iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

haven’t even been in dc for a month and I’m already at the taking the train back to Charlottesville every weekend level of denial because I miss my places

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

why is a “journalist” at CNN “interviewing” AI

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we moved to dc and 1) the cats have never lived somewhere with stairs, lots to process 2) Abe and Harry hanging together no matter where I live has become something of a gag and I love it very much

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

fr though my 20s were like laughably bad—had to escape an abusive relationship, got a grapefruit sized tumor that cost me an organ and much of my sanity, had a generally horrible and traumatizing time in graduate school—but in my 30th yr I’ll finish the PhD, am moving to DC, starting a new job

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

these ppl keep doing my dissertation (which is about the 1790s-1830s) in real time

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m moving in 2 weeks and I’m really depressed about it and I am really bad at life transitions and phoebe bridgers picked this week to give me a new album

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

there’s something so Japanese House about the new Phoebe Bridgers record

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

it’s UVA alerts sent from 80 different numbers season 😍😍😍

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

this is exactly how I felt hearing Cameron Winter’s voice on the new Phoebe Bridgers album

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

15 min into the new Phoebe album and I’ve said “holy shit” out loud 4 times already god I’ve missed her

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

yesterday my phone died and simply never turned back on again (which was ultimately some kind of factory defect) but it meant I had to drive from Charlottesville to the Apple Store in Richmond with no phone and directions on a sticky note like Lewis and Clark or some shit

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the universe knows I’m pure of heart and love all living creatures so I’ve been blessed with a new baby bird sighting nearly every day this summer

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

back to my roots (rewatching Netflix Daredevil for the 500th time)

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

5 years of living in charlottesville means 5 years of finding out from Instagram when Dave Matthews is 2 blocks from my house and missing the random casual run in of my dreams every single time 💔

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love how every day in charlottesville they’re digging up a new road and then giving it the worst patch job imaginable so no matter where I go I’m driving on a mariokart course

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

given the state of things just generally I hate to say this but spider man brand new day was good

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/08/2026

I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

not the point but why does this look like the Mamma Mia! movie poster lol

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

going to Hate Watch Young Washington tonight

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

my friend (not an early americanist) couldn’t remember what SHEAR was called and recently asked if I’m excited to attend SMORE this weekend

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

sticking my tongue out at reckless drivers instead of flipping the bird in hopes that they find it cute and unexpected and don’t think to shoot me

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

have started adding a popsicle to this evening routine

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Literally the fact that we’re still talking about this guy after the tattoo thing is so embarrassing. What is wrong with you people???

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I would like to stop seeing advertisements for protein coffee

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

this pair of cardinals comes to eat on my porch every day and this morning they brought their baby :’)

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Mechanic’s Free Press, 1829 #amwriting

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

good morning for me and my alarm clock(s)

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

thinking about all of the countries I visited before I started birding 🫩💔

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

doing a new thing to force myself to write where the second my eyes open in the morning I grab my computer, put shoes on, and walk to the closest coffee shop. do not change out of pajamas do not eat breakfast do not pass go do not collect $200 etc

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Larry the Cat, located at 10 Downing Street, London

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Kai Trump has something very Jojo Siwa about her

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

diss needs to be done in 4 months and I’ve been staring at a blank screen for weeks bc I just… can’t come up with anything asked one of my committee members to meet bc I clearly need help and was so stressed that I just went mute for the hour while he said encouraging things to me 🧍🏼

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

500 degrees outside and everything eatable in my house needs to be warmed up

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

feeling like I’m going insane watching everyone celebrate zv*rev today as if he’s not an abuser who shouldn’t be allowed represent the sport at all 🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

did we not decide this guy wasn’t a great idea after the Nazi tattoo

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Been waiting to share for a while now that I’m joining the team at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in September as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts. This is my dream job & I’m so excited to move to D.C. (!) and finish my dissertation (!!) this summer so I can start this new adventure :)

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

just learned about oulipo and now I’m stressed out

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Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it’s a beautiful day to not pay dues to the American Historical Association

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The AHA (@historians.org) sent this condescending, chicken-shit email to its members today. While the organization has done next to nothing to advocate for scholars navigating a dismal academic job market, it has fought assiduously to silence pro-Palestinian voices within its ranks. For shame. 🗃️

“A Message from the Executive Committee of the AHA Council
The election for next year's AHA Council open on June 1, and this year, your ballot will look a little different. In addition to two candidates for each slot selected by the member-elected Nominating Committee, the ballot will also list several "by petition" candidates, all of whom have been nominated by Historians for Peace and Democracy (HPAD), in collaboration with Historians4Palestine and the Palestinian Historians Group. Believing that this is a particularly important election for the Association's future, and wishing to explain the origins of this "by petition" slate, the AHA's Executive Committee is taking the unusual step of offering further context and alerting members to the implications of the "by petition" campaign.
As you are surely aware, we are living through a time of unprecedented attempts to rewrite history and threaten historians ability to access, study, and understand our past. In the past two years in particular, the AHA has been courageously engaging in monumental efforts to advocate for our discipline. Despite strong headwinds, we have had some recent wins, such as a successful outcome in our NEH lawsuit. Yet the AHA, like other organizations and institutions, has faced internal disagreement as to the kinds of actions we should take. To date, the Council and staff have focused the AHA's work on issues within our core mission: promoting historical studies and supporting and defending the rights of historians to research and teach honest, expert history. For this we have faced severe criticism from HPAD, a 501(c)(4) (political) group that advocates for a much more aggressive stance on specific, political matters. The antagonistic relationship of HPAD's leadership towards the current AHA Council began in January 2025. HPAD had campaigned vigorously for a resolution on Gaza, which was passed at the Association's business meeting. …”

“Now these groups have used the "by petition" clause in the AHA bylaws to generate a full slate of candidates, the majority of whom sit on HPAD's own steering committee or advisory board, to oppose the candidates put forward by the member-elected Nominating Committee. The petitions for their nomination were signed by about 200 members (less than two percent of our over 10,000 members).
It should also be noted that among our 133 affiliated societies, HPAD is the only 501(c)(4) (political) organization, and the only one with an explicitly political mission. Its status means that it operates under the US tax code just as the National Rifle Association or Planned Parenthood, or any other 501(c)(4), and is not permitted to have formal members. HPAD, unlike the AHA, is not a membership organization and is therefore not obligated to any members and does not elect its own leadership.
The AHA, by contrast (and contrary to HPAD's claims), has a governance structure very much like the other 501(c)(3) disciplinary associations, with a professional staff and a member-elected Council charged with decision-making. But the AHA is unique among the disciplinary associations in that it is the only one incorporated by a law, or charter, passed by the US Congress. That law charges us with a specific mission: "the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and of history in America." (Other examples of congressionally chartered organizations include the American Red Cross and the US Olympic Committee.) Our foundational mission is to join together historians, whatever our personal and political views, in the common professional purpose of furthering the study and teaching of history. And we are able to join together historians from all regions, fields, and institution types because we adhere to this mission.

Executive Committee of the AHA Council”

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