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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they)

@amb.his101.com
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History Professor in Central Illinois, Dungeon Master

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I think we all have to ask ourselves what we would do if Zohran left his wife to be with Olivia Nuzzi. I would learn the clarinet - I feel like that instrument would be able to express what I felt
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 27/10/2025
Nostalgic for the brief period in 1999 when we thought Blair Witch might be real
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BoringKate @boringpornokate.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Reskeet if you adore trans girls!!
a possibly nsfw pic of a hot trans girl
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
3 days into T i attempted lifting weights only to discover im not magically Strong
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Punipaws @punipaws.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
cake
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may @maysuser.name · 26/10/2025
it's always girl cock but never woman cock
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"wow, look who's decided to join us" also devastating to a deeply depressed kid who's managed to drag themselves out of the hole in an effort to find comfort in socialization
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/10/2025
i hope they build it exactly like this
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 25/10/2025
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Mayor Johnson is cooking
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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 26/10/2025
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
nobody: my parents:
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dial “m” for marlo @marlo.ooo · 25/10/2025
thumbnail for a youtube video titled The Seventh Seal (zoomer edition)
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 25/10/2025
Omg you are awesome! Yay!
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/10/2025
You know what is a weird thing I miss about regular TV seasons? Obligatory seasonal holiday episodes. Like, no one dropping 8 episodes in July is going to give you an unhinged Halloween ep, a totally inappropriate murder on Christmas ep, and probably some weird Valentine's Day nonsense.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
so much of the Bible takes place in Egypt and yet there's not a single mummy attack during any of those arcs, in case you were still under the illusion that prophets care about what the fandom wants
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 24/10/2025
Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 25/10/2025
kopps.com It’s the thing I look forward to most about visiting my extended family in Wisconsin. My father used to regularly drive 3 hours from Chicago to Kopp’s whenever they do Macadamia Nut as their custard of the day.
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Welcome to Burger + Custard Heaven | Kopp's Frozen Custard
Founded by Elsa Kopp in 1950, Kopp's Frozen Custard specializes in Milwaukee's best freshly made frozen custard and jumbo burgers.
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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 25/10/2025
in defense of literal Boomers/Silent Generation folk getting their brains cooked on Facebook and now commercials with AI — not only did the technology come about *remarkably* quickly on the timescale of a 70+ year old life, a lot of the details making it obvious it's fake aren't clear with bad eyes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/10/2025
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
if you’ve never seen Interview with the Vampire, it ends with the vampire being told he’s made it through to a second interview
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes
Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/10/2025
Good luck to our MLBPA union brothers on the Dodgers and @bluejays.com as they start the World Series tonight. Play ball, and solidarity forever!
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 25/10/2025
If you’re ever in Milwaukee, check out Kopp’s, the original butter burger and frozen custard restaurant. 😀
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BoringKate @boringpornokate.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Reblog if you adore trans porn!!!
a possibly nsfw pic of a hot trans girl
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 10/09/2025
It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
god. damn.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.
A picture of a skeet from Iain Mansfield that reads
"The fact that some historians insist the Dark Ages didn't actually exist - and this is considered legitimate within the professional community - is a big reason why History doesn't deserve the same respect as, say, medicine or physics.

It's as if lots of medical academics held anti-vax views"
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Shawn Lenore | How to be a Werewolf webcomic @shawnlenore.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I find it funny when an animated movie for an original IP that wasn't meant to be a big deal ends up making bank, and then every executive is left wondering how it happened. The answer is then always that the movie had a coherent and well-crafted story, looked cool, and had good music. Every time.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Toon Army Buffalo @toonarmybuffalo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’d advise any remaining administrative staff at Old Trafford to freshen up the résumés tonight
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 27/08/2025
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt
It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 09/08/2025
This sounds awesome! Pre-ordered! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm excited to read it next week!
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Bobsession @bobservo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you
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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
sorry if this is insane to say, but i dont think a group of reactionary cultists should set the cultural agenda for all of society
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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And you opposed actions taken then, too.
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 22/06/2025
I think the 5e version in Quests on the Infinite Staircase also adds details of the city underneath the pyramid that the main adventure is set in.
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 22/06/2025
Even if you're not playing 5e, I would still check out the Original Adventures Reincarnated volume for Lost City: archive.org/details/orig... It expands the original dungeon to twice the length and adds a lot to build it into a full mini-campaign.
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Original Adventures Reincarnated #4: The Lost City : Goodman Games : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Lost in the sweeping dunes of an expansive desert your band, separated from its caravan during a sandstorm, stumbles upon the ancient ruins of a city,...
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 22/06/2025
If you're playing up the weird fantasy aspects, definitely have fun with the crazy masks they are wearing. If I remember correctly, some versions of the adventure have the Cynodiceans basically believe that they are whatever their mask is, so if they have an animal mask on, they act like animals.
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Aaron Berkowitz (he/they) @amb.his101.com · 22/06/2025
Cool! The Cynodiceans are wonderful holdovers from an ancient dead civilization. I don't remember if the original module focuses much on this, but some of the remasters and revisitings really emphasize the fact that the Cynodiceans are kept drugged and hallucinating the whole time.
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