Larry Cebula
@larrycebula.bsky.social
"The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
Goddamn look at this goddamn building in goddamn freakin' Ellensburg, Washington. I mean, holy shit, right?
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Goddamn look at this goddamn building in goddamn freakin' Ellensburg, Washington. I mean, holy shit, right?
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would like to see the deep pocketed funders for “The American Revolution” pony up for some research grants
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
would like to see the deep pocketed funders for “The American Revolution” pony up for some research grants
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Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
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Mildred Pierce's maxim was that you should never leave one room without knowing what you are going to do in the next one. I disappoint that bitch each and every day though, because what the FUCK did I come to the kitchen for, I cannot recall for the life of me.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Mildred Pierce's maxim was that you should never leave one room without knowing what you are going to do in the next one. I disappoint that bitch each and every day though, because what the FUCK did I come to the kitchen for, I cannot recall for the life of me.
It's our first Caturday without Playful, our relentless lap cat and companion of 20 years. I'm a little sad.
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's our first Caturday without Playful, our relentless lap cat and companion of 20 years. I'm a little sad.
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New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger.
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New Masters in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026 in Stavanger.
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
Registration for students from outside of EU is open now, with deadline Nov 30. So jump on it!
Need more info? We have an online session coming up Friday, Nov 21. See 👇
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #environment
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Join us on Instagram tomorrow!!
Our next NICHE Converation will be TOMORROW at 10:30am EDT on Instagram Live.
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
@issygapp.bsky.social & @sarahmpicks.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss new research in arctic pasts and visual culture.
Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
#envhist
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Join us on Instagram tomorrow!!
Can AI help conspiracy theorists mainstream their delusions?
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Can AI help conspiracy theorists mainstream their delusions?
Look. At. This.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Look. At. This.
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Ken Burns should have let me narrate. I’d do it just like I teach my classes: Gimme four shots of espresso and let’s goooooo!
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Ken Burns should have let me narrate. I’d do it just like I teach my classes: Gimme four shots of espresso and let’s goooooo!
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what a paragraph - from The Story of Gardening by Martin Hoyles. This is the intro to the second chapter, explaining how you need to think about international relations and colonialism to understand English gardening.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
what a paragraph - from The Story of Gardening by Martin Hoyles. This is the intro to the second chapter, explaining how you need to think about international relations and colonialism to understand English gardening.
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New! We've mapped a bunch of stories about the radical history of Spokane, Washington, check them out on our map: map.workingclasshistory.com#map=13.18/47...
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
New! We've mapped a bunch of stories about the radical history of Spokane, Washington, check them out on our map: map.workingclasshistory.com#map=13.18/47...
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The trailer is all that's known to remain of The Patriot (1928), which won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for Best Picture
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The trailer is all that's known to remain of The Patriot (1928), which won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for Best Picture
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The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
At $2.50 a pound for scrap bronze that 4 ton statue is worth $22,046.22. The solution is obvious.
"4-ton Marcus Whitman statue at WA Capitol still in need of new home" washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/13/w...
"4-ton Marcus Whitman statue at WA Capitol still in need of new home" washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/13/w...
4-ton Marcus Whitman statue at WA Capitol still in need of new home • Washington State Standard
Officials seek a new home for the Marcus Whitman statue in the Washington state Capitol that is politically acceptable and physically doable.
washingtonstatestandard.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
At $2.50 a pound for scrap bronze that 4 ton statue is worth $22,046.22. The solution is obvious.
"4-ton Marcus Whitman statue at WA Capitol still in need of new home" washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/13/w...
"4-ton Marcus Whitman statue at WA Capitol still in need of new home" washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/13/w...
Them: "People had such wonderful legible handwriting in the 1900s! Clerks were hired for their beautiful penmanship you know!"
Me: So explain this.
Me: So explain this.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Them: "People had such wonderful legible handwriting in the 1900s! Clerks were hired for their beautiful penmanship you know!"
Me: So explain this.
Me: So explain this.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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We want you to study with us!
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We want you to study with us!
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
Our masters program in Public Environmental Humanities starts Fall 2026. This is a very special program that brings together research with taking research into public sphere.
Next online info session: Thurs 21 Nov 14.00 CET
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum
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From 1875 to 1975, 6000 ships were lost on the Great Lakes.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
From 1875 to 1975, 6000 ships were lost on the Great Lakes.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
Since November 10, 1975, zero ships have been lost.
Much of this is owed to technological advances, not just in shipbuilding and navigation, but also, crucially, in weather forecasting.
I fucking love teaching.
That is all.
That is all.
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I fucking love teaching.
That is all.
That is all.
Fuck ball bearings. Amirite?
We all know that one guy who, whenever people are arguing about humanity’s greatest technological advances, has to jump in about fucking ball bearings, an absolute simp for ball bearings, can’t WAIT to get into his little spiel.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Fuck ball bearings. Amirite?
A bunch of my colleagues have their email autoreplies turned on, like absolute sociopaths. #AcademicSky
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A bunch of my colleagues have their email autoreplies turned on, like absolute sociopaths. #AcademicSky
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The only real analog I can think of to Elise Stefanik's decision to run for governor of New York in 2026 is Thích Quảng Đức, the buddhist monk who lit himself on fire at an intersection Saigon in 1963.
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The only real analog I can think of to Elise Stefanik's decision to run for governor of New York in 2026 is Thích Quảng Đức, the buddhist monk who lit himself on fire at an intersection Saigon in 1963.
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Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.