Gankom Neutral
@gankom.bsky.social
History fan, war gamer, AskHistorians flair, book lover, nature spirit, possibly an AI but a poorly coded one. The usual internet denizen, but a nice one.
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Gankom Neutral
@gankom.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hey there folks, apparently it's intro time. I'm Gankom, one of the many denizens of the internet. I'm a fan of a great many things, from history to hobby, from the natural world to the weird little internet places. My account exists primarily to boost the odd & wondrous things I come across online.
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Absolutely top-tier AMA answers are getting handed out like candy in here, come ask more questions so @historybrian.bsky.social never gets to leave.
Today on @askhistorians.bsky.social we have an AMA with @historybrian.bsky.social for his new book Brown and Blue from @uncpress.bsky.social
Come check it out!
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February 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Absolutely top-tier AMA answers are getting handed out like candy in here, come ask more questions so @historybrian.bsky.social never gets to leave.
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Another hot new #AMA is hitting the front page #Skystorians! historybrian.bsky.social has joined us to answer any & all your questions about Mexican Americans and the Criminal Justice System in the Southwest! Don't miss this great #History!
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AMA: Mexican Americans and the Criminal Justice System in the Southwest
Hi, I’m Brian Behnken, professor in the [Department of History](https://history.iastate.edu/profiles/brian-d-behnken/) at Iowa State University....
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February 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Another hot new #AMA is hitting the front page #Skystorians! historybrian.bsky.social has joined us to answer any & all your questions about Mexican Americans and the Criminal Justice System in the Southwest! Don't miss this great #History!
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Sometimes we feel like one of those giant unethical experiments psychologists got to run in the 1960s, except the only research goal is to test the maxim that 'there's no such thing as a stupid question'.
February 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Sometimes we feel like one of those giant unethical experiments psychologists got to run in the 1960s, except the only research goal is to test the maxim that 'there's no such thing as a stupid question'.
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Dr. Kenneth W. Noe is hosting a live AMA with @askhistorians.bsky.social to talk about his new book, "Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend."
Have a question for Ken? Join the AMA here: bit.ly/3MsWeAx
Have a question for Ken? Join the AMA here: bit.ly/3MsWeAx
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February 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Dr. Kenneth W. Noe is hosting a live AMA with @askhistorians.bsky.social to talk about his new book, "Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend."
Have a question for Ken? Join the AMA here: bit.ly/3MsWeAx
Have a question for Ken? Join the AMA here: bit.ly/3MsWeAx
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I ended up on our socials last week! Our social media manager and a consultant came to off-site storage and I showed them around a little, particularly (of course) the historic garments.
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I ended up on our socials last week! Our social media manager and a consultant came to off-site storage and I showed them around a little, particularly (of course) the historic garments.
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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One of these platforms has been home to a decade-long project to bring curated, high-quality and in-depth public history content into people's feeds every day.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Trump job approval rating by news platform
🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
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🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
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February 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
One of these platforms has been home to a decade-long project to bring curated, high-quality and in-depth public history content into people's feeds every day.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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A funny-looking friend
February 2, 2026 at 5:54 AM
A funny-looking friend
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If anyone is looking for a solid list of film/media/history folks 👇
It's been a while since I've shared my film/media history starter packs. Still adding more people! Feel free to make suggestions, share, and keep building the community! (Part II below)
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February 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If anyone is looking for a solid list of film/media/history folks 👇
As I'm always saying, people are hungry for good history! And AskHistorians is the community that offers you nothing but the best!
Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 PM
As I'm always saying, people are hungry for good history! And AskHistorians is the community that offers you nothing but the best!
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Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
February 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
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Friday #AMA time! Dr. Foster Chamberlin, author of "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War", is here to answer any & all questions #Skystorians have about political violence, policing or military culture in Spain and more!
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Dr. Foster Chamberlin on Political Violence and Second Republic Spain- Ask Me Anything!
Hello, my name is Foster Chamberlin, and I’m an assistant teaching professor of modern European history at Northern Arizona University. My book...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Friday #AMA time! Dr. Foster Chamberlin, author of "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War", is here to answer any & all questions #Skystorians have about political violence, policing or military culture in Spain and more!
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Animal care staff hid mealworms and crickets in a box of crumpled newspaper and the meerkats were obsessed. This kind of enrichment encourages natural foraging and digging behaviors, and clearly, it’s a meerkat favorite.
📹: Animal care staff Margaret
📹: Animal care staff Margaret
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Animal care staff hid mealworms and crickets in a box of crumpled newspaper and the meerkats were obsessed. This kind of enrichment encourages natural foraging and digging behaviors, and clearly, it’s a meerkat favorite.
