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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · Dec 31

Guess I'm moving to ANOTHER platform...

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What I Geek About:
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✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History
⚖️ Social Justice
🌲 Southern PA History
📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs
🗣️ Communication Theory
🏗️ Scale Models
🧱 LEGO
🚀 Star Wars
🐈‍⬛ Black Cats & Voids

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 7h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 3h

This reminds me of watching NCIS back in the day with my parents… and the characters taking “the 95” from the Navy Yard to Naval Station Norfolk like it was a 10-minute drive away.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

Which could be whatever, but it's being promoted and reviewed as if it's chillingly realistic. Vast gulf between how it's being taken by critics and just, like, not even experts but the most modestly informed laymen who know things like "planes take hours to fly somewhere, not minutes."

Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 8h

LBJ was only 55-years-old when he signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964…

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Mayor Defiant @eminence.fun · 22d

Now is the time to support trans people.

Venmo: @MayorDefiant

I am transfemme and I write interactive fiction in a matriarchal island city off the Pacific Northwestern coast and the team of heroes who built it.

The Regulators of Eminence pose on Pier 26, with the Statue of Libertas in the background on the far right.

From left, Thistle McKelly, Myria Klepzig, Phoebe Mosey, Harold Harris, Hellebore, and Emmiko Kieta.

Above them, Myria uses her magic to display symbols of the six Petals of Eminence.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 14h

I keep coming back to the idea that the last presidential election essentially shred the social contract to bits but people who voted for racial profiling by the secret police still really want us to be polite to them.

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 17h

If any folks in Orlando are looking for a place to speak out about this, the Dezers own a weird indoor theme park / private car collection attraction… Dezerland.

A cartoonish map of Dezerland - a monument to grotesque wealth and opulence.

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Malifiskeet 😈 @tmrob92.blacksky.app · 18h

Somebody said the weather in PA went from 80 to 35 like it saw a state trooper on a country backroad 🤣😭

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 19h

Is it ethical for a journalist with a Bluesky blue check to post AI generated videos of events that never happened?

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 1d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 1d

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

Weird detail…

Dezerland Park Orlando - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

I adore my Tomorrowland-referencing red NASA meatball cap… but I do wear it less often than I used to. That hurts because it’s an object that’s supposed to mean “Optimism.”

I’m lucky it doesn’t have the same starched, stilted profile of those other hats. It looks like a *real* ballcap.

A beat up red NASA ballcap with a Tomorrowland pin.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

Living in a town surrounded on all sides by federal property...

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

For anyone who geeks out hard on DC Black history - this is an amazing thread🧵 of places to visit!

Blake Rogers Wilson @bodyindc.bsky.social · Nov 22

Born OTD in Washington, D.C. in 1893, A. A. Taylor. Historian of the Black South and author of the Negro in Tenn. and the famed The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia. Taylor was a member and historian for Carter Woodson's ASNLH. This is his former Irving St. NW home.

A row of houses, attached on either side to neighboring homes. They sit on a slight hill and have small front yards.

A gray, two level rowhouse. It has an enclosed front porch and steps leading to the front door to the left of the frame.

A black and white photo of historian A. A. Taylor. His hair is graying and he is wearing a dark, three piece suit.

Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

Counting down the minutes until Sora changes their logo to purple and lime green...

Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

Wait... wut!? The vogue of Confederate monumentation (later 1880s-1960s) happened in tandem with the peak of white vigilante violence (early 1880s-1940s).

Admittedly, I haven't watch the vid yet. But I'm just flabbergasted at the assertion you have to counter.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

damn did I wake up and get milkshake ducked by the Nobel Prize Committee

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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 1d

I had to check that this wasn’t The Onion or McSweeney’s

Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 2d

“Nice act! What do you call it?”
“The Aristocrats!”

That punchline just reads with so much of everything going on right now…

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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