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Sam Thomas

@airball47.bsky.social
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Historian of religion & medicine in early modern Europe; refugee from academia. Teaching HS in NE Ohio.

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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You do not have to cut to Desean Watson looking happy. There are a whole bunch of guys who aren't evil you could show.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Narrator: He didn't learn the lesson.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Dear New York Times, This is why people hate you.
Republicans in the hard right House Freedom Caucus endorsed a call for the president to make use of the Insurrection act...At the same time...House democrats are moving to impeach Mr. Trump's homeland security secretary. GTFO!
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As a history teacher I just want to give a shout out to whichever propagandist put together this image. There is so much good stuff to dig into.
Japanese propaganda leaflet showing FDR, Churchill, and Sen trying to drag a skeptical (if stereotypical) Indian man into World War II.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In addition to cutting the video on redlining, the College Board deleted all the videos about women and economic development.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Every morning at dawn, a dedicated military contingent marches to a pristine slab of marble. While the rest of the squad holds up a tarp - for decency's sake - one member poops in the middle of the slab. The squad marches into the sunrise, leaving the poop behind. There's your monument.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Ballgame!!!! Let’s go, Guards!!!
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Abolish the death penalty.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Cover of Herman Melville's classic text, reimagined for the modern age.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Pretty much.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/09/2024
listen, i’m not saying Trump caused those two dudes to take a shot at him…but let’s not pretend like he had nothing to do with creating an atmosphere where dudes are taking shots at him (gift link)
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Donald Trump Guide to Civil Discourse
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.”
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,384,386!
I’m #1,384,396
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11/09/2024
He thinks cats are being eaten because he heard someone say their pussy got ate and neither he nor JD have any idea what that means.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Fuck, I hate that racist chant.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2024
i truly hate this guy apnews.com/article/jd-v...
apnews.com
JD Vance says school shootings are a 'fact of life,' calls for better security
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Not a Beach picture but it’s the closest I can get.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 31/08/2024
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents." www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
techpolicy.press
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
I met Richard Belzer and Bob Seger a Bruce Springsteen concert for which I did not (technically) have a ticket and they were no help at all, but I still saw the show from the floor.
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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 25/08/2024
I just saw someone call JD Vance “Hillbilly Vanilli” and I can’t breathe
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Class prep is going great, why do you ask?
An adorable kitty plopped down on top of a computer to get as many scratches as possible.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
This is by far the best coverage of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting I've seen. Short version: Despite assertions to the contrary, neither is trans, and there's no evidence in the public record that either has XY chromosomes.
rte.ie
Explained: The gender controversy miring women's Olympic boxing
Two Olympic boxers have found themselves at the centre of a fractious controversy in recent days, following a decision by the IOC to allow them to compete in Paris
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Cat just threw up her breakfast and promptly ate it. I admire her commitment to the bit.
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
JD Vance: "No, my family doesn't have wealth. When my pappy died, I didn't get any money, though I did come into a lot of furniture"
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/07/2024
If you're not following @kimkelly.bsky.social on coal miners, today is a great day to start.
inthesetimes.com
Republicans Just Handed Down a Death Sentence to the Nation's Coal Miners
As black lung continues to kill coal miners, House Republicans moved to block enforcement of a life-saving safety rule.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Your honor, with all due respect, in a sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street-fighting man.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
AC, and a I cannot emphasize this enough, AB www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/f...
sbsun.com
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
not enough violence, apparently.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
HALDEMAN: “have you reviewed the excerpts my office sent over?” NIXON: “you know someone suggested I’d do that with Checkers” HALDEMAN: “out of order, sir” NIXON: “who the Christ shoots a puppy, even the Irish on their whisky” [unintelligible] HALDEMAN: “I’ll take her off the VP list”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
The speed with which many of our faux free speech fundamentalists started demanding the use of state force to punish pro Palestinian protesters is remarkable, they do not even seem to perceive a contradiction
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, employees at the company were informed it is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop
theverge.com
X is officially worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it
A steep drop from Musk’s $44 billion purchase price.
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Sam Thomas @airball47.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Schwarber cracks me up.
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