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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 5m

And the targets of Weimar antifascism were…?

A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 6m

I had a word's spelling 'corrected' (Ted Nelson's 'intertwingled' > 'intermingled'), in a way that drained the sentence of its specific referent.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 1h

The expulsion of England’s Jews began #OnThisDay 735 years ago

The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 17h

Enjoying the revelation of how flexible some people's principles are when their whopping salary depends on that condition.
If their AI is so feeble that paying (a pittance!) for the value of writers’ and artists’ and composers’ brilliance would dry up funding for AI, so much the worse for AI.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 17h

'Students new to the field have first to undrstnd the concept of historical contingency—at every point in antiquity, things cld have gone otherwise—& its corollary, namely, that the importance of a given writer or event to the later tradition does not reliably indicate its imprtnce to antiquity.' !!

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor job with Colby College | 37897624
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Waterville, Maine, United States job with Colby College | 37897624

Description The Classics Department at Colby College has been authorized to offer a Tenure-Track position at the Assistant Professor...

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 1d

/can confirm, am able to use a toilet and, for certain values of the term, to dress myself

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't 'transexamic' sound like a made-up placebo name? A doctor once told an anxious, joints-aching PG student (me) that he might have 'palindromic arthritis' in the good old days before access to the internet…

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 1d

I got an Inkvent calendar last year, but I haven't used up the inks yet, so… maybe every *other* year.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes.

bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 1d

The Bru must get thru (the bloodstream)!

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 1d

Round robin pen pals letters…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 2d

When we lived in Glasgow, my wife (who has other medical reasons for low energy) was diagnosed with critically low iron, and was rushed to hospital and given four pints of Scottish blood. Since then she has ascribed all her resilience and good health to the effects of the Scottish infusion.

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 2d

My recollection is that it closed down because of the effort+cost/benefit ratio

A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 2d

Have to remember and find a new home there

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 2d

Of course he's going to do this. He can't handle being told no.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

When Trump is about to do something awful, he signals ahead so that people can get acclimated to the idea. It reduces the likelihood of a blow up from people due to the shock.

Brace yourselves America. You put him in power. Get ready for the road to fascism to accelerate at a fast pace.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 2d

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 2d

(I've had couples insist on that being included in their weddings…)

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A K M Adam, aging academic cleric. Keine Faschisten, danke. @akma.bsky.social · 2d

You've sold me!

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