Spooky Hispanic pixie dream girl
@bocadelperro.bsky.social
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Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden. Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish. All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
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bocadelperro.bsky.social
I remember once in grad school someone was complaining about the terrible music that was being played. It was Buddy Holly.
Truly people are Philistines.
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pumpkinpal.bsky.social
People in newspapers will write anything. "Johnny Cash seems deeply uncool" no he didn't. That isn't true.
bendwalsh.bsky.social
wtaf are you talking about
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paris.nyc
it's always interesting when even the experts are perplexed. one of the nuclear forensics experts i spoke with said he's seriously considered flying to indonesia personally just to figure out what's going on
The question of how the cloves were contaminated is harder to answer. The facility where they were processed is over 400 miles away from the smelter. Yet the radiation levels in the sample tested by the FDA were 10 times higher than those found in the shrimp. More perplexing still, a preliminary investigation found only normal background levels of radiation at the facility that processed the cloves, according to Antara News.

“There are a lot of plausible scenarios here,” Biegalski said. “We don’t know where the [cloves] contamination occurred. It could have happened during transit, or it could have happened as an airborne plume, where things got picked up one day but didn’t necessarily gravitationally settle.” The plume could have also settled on the field where the cloves were grown or on the containers they were transported in, he suggested. But there are no clear answers yet.
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
My confederate neighbor told me the submarine keeps drowning his sailors so I asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to the navy and gets new sailors afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding sailors to the ocean and then his commanding officer started crying
“The confederacy sent into action the world’s first combat submarine, the CSS Huntley, which sank three times in trials, drowning the crew each time (including its inventor Horace Huntley) before sink a blockade ship near Charleston in 1864 while going down itself for the fourth and last time”
bocadelperro.bsky.social
5yo wasn't feeling great yesterday so I brought her some of her toys in bed.
5yo: why did you bring me these dolls
Me: oh I thought you'd like your princesses
5yo: (eyes rolling) Elsa is a queen, mom.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Oh yeah, that's another one. Plus Ygnacio valley.
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mpgphd.bsky.social
I don't remember if it actually made the book, but at one point I was talking about "the long 1980s" and @profirmf.bsky.social had Had It, Officially 😂
lwalker.bsky.social
Does anyone remember who it was that received the most hilarious proofreading feedback ever: "You keep writing 'The Long 18th Century,' but all centuries are the same length"?
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Los Gatos

(Special AZ Bonus: Canyon de Chelly)
merriam-webster.com
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I think that's a different horror subgenre.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Pretty appropriate, considering how important firearms are I. Western history/myth/Self-understanding
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I just last year sold my 2001 Camry with a cassette player.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
There are so many stories like this all over the West. I can't go to Prescott, AZ (by almost all accounts a charming little town) without feeling sick.
When in early 1863, the Walker Party discovered gold in Lynx Creek (near present-day Prescott, Arizona), it set off a chain of events that would have White settlements along the Hassayampa and Agua Fria Rivers, the nearby valleys, as well as in Prescott, and Fort Whipple would be built, all by the end of the year, and all in traditional Yavapai territory.

The Americans, led by General George Crook, fought against the Yavapai and Tonto Apache in 1872–73.[23] Aided by Pai scouts, the Americans killed many of the Yavapai and forced them onto a reservation at Camp Verde, where a third of the surviving Yavapai died from disease.[23] In 1875, they were forcibly relocated to the San Carlos Reservation in the March of Tears. After only 25 years, their population of 1,500 plummeted to only 200 survivors.[23]
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Okay I'm going to write a treatment of sorts for this. (Of course I am. I have a conference paper I need to get ready for two weeks from now, and a pile of papers to grade, plus a lecture to prep for tonight.)
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Moscow on the Ohio. 💀.
My office building has, I swear, the same elevator I had when I briefly lived in a Plattenbau in Berlin.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
::Puts on historian's hat:: "oh shit this thing is full of ghosts!"
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Yes. U of A as well. Did you know Old Main was a segregated dining hall until the federal deseg. order came down? The only reason I know that is because I read it in an alumni magazine. I have a PhD in history from the UofA!!
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I mostly believe in ghosts as metaphors for collective memory.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Oh this is great, thanks. I wind up talking q little but about St Louis's Topography of memory in my freshman class (they read the excellent introduction from "Facing East Front Indian Country,") so it's actually somewhat professional, too. 😍
bocadelperro.bsky.social
I should clarify that I believe in ghosts, mostly as a metaphor for repressed historical memory and trauma, which is why I insist that the US West is extremely fuckin haunted.
bocadelperro.bsky.social
Have you ever been to Mesa? That town gives me the heebie- jeebies like no other.