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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 1h

Raleigh is one if my least favourite historical humans. Everything about him, from the pomposity to the meanness to the murdering, is just odious

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · 4h

Hey bookshop.org has FREE Shipping today! catch my book at at a discount AND free shipping: bookshop.org/p/books/push...

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Teoni Maughan Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social · 4h

I was invited to co-organise this upcoming conference being held later this month at the University of Exeter. With two days of exciting talks and panels, plus a walking historical tour of Exeter and a group dinner, I'd highly recommend coming along if you can!

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 4h

See this?

This story is the sound of a bullet you didn’t even know was coming at you whistling past your right ear.

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 6h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysofGraves and day 8 is Glass: light through the window casts shadows on a monument at Cwm-iou

Light and shadow on wall monument to Joan, daughter of Mr Williams ... . Winged cherub at top.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 11h

We are delighted to welcome @susiedeedigan.bsky.social to Maynooth tomorrow evening for a research seminar entitled '"Hardly serious”: the detention of republican women in wartime Ireland, 1939-45'. The seminar is open to the public and will take place in Roque Lab, Rhetoric House 17:00-18:00.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 14h

"We call on all our governments & people to condemn Israel’s crime of illegally intercepting our flotilla... Our governments must end #Israel ’s illegal blockade and ongoing genocide of #Gaza."

Milad Crew Illegally Abducted by Israeli Military
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#FreedomFlotilla

Milad Crew Illegally Abducted by Israeli Military

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 13h

One I saw was easily identifiable as not an Irish family business by the handsomeness and impeccable clothing of its 'founder'. No way had he ever set foot in Co Westmesth.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 1d

Love everything about this King Billy esp his chonky legs and prancy pony (Victor Mee auction)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of talk about emotion in the archive recently, and I get it. This morning I've been brought nearly to tears by trying to unpick the history of a Flemish family where the grandfather, father, and son all have exactly the same name.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves • Gender 🪦

Mary Richards (d. 1749) 🪦

"An Aged Mother she was indeed, helpful to those that were in need.

She served God whilst she had Breath, which made her happy in her Death."

📍Holy Trinity Church • Marcross ⛪

#Wales #History

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 2d

Also for anyone not paid during the crash by someone who's now back looking down on the world again.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday my eleven-year-old daughter claimed that Taylor Swift had embraced a range of genres which included punk. The retribution was swift and included considerable mockery and a lesson on punk which probably took longer than she would have liked.