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award-winning world history teacher, writer, arkansas grad, phd from uva in early medieval things 🗃️ #stlcards 2028 📍ATL johntrterry.com

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
if I've done anything right as a high school teacher it's that all of my students will immediately recognize the image on the left for the rest of their lives
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
if I've done anything right as a high school teacher it's that all of my students will immediately recognize the image on the left for the rest of their lives
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026
no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome
The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.
My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
so there's at least a 50% chance the vicar of christ is watching this game live, right?
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/10/2026
best part of the night was @colsonwhitehead.com saying "If you use AI for your art, you're a fucking hack" with his whole chest
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
losers have to cheat.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sorry this is tennessee's SECOND botched execution this YEAR??
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
crazy stat: no team supported by an american pope has ever lost in the postseason
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get that they're trying to impress daddy but getting sports teams wrong doesn't even qualify as the usual phony alpha male shit
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the tomahawk chop is once again reminding me that I cannot support the cobb county braves (even though I live ten minutes away). this is both for moral and aesthetic reasons (makes you look like an incredible dipshit for example)
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
evangelical bible bros have loud takes in this coffee shop and my headphones are dead
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Sister Michael from Derry Girls: 'Am I in Hell?'
Alt: Sister Michael from Derry Girls: 'Am I in Hell?'
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEWS: More than TWO THOUSAND events have been registered so far with No Kings: Vote Early, making it the largest early vote mobilization in history. It's not too late to get your town on the map - submit today: www.nokings.org
Photo of No Kings event map
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is literally a Simpsons joke
So learn on the go with
your phone, wherever you are.
Genghis Khan
Professor of HistoryGenghis Khan Simpsons

YOU'LL GO WHERE I GO DEFILE WHAT I DEFILE, EAT WHO I EAT HMM?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kids all right.
theguardian.com
‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us
The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy stanislav petrov day to all who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
en.wikipedia.org
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm increasingly confident we'll see a national bloodbath for republicans but sucks that we'll be stuck with an even worse republican governor here
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trust, you'll want to read this (ongoing) thread
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
Benny Safdie as physicist Edward Teller in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" (2023), in a scene depicting the Trinity test site, his face coated in sunscreen and wearing protective goggles, with a numbered badge ("73") on his shirt, standing near a vintage truck at night with two blurred figures in the background.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
grim
In an email statement to The Dartmouth on Sept. 18, Schnell wrote that he uses artificial intelligence for “language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization and making writing processes more efficient,” but “review[s] the final text and take[s] responsibility for its content.”

“I develop ideas and arguments, conduct the research, evaluate the evidence and sources, determine the structure, prepare drafts and decide what appears in the final text,” Schnell wrote. “I regard these technologies as assistive tools. They do not identify the problem, design the research project, guarantee the validity of research results, interpretations, citations, conclusions or substitute for my research, intellectual judgment or authorship.”

Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself “100% AI-written,” according to a Pangram test.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
that history department kicks ass 🐗
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
desperately sick of all the whining from the party in charge of all three branches of government (and then some)
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90
youtu.be
Smart Answers to Stupid Comments About Slavery
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She’s an Emmy winner!!!
@katiedippold tweet:

TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe

(Image of Katie in full babadook costume and makeup surrounded by people in casual clothes)
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
not only this, but here in georgia those ads from a republican lt governor candidate are filled with islamophobic AI slop.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Feels like universities might also want to wait to liquidate hundreds of years of educational practice before transforming themselves into single-corporation stewarded data centers.
cbsnews.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "For too long the industry lied" about AI risks
The head of the artificial intelligence company calls the exponential rate of AI developments a "warning sign," with risks for humanity, and says, "We need to slow down." He talks with "Sunday Morning...
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
last week I had HS juniors and seniors struggle through 30 dense pages of michael gomez's _african dominion_. it's a difficult book even for specialists in training. they stepped up in discussion and it fucking ruled.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
montefiore has a new book on the modern middle east coming out
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I hope everyone realizes that they are listening to a dude reciting the plot to the last two Mission Impossible movies, right?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
here's my 9/11 artifact. was called down to the office in my HS from homeroom, where we were glued to the TV, 100% sure it was bad news. when this message was written by an admin assistant, it was not true (but I didn't know this until later). profoundly grateful it held up due to luck and instinct.
Note that reads "John Terry, your brother is OK - don't worry."
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
you know, I'm starting to suspect this is a meaningful pattern
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
here's my 9/11 artifact. was called down to the office in my HS from homeroom, where we were glued to the TV, 100% sure it was bad news. when this message was written by an admin assistant, it was not true (but I didn't know this until later). profoundly grateful it held up due to luck and instinct.
Note that reads "John Terry, your brother is OK - don't worry."
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
what I got instead was a NEH grant cut. daycare is expensive.
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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't circulate this again with much hope, but as we have had a speaker drop out, there is one last opportunity to send me something by 6 PM CEST today; at that point, the submission is being sent "sí o sí". #medievalsky #imc2026
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
can't stop thinking about the phrase "crush academics"
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
oh great people who cannot read and refuse to try have run annie abrams off this website
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
gotta bring this classic over here
a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/09/2026
The Internet Archive has an absolutely amazing tool that lets you search for animated GIFs from Geocities, just FYI: gifcities.org
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sarah McBride on her message to trans youth: "You matter and you're not alone, and there are a lot of people, not just here, but around the country who see you, who love you, and who are fighting every single day to make sure that all of us are treated with dignity and respect."
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LAUSD and NYC Schools enroll approximately 1.62 million students. That’s about 3.2% of public school enrollment. Local organizing made this happen in the largest districts in the country. That means it can work anywhere. The 48 million children are waiting.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
told my students as recently as one hour ago that, when it comes to compromising their cognitive abilities with generative AI, the world already has enough dipshits
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🕯️ 🙏🏼
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