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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Time to dust off my boots and climb back up on my high horse about how I never liked Ed Sheeran in the first place

Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As an @ifbookspod.bsky.social listener, I am somehow still surprised when I see someone in the wild on a plane with a book Mike and Peter have covered. (In this case, The Let Them Theory.)

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please deliver me from speeches by academics who think they’re funny.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I love when reading a book feels like walking into a room and finding an old friend you didn’t realize you missed. Had a perfect day reading Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com , and now I get to listen to it.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nothing makes me appreciate the experience of being on the @ncph.bsky.social Board like attending department meetings. Like, oh, a group of people with a shared purpose can engage in collaborative discussion that includes disagreement? And we can ask questions? And trust others’ expertise & intent?

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am in a sandwich shop and the teenage/20s-ish employees have reached the time when they switch who gets to be in charge of the playlist, so the heavy metal is OFF and “thank u next” is ON.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This feels very real since I spent the better part of a day correcting names in the 1950s census last week.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My favorite thing for me personally about the student loan/PSLF shitshow is that I applied for buyback in September 2025, and I still haven’t gotten a response. It’s wild how gutting the bureaucracy didn’t make anything more efficient. Who could’ve known????

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

As someone living in Michigan, it is truly wild to see the attack ads on Abdul el-Sayed. They boldly state that he’s sexist, and the evidence is Abdul making a remark critical of a female politician’s policy. This is not sexism, but it sure is attempting to prey on latent Islamophobia.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am done with the men’s World Cup, but I wanted to note for the record that the England coach is a dead ringer for Lt. Col. Eddington.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Y’all I don’t even like Taco Bell, but everyone needs to leave them alone because they are actually being incredibly responsible in trying to protect people. This is an Elon Musk/RFK Jr problem. They are the sentient explosive diarrhea parasites who ushered this in.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“Abby why are you sitting around at home?” Well, so far this summer I’ve broken my dominant wrist and gotten COVID for the first time, so I don’t like my odds on the explosive diarrhea parasite.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m rewatching DS9 for the millionth time, and one of my favorite things is how the Jem’Hadar ships don’t have chairs bc they’re super tough warriors who are apparently incredibly dependent on inertial dampeners. The vibe is so tech-bro-biohacker “sitting is death.”

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Joining us in Providence this September? Now is the time to lock in the early bird registration rate and find accommodations! While the Graduate Providence hotel block is sold out, we still have two blocks available. Find rates, hotels, the preliminary Program, and more at: loom.ly/nsWrWxo

2026 Joint Conference September 16-19 Providence, RI. The Work of Revolution. Registration is open. American Association for State and Local History. National Council on Public History.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 12/07/2026

listen. it's 5am, i haven's slept yet, and i am ridiculously stoned. i tried my very best

distracted boyfriend meme
lindsey graham being ogled by death while mitch mcconnell watches

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There’s a new @maintenancephase.bsky.social crossover podcast episode with @ifbookspod.bsky.social and the most shocking revelation is that Peter has a last name.

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That tree guy 𓅃 @somearborist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Now that they’re safe on the ground we.. ocean, I can make a joke OMG ARTEMIS IS IN TROUBLE WE’RE GETTING REPORTS OF A GIANT CAT BATTING THEM OUT OF THE SKY OH THE HUMANITY

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Did you know we maintain a free guide to history-focused digital projects? The NCPH Digital Public #History Directory has more than 200 #projects that can be explored by applying filters or searching keywords. #skystorian ncph.org/digital-public-history-dir…

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Someday @tkingfisher.com may write a story I don’t enjoy, but it is not this day. _Wolf Worm_ is so creepy and good, and I am going to go ahead and order a few extra bot knives for the season.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Everything is the absolute worst right now, but I did email someone at the University of Chicago Press, and we are getting a new Turabian hopefully next fall, and like… I will take it.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Oh man, someone is presenting at our college startup, and he’s trying to make jokes about Lord of the Rings, which would be great, except that he keeps screwing up the names, and I feel like I’m being trolled for knowing that Celebrimbor has a hard ”C.”

