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Joshua Kagavi
@kagavi.bsky.social
History writer and artist clinging to life in the distant badlands. Jazz Age football, stop motion animation, petroglyphs, pixel games, grumpy terriers. Jack Trice expert. Huffing mold in archives kagavi.com
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I'm a history & culture writer (Guardian, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, etc). I also design things like blankets & create art. Obsessed with everything. Three of my favorite pieces:

www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
This Black Football Player Was Fatally Injured During a Game. A Century Later, a College Stadium Bears His Name
Rival athletes trampled Jack Trice during his "first real college game." He died two days later at age 21
www.smithsonianmag.com
Woah I love Kadir Nelson's art. Just put it on hold at the library. Sharing image again to add detailed ALT for my vision homies
January 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Time for more #bluecy random thoughts:

1.) Might be the best ISU mbb team I've ever seen, cuz secondary players probably better than Fizer/Tinsley team

2.) Buchanan = perfect big for this team

3.) Love seeing the tough effort/attitude of all players. No egos, just hard work

4.) TJ needs a bag
January 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
opening bsky every morning
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 4:27 AM
wtf kind of a major problem out of nowhere, this is going to screw up a bunch of things for me
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.

www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
www.theregister.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.
January 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Really liked this project by @robertobenavidez.bsky.social who created pinatas partially inspired by this painting. Just spent some time on @wikipedia.org looking at the high res image. I had forgotten how much crazy stuff there is
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 PM
1000000000000000% better art than anything AI can create.

(Becoming more militant about needing to see janky art by real people promoting real projects.)
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I've always loved this one too which shows a whale interferring with the HMS Agamemnon cable via the MIT museum. Link is a higher res version of it

assets.mitmuseum.mit.edu/iiifimg3/120...
December 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Amazing story. The Zodiac serial killer appears to have been solved by an autistic 50-year-old HS dropout w/ shocking link to another notorious murder 20 years earlier w/ discovery of the Black Dahlia killer's frantic search for a motel w/ bathtub, which he eventually found named... the Zodiac Motel
If true, the theory would rewrite the history of two legendary unsolved murders. An amateur sleuth claims he has cracked both the Black Dahlia and Zodiac cases — a claim experts say remains unproven but impossible to ignore.
An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.
www.latimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Big thread w/ Jimmy Rogers #bluecy cfb thoughts

1.) If I'm JFR, I'm not sad at all about our star guys leaving. Get reset done 1 year early

2.) Besides Tez and Cooper weren't even due back in 2026, etc

3.) Biggest test = keep young stars like QB Manske, LB Hawthorne, TE Alexander (maybe Neal???)
December 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Catching up on my #bluecy crew, glad to see people sticking with it over here as the other site careens over the cliff. Gotta be the change we want
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In completely unrelated news via Reuters from the other day, a railroad biz discovered that giving AI their tiny little 100 page manual turned into a disaster, but sure, let's have AI sum up the National Archives

www.reuters.com/business/bus...
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas: a series of animated shorts featuring Gromit having to deal with the aftermath of Wallace’s inventions (like a rabid cracker vacuum and a remote-controlled shopping cart). Free on YouTube. [kottke.org]
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas
In 2002, Aardman Animations produced a series of short episodes called Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. In each episode, Wallace unveils a new invention, which Gromit then has to deal with. For the holiday seaso
kottke.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Before the Oorang NFL team our pal Wrinkle Meat played for Haskell Institute, which was the midwest version of Carlisle. Other names from those teams

Laughing Gas
Little Twig
Long Time Sleep
Horn Weasel
Afraid of His Track
Xavier Downwind
Baptist Thunder
Stillwell Sanooke
Fire Starter
Takes the Gun
We gotta bring back nicknames.
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money

this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I sent a note to ProPublica stating I'll stop donating if they pursue this, given it's antithetical to their stated mission. Can't report on "abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust" while swaddled in AI money. It's not a hard decision!
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Amazing discovery of a massive amount of dino footprints on a steep mountain slope
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue
A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park.
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was so good. Charming and cozy. It's like a Pixar short film wrapped in a French supermarket commercial #animation
Illogic Wolfs Down Christmas Dinner for Intermarché
WIZZ directing collective Illogic, who just delivered this shiny holiday spot, switch styles completely in the new Christmas spectacular for French supermarket Intermarché, with live-action by DIVINE'...
www.stashmedia.tv
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I don't have any news to counteract the terrible news of the last few days, so here is a thread of cute animals eating things, with most with crunchy cromchy sounds.

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December 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I really liked this. There are still way too many examples of people being given an artifical choice between being ignored in popular culture or being represented in an exoticized way.

Her Panûpünüwügai book has these photos and more

www.cararomero.com
Cara Romero is a photographer, artist and an enrolled member of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe. She created a photo series called “First American Doll” that defies the stereotypical Native American dolls she grew up seeing at truck stops by showcasing the diversity of tribes. https://bit.ly/4rRrj0D
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
incredible thread. Completely forgotten core memory unlocked
Thread: 1993-94 Cola-Cola Monsters of the Gridiron cards

Cortez Kennedy
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
no idea what to even call this, but apparently this is in the bag of new ISU #bluecy offensive coordinator Tyler Roehl from his NDSU days
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM