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@cruciferous.bsky.social
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historian and headache haver

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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
texted myself this picture around 11:30 last night with the caption "mf lookin like a tussock moth caterpillar" anyway here's francis
long haired ginger cat sitting on a ledge... looking like a tussock moth caterpillar, i guess?
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had my first day of sculpting class yesterday, we made little face cups of each other
a recognizable but still caricatured little head of the woman across the table from me, whose own real face is obscured by the cup she is making of my face
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sounds good where do i sign up
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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now the Lucas county Democrats have joined the call for Rep Kaptur to take down her transphobic ads.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s right
defector.com
China Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | Defector
It takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre writer....
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
tired of headaches tbh
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
weed store guys greeted me by name yesterday, that's when you know you've gotta cut that shit out
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A few dozen candidates for the House and Senate this year have backgrounds in the labor movement www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Revenge of the labor movement: Democrats with union backgrounds aim to retake Congress
Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters
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David Michaels @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very, very good news. Today, Cal/OSHA issued a draft emergency standard to ban fabrication and installation of artificial stone products with >1% crystalline silica. Comments are due in 2 weeks. I hope today will be seen as the beginning of the end of the quartz countertop silicosis epidemic.
dir.ca.gov
Emergency Silica Advisory Committee - Advisory Meetings
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Art by Angus Mckie for a proposed but never made Dan Dare TV series, 1980
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the whale’s horrible wallow
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/09/2026
Generations of Muslim children have grown up in the world that the war on terror has created — a world in which endless war has been normalized, torture justified, and with both the state and the media painting a target on the backs on entire Muslim populations across the globe.
truthout.org
25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made
The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm glad we got a PWHL team so I can fully check out of whatever nonsense the Red Wings are up to. no GM? no captain? sorry for you but that's none of my business
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
it's francis
long-haired ginger cat sleeping in a U-shape, head resting on criss-crossed little paws, on a blue cushion
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
it's francis
long-haired ginger cat sleeping in a U-shape, head resting on criss-crossed little paws, on a blue cushion
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have once again reminded myself why you have to use nice meaty sauce tomatoes for sauce and not just any old seedy wet tomatoes. in other news instead of eggplant parm we will be having tomato soup and grilled cheese for dinner.
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
crazy that a tornado seemingly hopped the detroit river yesterday, didn't know they could do that
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A tornado hit Detroit's East Side last night so we came out to assess the damage and check in on the community. To support residents who need water, food, and batteries to get through the next few days, go to: afterthestormmi.org
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
silver maples easily the worst maple
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
hnn.us
AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 01/09/2026
“It is naive, perhaps, to think that the liberal arts as practiced on an elite college campus might fix today’s world. But a future that abandons it is a dire one.” thebaffler.com/latest/class...
thebaffler.com
Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais
Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is no real way to train a historian without having students immerse themselves (repeat THEMSELVES) in the material. Its what sparks that interest in the first place! Its when they have their baby eureka moments, and begin to form connections and think historically. gAI is poison for all that.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ive been thinking the same thing, and kind of hesitant to say it out loud because we're already a group considered to be luddites and technophobes, when its really our sense that students absolutely must train their own minds to read primary sources, and think/write with primary+secondary sources.
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Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
3d printing a new blood brain barrier because mine won't quit letting the news in
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
against my will i am becoming a public historian
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
thank god it's finally raining
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
thank god it's finally raining
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
anyway if anyone needs a public speaker on the history of the red scare hmu
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
had a solid professional self-confidence boost at an event building solidarity with my political community, saw a shooting star when out with my mom, and now I'm watching a lunar eclipse. all in all a pretty good thursday
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At this point there is no other interpretation than that Democrats are trying to sink Abdul's candidacy
From today: Michigan AG Dana Nessel concerned El-Sayed ‘making excuses’ for domestic terrorism
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is such a good blog. in all of my years as a cyclist, pedestrian, and non-driver, the only time I have been hit by a car was some dipshit making a right on red without looking where they were fucking going
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
as a big boobs and good morals haver i think i speak for all if us when i say we will miss our leader
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
who has my copy of the name of the rose
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my husband brought home a huge jar of Biscoff spread from the grocery store the other day so I'm gonna make ice cream from it this weekend, maybe do a Nutella one too.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/08/2026
Bea Lumpkin was already a seasoned labor organizer when she became a teacher at 47. She was also a mother, mathematician, feminist and lifelong communist. @stacydavisgates.bsky.social remembers a woman whose life was too expansive to fit into any one political label.
inthesetimes.com
Bea Lumpkin and How an Antifascist Rests in Power
Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was…
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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Very cool to see content from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social, provided by my colleague, the @afscme-archivist.bsky.social, used on the main stage at the @afscme.bsky.social convention!
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love the investment in bike infrastructure in SE Michigan, the Downriver Linked Greenways is great from a transportation POV as well as recreational; and even if some of the Iron Belle "bike paths" are just marked sidewalks it's so much better not to be riding alongside F-250s going 60mph
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/08/2026
The DSA is not a Republican psy-op, you're thinking of The Bulwark
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“They're now bringing back McCarthyism to paint unions and organizations that advocate for workers and families as threats to the nation. It didn’t work for Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and it won’t work for Donald Trump.” —Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i live near an airport that has WWII bombers they take out for a spin sometimes and whenever they're flying a little low I think about one of the elderly pilots losing control and smashing the airplane into my house
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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Will Automation Take Your Place?” Front page for UAW Local 199 News. April 1956, from the @uaw.org archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. 🤖
Union newspaper front page, with image of a metal android embracing a woman.
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i'm doing a medium dive into the first Red Scare and I find it incredibly funny that a lot of these scholars, defending Russian anarchists, IWWs, or Socialists from accusations of bombings, go on to say "idk it was probably Galleanists"
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026
what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
summertime itchy
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 07/08/2026
#OtD 7 Aug 1890 legendary American labour organiser, feminist and socialist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born. She played a leading role in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union. Learn more about women in the @IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...
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kzz @cruciferous.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
feels good to purge 20 years of wool and yarn scraps/feels bad to lose half-finished projects to moths
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Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The multi-use path on the Gordie Howe International Bridge opened on Wednesday, offering pedestrians and cyclists a toll-free crossing over the Detroit River between the United States and Canada
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