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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thinking about the anonymous Crossplay opponent I had been neck and neck with the entire game conceding their defeat to me last night by playing “butt“ as their last word.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

luv you, archivists and librarians

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Actually cannot get over this, it is amazing that I can cross-check political references in correspondence that I looked at during in-person research with the direct text of petitions submitted to the General Assembly without having to worry about hunting down a published secondary compendium.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💥💥💥TODAY! 💥💥💥 Join us for a talk by Peter C. Mancall about his most recent book, Contested Continent, which recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans. Free and open to the public, with reception to follow.

The poster features the cover of Mancall's book as well as the logistical information about the talk, which will take place on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 pm at 94 George Street with a reception to follow.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The North Carolina Department of Archives and History digitizing AND enabling keyword searches for the NC General Assembly resolutions and petitions (and that's just the tip of the iceberg)...I can't even begin to imagine how time and labor intensive that was, HELLO I LOVE YOU

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok cool so no one was going to tell me about the Paris Fashion Week ”sausage walk” event featuring scores of dachshunds strutting down the Champs-Elysees in jaunty little ensembles?

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Leon, I cannot emphasize enough how much I lost 😂 (had to time unmuting myself in between her yowling outside the door)

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

t-minus one month until Atlanta, gonna weep over a plate of peach cobbler

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Talking about placemaking and religion over Cook Out with my beloved grad school girlies is my ideal conference situation, actually.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

they were truly heroes navigating that day!

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Consider it done, I’ll even throw an extra one in the bag

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

can I interest anyone in a cleansing primal scream?

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bracing myself for a day of witnessing an ancient and intractable rivalry (Velcro cat v. Closed home office door)

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi y'all, Would love if you joined us for this roundtable conversation tomorrow! Working as both a contributor and editor for "The Palace of Thundering Gods" was such a unique, exciting, challenging experience. I'm so excited to talk with everyone! congregationallibrary.org/events/the-p...

congregationallibrary.org

The Palace of the Thundering Gods – Synthesizing Colonial American Religious History: A Virtual Round Table - Congregational Library & Archives

The Palace of Thundering Gods is a freely accessible, open-source resource that tells the history of Religion in the United States. It has been created

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NYT 100 Best Shows of the 21st century is the perfect opportunity for me to once again share my unbending belief that whoever made the decision to cast Liza Minnelli as Lucille 2 on Arrested Development should be given the Medal of Freedom.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 26/09/2026

this is a fine piece but i think it's missing a crucial ingredient, and yeah it's a cliché for a millennial to say this on bluesky but whatever: GENDER, and the connection between empire and fetishized depictions of supposedly distinctly masculine virtues.

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not one creature on this earth is more prepared for a nor'easter weekend than a snuggly, snoozy house cat.

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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I also love an arbitrary, unhinged airline voucher amount, like two weeks ago Delta opened up their wallet, handed us $12 at the Dayton airport, and said "get yourself something nice"

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

now THIS is narrative! (I am so sorry omg my spirit would have fled my mortal coil)

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sumptuous! Three things ALWAYS get me: the sun rising over the Potomac; the NYC skyline; and the memory of seeing loved ones all bundled up in the frost greeting or seeing off passengers at the Ashland, VA station.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've taken the train from Richmond, VA to Providence, RI (and the reverse) many times and I always get a little verklempt seeing the beautiful rivers and bridges and skylines of the upper east coast roll by ❤️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good to be home in the arts capital of Rhode Island!

A wooden fence above a parking lot spot with “FART!” painted on.

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're attending NCPH/AASLH this week in Providence and want to talk about doing history on Reddit, come find me! Happy to talk about r/AskHistorians (@askhistorians.bsky.social), AMAs, content moderation, and more! @ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (JHCY) is looking for a new editor or co-editors. Details below. Please share widely! @shcy.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social

shcy.org

Applications for JHCY Editorship Are Open! - Society for the History of Children and Youth

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jim, if I can absorb his game day curse I will consider it a service to my team 😂🤘

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everybody (continue to) boo this man!!!

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He went to the game and his damn curse got me all the way in Ohio, now I’m a longhorn at the airport with ongoing delays

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Travel safety etc etc but now that I’ve said my goodbyes: Earlham is a remarkable resource and Jenny Freed and Tom Hamm are incredible stewards. Historians of Quakerism, of pacifism, of abolitionism, of the Am. south, of the Am. west, on and on and on, I implore you to look at Earlham‘s collections.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I also have been enormously privileged across my graduate and very early career to be in a subfield where basically everyone knows each other. And at every single turn, my fellow Quaker history and archives folks have been outrageously kind, collegial, and generous with their time and resources.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nothing like a good old fashioned family argument written in ABAB scheme!

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One of the most rewarding, emotionally challenging, productive, reflective research weeks of my life.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm actually not over this, b/c a) imagine you're having an argument with your nephew over his possibly having left the family faith and you can't respond to this letter until you think up a perfect rhyme scheme. b) is this just...a them thing? Or is everyone getting a limerick in the mail

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Halfway through a giant coffee and can confirm that I’m not hallucinating. all rhymes, between family members. The rhyming scheme is never once acknowledged 💀

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

fighting for my life because this epistolary debate on Quakerism vs. Methodism in the 1780s is incredible but I'm undercaffeinated and every single letter is written as a rhyme

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Relatedly, I'm reworking some syllabus assignments while sleep deprived and waiting for lodgings so I'm either going to produce a work of pedagogical genius or the written equivalent of Ben Wyatt's claymation!

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

5am flight, naturally, the bed had never been cozier, the breeze from the window never more lovely, and the cat never more soft and snuggly.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

listen, I miss my loved ones back home with all my heart, but I cannot tell a lie, they’re in direct competition with That Green Sauce

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That one video that said Mayor Mamdani might be the only one who could fix Ferrari‘s strategy, LET THEM SPEAK

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The millisecond I saw that pompom ”Liberty Bibberty” I knew exactly which of my friends’ days it was going to ruin.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think the emu is funny, I’M SORRY.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There needs to be a study done on why the Liberty Mutual commercials provoke such genuine rage in people.

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A very Texan care package has arrived in New England ❤️

The contents of a recent package are displayed on Katy’s dark brown wooden coffee table: an H-E-B cinnamon roll scented candle; a box of central market triple ginger wicked thin cookies: two small bags of Cafe Olé coffee grounds; and a white t-shirt that reads “I ❤️ H-E-B”

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think you'll love it, DOCTOR Donovan!! 🎉

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