HistoryTeacherSteve
@historyteacher.bsky.social
👨🏼🏫🏫 High School History Teacher.
I like 💻 PC gaming, 📖 reading, and ❤️🖤 AC Milan.
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"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
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As the year ends, let me thank public school teachers who, under difficult circumstances, are doing their best to educate our kids.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As the year ends, let me thank public school teachers who, under difficult circumstances, are doing their best to educate our kids.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
If this country is to flourish, we need the best education system in the world. Let’s fight for a nation where teachers are well-paid & respected.
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In case you didn't know...
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In case you didn't know...
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santa’s reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
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There we go. Confirmed.
The Christmas subplot from the novel of Hunt for Red October does turn up (albeit briefly) in the film.
Therefore Hunt for Red October is a Christmas film.
One "ho ho ho", Vasily, and one "ho ho ho" only...
The Christmas subplot from the novel of Hunt for Red October does turn up (albeit briefly) in the film.
Therefore Hunt for Red October is a Christmas film.
One "ho ho ho", Vasily, and one "ho ho ho" only...
Yes it's mentioned at the start and end of the film
December 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
There we go. Confirmed.
The Christmas subplot from the novel of Hunt for Red October does turn up (albeit briefly) in the film.
Therefore Hunt for Red October is a Christmas film.
One "ho ho ho", Vasily, and one "ho ho ho" only...
The Christmas subplot from the novel of Hunt for Red October does turn up (albeit briefly) in the film.
Therefore Hunt for Red October is a Christmas film.
One "ho ho ho", Vasily, and one "ho ho ho" only...
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Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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Google and AI search are now dedicated to stripmining the whole web for Information. The personality, creativity, and connection of personal websites are, to them, pointless.
But the old ways still work! A billion little fires still smolder out there. You just have to go find them yourself.
But the old ways still work! A billion little fires still smolder out there. You just have to go find them yourself.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Google and AI search are now dedicated to stripmining the whole web for Information. The personality, creativity, and connection of personal websites are, to them, pointless.
But the old ways still work! A billion little fires still smolder out there. You just have to go find them yourself.
But the old ways still work! A billion little fires still smolder out there. You just have to go find them yourself.
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The worse Google gets, the more I find myself longing for a more primal internet experience: and the joy of clicking a link when you didn't know what awaited on the other side.
Google's obsession with killing off links betrays what made the internet great
The best version of the internet put links first, but Google no longer wants you to leave its own search pages.
www.pcgamer.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The worse Google gets, the more I find myself longing for a more primal internet experience: and the joy of clicking a link when you didn't know what awaited on the other side.
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The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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AOL Instant Messenger. I saved backups of my AIM chats with my friends from the late ’90s and early 2000s, when we were in middle school and high school. Reading them now is so cringey.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
AOL Instant Messenger. I saved backups of my AIM chats with my friends from the late ’90s and early 2000s, when we were in middle school and high school. Reading them now is so cringey.
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Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes
I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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SimTower (1994). One of my favorite Sim games.
October 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SimTower (1994). One of my favorite Sim games.
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Trump isn’t governing. He's ruling like a king: threatening and prosecuting his opponents, attacking free speech, and dispatching soldiers to our cities.
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Trump isn’t governing. He's ruling like a king: threatening and prosecuting his opponents, attacking free speech, and dispatching soldiers to our cities.
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Half Life's Black Mesa Research Facility
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Half Life's Black Mesa Research Facility
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.
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Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
September 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.
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Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.
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Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
www.theatlantic.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.