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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So sad to hear about the poet Wendell Berry. “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.”

A pond surrounded by trees and long grass with clouds in the sky overhead

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A nicely researched piece of Boston history. 🚊

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Be still my heart! Squirrel stamps go on sale at USPS on September 25! about.usps.com/postal-bulle...

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Stamp Announcement 26-37: Squirrels & Chipmunks in Snow Stamps

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Justice, justice shall you pursue.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ok but pulitzer for whoever got this shot, it’s so good

dog in blue vest with sunglasses in waves with surfboard

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Artwork by contemporary US artist Martha Rich #Womensart

Stylised pink hare with speech bubbles stating "Stand up for each other....We have power"

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BostonTimelapse @bostontimelapse.org · 24/07/2026

24 hours of Boston in 24 seconds!

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We watched it last night and loved it. The book it’s based on by Leonie Swann is a delightful read. sohopress.com/authors/leon...

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Leonie Swann | Soho Press

Bold Literary Voices | Award-Winning International Crime Fiction | Groundbreaking Young Adult Fiction

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Agree 100% about the Sazerac! A classic cocktail. However, I had to google the Remember the Maine—can’t believe that I’ve never encountered it. In case anyone wants the recipe here you go: www.seriouseats.com/remember-the...

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Remember the Maine Recipe

A rye Manhattan with cherry liqueur, a trace of absinthe, and a great backstory.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Including a threatened anteater!

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Spaghetti topped with Marmite and butter!

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Be ungovernable.

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A Man Called Keith @angryduck78.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is important.

An image of a computational fluid dynamics study of a standard, shorthaired Guinea pig.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

What a compelling story. This bit really hit home: “I’m not a scientist or a policy expert. But I understand this: The drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.”

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I am just saying, there is often a connection from postreformation Europe to The Simpsons.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

[squirrel meeting] chief squirrel: everyone, i suspect someone among us is an infiltrator owl: hoo chief squirrel: (solemnly) that’s what we’re trying to find out, Owen

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“Benches are symbols of hospitality, an invitation to participate in the civic realm.”

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A learned pig, an invisible lady and a philosophical swan…who could possibly resist this cast of characters?

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Good to see this shout-out for the 413!

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My condolences on this sad loss. May your uncle’s memory bring you comfort during this difficult time.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wet weather? 🌧️ Visit a museum. Sunny Weather? ☀️ Visit a museum. Cold Weather? ❄️ Visit a museum. Changeable weather 🤷🤷‍♀️ Visit a museum. Basically, museums are the best. Especially ours. maryrose.org

A view of the Mary Rose from the bow, showing the outer hull and the cradle, opposite three galleries filled with Tudor objects.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

He's saying that like it's a bad thing.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I would sign up for this tour in a heartbeat.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It may just be superstition, but why take the chance?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

As a duck fan, I love this! I can’t recall ever seeing a representation of an animal like this in a Torah manuscript before. How common was this for scribes to do this?

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

As always, the Arc of Massachusetts doing the Lord’s work on behalf of the disabled.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

From the Oath of Allegiance new citizens take in case these legislators need reminding of their own duties to democratic values: “I hereby declare… that I will support & defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America …[and] that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/02/2026

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Great bands here! Here are my 5: The Patti Smith Group Bonnie Raitt Siouxsie and the Banshees Blondie Diane Ross and the Supremes

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I’m so sorry. I hope that this gets resolved quickly for you.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 29/01/2026

What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose. You're welcome.

A red squirrel on the ground. It almost looks like it is in superhero pose with one front paw and one back paw on the ground. The other front and back paws are raised in the air, its head is forward ready to run towards the camera.

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Diane Levin @dianelevin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I just finished rereading the LOTR and was struck by Sam’s heroism—an ordinary person standing up defiantly for the goodness in the world against an unimaginable evil.

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