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So @uchicagopress.bsky.social , any idea when we’ll get a 10th edition of Turabian? Especially since the updates to the 2018 CMOS?

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Had a DELIGHTFUL evening at the @ncph.bsky.social book club where we discussed Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires, which I listened to before the pandemic and have basically been waiting to discuss with someone ever since.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The other day we were playing Wingspan, and anytime I got an invertebrate, I couldn’t stop myself from going into cursed canary voice from the audiobook of Swordheart (shoutout @tkingfisher.com and Jesse Vilinsky) about “THE WORM THAT GNAWS AT THE ROOTS OF THE WORLD.”

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Catching up on the @youaregood.bsky.social ep on O Brother Where Art Thou, and remembering when my partner and I had to make our wedding website used the plot of that film as our engagement story and forgot about it for years until his cousin asked about it bc he was upset it wasn’t the true story

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Why do so many places that sell t-shirts choose violence when they make their size guides? “We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As an ADHD person, there is truly no compliment that hits like being told I am “organized and timely.” Put that shit in an IV drip.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Can we ban the phrase “no one knows about X”? Bc it must means you didn’t know. If someone wrote a book about it, I promise plenty of people know. Just say you recently learned about it, and let’s be proud of our curiosity.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I am too tired to be posting on here, but I really need political commentators to stop saying that it’s unprecedented for a president to refuse to follow a SCOTUS decision. Andrew Jackson quite famously ignored the decision in Worcester v Georgia to continue Indian Removal.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just watched Gayle King and Katy Perry go to space for ten seconds, and it’s wild to hear these newscasters call them astronauts. I guess technically? Seems very rude to Mae Jemison, who they had doing commentary.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So it turns out I just missed being potentially exposed to measles on the Oregon Tr… wait, no, sorry it was the Grand Rapids Airport. It’s too bad there’s not some sort of preventative… wait, sorry, we’ve had a measles vaccine since 1971. WTF. www.cbsnews.com/amp/detroit/...

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Feeling very inspired post- #ncph2025. It’s been tough to find good projects for my undergrad public history class. I always want to work with community partners, but it’s tough w/uni policy on class size and my own limitations on time/energy.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“When has real progress come to those who are willing to wait?” -the exchange student playing Max Eastman in my 8:30am US history survey during our Greenwich Village,1913 Reacting to the Past game. Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A November 1957 Better Homes and Gardens feature writer, advocating for parents to follow vaccination schedules carefully and avoid complacency about the disease, put it best: “Don’t take immunity for granted.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...

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When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio

The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Things are quite awful and my brain feels like a jello mold that got left in the car on a hot day, but a student messaged me while she was watching Iron-Jawed Angels for the midterm and gushed about how much she loves it, so there are some good things happening.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

An excellent weekend so far. We experienced the convenience and joy of the South Shore Line for traveling to Chicago. We saw Taylor Tomlinson with friends. We wandered around the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I have an alarm that reminds me to eat lunch on MWF at 12:15pm. My dept meetings are some Wednesdays at 12pm, so the alarm goes off during these meetings. This visibly annoys some of my colleagues, but like… bro if I can’t remember to eat lunch, do you think I’ll to remember to turn off that alarm?

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Over here grading, and someone has got to tell the youths about the hottest thing in writing: paragraphs. With paragraphs, your work can not be a wall of text no one wants to read! Paragraphs let you separate your ideas to address all parts of the prompt clearly. Try paragraphs today for free!

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today in Historian’s Craft (née Research Methods in History), I did a brand new presentation on how file storage works and how to computer, and I really thought this would put students to sleep. Who wants to listen to their millennial professor talk about Windows 98? It turns out a lot of students!

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Abigail R Gautreau @abbygateau.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Just in time to revamp my Research Methods syllabus!

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