Rick Jobs
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
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Ahem
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ahem
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Hello Bluesky people in Oregon! @multnomaheastindiv.bsky.social
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Gresham City Council - An Emergency Declaration re ICE in our community · Outer East Portland Indivisible
Gresham Area (and East Portland) Residents:
### Come show support for - and speak up for - our Immigrant Neighbors
### Gresham City Council, Dec. 9, Arrive by 5:30 for 6pm Meeting.
**We have seen a ...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hello Bluesky people in Oregon! @multnomaheastindiv.bsky.social
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"WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF THEMSELVES AS THE 'GOOD GUYS' REGARDLESS OF THE VIOLENCE THEY INFLICT, THERE IS ULTIMATELY NO ATROCITY THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO JUSTIFY"
From my book 'Massacre in the Clouds' - written about early 20th-century events, but seemingly still relevant...
From my book 'Massacre in the Clouds' - written about early 20th-century events, but seemingly still relevant...
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF THEMSELVES AS THE 'GOOD GUYS' REGARDLESS OF THE VIOLENCE THEY INFLICT, THERE IS ULTIMATELY NO ATROCITY THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO JUSTIFY"
From my book 'Massacre in the Clouds' - written about early 20th-century events, but seemingly still relevant...
From my book 'Massacre in the Clouds' - written about early 20th-century events, but seemingly still relevant...
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
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Very heartened to see so many people show up at noon to the student-led protest against the administration's handling of the "religious freedom" essay-grading scandal. People are shouting "protect our professors." Other chants included, "OU, shame on you." Excuse the last few secs. of bad video.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Very heartened to see so many people show up at noon to the student-led protest against the administration's handling of the "religious freedom" essay-grading scandal. People are shouting "protect our professors." Other chants included, "OU, shame on you." Excuse the last few secs. of bad video.
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an interesting coincidence.
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Reposting this excellent thread, so worth reading! (& the short video doubles nicely, info + a moment to unwind from the stress of today’s news…)
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As people have their heads in syllabi and classes, I’d like to highlight how ‘In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism’ (MQUP 2025) can be used in teaching. (Please repost and push this thread along.)
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposting this excellent thread, so worth reading! (& the short video doubles nicely, info + a moment to unwind from the stress of today’s news…)
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We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
OMG have you SEEN that trophy/prize?
a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right
ALT: a man is covering his mouth with his hands and the word schitts creek is on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OMG have you SEEN that trophy/prize?
Hosting a Zoom meeting and waiting for others to join is always an opportunity for 'What is happening to my neck?' self-scrutiny
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Hosting a Zoom meeting and waiting for others to join is always an opportunity for 'What is happening to my neck?' self-scrutiny
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It’s a dogs life
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It’s a dogs life
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
This tracks (literally)
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This tracks (literally)
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Jean Dytar réinvente le 9e art à chaque BD. Son dernier album vient de recevoir le Grand prix de la critique ACBD. Avec l'historien Romain Bertrand, il y mêle les graphismes précolombiens et monastiques pour un récit de l'évangélisation de l'Am.Latine.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Jean Dytar réinvente le 9e art à chaque BD. Son dernier album vient de recevoir le Grand prix de la critique ACBD. Avec l'historien Romain Bertrand, il y mêle les graphismes précolombiens et monastiques pour un récit de l'évangélisation de l'Am.Latine.
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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
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This is the first line of a Tom Waits song.
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is the first line of a Tom Waits song.
Wow; more of this please
„CNRS began this process by unsubscribing from Elsevier's Scopus and is continuing today by cutting access to Clarivate Analytics' bibliometric database. This will help the org save €1.4 mill annually in subscription fees, redirected towards promoting open science & development of open databases.“
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wow; more of this please
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TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
trying to plan next semester and it's so demoralizing the way I have to gut well put together, very successful classes built out over several years--readings, assignments, etc--because I have to anticipate a combined refusal to engage/do any homework with the upsurge of AI forum posts, papers, so on
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
trying to plan next semester and it's so demoralizing the way I have to gut well put together, very successful classes built out over several years--readings, assignments, etc--because I have to anticipate a combined refusal to engage/do any homework with the upsurge of AI forum posts, papers, so on
Watched Godard's 'Breathless' (1959) last night which was very amusing to see scenes that were portrayed being filmed in Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' (2025). For 'Nouvelle Vague', I thought the Godard performance was particularly great.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Watched Godard's 'Breathless' (1959) last night which was very amusing to see scenes that were portrayed being filmed in Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' (2025). For 'Nouvelle Vague', I thought the Godard performance was particularly great.
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JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
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Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
I’ve got my end-of-semester brain-cleanse novel ready.
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’ve got my end-of-semester brain-cleanse novel ready.
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
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Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!