Randy Browne
@randybrowne.bsky.social
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Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com
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I received an email today notifying me that in January, my insurance premium is increasing 24.8%
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"Our government is so woke that the police are using Spanish on their shields!"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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pennpress.bsky.social
A big congratulations is in order for author Randy M. Browne—his book THE DRIVER'S STORY has just won the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
The Driver’s Story – Penn Press
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...
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randybrowne.bsky.social
Thank you! As you know, your help with this project was vital.
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Thanks, David! And by the way, your first book was really helpful in thinking through some of the issues around driver's masculinity.
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Hey, it takes a village! Thanks!
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I am so excited to share this news!
slaveryarchive.bsky.social
Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
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queersatanic.bsky.social
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off
randybrowne.bsky.social
President Bone Spurs telling pregnant women in pain to “tough it out.” Just wow, what an awful person.
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guillaumecandela.bsky.social
#Convocatoria para el volumen 31-2: "Las primeras resistencias indígenas y africanas en el Nuevo Mundo 1492-1582". Más información aquí👉https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/fh/announcement/view/105
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lauraolin.bsky.social
also, if I’m not mistaken, the FCC chair just affirmed his plan to end free speech in America in a reply to the guy who played the wheelchair kid on Glee
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.
randybrowne.bsky.social
And then the dorks cheer the other dorks on because reasons.
shacknews.com
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
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shutupmikeginn.bsky.social
the joke that got Kimmel kicked off ABC isn't even at the expense of Charlie Kirk. the way the US is accelerating in fascism is truly scaring the shit out of me!
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harrylitman.bsky.social
The statement that got Kimel suspended:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in his monologue.”
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