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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Dropping off books at a community bookshelf at a local queer cafe. Going to have a rummage and see if there's anything to take home. I'm a big believer in passing on books and that i don't need to keep them all, even the 4 star reads! 📚💙

Big stack of books on a shelf including Devils Breath, A Botanical Daughter, My Life in Sea Creatures and, All Fours.

A wider view of the bookshelf packed full of books with faux flowers and fairy lights.

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 02/10/2025

Great idea! "Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that’s illegally cut. The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable […]

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Also - anyone have a Mastodon instance that has a good bunch of narrative nonfiction authors / historians / nerds with a conscience?

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Please come to a day conference on Printing Politics, Thursday, October 23 2:00-5:00pm: poster printing and zine making workshop 5:30-7:00pm: roundtable discussion with artists, art workers, and scholars on the role of print media in their diverse practices. Rutgers Book Initiative, Murray […]

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Hot take: #BookerPrize screwed up in dropping the devastating (and funny, unlike AUDITION) MISINTERPRETATION by #LediaXhoga.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

I really wonder about Google Maps sometimes. The other day I got in the car and plugged in my phone, and at the top of its list of likely destinations I might want to drive to was... the British Library. The one in London. I am in Texas.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

I was just looking up books for a course proposal, and I discovered that, according to Amazon, _The Left Hand of Darkness_ was published in 1708. Talk about *pioneering*! #sff

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

The morning is inspiring, the breakfast is hot, the look at the strategic plan is inside: how much oatmeal would it take to bribe a professor to attend a talk by upper management? #FoundInanity

Join us in person for an inspiring morning featuring a hot breakfast, an inside look at our strategic plan,

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

The game may have given me an unrealistic expectation of how fast I can run from Back Bay to Malden (5 min)

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

I am in Boston. I’ve only been here once but I feel like I know it very well. That’s likely because I have been playing Fallout 4 consistently for a decade.

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Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️ @corin-ja.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

The richest man in the world addresses your rally, and you claim to be plucky underdogs? F*ck off, flag-shaggers! #TommyRobinson #StandUpToRacism #UKpolitics

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Safety training egging the custard: choose between a grammatical statement containing an acronym and an answer containing the advice "if it smells real bad wear gloves". #makerspace #letterpress

How do you find out about the hazards associated with a chemical or material you are using? [ ] Don't worry about it because all art related chemicals are safe to use

[ ] Find someone else that is working with the same material and ask them

[e] Check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

[ ] Smell the material and if it smells real bad use gloves

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

Grateful to safety training for making the quiz so painless. #makerspace #letterpress

To determine which type of glove to wear when working with chemicals, LR nGH @ Usea color that matches the chemical or paint you are PE @ Use the most expensive @ Usetheleast expensive O ChecktheSDS

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

From today’s @bostonglobe.com. I’ll link the full article below, but for those who hit a paywall… “Velchik — who holds two degrees from Harvard, one from the college and one from the law school — was the sole lawyer arguing the case for the White House in July.” You really can’t make this up.

A DOJ lawyer accused
Harvard of 'indifference to antisemitism? As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective.
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
Hilary Burns • Tal Kopan •
Updated September 2nd, 2025, 7.04 AM

The cornerstone of the Trump
administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
"The choice was made, let's not give federal taxpayer dollars to institutions that exhibit a wanton indifference to antisemitism," the lawyer defending the government's case said in federal court in July.

Yet that lawyer, Michael Velchik, when he was a senior at Harvard 14 years ago, submitted a paper for a Latin class written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler, according to three people studying in the department with knowledge of the incident. The assignment was to write from the perspective of a controversial figure, but Velchik's choice of Hitler so unnerved the instructor that he was asked to redo the assignment.
And in an email to a peer about 18 months later, as he was preparing to enter law school, Velchik wrote that he'd enjoyed Hitler's autobiography and political manifesto, "Mein Kampf," more than any other book he'd read recently during a year of travels, according to a copy of the correspondence obtained by The Boston Globe. He did not mention Hitler's perpetration of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

#ICE now charging veteran with resisting "orders to disburse" #FreudianSlip

According to the indictment, Mavalwalla and his co-defendants “physically blocked the drive-way of the federal facility and/or physically pushed against officers despite orders to disburse and efforts to remove them from the property”.

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Welcome -- or not -- to the new semester: administration sends, then retracts, "Welcome Back" email. #Academic Chatter @altbot

Screenshot of email with sender redacted: [redacted] would like to recall the message, 'Welcome back.'"

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Margaret Atwood claps back to having The Handmaid’s Tale banned from Alberta schools by the UCP. It’s so good. #ableg #abpoli #abed

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2025

I didn't know about this story when I wrote this letter. My jaw is on the FLOOR. My letter: "Ban stock trading by members of Congress. It’s widely known that elected officials have access to information that could influence markets, and when they profit from trading stocks, it looks corrupt […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2025

Public health signs in Bangalore hit different (probably from 2003 or so.. found it while looking through some old pics)

a photo of a road safety sign in bangalore, india, that says 'talk while riding you will never talk again'

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/08/2025

We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found.

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

This star-shaped stress ball was in the bag of stuff the school gave us at Kid2's kindergarten orientation and boy do I have Opinions about it, not least being the quality of the kerning I'm pretty sure it says: Sit down Shut up Smile more

A blue star-shaped squeezy toy held between someone's thumb and index finger. The star also has white text with very little space between words that says: Be calm, Be quiet, Be kind

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

When the subway arrives just as you enter the station it’s like the longest limousine in the world pulling up perfectly to whisk you home.

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Mark Saltveit @taoish.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Republican elections official indicted for putting cocaine and MMDA in his grandaughters' ice cream cones. www.wral.com/news/local/surry-board… I get it, everybody wants to be the fun grandpa, but what's going on? Are there cocaine PILLS […]

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

Remember that noughties fad of the "pilot light lover" who kept menopausal ladies' desire alive while they waited for their new flame to come along? Wish me luck heading into the semester with a pilot light writing project: something that can keep my research feebly ticking along in the […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

In a message sent to South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman on Aug. 22 related to providing chaplaincy services at the facility, Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie said “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.” Rojzman, & the […]

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

ICYMI: I spoke with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Suzannah Lipscomb about monsters and monster-making in science & society on Not Just the Tudors We talked about the classical tradition, the age of exploration, the human-animal continuum, race, gender, empire, and more. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci

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Othered: Race, Gender & Human 'Monsters'

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 27/08/2025

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme

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Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Texting ca. 1912: "But now everything is different and the facilities for letter- writing are universal. We no longer have to cut a quill before beginning, or scatter sand for blotting-paper, or bother with a wafer or sealing wax ; anyone can now sit down, dash off a letter, stick on a penny […]

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Renaud Chaput @renchap.oisaur.com · 21/08/2025

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post) Amazing work by the team 🎉 Expect a blog post with all the […] [Original post on oisaur.com]

Screenshot of the Mastodon composer, showing a new visibility picker button with a "Public, anyone can quote" label

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

I have been given what must surely be the largest model yet made of my dodecahedron whose adjacent faces meet at right angles, except on one edge where they meet at 45°. (Yes, I do need to find a better name for it.)

A photograph of me holding a model of said polyhedron aloft. It is bigger than my head.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I, a climate scientist, can also think of no downsides to further disrupting Earth's radiative balance.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

you can easily return to the past, but no one is there anymore

A screenshot of the first Mastodon login page, looking very outdated and strange compared to its modern counterpart

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