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Cassandra

@historycass.bsky.social
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She/Her HIST/PHIL faculty at a Texas CC. Lover of old garden roses, Austen, Tolkien, sci-fi, romance, history, and philosophy. Ed.D in Educational Technology. I read a lot. 💙📚🍎🏛️🗃️

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 12h
#Poetry #Art #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 7h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich.com · 12h
Nobel prize for optogenetics! Congrats! 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses tiny lights to activate neurons in the brain.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12h
This is the oldest sample of Hebrew text with European musical notation. It's an autograph manuscript of Obadiah the Proselyte, a Norman-Italian priest who converted to Judaism in 1102. He traveled to Egypt and Syria, using his knowledge of Gregorian Chant to record Hebrew poetry. @theul.bsky.social
Torn brown paper manuscript with about 20 red-ruled lines with sporadic musical notes and Hebrew text. The background is a blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/2).Torn brown paper manuscript with 6 lines of Hebrew text and musical notation. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S K5.41 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00005-00041/1)
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not a medical doctor, but a historian of medicine. Pneumonic plague is much more serious than bubonic plague. It's also much rarer. BUT, both are treatable with antibiotics if caught early. So, it's a scary story, but let's slow our roll a bit.
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Cassandra @historycass.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...
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‘Friday Night Lights’ Oral History: ‘I Remember Watching and Bawling’ (Gift Article)
Twenty years after the beloved football and family drama premiered, Peter Berg, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch and others look back on its legacy.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
mistakes were made
california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael J. Fox receives the Order of Canada 🇨🇦🥰
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (flipped, detail), by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746, 📸 by @madelinepcarter.bsky.social
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland at sunset.
Calton Hill , Edinburgh, Scotland at sunset.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Cassandra @historycass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But women do it all day long so it must be easy for a chatbot to replicate. 🙄
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Cassandra @historycass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations!
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dave @albatrossity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Blue Grosbeak, Kansas 2025 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Grosbeaks #FlyoverCountry
Dark blue bird with substantial bill and cinnamon wingbars, perched on a leafy bush
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Rhiannon @typenamehere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🌱📷 Sept Harvest Full Moon in Aries 3°
Full Moon in Aries 3° exact on 9-26-26 Saturday 11:50 a.m. cdt 🌝 photo taken with DSLR camera in Illinois // two part photo collage of the Harvest Moon above silhouette of trees
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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nobody does heartfelt schmaltz like baseball (complimentary)
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Let the Right One In” (2008)
A scruffy blonde golden doodle on its hind legs peeks through a screen door, hoping someone will let him in or join him outside.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Got to see some aspens changing color. With friend.
A black, white, and brown border collie sitting in a field of high grass. Behind him a golden-green aspen trees
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026
Nora Roberts.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a society of senior law firm partners who never learned how to use the printer
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky
ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
I finished the first draft of my third book, The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic, in January. And I had to let it simmer and get some feedback. And I am ready to push through a major revision and I'm looking at some of the work that needs to be done and it would be **IMPOSSIBLE** with GenAI involvement.
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Erika Wybourn @erikawybourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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D. C. Fitzgerald @dcfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Norway 🇳🇴 in 60 seconds. #geography #nature #travel
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s nice to have my work corroborated by another DNA test. What is also deeply gratifying is the vindication of Madison Hemings, Israel (Gillette) Jefferson who spoke of TJ and SH, & Fawn Brodie, who put the men’s recollections in her TJ bio that I read at 14 and got me started on this journey.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's Chicagohenge. This morning's start on the day of the Autumnal Equinox in Chicago.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
on the other hand, the Mountain Goats, at it since 1991, still dropping bangers once a year on average and torching stages around the globe with ever-increasing intensity
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this information
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't believe I made it to 79. I mean, holy cow!
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It has happened. My students (mostly MA-level) are officially Too Young To Have Seen LOTR I was going to use a scene from Two Towers to illustrate a concept and they all just looked at me Blankly What do I do Ok kids next six class sessions devoted to movie time
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meet Derek.
An AI add with a stickfigure using a computer: "Meet Derek. AI every day. Always hitting a wall. Then he found evenfall. Private AI chat. No ads. No behavioural tracking. More room to create.Screenshots from "The Good Place" of Jason Mantzoukas (Derek) saying: Well I wasn't technically designed for this. But to be fair, I wasn't designed for anything."
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cover illustration for a magazine called “Metro Guide” being distributed thought metro stations in Tokyo from September 2017.
Riding away along a glistening, stone-paved lane (ishidatami), a solitary cyclist moves beneath an arching canopy of autumn maple leaves (momiji) blazing in brilliant shades of crimson, rust, and orange. To the left, traditional timber townhouses (machiya) border the path, their dark wooden facades outfitted with hanging shop curtains (noren) and subtle lanterns. Along the curb, wild pampas grass (susuki) bends gently in the crisp air, while fresh rainwater pooling on the wet flagstones reflects the bright sky and fiery foliage like sheets of stained glass.  Created as the cover illustration for the free publication Metro Guide, distributed across Tokyo metro stations starting in September 2017, this piece reimagines the historical genre of meisho-e (pictures of famous views) through a contemporary watercolor lens. Designed to encourage urban commuters to pause and rediscover seasonal beauty within and beyond the capital, the artwork bridges graphic publishing with classical landscape sensibilities.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Please stop calling our pervert glasses pervert glasses.
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Meta's CTO doesn't want a few 'bad actors' to spoil your view of Meta glasses
"I don't want the discourse to be entirely shaped by this kind of relatively small number of bad actors," said Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth.
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