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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ballroom sponsored by Triangle Shirtwaist factory
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“And all shall fade The flowers of spring The world and all the sorrow At the heart of everything” 😢
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dislike this very much 😞
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Gus Reacts to Pluto News: That's Messed Up
Alt: Gus Reacts to Pluto News: That's Messed Up
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
a favorite bit of writing on Dolly: David Cantwell on "Coat of Many Colors" "I am poor, but I will be more than that. I *am* more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving."
Coat of Many Colors is not a documentary or even a memory, but a story she's telling herself. The adult Parton presents this childhood story says a lot about the survival tactics of poor kids generally, and of Dolly Parton specifically. It might, for example, explain Parton's flamboyant stage dress through the years. More substantially, it tells how a poor kid from the Blue Ridge Mountains has to make sense of life if she has ambitions, as we know Dolly Parton most certainly did. ...I am poor, but I will be more than that. I am more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving. And since my mother slaved over this amazing coat for me, I must be worth loving, too."
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Woke 1 went too far!” The phrase “stay woke” comes from the movement against police murder of black people 12 years ago and in that time not a single police department was actually defunded nor abolished so idk what the fuck anyone is talking about
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” is a quote in this story
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“But Trump quickly came to see Miller almost as a surrogate son, in large part due to his innate talent for knowing just what nostalgic show tune at what precise moment-"Memory" from Cats, for example-would succeed at talking Trump off the ledge of an incipient meltdown.” Good god 😂
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They said, we are having a really good week here, you’re not going to mess that up for us!
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I saw Hadestown tonight. Several people left at what seems like the bows (and therefore the end of the film), but there’s a last song right after everyone bows! Don’t leave until the credits roll!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
forbes.com
White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants
The Trump administration is defending the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act against the charge that the law had a racist intent.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What lovely news this morning!
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Baby Billy: Go Outside Nerd - The Righteous Gemstones
Alt: Baby Billy from The Righteous Gemstones saying “go outside nerd!”
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Laura Wright (Carly) is a pro at slapping! Loved her back in the day in Guiding Light! Making me miss soaps…
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“Be beige not rainbow”
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Counterpoint: the only thing this set of people want to get rid of more than academic research is serious teaching.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ah shit, here we go again
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I hope Spencer Pratt ends up in 5th place as a salute to Riley Gaines and whatnot.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Even Milli Vanilli is like, “we’re too good for this 💩!”
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I hope when it happens it’s one of the times he nods off sleeping on camera because it’d be funny 😄
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taber @kvetch.gay · 10/05/2026
"we weren't taught x in school" online always is - because x is not true - because you personally don't remember x but it was very much something you should have gathered from your lectures and readings - because x is specialized knowledge beyond the scope of the curriculum and you do not read books
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Recession indicator!
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Should’ve brought him some of Ka$h’s liquor too!
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Horrifying
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just left a restaurant where the food was great but a loud fight was also going on in the kitchen between staff lol
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Sick old Nazi leader in an old star trek episode
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The Bearded Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026
Airline baggage fees were implemented to offset rising fuel costs in the early 2000s in case you were wondering if this would be temporary.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Not worried about doxxing anymore? All unmasked in these photos.
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Everything is so dumb now. It’s killing me.
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
Screenshot from Tumblr

User hatingongodot:

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

User Shitacademicswrite:

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Broadway edition - Lin Manuel Miranda Darren Criss Jonathan Groff Audra McDonald Anna Kendrick Jonathan Bailey Megan Hilty Alex Newell Jinx Monsoon Jordan Fisher
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I must’ve done something wrong, I’ve had two alt text captions not show in posts.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I'm hoping restaurant workers are spitting in the food of ICE.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Going to have to check that out!
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Will Weaver vs. ACME 📸 @willweaverrva.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The First Lady of NYC is a VCU Arts grad...cool! #LetsGoVCU #RamsInThePros
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Delicious news
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
He was only 84?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“Americans” to him means white republican men only
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I remember reading a scathing piece long ago all about how Martha Stewart used her properties; the show, the magazine, the in store products et al. to cross promote and shore each other up financially. She was held as a grifter cheat for buying her own magazine’s ads for her home goods product line.
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Gay Avenue Pump Station
Photo of a sign for Gay Avenue Pump Station
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
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Average Historian @averagehistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Got my covid vax today. Missed me RFK!
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