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Kent Navalesi ☕️

@KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

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Historian of #religion in #LateAntiquity. Author of "The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography and the Laity in Sixth-Century Gaul" (Routledge)

Dad to five cats, coffee enthusiast, art lover, #YIMBY, I post a lot of travel pics 📸. #gardening

Grew up in #NewMexico, now in #KY

The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer. Boost ≠ endorsement

#fedi22 #history #medieval #latin #cats #urbanism #AncientHistory #hagiography #literature #degrowth #NoBots

767 Followers

778 Following

50 Posts

Joined May 28, 2024

Relics Class:

https://kentnavalesi.neocities.org/RelicsHome

Book:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Prose-Lives-of-Venantius-Fortunatus-Hagiography-and-the-Laity-in-Sixth-Century-Gaul/Navalesi/p/book/9789463725699

Website:

https://kentnavalesi.neocities.org/

OpenStreetMap:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Kent%20N

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

Last full day with the #FosterKittens

#CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

They sat still for two seconds for #caturday. #FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4w ago

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The #FosterKittens are almost too cute not to keep . . . but no. #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats #Fedicats #whiskerswednesday

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

I've been remiss in posting the #Fosterkittens.

Remedying for #Caturday

#CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 3w ago

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They changed their tune when I opened the food can. #FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #RescueCat

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 1mo ago

Westminster Abbey [OC] @photography@lemmy.world Wide-angle shot. #fotovorschlag @photography@fedigroups.social #ReligiousStudies #TravelPhotography #christianity #religion #reisen #smartphonephotography #ChurchPhotography #ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #architectuur #arkitektur #architecture

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 1mo ago

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The #Fosterkittens have grown A LOT since I last posted!

#CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #猫 #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #AcademicsWithCats

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 3w ago

Boosted by @welcome@friends.deko.cloud

ok, I'm blocking ieji[.]de until they tackle their AI bot problem (check #introduction ). #fediblock #ai #fuckai

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 1mo ago

Replying to

They're starting to waddle around and interact!

#FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #猫 #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #ねこ #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats #Gatos

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

They're starting to look like kittens . . . sort of.

#FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #猫 #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #ねこ #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats #Gatos

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Got a couple #FosterKittens this week

#CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #猫 #CatWuschel #Katzen #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #ねこ #RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats #Gatos

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

The Music Lesson by Gerard ter Borch the Younger (c.1670)

@visualarts

Art Institute of Chicago 🖼
#ArtHistory #AnimalsInArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

lemmy.dbzer0.com

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

First #gardening post of the season.

Some seedlings are coming along, others not. Obviously I didn't trust some of the tomato seeds.

What was to be our Fall kale survived under a collapsed tunnel and 7 inches of snow to become our Spring kale.

@gardening@fedigroups.social

#Garten #growyourown #degrowth

mstdn.social

Mastodon 🐘

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

The Rock by Peter Blume (1944-48)

@artporn

My favorite painting at the moment. At the Art Institute of #Chicago.

#ArtHistory #surrealism #surrealisme #surrealismo #ModernArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ArtMuseum

piefed.social

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

For #TombTuesday, the Ursulakapelle in Michaelskirche, Munich, resting place of several purported pieces of saints. Closeup of the bone of St. Constantia(?) in the central display case. If saints or medieval history are your thing, consider taking my course, "Relics in Antiquity & the Middle Ages," July 23-August 27, where we talk about the origins of relic veneration and the powers they were believed to possess. Feel free to DM with any questions! https://kentnavalesi.neocities.org/RelicsHome @histodons@fedigroups.social #history

kentnavalesi.neocities.org

Relics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Fedi, I need your help.

I found this chipmunk sitting still but breathing and he only walks sluggishly when I approach him. Seems to be breathing hard

What can I do to help the little guy?

Edit: Called animal control.

