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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 17h

I had an absolutely miserable time voting today. There was no signage at street level and my polling place was the gymnasium of a posh private school behind a big stone fence and up a hill. #QCpoli

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Any other adjuncts dealing with chronic pain from hauling around their whole life on their back like a snail? If so, what are we doing besides heating pad and crying a little?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

music.youtube.com

Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally they made a movie for people who heard Stars' "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" and wondered which direction they were headed when they "drove in silence across Pont Champlain." Was this a party on the South Shore? Do they live in the suburbs now? What's up with this geography???

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Iain M. Banks would despise every single thing about Elon with ferocity

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow's discourse warning: We're not listening to some rightwing Stanford BA saying the PhD job crisis is a market correction that will lead to fewer "overeducated," "overcredentialed," "aggrieved" young people We will continue making the world a better place by making the world a better place

Hurricane warning flag stacked red flags with black rectangles in the center

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ask the Bod? Okay I asked the bod and it said "you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." That's what the bod said.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kind of want to do a thread of all my stash busting projects to keep myself honest in my effort to buy less yarn Warning: if we are friends irl, you might end up spoiling your future presents

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hello #knitsky (and other assorted fibre arts friends)! I am in a season of both stash and scrap busting and want to know what patterns and projects you've been enjoying. I've got oodles of sock yarn, a good amount of DK/worsted, and a whole bunch of mohair for various reasons.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/09/2026

The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS !
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD . You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE
because it is INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN !
Art wakes up sleepers !
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPDITY !
ART SINGS HALLELUJA!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!
Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Frodo, Sam, and Pippin finish tea and leave Bag End as the sun sets. ‘It’s going to be a fine night. That’s good for a beginning’, Frodo says. ‘I am going to start, and Gandalf must follow me.’ Behind them, Sam hears the Gaffer send away a cloaked rider who asks for ‘Baggins’.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We miss deadlines. We misquote. We review harshly. We are garrulous in meetings. We grade slowly. We read uncharitably. For all these sins forgive us, pardon us, and grant us atonement.”

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coming down with food poisoning right before Yom Kippur is a whole new dimension of atonement. Also, a whole new dimension of "if you're a Jew, you need to be hydrating!!"

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 18/09/2026

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To my chagrin, today was about learning that my migraine prevention protocol doesn't care if I stayed up past bedtime to finish a book and my migraines do not care if I have to stand up and teach for 80 minutes.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think this is a very beautiful idea. Shana tova, everyone.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The sense of possibility inherent to Rosh Hashanah, that we have the power to change our world, can sustain us as we face the horrors and recommit ourselves to the task of building a world of justice for all.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno playing out again and again

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Writing is, in fact, effortful and mundane ❤️

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I literally planned my wedding around being able to sleep in my own bed the night before and the night of.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you think Master & Commander would be better with dragons, 1) you are correct and 2) this is the series for you!!

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been trying to think about the right's obsession with Lord of the Rings and I'm increasingly convinced that these guys just read themselves into the story, like "well I would simply use the One Ring for good" without actually absorbing that the point of the book is that's not possible.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Listen, if you want a fucked-up bear that will fascinate you and give you nightmares, VanderMeer is your guy. Just not the bear you're thinking of.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Astrologaster? I hardly know her! Anyway, I wrote a piece on playing video games about early modernity, how it helped me fall back in love with my research, and why I think they're good.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

let’s hear it for executive function

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yet again vindicated in my hatred of Robertson Davies.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Virginia Woolf discourse, Odyssey debates, Gandalf protestes -- it ys almoost as yf bookes are reallye ymportant.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Friends, I am trying to think about early modern history and gamification, especially video games. Does anybody have any readings or, better yet, video games to recommend?

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Something from your field that everybody should know: It's actually really valuable for people to study the humanities. Yes, it teaches critical reading, writing, and thinking. Yes, it makes people more empathetic and capable of ethical imagination. Most importantly, it makes people happy.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every single day the dumbest people with Dunning Kruger in America sit down to explain their latest attempts at explaining why being as stupid as them is great actually and then by the end of the week Louise Perry produces a text that blows all the competition out of the water without even trying.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also if you think Jason Arday is the strangest, most alarming fabulist ever, you are wildly unprepared for how weird the seventeenth century Oxbridge crowd was.

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Jeope! @jeope.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Beep beep! A red-breasted nuthatch illustration I finished last night at a DrawMob get-together with 15 sketching fools/friends. I love this little guy! #HellYeahNuthatches #birds

Digital caricature illustration of a small red-breasted nuthatch, clinging to a branch and hanging upside-down. The bird is very round!

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of my long-standing frustrations with left/progressive organizing in Canada is that we have not seriously framed ourselves as consumer protection champions. It's one of few issues in this giant country where everyone has a stake and has had a bad experience. We are leaving money on the table!

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

While I will never forget seeing The Garden of Earthly Delights in the Prado at 18, I always feel like Hieronymus Bosch's drawings get short shrift. This is his atmospheric "The Owls' Nest" (c. 1505 - 1515).

In this pen and ink drawing, a large owl lands beside the hollow in which it has made its nest. A smaller owlet-- perhaps the owl's baby-- peers out. A third owl peers around a thick tree branch in the upper left of the drawing.
Other fascinating details include a spider who has spun its web between two forked branches in the right of the drawing, and hastily sketched smaller birds-- perhaps swallows-- in the background.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trans lives are more important and more beautiful than the adventures of that boy wizard.

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Men don't care about themes like friendship in the face of adversity, or the struggle to balance a career and a family, or the beautiful mundanity of shared rituals. That's why an entire shelf in my house is filled with Aubrey-Maturin books.

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This was me waking up and realizing my wedding is in less than a month!!

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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now that Montreal has made the vigilante pothole filler stop, can we try this?

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