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Todd Kennedy @bayoufilmprof.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Proud to announce my book: Anthony Bourdain, Filmmaker, out October 20 (Wayne State UP) The book is available for PRE-ORDER, including paperback & kindle versions. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352922/

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I realize it's now almost 30 years ago, but in 1997 you could open this magical book called the "yellow pages" and order both pizza AND some movies to watch.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 28/07/2026

“The architect of the German V-2 rockets, Werner von Braun, entitled his autobiography ‘I Aim for the Stars’. Londoners, however, will remember that he usually hit London” Easily the most stone-cold zinger I’ve encountered all year.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

FFS. I cut my teeth as a baby freelancer at 538, this is enraging.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Got an email from the Washington Post proclaiming a $1 a week and thought "surely they should pay me more than that for reading it."

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I realize that I never posted images from the Fuji X100vi that I got in February. These are a few of my favorites since then.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Fast forward a semester. Strong finishes. Solid research. Adjusted pedagogy. A work in progress but real results.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I don’t know why I can’t reply but the obvious answer is is Sean Vanatta’s Plastic Capitalism. Dee Hock’s Chaordic Age is fascinating but goes into more conceptual terrain about organizational systems

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.” It’s our turn now. #Vote

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I really want to talk about early rhubarb but the topic seems forced.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Recent food inflation has been substantial, and while lower in 2024 hasn't totally stabilized either. The 1970s were even worse, and like today featured inflation in more than just food. But the upshot is that food inflation was relatively stable for 30 years until it wasn't.

3 dimensional chart showing monthly food inflation between 1968 and 2024

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Tumbling into the end of the semester. Student effort levels have never been lower, both in and out of class. Reading? Paying attention? Write one's own material? Some old-school analog pedagogies coming to 2026. Tough love, amigos.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I think people believe Pyrex is more recent than it is, associating it with postwar culture. They are partly correct, except it is the First World War, not WW2. Libertyville Independent, December 16, 1920 #foodhistory #technology

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

That the Louvre jewels were stolen by the president of a strapped university with a high discount rate and a commitment to social justice is the hero arc we all need right now.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

What started as a cursory search comparing the Slovenian potica vs the Hungarian bejgli yielded a cookbook "written" by someone named Barrett Williams (if that is even a real person) and "co-authored" by ChatGPT. He has dozens of books listed on Amazon, which cares nothing about wholesale plagiarism

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

At LAX. Gate next to the bar. Half the plane trying to get blasted before even leaving. This is not the kind of tourist we want but it is the kind we have. It is 6:16am

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I decided that I might go ahead and get on an order list for the #Fujix100vi but I see the tariffs have now made them about $1800, so no thanks. Maybe I'll wait for Bell & Howell to start making cameras again lol

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Imagine how much time we could spend enjoying the beautiful if we weren’t constantly confronted by the ugly.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Is there a class action suit I can join for people who have involuntarily clawed their eyes out after accidentally seeing "amazing" and "historical" AI generated images on Facebook?

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

What is more, you should go to the Assessor's Website and take a hard look at property valuations, especially on commercial properties. Some of us get hosed, and some of us get sweetheart deals. Why do you suppose this is? (It has always been). We should all operate by the same rules.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Memorial at Salisbury Cathedral for Edward Tennant, who died #OTDH in 1916 at the Somme. #WWI

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

One of the great achievements of AI is that I now occasionally get email addressed to the person for whom my professorship is named, who hasn't taught at my university for 40 years and who died at age 93 in 2020.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

One positive that I took away from this week was a Covid test, so there is that

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This still from the 1956 Czechoslovak adaptation of Jarasav Hašek's "The Good Soldier Švejk" is everything

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

As I read more and more 20c histories of Slavic people, I think back to being impressed by something in the '90s about the fate of Princip's footprints vis a vis the outpouring then being produced on commemoration, and now realize it's just a tiny drop in the bucket.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If you are an American historian, it's exciting news that @librarycongress.bsky.social's Chronicling America got a fancy new upgrade for searching as well as @zotero.org integration!

