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Kristen S. Pumpkins

@kjeanveau.bsky.social

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This year, get them English Muffins™️ Non-binary PhD Candidate History @ Western University. My research looks at London tube shelter newspapers in the Blitz. I spent too much time playing Baldur's Gate 3 in 2024...and 2025.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 8h

Keeping this & a bag of chips for right after the race next week.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 2d

Ok I am a week late but I love Tyranny because she is the demon version of a PC I played for 2 years and I miss her so much.

Haven't met most of the characters but I'm loving Alex's PC too.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 2d

Me, last October after limping across a finish line: "I'm going to register for this 25k trail race again and really train over the next 12 months"

Me, this afternoon, one week prior to the 25k race, forgetting that I registered last year and having not run in 8 months: "Well, shit."

An email titled "Phoenix Trail Races: Participant Guide."

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 4d

Twenty three years ago my (now husband, then boyfriend of 8 weeks) moved into the townhouse I shared with 3 people. We had a bit too much to drink and watched an episode of Iron Chef in the wee hours and to this day will solemnly announce "shark fins should not dance" and mime biting a bell pepper.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 4d

I'm only forty pages in and this is already knocking my socks off. I've read so little about queer spaces in mid 20th century Canada that were not Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver and this is a welcome addition. 🗃️

Cover of the book Prairie Fairies by Valerie J Korinek. Two women wearing long dresses and coats kiss and hold hands.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 5d

Tori Amos tour/album announcement time
✅ info leaked beforehand
✅ Endless debate about whether the title is a joke or not.
✅ Fake tracklist gags
✅ Typos or issues with website
✅ Launch graphics that will have nothing to do with the project
✅ Head tilting explanation of album

We're so back, baby!

Photo of Tori Amos' press release about her new album In Times of Dragons featuring a drawing of a piano with wings

Screencap of the press release on her website that is obscured by invisible flames that keep moving across the text, making it impossible to read.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 6d

I'm assuming it was a certain war conference in a certain capital? I was debating going but couldn't swing it with my schedule - glad to hear the presentations were excellent, and always curious to know what wasn't. 😉

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 6d

I am drawing a blank but want to guess its from Screen Violence

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a bit disappointed there wasn't a sponsored ad break post between these. How will I know what mail order meal plan, weird pillow, razor blades or web hosting platform to use?

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 7d

She has hyperesthesia: back spasms, long periods of meowing/being inconsolable, and she tries to eat her own fur. It's like she's stuck in a feedback loop and we found the only way to stop it is by swaddling. (And gapapentin 🤔) So we're hoping this helps!

And thank you - I love a dumb cat name.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 7d

Ahhhhh I can't wait until you get to the "open mic night in Rose Apothecary" episode in season 4.

a man says i 'm beginning to think that in front of a refrigerator

ALT: a man says i 'm beginning to think that in front of a refrigerator

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 7d

We are moving to weird new heights to soothe our ever-anxious Waffles by trying a Thunder Shirt.

She didn't hate it - progress!

A brown, grey, and white tabby cat is half standing and wearing a grey velcro vest around their chest and belly.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 7d

Best "oops, I guess I'm gay" love stories on tv.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 8d

This is going to be a good one!

Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Join us on Friday, October 10th at 10:00am (EST) to support MA candidate, James Caldwell at his public lecture. "Something in the water": Antibiotic Pollution and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (1946-2002). RSVP to [email protected] for the zoom link. #westernu

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 9d

I gave up on campaign 3 but I love Brennan as a DM on CR as it's less screamy than D20 so I'll likely check this out on the weekend. Interested to see how the big cast plays out!

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 11d

Also if anyone can explain to me why I have trouble remembering details from a book I just read, but can still rattle off my angelfire and geocities webpage addresses from almost 30 years ago, please let me know.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 11d

The funny thing for me is that even as a lifelong Extremely Online person™️, I never had the elder millennial dial up experience.

We were in a trial zone for ~ Rogers Wave ~ cable internet in 1997.

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 11d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 11d

Obligatory Cher quote:

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 11d

BRB, going to find an early 20th century "group of moneyed men" so I can quit my day job and conduct research in Canadian history. 🗃️

Out of his desire to see a revolution in historical research, A L Burt suggested that professional historians undertake to convince a 'group of moneyed men' to put up 'the necessary money to support a serious organization to conduct research in Canadian history.

Donald Wright, The Professionalization of History in English Canada, 2005.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 13d

We grabbed first row in the mezzanine and it was actually pretty good. My all time top-hated seats are the galley at Massey Hall and just Molson Amphitheatre (or whatever the hell it's called now) overall.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 14d

So kind of @dropout.tv President @vicmmic.bsky.social to grace Toronto with their presence. (Micro celebrity Kurt Maloney was ok, I guess.)
The real comedy was the ~ 7 hour~ round trip drive from London that usually takes 4.5 hours. Hats off to the Gardiner Expressway.

A stage with a screen displaying "dropout improv" with a bag of popcorn in the balcony edge foreground.

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Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 14d

I guess the entire hold up was a light being out at the end where lakeshore merges back on to the Gardiner. Took us four hours to get here for a 75 mins show lol.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 14d

I guess the entire hold up was a light being out at the end where lakeshore merges back on to the Gardiner. Took us four hours to get here for a 75 mins show lol.

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 14d

@karenbowness.bsky.social I am in anti-vaxxer protester hell on lakeshore blvd. We left London at 2:30 and google maps says we have 28 more mins to get 6 km. FML

Kristen S. Pumpkins @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 15d

Despite all the great music that came out this year I am fully bracing myself for spotify wrapped to tell me my top song was a Tori Amos one-off for the 1997 Great Expectations soundtrack.

kermit the frog and miss piggy are kissing each other in a muppet show .

ALT: kermit the frog and miss piggy are kissing each other in a muppet show .

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