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Ian Campbell
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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 23h
You’re right and you should say it

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d
Also something about this one slays me every time

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d
This one has always had a special place in my heart.

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 1d
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d
(I very much include my awkward self in this statement.)

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d
The skeleton key for understanding academic conferences is that they are gatherings of 1000+ people, all of whom actively chose a career where they spend most of their time interacting with books and not other people.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
Olivia Nuzzi can get a regular-ass office job. Graham Platner can try running for state House. Larry Summers (though I wouldn’t 100% vouch for “not criminal”) can’t be working with students. None of these things are fatal!

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes people do things that are not technically criminal but are disqualifying for the job they want to have. They don’t have to be tarred and feathered but they do have to find a new line of work.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
It turns out that all this did, in fact, affect how she covered RFK Jr. We’re not going to memory-hole that, especially now that people are trying to resurrect her career in this particular field.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 20
I have fallen down the rabbithole of 'her remarks about RFK in the NYT's pundit round tables' and....!!!

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
PSA: you need to get your turkey out of the freezer and into the refrigerator now.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Eric Rasmusen, Ian Campbell , and 4 more

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
“Remember the bamboo from Part 1?”

YES GOD DAMN IT I REMEMBER THE BAMBOO

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d
ACC after dark

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3d
Picture is worth a thousand words and you couldn't pay for copy as good as this
Trump smiling up at Mamdani who looks solemn

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
YES

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
This is a testable claim and I am excited to test it.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
A thing about me is that if someone tells me I’ve done a good job I immediately suspect I’ve done an awful job. I also do not like to receive criticism of any kind. Not sure what lanes that leaves other people but I guess that’s not my problem.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 3d
This isn’t the Disc Horse Bot? This is something which was posted by a human on purpose?

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 4d
This is so fucking embarrassing.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
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DHS: GET ME TO THE BASED DEPARTMENT! Department of State: Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 5d
My go-to metaphor recently has been the end of The Shawshank Redemption: we are slowly crawling towards something better but we are also currently very much in the shit pipe.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 5d
I try to remain optimistic and I do think we will come through this. But the absence of friends and colleagues is a reminder that we’ve not come through it yet.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 5d
ASEEES this year is really going to be marked by absences. Between visa denials, foreign scholars deciding they’d rather not be hassled at the border, and Russia designating us an undesirable organization, some panels have simply been gutted.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 5d
We are so close to learning what causes people to lose gross and fine motor control when on an airplane or indeed just at the airport. It will be a beautiful day when we do.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6d
He’s publicly so cartoonishly mean and this felt like a window into his quotidian awfulness, I guess.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6d
This shit’s so cool, man
cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social CBS Sports Golazo @cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social · 6d
HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

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CBS Sports Golazo @cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social · 6d
HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6d
This is the best half of soccer I've ever seen the US men play.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6d
(This was part of a week at dork camp where IIRC the nightly movie choices were, in some order: American Beauty; The Virgin Suicides; Magnolia; American History X; Fight Club. In retrospect we were all Going Through It.)

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6d
"Nobody thought Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty was a weird, desperate pervert."

Yes they did! That's not true! I saw that movie when I was 16 and it was extremely obvious even then!
britculpsapp.bsky.social ✨brit✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 6d
MAN WHAT?

using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
Richard Hanania & @Rich... •8h When American Beauty came out in 1999, no one thought Kevin Spacey was sexually unusual for being attracted to the teen girl. People somehow managed to get married and have kids. It's just so insane how aggressively disconnected from reality we've gotten since then.