Dog Democrat. #BLM #NoKings Slava Ukraine 🌈💙🦋My History Channel https://youtube.com/@thehistorycatalog?si=I7LSHWZYWE_v-RNz
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires
Em 🏺 @emripides.bsky.social 📖 Classics undergrad at University of Liverpool
🏛️ I love all things Greek literature, especially
Homer and Euripides
👩🦯 Blind girly
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Squiddy @dr-squiddy.bsky.social Undercover museum curator, actual certified doctor of museum stuff, accidental catalyst for change, educator, newt botherer, and spooky idiot. She/Her
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betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social Democratic candidate for Congress in MO-2. Host of 'On Democracy with FPWellman' Friday's and ‘In the Hot Seat’ on MeidasTouch. Army Iraq veteran. Pro-Democracy Advocate. Missourian.
Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social Transportation consultant and engineer.
He said “Kid, it's not me, it's this town”
So I rail against that feeling when it comes
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social “Some entitled little shit ER doc” 👩🏻⚕️, queer 🏳️🌈, home cook 🍳, sometimes dancer 🩰, cat person 🐱, lover of swishy skirts and warm sweaters 👗. My opinions are not my employer's. she/her
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social President and founder of PRRI and NYT bestselling author of Backslide; The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. Writing at https://www.redeemingdemocracy.net.
Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social Research on the right-wing and religion.
Podcast: Fifteen Minutes of Fascism:
https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964
Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz
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DMs open. Opinions my own.
Jeffrey A. Becker @serviliusahala.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist | Binghamton, New York U.S.A.
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
R. Hart @rarh.bsky.social Gun safety advocate and Piggy who refuses to be quiet!
Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation
Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her
whatashrinkthinks.com
collectivedreaming.org
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social Lots of former stuff including US Senator from MO, professional grandmother to 16, baker and political analyst MS NOW
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Calliope's Library @calliopeslibrary.bsky.social http://calliopeslibrary.org
Calliope’s Library seeks to help readers find books that they will love that are about the ancient world or inspired by it. 
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social Relic of a bygone era.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
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Arum Park @profarumpark.bsky.social Korean American; she/her; Classicist at University of Arizona. Opinions are my own. http://press.umich.edu/11853864 https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/q524jr02p
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
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Gregory Holman @gregoryholman.bsky.social Country journalist. Now: Deputy editor, Springfield Business Journal. Past: KSMU Ozarks Public Radio, Springfield News-Leader, 417 Magazine, Men's Health. Born in Branson, polished at Mizzou.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social wop genius
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social Recovering politician. Afghanistan Veteran. Bestselling Author. Podcaster. Founder of Let America Vote & American Rescue Project. Baseball player. Advisor, Veterans Community Project. Diana’s dude. True & Bella’s driver. JasonKander.com
James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
Angel of the Ozarks @angeloftheozarks.bsky.social Made of Spare Parts. Infertility advocate. Talk inclusively about Reproductive Rights. Missouri is nicer than it seems.
Springfield, MO
Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social 96% tea
Analyst
Loves myth, literature, kitchen gardens, mist-pooled valleys, stinky cheese & 3,000yo dead guys
@workingclassicists contributor
TRYING to #write
Goldfinch Novel Award LL
Yeovil Lit Prize LL
Ascent LL
Sleepy yet woke
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🌍Birkenhead
Pippa Koch @pippakoch.bsky.social Prof of American religion, early America, colonial world, religion and medicine. 
Sarah Krienen M.A. @sarah-krienen.bsky.social Greco-Roman archaeology M.A.
Cultural heritage protection, looting, antiquities crime. Goldsmith, sewist, historical clothing
She/her
Secessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social Account dedicated to the revolutionaries of the Classical Mediterranean.
Industrial economist working on energy and rural agriculture. MSAE, BS ChemE
Fargo, ND
Dave Nelson @davenelson.bsky.social Latin teacher and fan of the Cubs, Local H, board games, and video games.
Thraex ⚔️🏛🏺 @thraexbarbatus.bsky.social E: he, him. L: is, eius. Classical philologist. Mediocre swordsman. I write when I can. Latin, myth, Star Wars, Tolkien, Left.
Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
Kellie Baglio @kelliejo230.bsky.social Latin teacher, wife, world traveler, dog mom.
#LatinTeach
LadyKivingston @lupalionessa.bsky.social Archaeologist turned Latin teacher, digital artist, and historical video gamer 🏺✍🏻 30s/she/bi 💖🌿
Aram Garoghlanian @aramgaroghlanian.bsky.social I enjoy hexameters and hendecasyllables. 
