Reposted by BabsBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/10/2023What horseshit. We all warned her. She knew. 1415122
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 21/10/2023Love Bsky for introducing me to tons of queer terminology. Today fell down an interweb hole re: #swordlesbian. Who knew it was a thing? And I actually own a sword. Where do I send my dues? 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 11/10/2023“Start spreading the news…” On my way to NYC for Nabucco @MetOpera then on to Vienna for more opera. Life is good. 020
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 07/10/2023I’ll be in Vienna by Thursday! Haven’t been since I was 11. Excited. 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 05/10/2023Oct. Opera binge: NOLA: Le Nozze, starting next week- NYC: Nabucco, Vienna: Trittico and Die Frau Ohne Shatten, Rome: Giulio Cesare. Life is good. 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 30/09/2023Friday: Mozart’s Figaro, Saturday: water ballet production of “Carrie”. I love New Orleans. #NOLA #NEWORLEANSOPERA 000
Reposted by BabsDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/09/2023I wrote: "Every time a stranger finds out that I’m a historian...they start telling me about their favorite history. It can be a red flag, like the Battle of Thermopylae or [a white southerner on] the Civil War, but in the vast majority of cases, it’s just someone who likes to think about the past."cnn.comOpinion: Men and the Roman Empire is more than a meme | CNNA viral trend about the Roman Empire puts on display our cultural obsession with myths about classical history, writes historian David M. Perry; at the same time, it underscores a social disconnect be... 2419850
Reposted by BabsFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/09/2023Deep-fried, puffy rice fritters known as calas were sold in French Louisiana by enslaved people, who'd use the money to buy their freedom. wgno.com/news-with-a-...wgno.comNew Orleans Calas: A Food of FreedomCalas are the first cousin of the beignet and a sweet part of the Black history of New Orleans. 3266
Reposted by Babslivvy the mousegirl 🐭 @mousegirl.boo · 13/09/2023wait why are we saying deleted and not deskeeted? 161
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 13/09/2023I’ve scheduled my next booster for Monday. It wine shot 6 which is sad because I really liked saying, “Covid #5”. 010
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Wow! I have 9 followers. And my new dining room table seats 10. You all should come to dinner. I’m a great cook. 010
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Just discovered old BBC radio plays of Dorothy L Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novels on Spotify. I’ve wanted to hear them for ages. 010
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 02/09/2023My chorkie is doing really well in the anal gland department since I started mixing a tsp of cooked bulgar wheat into her wet food. 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 02/09/2023Very late start, today. Fire alarms in my building on and off till 4am due to malfunction. Slept with ear plugs. My chorkie was very unhappy. 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 31/08/2023Why are Bskys posting stuff about Xitter? If I wanted to know what was going on there I wouldn’t have left. 000
Reposted by BabsChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/08/2023When Albert J. Raboteau passed a couple years ago he left behind a legacy including the seminal SLAVE RELIGION tracing the development of relgious beliefs of the enslaved which is a recommended read for Black August today.bookshop.orgSlave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South (Updated) a book by Albert J. Rabo...Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J.... 21311
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 28/08/2023My method for dealing with stuff I don’t fully understand is to 1) File new info in my brain so as to expand my thinking; 2) Do Research; 3) Ask questions; 4) STFU; 5) Apologize when I make mistakes. 000
Babs @babfab.bsky.social · 26/08/2023I’ve just joined Bsky having left the bird app when “he who must not be named” acquired it. I didn’t see the point of staying with him in charge. 070
