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Andrew Reeves

@andrewsshi.bsky.social

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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.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly, if I were Jewish, I would think it very unfair that really, really hating non-white people ends up in Jew hatred, but also that really, really hating white people *also* ends up in Jew hatred.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 19h

Something that's genuinely funny is that the best deterrant to clicking on Thirst Content (aside from, ahem, Matthew 5:27-8) is knowing that to do so logged in to Chrome will inundate you with unwanted Thirst Content across all platforms.

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 20h

Somehow I don't think that ProQuest's AI is quite ready for prime time...

An article on penance an the Inquisition in Languedoc that has an AI-generated list of "related articles." These related articles have to do with financial accounting and monetary fines in modern times.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 2d

Why is it so hard to say that DJT's preferences are weird and idiosyncratic and that Hegseth's are just a bunch of Angry Facebook Veteran rants. Why this need to turn this, of all administrations, into something ideologically coherent?

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 2d

I feel called out by this post in particular...

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

Sometimes I wish I could have been a Boomer who spent a year in Japan after getting out, then returned to the States to claim that he'd been initiated into an ancient martial arts tradition and start his own dojo and sell utterly fanciful books by the truckload.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, that's why I like it when near-future SF really grapples with it as opposed to, "Um, yeah, it's totally a continuous you because I *want* to have religious faith but can't so I'll try to just say that it's computer magic."

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

Having a SecDef that's a swarming collection of Angry Veteran Facebook Memes in a trenchcoat is bad in a way that I really wasn't anticipating, if that makes sense.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, it's the same as the idea in near future SF that you'll upload yourself, but actually, you're just getting killed, coming to an end, and a copy of your engrams getting made on a computer.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

There was a great Duffelblog post on the history of the battleship a while back that pointed out that battleships were best at getting blown up in the harbor to galvanize Americans to go to war.

Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 9d

Most people seem to think battleships are really cool and not giant, poorly defended targets that failed at their only job.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

Counterpoint: they are also really cool.

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

I remember that back when I was in high school there was a joke among athletes that ice cures everything and it's going to cure AIDS someday. But... it's seriouly really, really effective!

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

Remember our mutual friend referring to Milosevic as "Boss Tweed With an Army?" That's the general vibe of this whole crew.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

And see, the reason I think people taking the AP Euro to this approach to the current administration get it wrong because it's not stupid enough.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 9d

Worrying about a 1933-style loyalty oath scenario and instead getting a The Angry Veteran Facebook Page copypasta pasta. Obviously better the latter than the former, but still, [chain of profanities].

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, the North American feel was that the whole druid feminist thing was a 90s and early aughts phenomenon (at least in my experience).

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

And yet you left that all behind to go into the private sector...

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

Kinda true of a lot of bio-essentialist feminism of the back half of the twentieth century?

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, North American reading of All Things Celtic has this characteristic of being extremely hippified and also, being something that's not actually spatially part of our past, sort of a fantasy world, especially as the Irish diaspora has by this point almost entirely assimilated.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

This is honestly the most on-point description of... a lot of the people I went to grad school with.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

This is one of those things where when you're trying to explain the intellectual milieu of Celtic Studies Enthusiasts of the 1990s and early aughts and it really is a, "you had to be there" thing.

The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 10d

“What if Thule Society but North America-flavored liberal with a candy shell of Irish culture, and also incredibly, unbelievably gay” is an incredibly funny moment in time

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

I'm teaching US History this term, and so I'm working with a lot of US History textbooks--and one thing you see very quickly is the built-up layers in editions of responses to current events. So there's these awkward sentences about how, um, Hiss was guilty and union members were actually racist.

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

The Breen thing was... particularly repulsive.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10d

It really was just absolutely pervasive in the Zeitgeist, especially in nerd culture.