Abbi Holt @stickfiguregods.bsky.social Posts woman’s sports and classics-apologies to each for the other! Uneasily She/her. Middle school Latin teacher and writer and illustrator of Latin stories: https://sites.google.com/site/abbiholt/
thelilyriver @thelilyriver.bsky.social Magistra linguae Latinae
Michael Garcia (he/him) @michaelmgarcia.bsky.social Getting more radically left every day...
Latin teacher. Recovering medievalist and archaeologist. Comic book geek and cinephile. Coffee consumer. Scotch aficionado.
Latinitas Animi Causa: Latin for Fun @habesnelac.bsky.social Ubi Linguae “Mortuae” Vivescunt!
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@amandacgregory.bsky.social @amandacgregory.bsky.social 
Nathalie Roy @magistraroy.bsky.social Certified Nerd - NBCT, 2021 LaSTOY, Creative Classics, #RomanTechnology, #MythMakers, #Hands-OnHistory, #STEMinClassics, #ClassicsInSpace, Latin, Still a #GirlScout, Always a #Maker, Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MagistraRoy
Magister Revkin @brevkin.bsky.social High school Latin teacher; curious person; disciple of tech, books, language, society, nature, food. interdum Latine loqui tempto. He/him. Is/eum.
@wmjh.bsky.social @wmjh.bsky.social Latin teacher, Brazilian jiu-jitsu professor
Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social fortunatus et ille deos qui nouit agrestis
Panaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.
Jacob Joseph Andrews @jandrews2.bsky.social PhD Philosophy, Loyola Chicago
MPhil Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, KU Leuven
Latin and Logic, Covenant Classical School
Translating the Summae of William of Auxerre
https://linktr.ee/magisterandrews
Courtney Monahan @courtneymonahan.bsky.social (she/her/hers)
Latin teacher, Roman historian, Softball coach, Dog and person mom,
Duke PhD: Roman women, Roman provincial studies, Epigraphy, Hispania Romana
Thomas Howell @larsnw.bsky.social Latinist. Gamer. Pro-union.
Magister Steve @magistersteve.bsky.social Girl dad x2, Latin teacher, lover of board and card games. LOTR nerd and also lover of democracy. Still a Bruins fan!
Futuendi gratia!
@magistraj.bsky.social @magistraj.bsky.social Latin teacher interested in proficiency, best practices, and empathy. She/her 
Rachel Ash (she/her) @rachelcinis.bsky.social Latin teacher and costumer and other stuff as well.
MagistraK @cassiacano.bsky.social Latin public school educator, lover of the Latin language (all time periods), mater to 3 humans and 4 animals
DrLY @magistraly.bsky.social Using my hard-won Classics PhD for the greater good and no personal profit in JXN. Dog, cat, and teen mom. Disgruntled citizen of the United States of Mississippi, come on in boys, the water's fine.
Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social Latin/French/former IB/reluctant AP teacher. Sometimes tweets in Latin. Vergil fanboy. he/him
Douglas Boin @dougboin.bsky.social Writer first. Historian second. Author, most recently, of CLODIA OF ROME: Champion of the Republic (Norton 2025).
Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day.
Probably followed you for mentioning reading, history, or writing in your profile.
"Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
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Michael Furman @profboeotia.bsky.social Ph.D.
Ancient Historian - Thebes and Boeotia
Award-Winning Teacher
Historical Gaming
Pedagogy
Honors Education
Golf ⛳
Hot Takes on Classics and Academia
Aliera @alierakieron.bsky.social Smut writing witch, feeder of many, mother to many creatures great and small. Did you read Jane Austen and thought it needed more sex, less heteronormativity, and witchcraft? https://a.co/d/h5MxSKh
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
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Leon 🏺 @souljaleonn.bsky.social Archaeologist🏺/ SASA🏛️/Sub-Roman Britain and the archaeology of Yorkshire/ Editor of Forum/ Human and Animal 💀🦴
Currently researching Elmet and Early Medieval West Yorkshire
Darrel Janzen @dcjanzen.bsky.social I research Roman literature and history (solitude, environmental humanities, social epistemology). Ancient Studies for all. he/him 🇨🇦
Mark Masterson @markjmasterson.bsky.social Byzantinist. Flutist. Author of Between Byzantine Men (Routledge 2022) and Man to Man (Ohio 2014) Former Associate Professor of Classics, Victoria University, New Zealand (now retired).
Orcid: 0000-0001-9964-8672
Miri Teixeira-Connor @miri.bsky.social ✍️Games journo
👾Indie game stan
🏛️Co-Founder @workingclassicists.bsky.social
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Tara Johnson @tararjohnson.bsky.social Interested in political insights. Reading Buddy volunteer. Moms Demand Action volunteer. Lover of cats and house plants. Geoscience, archaeology, & anthropology fan. Great Aunt!
Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social Dad of 2 wonderful people. #Archaeology videos and other content. #Science & #Nature. Smiling. #Writing #Learning and leading with #AI & #edTech
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@VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
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