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Primaciálny palac, Bratislava. May, 2025. #portra160 #rolleiflex 2.8c

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“Dubai Chocolate” St. Stephanplatz, Vienna #rolleiflex 2.8c #portra160 May 2025

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Rush hour in Old Town Bratislava #Rolleiflex 2.8c on Portra160

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It just dawned on me that it's pronounced "shat-gpt" as in Le Chat Noir, except contextually, "it just shat out an answer to my prompt."

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I saw where Skip Gates got invited to the Vatican for "his" discoveries of the pope's genealogy. That show of his functions on the free labor of historians all over the country who are mistaken that it would be both thrilling and good for their career to act as his supporting cast.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

While "La Cucaracha" may or may not have been about Pancho Villa's car, driving around New Orleans you definitely understand why people make that association.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I love how my writer spouse just texted me in the passive voice to let me know that the giant bag of Doritos from Costco "got opened" while I am gone.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I haven't discussed Rosenthal's show with many food friends but what I enjoy most is his genuine curiosity and guileless willingness to enjoy, or even occasionally, to be afraid of things. Refreshing in a cynical world. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/d...

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Somebody Explain Why Everybody Loves Phil Rosenthal

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

You can’t change what’s going on, but you can put some cardboard, soil, and seeds where there was once weeds and crabgrass and watch it unfold to everyone’s enjoyment

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

An email from one of these "education" companies promising self-grading assignments. You know, I'm pretty sure this isn't the university experience our students want, and I'm certain it's not the one the parents think they are paying for.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I "Londoned" hard on 12 May: Heathrow ~ 1pm. Bethnal Green and Brick Lane approx 330pm. HOKO Cafe by 4 (with hailstorm). Hoop and Grapes by 530 Chinatown 6pm ...G&T waiting for 8pm res at Quo Vadis Soho. Sheraton Heathrow by midnight. 6am flight to Prague next day...

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I know 5 people will see this post, but Gerard O'Donnell the concert pianist (not to be confused with Ger O'Donnell the folk singer) is extremely talented and I can't wait for this LP to come out, but this interview is worth the read alone: www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...

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Ten Minutes with composer and pianist Gerard O’Donnell | The Irish Post

Gerard O’Donnell is a composer and classically trained concert pianist. The inimitable tradition ...

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The question is, will Amazon post the review where I mention that it sells lots of travel guides that are merely plagiarized copies of someone else's work and does nothing to police the same?

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What, precisely, is going on here design-wise?

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I went to Eastern Slovakia recently: in the small village of Betliar that my grandmother left after Christmas of 1922, in the cemetery, stands a WWI monument that probably went up after she left. It bears the name of her brother, Ján Holečko. He died in an Italian POW camp in 1918.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Cashier: any big Father’s Day plans? Me: having a colonoscopy the next day so… 😂😂😂

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Maso. #Prague May, 2025. Vinohrady neighborhood.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

You know, a week later I’m still thinking about that kebap I had in Ostrava. #redcabbage forever 😂 #slavic

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Bratislava: the most guitar guy thing ever: sees woman busking. Asks to borrow her guitar which she obliges so he can look “cool” for his girlfriend. Guitar Man plays for 5 minutes. I wait because I want to take a photo (I tip, well) we have a laugh.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I have been in Prague long enough to want to append the letter “y” to English nouns.

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

TFW when you are in Prague and there is a conversation at the coffee shop next to you primarily in French, a bit of Czech, the random Spanish cognate, and the occasional English. Do you have dreams where this happens? Disorienting yet fun

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This hail in #london was pretty wild this afternoon

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Justin Nystrom @justinnystrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We got one of those giant bags of jellybeans at Costco and I swear one of them tastes the way that those pink pucks put into urinals smell

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