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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 5h

(1/8) #OrangeShirtDay, also known as the #NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation, is observed annually on September 30. It honours residential school survivors, their families, and communities, and remembers the children who never returned home.

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International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social · 4h

It's the last day to submit your favorite medieval art for the ICMS 2028 Mascot Competition! form.jotform.com/261415387651...

Graphic reading: Last day to submit to the mascot competition!

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4h

Fact. Also its Æ.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 12h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 5h

I love the reference to faux-democratization as “predatory inclusion.” It’s perfect! 👏🏽 Stefan & Leah. “We argue that conceptions that reduce democratization to expanded market access are not merely insufficient but, when applied to speculative capital markets, amount to predatory inclusion.”

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5h

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7h

If I remember correctly there was a comparable show called Let Me In on Korean tv in 2011 except that was just plastic surgery. The Swan always was more extreme.

There was virtually no recovery time; within days, the women were required to be in the gym, berated as their post-procedure faces burned, on a strict diet of no more than 1,200 calories a day; by the second season, that allowance was halved, putting the participants in a dangerous and unsustainable calorie deficit. “I think they had to dehumanize us because, ultimately, we were just a job,” says Beth, next to old footage of her giving a thumbs up while completely obscured by medical bandages.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8h

Today on the Patreon I have an extensive review of a number of the historical problems in The Uprising and why they matter. I didn't even really get to do the bit about the lack of colour and the filth, cuz there's so much. You can check it out from only £1 per month. www.patreon.com/GoingMedieva...

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On the Uprising, or, Must Riser Harder | Dr Eleanor Janega

Paul Greengrass’s new film the Uprising presented an interesting opportunity to examine what happens during historical periods of exaggerate

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 9h

Dark Ages didn't happen

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 7h

BBC News - Race to save Coventry Cathedral ruins as campaign launches - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Race to save Coventry Cathedral ruins as campaign launches

Donations are needed to repair damage caused by the ruins being exposed to the elements for 86 years

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 9h

Hello Wednesday. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Bird of prey pulling a fox in a cart, fox appears to be shouting at the bird, bird looks displeased.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 7h

I couldn’t quote-post it, but read the thread I just reposted from — not all anti-Zionism is antisemitism but allowing non-Jews to set the terms for “acceptable” Jewish practice/observance is intolerable.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 7h

This is good and the smartest part of the article is realizing that apocalyptic movements in history can be (usually are) categorically messy - that the social scientific urge to categorize as pre/post millennial often doesn’t work

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6h

Pooley's joking aside, I am currently reading a 17th-century will where the testator bequeaths property to his son that is 'comonlie called or knowne by the name or names of our Ladyes Bottome'. 🍑

17th-century handwritten text, part of a historic will.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10h

"Institutes of higher education harbour known rape dens where men foster a culture of apathy and contempt towards women and are enabled to commit sexual assault" is perhaps something we should consider more objectionable than we currently do.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6h

I much prefer the historically accurate version where the British conquered the world for spices and still couldnt use any of them until the people they stole the spices from went there to show them how to use pepper

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6h

👀👀👀

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17h

TERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?”

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15h

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Bee @liminallyhuman.bsky.social · 14h

When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hawkeye.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Time for this classic again.

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16h

WOKE IS BACK

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17h

New survey from the Annenberg Center is out. Less than a quarter of Americans (23%) have a favorable view of RFK Jr. Meanwhile 42% of us have a “very unfavorable” view of him, and many people (40%) are confused about whether he recommends the MMR vaccine. Horrifying stats for an HHS Secretary.

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About 1 in 3 Americans Say RFK Jr. Recommends Measles Vaccine | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

1 in 3 U.S. adults say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommends vaccinating children against measles - as many as those who say he does not recommend it.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social · 15h

Did you know that people can develop a life-threatening allergy to a substance and _not know it_ until they are exposed to the substance _the next time_ -? When they're in anaphylactic reaction to the substance? And would have no reason to carry an EpiPen for themselves? Yeah.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15h

Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see someone use their religion as an excuse to exclude trans people in some court case or other, I think about how I genuinely believe that it is my religious duty towards God to transition, and how stressed a judge would be if we ended up opposite each other in the same case.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 22h

Also: if you work for a restaurant, cafe, farm, etc that sometimes has food that goes to waste, get in touch with your local FNB chapter! They may be able to pick up the food and cook with or distribute it.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17h

It has been an interesting few days in my feed, but one fascinating thing is people telling me that historians have caused as much damage as bad bridge builders, but the idea seems to be that anyone who makes claims about the past is a historian and son that just ain’t true.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 18h

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 16h

break out the popcorn. Republican former mayor of Tony white-flight OKC suburb Edmond confronted Markwayne Mullin ion immigration & Christian values (“love your neighbor!”) and got hauled out of the room

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DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin defends ICE in Oklahoma shouting match

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin compared undocumented immigrants to child rapists before clashing with an Edmond man over ICE.

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Auntie Lotus 🌼💜 @lotusenta.gay · 18h

If you want to be an ally to marginalized people, you need to remember that you're dealing with a traumatized population. If you take offense to people lashing out at their oppressors because you look like them, cishet white man, then you need to grow a thicker skin.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h

The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 18h

We (the left) really beefed it when we uncritically accepted the framing that men were “just worried about fake accusations” when it was far more likely they *knew* a bunch of accusations were coming because they were guilty of them

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 19h

two things can both be true: a) child rape is drastically underreported and there are a lot more people out there abusing children than anyone wants to admit; b) calling people pedophiles for shitty/spurious reasons to win an internet argument makes it easier for genuine pedophiles to operate

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

weird al version of klingon opera

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

Toad, an accomplished musician, plays violin for his seeds.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 19h

Yes but --

the cover of fiasco's next novel, 'the hamsome man,' featuring him (the hamsome man) sitting on a faux-wood table in front of some blue and gold curtains

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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