Andrew Reeves
@andrewsshi.bsky.social
I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
I think a lot about how omnipresent memories of Vietnam were ubiquitous in the eighties, but OIF and OEF just sank like a stone.
what does it say that Vietnam stories were omnipresent in the culture 10-20 years later but the much smaller amount of media about the War on Terror has made no impact
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I think a lot about how omnipresent memories of Vietnam were ubiquitous in the eighties, but OIF and OEF just sank like a stone.
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The Book of Robert A. Fett
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Book of Robert A. Fett
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Everyone, @irhottakes.bsky.social is not dead - but isn’t posting because she needs to finish work for her PhD and lacks the time for Bluesky-associated BS. (Which is eminently understandable).
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Everyone, @irhottakes.bsky.social is not dead - but isn’t posting because she needs to finish work for her PhD and lacks the time for Bluesky-associated BS. (Which is eminently understandable).
Huh. Turns out that I may have to revise the line in my Britain to 1688 lectures where I say that most of Magna Carta is obsolescent, but its provision for trial by jury remains foundational.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Huh. Turns out that I may have to revise the line in my Britain to 1688 lectures where I say that most of Magna Carta is obsolescent, but its provision for trial by jury remains foundational.
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No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
Historians in the 20th century. denying pre-and early modern atrocities is fascinating because it's multivalent: some comes from distrust of atrocity story propaganda, other parts are a rejection of modems who think pre-modern atrocities were actually awesome.
Why did people ever think Herodotus was *wrong* about Scythians using human leather, which they did? What about that wasn't credible. Why would they care what we'd think of it a kajillion years later
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Historians in the 20th century. denying pre-and early modern atrocities is fascinating because it's multivalent: some comes from distrust of atrocity story propaganda, other parts are a rejection of modems who think pre-modern atrocities were actually awesome.
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Damn, and I thought *my* characterizations of this site were vicious...
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Damn, and I thought *my* characterizations of this site were vicious...
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Niche food-related post, but it's important to remember that in 1993, Danny Wegman, CEO of Wegmans grocery stores, announced a partnership with Xerox, with one of the most powerful mullet-tie combos in history
January 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Niche food-related post, but it's important to remember that in 1993, Danny Wegman, CEO of Wegmans grocery stores, announced a partnership with Xerox, with one of the most powerful mullet-tie combos in history
I'm a cishet man, so I promise that when I'm dealing with Boomers who can't touch type or figure out the difference between an app and a browser, they're not doing a gendered weaponized incompetence: they've genuinely internalized their learned helplessness!
So honestly, I think that a problem with the whole Weaponized Incompetence thing is that from the outside it's really hard to distinguish from learned helplessness. I spend a lot of time around Boomer men who internalized that men can't use office equipment 3/4 century ago--and it frustrates them!
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm a cishet man, so I promise that when I'm dealing with Boomers who can't touch type or figure out the difference between an app and a browser, they're not doing a gendered weaponized incompetence: they've genuinely internalized their learned helplessness!
Honestly, all activists should occasionally ask themselves, "Would we be doing things any differently if we were a psyop run by our worst enemies?" and then adjust accordingly.
The Manchurian Candidate is such a good book (and movie) because it illustrates so well that McCarthyism may as well have been a PRC psyop.
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Honestly, all activists should occasionally ask themselves, "Would we be doing things any differently if we were a psyop run by our worst enemies?" and then adjust accordingly.
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JFK conspiracy theories are a story of how conspiracists discovered the strange, Hadean underbelly of 1960s America and were unhappy because it didn’t give them the story they really wanted. “Everything was a conspiracy except JFK’s murder!”
I approached it with an open mind...maybe I'd been too willing to accept the occam's razor answer that Oswald, like most assassins in the US past, was an ideologically confused weirdo who took a successful potshot at a public figure. Turns out, Occam's razor continues to be a useful rule to follow.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
JFK conspiracy theories are a story of how conspiracists discovered the strange, Hadean underbelly of 1960s America and were unhappy because it didn’t give them the story they really wanted. “Everything was a conspiracy except JFK’s murder!”
The Manchurian Candidate is such a good book (and movie) because it illustrates so well that McCarthyism may as well have been a PRC psyop.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Manchurian Candidate is such a good book (and movie) because it illustrates so well that McCarthyism may as well have been a PRC psyop.
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I have tried a number of neat drugs in my life, but “first cup of coffee in the morning, black” is still one of the best settings and experiences you can have, and you can have it everyday!
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I have tried a number of neat drugs in my life, but “first cup of coffee in the morning, black” is still one of the best settings and experiences you can have, and you can have it everyday!
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Just casually grilling his encased siblings.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just casually grilling his encased siblings.
Fact check from a Texan transplanted to Georgia: true.
it's not a good BBQ place unless the logo makes it look like they want to fuck the pig
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fact check from a Texan transplanted to Georgia: true.
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It would have been the easiest thing for the Russians to say nothing and let Trump try to pressure Ukraine into accepting. Fortunately, they absolutely cannot help themselves.
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It would have been the easiest thing for the Russians to say nothing and let Trump try to pressure Ukraine into accepting. Fortunately, they absolutely cannot help themselves.
Listen, I'd prefer a narrow straitjacket of right- and left-liberal, but if that *does* break down, it's better to have commie and fash yukking it up in a friendly, "we're buddies having a friendly disagreement" manner.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Listen, I'd prefer a narrow straitjacket of right- and left-liberal, but if that *does* break down, it's better to have commie and fash yukking it up in a friendly, "we're buddies having a friendly disagreement" manner.
Someone should convince Pam Bondi that Mothership Strategies is absolutely vital to the success of The Democrats and must be taken down at all costs.
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Someone should convince Pam Bondi that Mothership Strategies is absolutely vital to the success of The Democrats and must be taken down at all costs.
Yes, the sundowning guy who agrees with whatever the last person who was in the room with him said agreed with the last person who was in the room with him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yes, the sundowning guy who agrees with whatever the last person who was in the room with him said agreed with the last person who was in the room with him.
I freehanded a Death Spectre pauldron.
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I freehanded a Death Spectre pauldron.
Since this morning we're doing Meta Bluesky Posting, I'll note that there's a certain cohort On Here whose posts hava a subtext of wistfully recalling when they could cyber-bully the editorial boards of the WaPo and NY Times. They sound like 1950s Rumanian exiles recalling when they were nobles.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Since this morning we're doing Meta Bluesky Posting, I'll note that there's a certain cohort On Here whose posts hava a subtext of wistfully recalling when they could cyber-bully the editorial boards of the WaPo and NY Times. They sound like 1950s Rumanian exiles recalling when they were nobles.
I kind of wish that there were a way to separate the, "I'm chatty by nature and like just rambling about all sorts of stuff" part of social media from the, "I am a deeply unhappy shut-in who wishes to make others share my misery" part of it, but sadly I think reddit is the closest we can get.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I kind of wish that there were a way to separate the, "I'm chatty by nature and like just rambling about all sorts of stuff" part of social media from the, "I am a deeply unhappy shut-in who wishes to make others share my misery" part of it, but sadly I think reddit is the closest we can get.
RETVRN to van art.
we gotta bring back wizard murals on vans, that would do a lot to heal american culture
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
RETVRN to van art.