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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 4h

Mara is the Shepherd. Astrid Von Streusel is the tiniest adult all black cat you’ve ever seen. Astrid mostly lives next door now with her friend Wuschel the black and white cat.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5h

Captain Morgan, master of disguise, hides from the German Shepherd (who is now staring at his tail). #Cats

Photo of a grey tabby’s back end, tail and legs, sticking out from under an orange blanket.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

I dimly remember the end of suits to the hockey game.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is pretty funny stuff. One story in Bermuda’s Royal Gazette from Feb 1846, a second story from Dec that same year. First, great praise of former sergeant and now hotelier Wm Oldfield’s honour and integrity. Second, ah well, Wm Oldfield has absconded owing thousands of dollars. #Bermuda

Story from Bermuda’s newspaper February 1846, reporting a social event at the Royal Hotel, attended by officers of the XX Regiment, who praise their old comrade Wm Oldfield, now proprietor of the hotel. They describe his excellent character and great honour.

Story from later that year, and reporting that Wm Oldfield has absconded clandestinely, on a ship to New York, leaving behind debts in the thousands of dollars.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 2d

Today's MEMOries archived blog post from guest contributor L.H. Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) takes a look at Tangier and the problems it posed for the English crown:

memorients.com/articles/tan...

Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II | MEMOs

Perhaps counterintuitively in imperial terms, Tangier’s prospects suffered from its unique institutional position.

memorients.com

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is pretty funny stuff. One story in Bermuda’s Royal Gazette from Feb 1846, a second story from Dec that same year. First, great praise of former sergeant and now hotelier Wm Oldfield’s honour and integrity. Second, ah well, Wm Oldfield has absconded owing thousands of dollars. #Bermuda

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

Oh good idea. Will do some research.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

Spousal unit hosted, at one of the research centres where she is director, the Indigenous Tourism Board’s familiarization event last night, w Indigenous food providers from across Canada, and dinner by three Indigenous chefs. We now have a gifted jar of clear bear fat. Not sure what to save it for.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

Execrable nonsense.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

A great pleasure to welcome Dr. Eamonn O'Keefe (@1812andallthat.bsky.social) to our department as our new Pratt Fellow in Military, Maritime, and Naval History. #MilitaryHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Ah yes, a colleague here was just telling me he did more or less the same thing. In person, in his case. She must have been used to it I suppose. The NFB film about her is quite good, as I recall.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

In thinking about Dr Jane Goodall, I'm reminded of Canadian zoologist Dr Anne Innis Dagg, who slightly proceeded her into the field study of African mammals. Historians of North America may know her father Harold Innis' work on political economy, communication theory, and staples theory. Corny but:

NEW Heritage Minute: Anne Innis Dagg

YouTube video by Historica Canada

www.youtube.com

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

Hehe. One of my Glasgow nephews once said of Edinburgh types: if you’ve pissed yourself they’ve shat themselves.

But crude but similar sentiment. That first one just so perfectly describes a kind of person everyone knows (unless you are that person).

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

If you’ve been to Tenerife they’ve been to Elevenerife.

Might be my new favourite Britishism. Language play is so delicious.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

If you’ve been to Tenerife they’ve been to Elevenerife.

Might be my new favourite Britishism. Language play is so delicious.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

There is very good sense in that. Sending good thoughts.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

That looks fun! Hope all is well.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

kermit the frog is sitting in a red chair with a stick in his mouth

Alt: kermit the frog pulled off stage by a big hook whilst he anticipates applause

media.tenor.com

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

Some Bring Out Your Deads were said, to be sure. Subject was Elizabeth’s courtships - turns out there is no such thing as sensual hand bell sounds. So mostly had a student ring it whenever Dudley’s name came up, to be haunting, plaintive, mysterious, but mostly just sounding the exact bloody same.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

There was a hand bell thingie on the desk when I got to my Tudor class yesterday, probably from some weird Psych class before or such. Just sat there. On the desk. Unclaimed. Did I use it? Yes, yes, indeed I did.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 7d

execrable framing

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 7d

Few things are more enjoyable than a discussion class from which your full piece of chalk comes back as a nubbin. Lots of connecting arrows today, students on a roll. Teaching is a joy and a privilege.

Photo of a small piece of white chalk on a desk, in front of a book for scale.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 7d

The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition have been brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, yes, I watched the Bresson on Sunday night. I’m sure this one will be back in short order.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 9d

@ranylt.bsky.social Have you watched
Diao Yinan’s Wild Goose Lake (2019) on the leaving list? Stylish to the nines. Hu Ge in the lead role is so good until you realize Gwei Lun-Mei is the heat. I think I’m addicted to this yellow-green wash, zinc chromate verging on cyan, of 2010s Chinese film.

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