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hannah draper
@jankypants.bsky.social
the jankier the pants, the player you get

birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home

type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter:

If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
If you can't get there without him
And you don't know much about him
If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
after another long day of browsing old court documents, i just want to remind everyone that if a stranger agrees to do something illegal with you and they keep asking you to say out loud what the illegal plan is, that’s because the officer is recording you.
November 23, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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look for the helpers, they are distracted and easy prey
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This is an important publication: the result of a lifetime’s work on the Sasanian legal system, long awaited by many in the field. It's a major contribution to our understanding of Sasanian law and will undoubtedly shape future research.

Published by @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I HOPE YOU CATCH RABIES, YOU WHORE!!!
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Part 137 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

A plate depicting a wife spanking her husband. Made in Dinant or Malines, Burgundian 1480
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The trains only ran on time for the rich.

" upgraded the main lines on which businessmen, politicians and comfort-minded tourists sped between Milan and Rome... As the direttissimi whizzed by on schedule, aged commuter locals filled with workers were shunted onto sidings."
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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If someone at ISW actually did what’s being alleged here, they deserve to be named and shamed
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Me irl
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — #Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters say.
December 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🐻 Japonya ayıların istilasına çare arıyor

📌 Japonya’nın Akita eyaletinde yaralanma ve ölümle sonuçlanan ayı saldırılarının artması yerel hükümeti harekete geçirdi. Eyalet valisi Kenta Suzuki Öz Savunma Kuvvetleri'ni göreve çağırdı

✍️ İlgin Yorulmaz'ın yazısı...
t24.com.tr/haber/japony...
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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/ EYE HAD A FEVERISH VIZION FROM UR WEATHER LORDS
/ 0-1 INCH OF THE FOOLISH WHITE STUFF ON SUNDAY
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.

Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Interestingly, in the half century since the US Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking and publishing data about “Standard Occupation Classifications,” “elevator operator” is the ONLY job category that has ever been dropped (and only in 2018).
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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COLD
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not
I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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The Massey Commission was established after Sonya Massey was killed by a sheriff's deputy in her own home. I followed along for 9 months as its members tried to enact real policing & mental health reforms – & grappled w/ the limits of these commissions to effect change: boltsmag.org/sonya-massey...
A Police Killing Drew National Protests. At Home, a Commission Struggles with How to Make a Difference.  - Bolts
Part I: “I’m going to still try” On July 6, 2024, the morning after Sonya Massey was murdered by a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, a local citizen journalist named Calvin... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM