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Burkely Hermann

@historyhermann.bsky.social
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Credentialed archivist and researcher, sorta family historian, and AI-critical. I also review of TV shows, mainly animation/anime, & am a vegetarian, lover of cats, & scholar of history. He/him/his. histhermann.wordpress.com

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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All those in #Baltimore should come! Come for the parade (3 - 3:30): - Watch the dogs leading Paws to the Polls - meet our roving ballot drop box who can show you the 9 early voting sites and 38 drop box locations - salute our long-term and future voters #nokings #nk4 #NoKingsVoteEarly #VoteEarly
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skylineA vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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🔞🎃Senor🎃🔞 @senorincognito69.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you want throw trans people under bus it is you who we are gonna throw under the bus, this is not negotiable
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you're looking to read something that makes sense.... www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...
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In the Library Ebook Market, Can Librarians Learn to Just Say No?
If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Le...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We apologize on behalf of all Floridians for these two. You can have multiple degrees and still not understand that, in a free society, one person’s “expert” opinion should not automatically override the rights of an entire community.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New from me. Baltimore currently has a moratorium on new data center development, but a proposed City Council bill has residents nervous (and PISSED) that the door is creaking open for data centers to come into the city—and that City Council views this as “inevitable" @therealnews.com
TRNN thumbail image of Baltimore City Planning Commision hearing with text saying BALTIMORE RESIDENTS SAY: "NO DATA CENTERS!"
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Such an awful vote. He was only confirmed 51-47. *Even Fetterman* voted against this right-wing ideologue. So glad that my state's two senators, @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov voted against him!
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey everyone! Mark your calendar for Saturday, Oct. 17, 3-5 pm for a fun, quirky and educational afternoon, including a dog parade, dancing, and the serious act of protecting our vote in #hampden! Sign up on Mobilize today: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #baltimore #nokings #voteearly #NoKings4
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No Kings: Vote Early [Hampden, Baltimore, MD] · No Kings
Promote early voting and offer voter election education services amid a festival atmosphere and a parade in which all are welcomed. We want everyone to have an activity in which they can participate w...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026
This is so hilarious because the REAL existential threat is that AI steals our jobs and does them significantly worse, not that it'll gain sentience and go all Terminator on our asses. Seriously they'd rather instill panic over sci-fi than address the real problem. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Anthropic Was Meant to Be the More Responsible AI Lab. A Terrified Researcher Just Quit, Saying the Company Is Threatening the Survival of Humankind.
An Anthropic researcher has quit, warning that the company isn't acting responsibly as AI spirals out of control.
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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
While I get where you are coming from on a personal level, when Anthropic's own employees say there is more than 10% chance of species extinction in less than ten years due to these tools, or our lack of restraint in using them, it feels rather existential on a group level.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I see your benefits, good for you, but you are still a user of Claude. And Claude is Anthropic. And Anthropic is basically bad at so many ethical levels.
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Such a pathetic response, I have to say. I'm glad you disclosed your A.I. usage, but it doesn't make your piece better. Also, to criticize A.I. use is... ableist? How does that make sense? To split hairs on LLM use obscures the reality: you USED Claude. Copy editing is PART OF writing.
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Such a disgusting message to see at the end of an article. Is @activehist.bsky.social shilling for A.I. now? The entire article has a tone of sneering at people who object to LLMs, calling them "refusers". Definitely unsubscribing. LLMs have *no place* in universities, colleges, or everywhere.
AI disclosure: I wrote this piece and used Claude to copy edit (I’m very dyslexic and modern LLMs are transformative for people with language-based learning disabilities). I also used Claude for an adversarial review. I have an enterprise subscription from the University of Saskatchewan. I have no relationship with Anthropic.
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Have you become so fond of humans, Ultraman? @pyonkotchi.com · 28/08/2026
did yall watch it? did yall buy the fucking bluerays (no of course you didnt) did yall buy the figure? you can still watch the original series OH WHATS THAT?????? ITS NOT AVAILABLE LEGALLY LMFAO???? OH HMMM WELL I BET THROWING TOMATOES AT THE REMAKE WILL DEFINITELY SHOW INTEREST ✌🏽
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey #Baltimore people! The terrible #datacenter bill, 26-0174, is rearing its ugly head once again. There will be an in-person hearing (starting at 9 AM) before the Land Use & Transportation Committee on Sept. 24th, at the Du Burns Council Chamber, 4th floor, City Hall. bsky.app/profile/hist...
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Charm City Indivisible ❌👑 @charmcityindvsbl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We won a data center moratorium and a study of what they'd do to our grid, our water, our health. The study isn't back. CB 26-0174 writes the approval rules anyway. Planning Commission, Thurs 8/27, 1PM. 417 E. Fayette St, 8th Fl. You don't have to testify—just show up. #NoDataCenters
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Charm City Indivisible ❌👑 @charmcityindvsbl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t want to go alone? RSVP on Mobilize and we’ll meet up at the hearing! 💙✊ 🔗 www.mobilize.us/charmcityind...
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Attend the City Planning Commission Data Center Bill Hearing with CCI! · Charm City Indivisible
On Thursday, August 27, the Baltimore City Planning Commission takes up Council Bill 26-0174, which would establish how data centers get permitted in Baltimore. We're showing up in person to make sure...
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Lucha @iustitia100.latinsky.app · 26/08/2026
Baltimore: Testify Against Data Centers in Baltimore! 🗓️ Thursday, August 27th
 ⏰ 1PM 📍Phoebe B. Stanton Boardroom, Dept of Planning 417 E. Fayette Street, 8th Floor
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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you're proud of going after a queer indie production and being part of a bully-mob online to get it taken down, don't be surprised when the same group turns to you to go after another queer indie production. And another. And another. Cuz hate mobs are never satisfied with one victim.
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lesbian Space Princess is the new movie the internet is hating on. But uh....does anyone else think this hate is extremely forced?
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Hating Lesbian Space Princess Won't Make You Cool
YouTube video by Anthony Gramuglia
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Vincent Alexander @nonsenseisland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A clip I hadn't seen: Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones talking about how Warner Bros. destroyed the original drawings and cels from the classic cartoons. A truly insane crime against art.
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today is the last day to make a public comment about this terrible City Council bill, which opens up over twenty industrial sites across #baltimore to #datacenter development. Please also come to the Planning Commission meeting on 8/27 (Thursday) as well, if you can.
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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ok i saw the lesbian indie animated movie was it a bit bioessentialist in a way that could've been easily fixed with a few lines of dialogue? yes was the labrys a choice? sure but really & truly it was just fine—it wasn't exactly high art, but people are acting like it's worse than cancer. like??
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𝒹𝒶𝓏𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 🤍 @dazeyafterdark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I haven’t seen the lesbian space princess movie/show whatever it is but seeing it flood my feed on all social media with everyone hating on it is rough The people who made it are some of my friends/people I used to work for, and I was asked to come and animate for it when it was in production-
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
It's like Amnesty International UK have never heard of the Streisand Effect. I fully intend on challenging this DMCA strike and force them to litigate this in federal court in the US if they want to take it down. This is squarely fair use.
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I've spent weeks profiling orgs listed in Amnesty UK's reports. Methodology, definitions, & inclusion criteria should have been explicitly stated. They could've republished a revised version with that included. Instead, they capitulated to anti-rights bigots. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...
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2026 Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports – Transgender Map
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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@amnestyuk.bsky.social you have just voided your entire mission by abdicating to this threat. Trans people the headline target of an anti-human rights, global fascist uprising - lead by US far right groups such as Heritage International, & the Alliance Defending Freedom. 1/
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Adacadollbra 🪄✨🎃 @idollatry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
amnesty's decision to file illegal DMCA claims rather than fight against rowling's bigotry shows once again that trans people are the only people that are fine to throw under the bus when things get difficult. sometimes it truly feels like we have nobody and nothing on the planet except each other
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The petition is good, but people should also submit testimony (today is the last day) and attend the Planning Commission meeting at 1 PM on August 27th too, in the Phoebe B. Stanton Boardroom, located on the 8th floor of 417 East Fayette Street.
The meeting will be held in the Phoebe B. Stanton
Boardroom of the Department of Planning, located on the
8th floor of 417 East Fayette Street at 1pm on Thursday
August 27th. Please note that the security procedures in the
Benton Building require that you bring photo-identification
with you.
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Shine My Crown @shinemycrown.com · 24/08/2026
‘We Are All Paying for Their Capital Need and Greed’: Baltimore Activist Shonna Watkins Rallies Residents Against Data Centers: Baltimore social activist and creator Shonna Watkins is urging residents to push back against the expansion of… #SocialJustice #DataCenters #Activism #Baltimore #Community
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‘We Are All Paying for Their Capital Need and Greed’: Baltimore Activist Shonna Watkins Rallies Residents Against Data Centers
Baltimore social activist and creator Shonna Watkins is urging residents to push back against the expansion of data centers, arguing that ordinary… The post ‘We Are All Paying for Their Capital Need and Greed’: Baltimore Activist Shonna Watkins Rallies Residents Against Data Centers appeared first on Shine My Crown.
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Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Heads up Baltimore! On 8/27 1 pm Planning Comm’n hears CC26-174 making data centers allowed conditional use in industrial zoned areas—including Port Covington/Baltimore Peninsula. Tell them City did NOT approve record $660M TIF subsidy to build a data center! Testify in person or Email by 8/24.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
in the face of a sweeping scholarly consensus, refusing to refer to a genocide as a genocide is in fact genocide denial.
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Callieween 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎃🦇🦉🕷️ @meganerd98.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The only thing I’ll say about the Lesbian Space Princess “discourse” as someone who professionally reviewed the film and loved it is that while certain elements do have some unfortunate implications, all of them appear unintentional on the filmmakers’ part & are largely being taken out of context.
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Robyn "Re-Tranimator" Adams @realrobynadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The hate for LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS from all corners of the internet leads me to believe that we do not deserve the ability to discuss film via the web.
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Matt Makes Mermaid Movies @mattbr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I haven’t watched it yet but the internets reaction to Lesbian Space Princess feels like confirmation that the “indie animation” space doesn’t actually want most indie animation to succeed
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
Maybe time for Lesbian Space Princess again
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⭐️Raye Rodriguez (COMMS OPEN)🌙 @dinoraye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another queer animation getting the HGS treatment I see... If you're gay/an ally & don't like this movie for whatever reason, my advice is, don't add to the pile-on. You may not like it for x valid reason, but the end result is still queer creators getting shit on from all corners of the internet
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It really is shameful to see fans hating on this film, especially since three of these series have queer characters (Hazbin Hotel, Invincible, and The Amazing Digital Circus). This is what people mean when they say fandoms are toxic.
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is really sad to see that this film is being review bombed. People can have their criticisms of the film all they want. In fact, I make my own views clear in the below review. For fans across different series to hate on the film, is *clear* hatred against queer people. It has to stop.
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Marilyn Tomato JD, PhD @mddirtlaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
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Baltimore City data center bill faces backlash from activists: "A huge red flag"
A Baltimore City Council bill proposing a pathway for data centers drew significant online backlash over the weekend after a local activist called for it to be taken off the table.
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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 13/08/2026
Christopher and Sylvia go on a yuri deep dive to uncover that dangerous age that can make yuri romance so appealing. Starting with the toxic queens in Dear Brother to the new era in I Want To Love You Till Your Dying Day
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This Week in Anime - Are These Yuri Anime Poisonous?
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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Boosting this again, esp. for those in #Baltimore or #Maryland! #Datacenters are one of the biggest environmental & economic threats. Baltimore communities deserve to be protected from resource extraction & increased surveillance. Baltimore should not become a sacrifice zone for sake of developers.
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Jason the Cartoon Fan @jasonthecartoonfan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Notice how between Win or Lose, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, it’s always the black trans people Disney is erasing - while a white trans person gets to be in the newest season of King of the Hill.
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Shelby Love🩸🔪🎃 @shelbylove.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The entire Proud Family episode just leaked. Its a bit clunky at parts but I overall liked it. Also, fuck Iger or whoever is running DTVA.
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Reuben Baron @rubigb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This was scrapped post-Chapek. This was made for Season 3, which aired in 2025, so it would have been in the works in 2023 and scrapped in 2024. Chapek was gone by then.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
An unreleased episode of ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder’ has leaked online. The episode regards the character Michael’s gender identity and being forbidden to identify with they/them pronouns.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Disney has now shelved three episodes featuring storylines centered on transgender characters and gender identity. The episodes, from ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,’ and ‘Win or Lose,’ were either cut from release or have since leaked online.
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