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Ian Campbell

@iwcampbell.bsky.social
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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10h
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 8h
GODDDD we’re not doing a fucking Deshaun Watson redemption arc, OK? I need Al and Kirk to shut up immediately.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 17h
October issue
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 16h
A clickbait strategy that does not work on me is “don’t complain about [x] if you don’t [thing you have to click to see].” I am always going to complain, ok? It heals the soul and it is my right as a free American.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two different 2FA prompts (making it, I guess, 3FA?) just to get into Slack? You are seriously overestimating my desire to be on Slack, MACHINE.
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s nothing I can say about Michael Tracey at this point without getting permabanned. But I am thinking! Thoughts! Thinking my thoughts!
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MADE CARAMEL WITHOUT CRYING ONCE 😤🎉🥳🍾🏆🥇
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Bene Jesserit Witch 🔮✨🐈‍⬛ @benejesserit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Emily St. John Mandel, you gotta' stop. Your apocalypses too hopeful. Your human spirit in the face of adversity too powerful. They'll award you.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CAN WE SERIOUSLY JUST NOT
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want to make a chocolate-cherry cake shaped like a cat. You know, a Black Forest gâteau-gato.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching Jaishawn Barham play for not-Wink Martindale makes me happy for him but sad for us
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was skeptical of the Rio game for many reasons but hearing Portuguese words pronounced by a person from Wisconsin makes the whole thing worth it. That's a unique sonic experience.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have long wondered why Darnell Washington, the largest football player, does not simply eat the other football players. We’re getting there!
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Surprisingly, a flat long run at sea level feels much easier than a hilly long run at 3000’. Looking into this.
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Worst Truck @warmworm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The ways in which" <- Elmer Fudd telling you who turned him into dried fruit
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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two ridiculous tipped passes. Kick return. Game extended because a guy was hurt. Cursed-ass football game.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did have “Michigan wins a game it shouldn’t and loses a game it shouldn’t and neither is primarily because of Bryce Underwood” at the start of this year so hey, that’s one down
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
God damn it, and down to down that is the best we have looked all year too.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Playing Iowa is like this ALWAYS
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mannnn I don’t even know who plays if Frazier is out and it sure looks like he is
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The thing I would really like, in a tight game getting the ball to start the second half, is not three consecutive handoffs to Bryson Kuzdzal
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just do not think that having a five star QB lead out a run for a walk-on RB is a good use of resources
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tariq Boney is just special, maybe?
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, that’s not what you want
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Festbier season is the best and we only get 30 crisp, malty days before the government takes it away again.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Unsportsmanlike for “simulating using the restroom” is a new one on me
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Colorado State—up by 14 90 seconds into the game, down 35-14 halfway through the second quarter—has to be setting some kind of record right now
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man he looks like shit and you can tell he does not want to be at this football game even a little bit
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BAKE OFF BAKE OFF BAKE OFF BAKE OFF BAKE OFF BAKE OFF BAKE OFF
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The basic resources available online about WW1 now are just stunning. Out of curiosity I looked up the military record of the main character of an article I’m writing—a real scumbag—and found that he fled his unit within a week of getting to the front.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
good lord what is happening in there www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
sfgate.com
Elizabeth Holmes documentary gets an R rating for graphic nudity
Director Nathan Fielder was apparently invited by Holmes to live in a guest room at her Calif. home.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Been out here 15 years and I just cannot quite reconcile myself to the idea that 96 degrees is a late September temperature. How am I going to make comforting autumnal soups under these conditions.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is a kind of complaining about kids' homework that boils down to "I, an adult, could not possibly learn a different way to do fifth grade math" and boy, I don't know.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Family has started referring to my morning beet powder + fiber supplement drink as “Nightmare Juice”
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Costco store brand extra-firm tofu is genuinely excellent
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would like to have a brief but sharp and frank conversation with whoever it is decided that lecturer halls do not need to have podiums anymore.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rich text! Rich text! Rich text!
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026
SKATTEBO: Skattebo Football Jaxson, Victory Football COACH: No, Cam, you can't play with Jaxon SKATTEBO: Good Skattebo Play Football Skattebo Depth Chart Quarterback COACH: Cam, he has a knee injury, he's not playing football SKATTEBO: Jealousy Harbaugh
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[toxic] kaija osmote @pube.online · 22/09/2026
it's burned into my brain
imagine spending the better part of the last 5 years having your brain and ego melted by uninterrupted /pol/ exposure, flying to washington in the
middle of a pandemic to hear trump
51 KB JPG whine about oprah and mike pence at
a rally, marching up to congress on his
orders to smash shit and then mill around aimlessly you go home and hear that biden won anyway and all of your favorite twitter news sources named like Patriot Newsman Of the West with avatars of roman statues have posted your photo online and are labeling you a "gay communist antifa actor." then the next day the god emperor you pasted into warhammer memes puts out a video cucking himself and bending the knee. "I'm sorry, those were heinous acts! p-please let me tweet again jack!!" you can't leave de because the airlines have dubbed you a flight risk. you can't stay because the cops are actively looking for you after one of their own died. your roommate at the only hotel that would accept you is a guy named based_kekistani1488 who wants to show you his goblin slayer torrents. the sun is
going down and you're getting cold.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My taste in TV is not sophisticated, but: any version of this list that doesn’t have Chopped is fundamentally flawed.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cam Skattebo endorsement for dog superfoods feels somehow overdetermined
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 21/09/2026
This is art
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Robert Kindler @robertkindler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Heute durfte ich ein lang erwartetes Paket auspacken. Darin befand sich mein neues Buch "Geschichte Kasachstans. Vom Land der Nomaden zum Staat in der Steppe" (C.H.Beck)! Ich freue mich sehr! Ab dem 24. September überall erhältlich, wo es Bücher gibt. www.chbeck.de/kindler-gesc...
Buch Geschichte Kasachstans.
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pspspspspspspssss
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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This morning was the first run where I really felt like myself since…gosh, May, probably
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