#BackyardHabitat #WildLife

mstdn.social

Mastodon 🐘

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC [OC]

@pics

@photography@fedigroups.social
#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #architectuur #arkitektur #SmartphonePhotography #religion #Christianity #ChurchPhotography #travelphotography #NewYorkCity #NYC

lemmy.world

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

St. Peter's Church
Mainz, Germany 🇩🇪 ⛪️

#TravelPhotography #photographie #ArchitecturePhotography #ChurchArchitecture #SmartphonePhotography #Christianity #ReligiousStudies #Catholicism #religion #Mainz #Germany #Deutschland

mstdn.social

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @Quasit@kolektiva.social @mtechman@mastodon.ie We definitely need more public advertising of the fediverse like this.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Another good and easy way to support #Tor is to run #Snowflake on your devices. It helps people all over the world circumvent Tor blocks: https://snowflake.torproject.org/ #privacy #tech

snowflake.torproject.org

Snowflake

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@Quasit@kolektiva.social Some parts of some towns are also fairly tolerant of posting on lampposts and such, especially college towns. @peachfront@toot.community @mtechman@mastodon.ie @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

#Israel has announced that it will continue bombing #Lebanon, in direct violation of the #ceasefire.

#Iran must abandon the ceasefire immediately.

mstdn.social

Mastodon 🐘

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@kimlockhartga @ZenHeathen @courtcan Gen Z really has no concept of anything that happened before they were born. I think the bar for "highbrow" has been lowered so much in our media that referencing things like Pearl Harbor is considered alienating and elitist. It used to be that a lot of this stuff could be picked up passively. Watch Looney Tunes and at some point Bugs Bunny would dress up as Lincoln and mention that Washington was the first president.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@julian "What can we do?" "Join the fediverse." "Not like that."

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Working retail in the US means lying to a thousand people a day about how your day is going.

#usa #capitalism #consumerism

mstdn.social

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk Not a bad problem to have.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@boogerly@dobbs.town @NatalyaD@disabled.social @quinn@social.circl.lu HOAs aren't about offloading safety and zoning to the private sector, they're about keeping home values as high as possible.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@malte@radikal.social @afewbugs@social.coop "Nitpicking" is fine. English is an extremely versatile language. We don't need a new word for every little thing.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@MarthaCrimson@mastodon.art We travel a lot and always look out for street artists to buy from.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@smbsy@mastodon.art Geographically, mastodonapp.uk might be the most obvious choice, though I can't say I know anything about it.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@404mediaco Can't wait for the AI bubble to burst.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jeffowski Didn't Harris say that she wouldn't deviate from Biden's policy of genocide in Gaza?

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nholzschuch IN. CLASS. HANDWRITTEN. ESSAYS.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bammerlaan I think it's a lot of things. Aversion to learning new things, resentment at the suggestion that they should learn new things . . . maybe some genuine confusion as to why anyone wouldn't just go along with the herd . . . I don't know, but I've seen the blank stares firsthand, and there's definitely something that makes fediversians different from the rest.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

(Talking about people who never try the fediverse, not people who like it for the experience.)

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@grimalkina This country has never been a fan of expertise.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@spiegelmama I think people also forget that the US has more guns than insects. Things like this are inevitable just by happenstance.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@NearerAndFarther@techhub.social I think of all the money going to gas, insurance, maintenance, and leases on those cars. So unnecessary if we had had a bit of foresight.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@blakeshall I'm a historian of religion, and I used to get ads for seminaries and Bible colleges on FB all the time.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@ikuturso@mastodon.social @wonkothesane@mstdn.social @_elena@mastodon.social My guess is that, now that some alternative PDS's are coming online, they're going to rush to stipulate some enshittifying terms for them to connect to the main Bsky server. Allow ads (or data harvesting, or whatever) or lose access to 99% of users.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@streetartutopia . . . how about we talk about the war crimes?

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

I was going to rip out the flowering oregano, but the pollinators are enjoying it too much. #gardening #SolarPunk #GrowYourOwn #butterfly #butterflies #Bloomscrolling

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cwebber@social.coop How many levels of abstraction are we at now? At this point, how is it not more profitable to just appeal directly to humans (e.g. via the fediverse)?

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@hiphopheaven That's what I'm saying, though. Why don't more people see the huge potential of the technical part? 😕 "Technical" meaning only up to the point of "servers talking to each other."

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@TheComfortableSpotPodcast Why is that hard to imagine? Dude was literally bombing their country.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@alter_kaker @nholzschuch I don't think one can learn to structure thoughts and arguments without having some product in mind. US college instructors did start prioritizing conversational modes about 15 years ago when students' writing abilities started precipitously declining. In general I don't think that approach has produced better thinkers.

Kent Navalesi ☕️ @KentNavalesi@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@chrisamaphone I'm the same way. In school we would play class games where you had to think fast, and I always just forfeited because I didn't care to think that fast. It didn't even make me feel stupid. I thought the emphasis on speed was stupid.