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Nancy Wingfield

@nmw1.bsky.social

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Habsburg historian, occasionally, some Successor States; fan of cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Under contract to write a book that stubbornly refuses to write itself. I've been awarded a medal! .. more

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14h

🥰🥰🥰 You reap what you sow, I guess.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14h

But that doesn't really answer my question, which is about how the Idahoans will frame it.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14h

Sure, mostly NATO.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

You think? 😂

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 16h

How's the right-wing GOP universe in Idaho gonna frame this as Biden's fault? 🙄

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 22h

My Portlania cousin says the crocheting & knitting across generations continues unabated. Two patrol cars so completely enveloped the occupants were unable to escape. I'd like to see a pic of the demonstrating witches & unicorns, pls. BTW, a group of frogs is an army.

l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually crochet, but this is what the nanas in Portland are doing to claim their city. Mark your territory nanas.

A tree trunk covered in colorful crocheted granny squared yarn.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 22h

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 23h

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 23h

And now, which sore loser will move to deport all Venezuelans? PSA: Fairly sure the prize goes to ppl w/ track records of on-going work for peace. You know, records that don't include demonizing opposition. Or invading cities, weaponizing the DoJ, having kidnapping children & destroying families.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually crochet, but this is what the nanas in Portland are doing to claim their city. Mark your territory nanas.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Obama?

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree there. He's principled enough lunatic, imo, that he sometimes gets things right & causes some pain. Very rarely, but I think it's happened.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

Is Rand Paul the only GOP Senator who gets this?

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

👇👇👇 They can't all be in the Epstein files, can they? I guess they're figuring nonwhite lives don't matter...

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 1d

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

It figures that an emblematic case of ICE’s gross abuse of civil rights would involve targeting a man named Miranda.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

IKR. Fairly sure the decision about the Obama Peace prize wasn't made in the last 48 hours. 🥰

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d

What's the over-under on Mango winning the Nobel/Obama Peace Prize? I'm thinking that committee can't be bought...

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 1d

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

It figures that an emblematic case of ICE’s gross abuse of civil rights would involve targeting a man named Miranda.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

So true. 👇👇👇

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

*face job, but race job works, too. I think the hair dye works its way into their brains with bad results, but that's just a conspiracy theory.

Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

Hate to break it to you, but plenty of ppl consider him telegenic. I mean, he doesn't wear orange makeup or maybelline mascara, hasn't had a Mar-a-Lago race job, doesn't have a Goebbels face, what's not to like? Oh, and he speaks in full sentences with subject-verb agreement.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 2d

Funny, When I lived in Paris, I could always hear English accents, women's southern English accents. Never men's, but they may not have traveled in groups... Full disclosure, I'm an American.