Nancy J. Jacobs
@nancyjjacobs.bsky.social
Corn-fed *and* cultural elite! I write histories of small things--of people you never heard of and animals. Having been raised a Calvinist, humans don't disappoint me very often. Good historical method gives me hope for the world.
I asked for an "angry grey parrot" and got this:
February 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I asked for an "angry grey parrot" and got this:
Am I seeing things?'
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Am I seeing things?'
When I started this post, I was also reaching towards what we retain, it might help us recover. But the lesson of SA suggests that will take a long time. I'll end here, without exonerating the past by hoping for the future.
February 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
When I started this post, I was also reaching towards what we retain, it might help us recover. But the lesson of SA suggests that will take a long time. I'll end here, without exonerating the past by hoping for the future.
I'm incandescently angry about what they propose to "restore" greatness, but MAGA may be right on one thing: what was lost was actually not so great.
February 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'm incandescently angry about what they propose to "restore" greatness, but MAGA may be right on one thing: what was lost was actually not so great.
As in SA in 1948, this is a real turning point.
February 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
As in SA in 1948, this is a real turning point.
If we are outraged by what is happening, we should also be revulsed by what happened on the liberal watch. Lincoln's point in the Second Inaugural was, "you'll reap what you sow." And so, here we are. My class, my cohort, is losing its country right now.
February 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If we are outraged by what is happening, we should also be revulsed by what happened on the liberal watch. Lincoln's point in the Second Inaugural was, "you'll reap what you sow." And so, here we are. My class, my cohort, is losing its country right now.
I don't have to make a list, but you can think the good reasons that many people, here and abroad, from all across the political spectrum, do no not mourn the crumbling of the liberal establishment.
February 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I don't have to make a list, but you can think the good reasons that many people, here and abroad, from all across the political spectrum, do no not mourn the crumbling of the liberal establishment.
In 1948, the recent past had not been salubrious for most South Africans. Segregation was well established and the state regularly used violence to suppress dissent. What we've lost in the US was also not salubrious for many Americans or much of the world.
February 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In 1948, the recent past had not been salubrious for most South Africans. Segregation was well established and the state regularly used violence to suppress dissent. What we've lost in the US was also not salubrious for many Americans or much of the world.
You may say my settings are wrong, but I share these posters' politics. I don't want to share their mode of critique. I had a sense BlueSky would be different, but I guess it's social media, after all.
February 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
You may say my settings are wrong, but I share these posters' politics. I don't want to share their mode of critique. I had a sense BlueSky would be different, but I guess it's social media, after all.