📹: Animal care staff Margaret
📹: Animal care staff Margaret
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"the $3.6B being spent on rehabilitating Gardiner Expresswy...would cover BikeShare’s annual expansion budget for ~450yrs. Good enough for our great-grandchildren+their great-grandchildren—and probably some cyborg +xenomorph cyclists too"
Well said @graphicmatt.com
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Well said @graphicmatt.com
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Matt Elliott: Why dark clouds loom over Bike Share Toronto, despite its undeniable success
Adding more e-bikes certainly sounds like an admirable goal, but it comes with a downside.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"the $3.6B being spent on rehabilitating Gardiner Expresswy...would cover BikeShare’s annual expansion budget for ~450yrs. Good enough for our great-grandchildren+their great-grandchildren—and probably some cyborg +xenomorph cyclists too"
Well said @graphicmatt.com
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Well said @graphicmatt.com
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Its #AMA time #Skystorians! We're joined by @bclelandgt.bsky.social to talk about "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy," and all the Civil War-era skulduggery you could shake a stick at!
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January 21, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Its #AMA time #Skystorians! We're joined by @bclelandgt.bsky.social to talk about "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy," and all the Civil War-era skulduggery you could shake a stick at!
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
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with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Final post in my Year in Review, this time looking forward to the games I'm most looking forward to in 2026. Will I play this game? History suggests, very few of them, but I remain eternally optimistic. Also includes some shelf of shame games.
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Most Anticipated Games: 2026 Edition — Stuart Ellis-Gorman
I did a terrible job at predicting what games would come out in 2025 . In my defense, I didn’t see the tariffs and trade war between the US and China coming, which caused m assive disruption to the ...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Final post in my Year in Review, this time looking forward to the games I'm most looking forward to in 2026. Will I play this game? History suggests, very few of them, but I remain eternally optimistic. Also includes some shelf of shame games.
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Still have some details to touch up, but pretty happy with how these buff boys are turning out. First models of the new year always feel so good.
January 19, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Still have some details to touch up, but pretty happy with how these buff boys are turning out. First models of the new year always feel so good.
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Having done an AH answers summary, now for a 2025 reading summary!
I got through 117 books, my lowest since 2021. ⅓ fiction, and ⅔ non-fiction, with of course a very strong presence of history in that.
Quite a few really good reads in the bunch, and in no particular order, the top-ratings I gave:
I got through 117 books, my lowest since 2021. ⅓ fiction, and ⅔ non-fiction, with of course a very strong presence of history in that.
Quite a few really good reads in the bunch, and in no particular order, the top-ratings I gave:
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Having done an AH answers summary, now for a 2025 reading summary!
I got through 117 books, my lowest since 2021. ⅓ fiction, and ⅔ non-fiction, with of course a very strong presence of history in that.
Quite a few really good reads in the bunch, and in no particular order, the top-ratings I gave:
I got through 117 books, my lowest since 2021. ⅓ fiction, and ⅔ non-fiction, with of course a very strong presence of history in that.
Quite a few really good reads in the bunch, and in no particular order, the top-ratings I gave:
I come to AskHistorians for three things. Good history, good puns, and good alliteration.
The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced!
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
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Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
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January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I come to AskHistorians for three things. Good history, good puns, and good alliteration.
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The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced!
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
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Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
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January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced!
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
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I am pleased to be doing an AMA on r/AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social today, you can ask me anything (within reason!) about my new book "Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South" )published by @uncpress.bsky.social) here: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I'm Dr. Kylie Smith, a professor at Emory University, and I'm here to talk about my new book "Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the Ame...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I am pleased to be doing an AMA on r/AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social today, you can ask me anything (within reason!) about my new book "Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South" )published by @uncpress.bsky.social) here: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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2025 is wrapped up, so as always, I'm revisiting what I wrote on @askhistorians.bsky.social last year:
One of the more timely questions, and one of my favorite answers, was whether people thought Hitler was 'stupid', to which I took a generous interpretation: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
One of the more timely questions, and one of my favorite answers, was whether people thought Hitler was 'stupid', to which I took a generous interpretation: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Did Germans think that Hitler was stupid?
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January 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
2025 is wrapped up, so as always, I'm revisiting what I wrote on @askhistorians.bsky.social last year:
One of the more timely questions, and one of my favorite answers, was whether people thought Hitler was 'stupid', to which I took a generous interpretation: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
One of the more timely questions, and one of my favorite answers, was whether people thought Hitler was 'stupid', to which I took a generous interpretation: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
What a wild year its been.
Its a special day #Skystorians. Stop by the sub and check out the AskHistorians Wrapped! 2025 in Review thread!
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January 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
What a wild year its been.