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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 7d

Oh my malk is safe. I'm guessing this is the crypto Ripple?

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 7d

Ripple? Like my fake milk? Goddammit.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 10d

I miss when there'd be wars for kingdom and crown over when Easter should be celebrated.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12d

[Exit King.]

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 15d

In 1992, my high school prom committee picked Tears in Heaven for its theme over the classic Clapton Wonderful Tonight. When I pointed out TiH was about a dead baby no one believed me. Fucking song is about a dead baby. Still mad. 33 years.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 21d

Watching Marco Rubio decide he should counter an eye roll with a laugh is fun.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 23d

I still don't know a single Nirvana song. I tell you, rock stars should move next to me.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · 29d

It's all dumb and backwards and ::waves hands around::, but the ignoring of climate change is so idiotic it makes me especially rage. What could be more important for long-term defense planning?!

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 29

What is WRONG with you? Again, aren't you trying to raise money to stay afloat? Stop writing bad faith headlines. "Experts find no link between autism, acetaminophen" fixed it for you.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 24

and that's how i find out I wasn't subscribed. Also suggested newsletter? a newsletter about drinking in America; seems on point.

rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 24

Aren't you trying to raise money to stay alive? Maybe don't peddle this bullshit. The science is perfectly clear.

rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 22

@seena.me

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 13

Wonderfalls!

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 11

I skipped an All Hands meeting that day and was looking out my office window across to the Pentagon; never regretted skipping a meeting before. Getting out of DC that day was horrible and farcical in equal measure.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Venezuelan "drug boat" strike reminds me of Clear and Present Danger every time I see a headline. I never read the book. But I believe it ended badly for the president at the end?

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yes they do. My kid (HS junior now) has had civics twice (8th and 10th). But teaching it doesn't mean students learned. Also his 8th grade teacher was an idiot who was 100% unclear on how due process worked so ::shrug:: I had to unteach a lot of stuff.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm 51 and definitely grew up NOT thinking we were a force for good. Grew up thinking both we and the USSR were idiots leading the world towards doom. Think it also depends where you grew up? I was in Massachusetts and even the "conservative" kids weren't very rah rah America.

rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 4

The same people who are always using the Nazi gun control argument will surely speak up!

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sweet! I've made the poor child process flax. LOL.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 3

(my kid is weirdly into Roman textile production right now). And my name is Rachel and I do 17-18th c American textile history. The idealization of "homespun" makes me rage.)

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Sep 3

You literally cannot spin enough fiber with a hand spindle (not a wheel) to keep a weaver busy without human slavery. The walking wheel didn't get to Europe until the 14thc and the foot treadle until the 18thc. Even WITH a wheel it took people living in poverty/virtual slavery to get enough cloth.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think you'd need to be more specific. In Nazi Germany, for example, all transportation became "public", i.e. under the control of the RVM.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Aug 28

My kid, a high school junior, just started research for a paper on Lysenko/Vavilov. So disturbingly timely.

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rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Aug 27

Twenty minutes in to the audiobook of @vermontgmg.bsky.social The Devil Reached Toward the Sky and I've already cried because he said 30 minutes or fewer. May the Imaginary Sky People bless those who know the difference between fewer and less.

rachely @rachely336.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm an editor and edit by hand with a red pen. My son just started junior year and all the sudden his teachers are ALL OVER hand written exams and note taking and I. Am. Stoked.

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