Rachel Kambury
@rkambury.bsky.social
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Rachel Kambury
@rkambury.bsky.social
· Mar 17
75 Years On, We’re Still Fighting the Battles of World War II
“The war never ended,” I tell people. “It just went underground.”
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I wrote this for the 75th anniversary of the "end" of World War II. it's relevant always, but especially in light of this "administration" redacting history that will not be forgotten as long as I live:
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ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not
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Hugely gratifying!
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hugely gratifying!
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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If one person starts yelling, it’s easy from there. Don’t be afraid to be the first person to start yelling at a Nazi
A guy ran into a classroom at the University of Washington threw up Nazi salutes, yelled a bunch of slurs, then roughly 30 students chased him down, got him arrested.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If one person starts yelling, it’s easy from there. Don’t be afraid to be the first person to start yelling at a Nazi
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one of my fav reads this year!!!
I am reliably informed that my book has made an excellent gift for a large number of dads and dad types (non-gendered), if you need a gift for a dad or dad type in your life!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
one of my fav reads this year!!!
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
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In a perfect autocorrect error, @raxkingisdead.bsky.social just texted me about "Freud Durst" and we both RACED to text each other men doing it all for the nookie with their own mothers.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
In a perfect autocorrect error, @raxkingisdead.bsky.social just texted me about "Freud Durst" and we both RACED to text each other men doing it all for the nookie with their own mothers.
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Congrats to our bracket winner, the queen of the microblog, and her cat too
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats to our bracket winner, the queen of the microblog, and her cat too
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Every year I think, "This @mcsweeneys.net piece won't be relevant next year," and every year I'm wrong
This Thanksgiving We’re Pivoting to Video
Before we pop this turkey in the oven, I just want to say that Thanksgiving will be a little different this year. Don’t worry; it will still be mos...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Every year I think, "This @mcsweeneys.net piece won't be relevant next year," and every year I'm wrong
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"Are the risks greater of claiming grief is expressed by this mother, or of denying her these emotions completely?"
I love my brilliant friend @sabs.bsky.social and I love this absolute heartbreaker of a piece. "Anthropodenialism" is a concept that will live in my brain for a long time.
I love my brilliant friend @sabs.bsky.social and I love this absolute heartbreaker of a piece. "Anthropodenialism" is a concept that will live in my brain for a long time.
!["But, [King] added, to assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism, a term coined by the primatologist Frans de Waal, referring to the a priori rejection of human-like traits in animals or animal-like traits in us. "Are the risks greater of claiming grief is expressed by this mother, or of denying her these emotions completely?" King said. "I value recognition of the expression of profound feelings in animals without insisting on impossible standards of confirmation of that interpretation, standards we would never apply to our own species," she added."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pozzsy2yop2ymlwo5hqwbk5j/bafkreih6y2a75o27qepncpourthiheeilpqte5zh7vlpfypg4p5c5xf7we@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"Are the risks greater of claiming grief is expressed by this mother, or of denying her these emotions completely?"
I love my brilliant friend @sabs.bsky.social and I love this absolute heartbreaker of a piece. "Anthropodenialism" is a concept that will live in my brain for a long time.
I love my brilliant friend @sabs.bsky.social and I love this absolute heartbreaker of a piece. "Anthropodenialism" is a concept that will live in my brain for a long time.
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"We know from rigorous scientific observation that grief and love aren’t exclusively human," Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William & Mary and research fellow at the animal-ethics think tank PAN Works, wrote in an email.
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"We know from rigorous scientific observation that grief and love aren’t exclusively human," Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William & Mary and research fellow at the animal-ethics think tank PAN Works, wrote in an email.
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
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This is horrible - these are dissertation grants for PhD students, who have few options to get funding for research.
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is horrible - these are dissertation grants for PhD students, who have few options to get funding for research.
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Oh no
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Oh no
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RIP to MEL magazine, the only outlet that would ever dare to commission nea to write this story and the only one that would ever allow me to say something like this for it
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
RIP to MEL magazine, the only outlet that would ever dare to commission nea to write this story and the only one that would ever allow me to say something like this for it
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Look I don't enjoy losing respect for people who've decided to boost "AI" and throw away whatever credibility they may have earned in their field, but they're making their choices, and being nice to them isn't going to change their minds
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.
You don’t get to demand civility.
You don’t get to demand civility.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Look I don't enjoy losing respect for people who've decided to boost "AI" and throw away whatever credibility they may have earned in their field, but they're making their choices, and being nice to them isn't going to change their minds
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Let’s hit MAGA where it hurts: #WeAintBuyingIt
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Let’s hit MAGA where it hurts: #WeAintBuyingIt
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I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I have never wanted a mouse riding a lobster more.
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
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merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have never wanted a mouse riding a lobster more.
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Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol. People were livid lol. It really changed my perspective on giving. its freeing to give without expectation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing about people donating trash is — and I kid you not — the only thing (so far) to almost get me fired. White people were LIVID. And organized to get my university fired for it.
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!
This is the holy grail of whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism in some surprising ways.
Bless that prof!