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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mexican spouse is about to watch an America’s Test Kitchen episode where they’re making “Mexico City classics.” I dunno if y’all should pray for me or them.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am tired of the “50 books you should read in <language that’s not English>” lists that consist of 45 books translated from English. Mate, if the list is in English … wtf ya doin?

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lo difícil de having multilingual tastes in music is att veta cuál لغة den har låt is in.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s been 25 years and I still can’t articulate what I want to say about what happened that day. The short version is: bin Laden got everything he wanted and then some. And we handed it to him happily, wrapped in the flag and clutching a cross.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If anyone is in Austin for the #SBOE hearings, there’s reports that conservative board members and their supporters are openly harassing a group of Muslims who’ve come to testify about the social studies revisions.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The funniest part of those “how many phds does it take to…” jokes is that in none of them does the job actually get done.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The number of people on my FB feed protesting the wall going up in Big Bend with AI generated art. I don’t feel like “ironic” is a strong enough word here.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This has nothing to do with anything, but I sometimes wonder what it’s like to have the self confidence to be like “you know what? The world needs a photo of me in my undies” without any self doubt or anxiety. Like … what’s that like?

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ok, but … who did he imply the Sea Peoples were?

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Facebook just decided I needed to see a hot take by a Hungarian thinker (sic) who posted an academic article about how Muslims don’t integrate into Western European society … in response to what happened at Berlin pride … and the text he quoted says “because of hostility from host populations.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2026

The car attack on the Berlin Pride event has been designated a mass casualty event.

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

General life updates. I have 3 and a half chapters written on my book. Unfortunately, my MIL passed while I was halfway through the 4th and I don’t remember what I was doing (also, it’s time to start prepping for the fall semester).

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Has 47 offered to drop Notre Dame on the Canadian wildfires or …

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think we should make an exception for swirlies

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I know everyone has travel nightmares, but… 23 hour delay (we were sitting on the plane, with the door closed) Almost diverted to Tulsa Connection: 9 gates in 3 different terminals Plane pulled from service while boarding Home 5 hours late Jetbridge didn’t work American Airlines: do better

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My flight home, delayed 23.5 hours (not kidding) was almost diverted to Tulsa because of weather. DFW cleared enough that we slipped in at the last second. At this point the fact that I’m someplace where I could conceivably drive home is good enough.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s distasteful to speak ill of the dead and I have nothing nice to say about the deceased. So, my deepest condolences to the dom tops on Grindr in NC.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I think the Lyft driver thinks he’s talking to us but our lack of participation in the conversation is not slowing him down one bit.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What is this, scientific mercantilism?

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is very niche, but … are they Andreas Papandreau-ing Mitch McConnell?

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Next week: war on Luxembourg, those ungrateful bastards.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That the Colombia - Ghana match is sponsored by Lay’s and McDonald’s is … a choice.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

PIPER NOOOOO GOOOOL ARGENTINA NOOOOOO

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/07/2026

I think this is a good and compassionate take from Keezy. However, publishing contracts usually contain clauses that specifically say any accusations of academic misconduct, plagiarism, inaccuracy etc are on you, the author, not on them, the publisher. Here is what I think happened--

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hi, welcome to new followers. I’m a historian of 19th/20th century Egypt focusing on medical/environmental social pressures, but you’ll be pleased to know I don’t post about it very often. You’ll hear more about my cats, spouse, and students, mostly when they annoy me.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

He never misses an opportunity to punch lower.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I said something like this once and someone immediately leapt onto my TL to tell me that I was entirely wrong and training my students to ignore fascism.

The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot.
A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.

A nationalist, although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,
wrote Orwell, tends to be uninterested in what happens in the real world.

Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kis put it, nationalism “has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.”

A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves.

A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained.

A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well-and wishing that it would do better.

- Timothy Snyder,
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New film: “…and the category is MAYOR REALNESS! Mamdani’s doing drag!”

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I am in an outpatient surgery waiting room (routine colonoscopy). It’s not 6 am yet and the people on house hunters are everything that is wrong with America today. In this essay I will

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Those “wave your hand in front of the sensor” devices never work for me: soap, water, paper towels. It makes me wonder if I’m actually dead and no one told me.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Even tho I haven’t been on twitter since 2023 I still wonder how ___ has managed to make the Venezuela earthquake all about herself.

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

TELEMUNDO IS ADVERTISING BACK TO SCHOOL THIS IS VIOLENCE.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Shelfie. Left side: course prep. Right side: book. Plus CMoS because obviously.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Los Hombres G are Spain’s Gyllene Tider. I will be taking no questions at this time.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“He owns 11 homes” cannot be repeated enough

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I got three pages written today. The first three. Honestly, it was on the level of extracting teeth. I think I’m a little out of practice. (Also, it’s the background chapter so it’s the stuff I haven’t been immersed in for three years…)

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The dirtiest place I’ve been on this nine day trip to Mexico is the pick up zone at Austin airport.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those

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Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@homophonous.bsky.social You’re the only one who will get this- I was in the car (CDMX) with spouse and sister in law. Spouse says “Entre semana despertamos a las 6.” And I was about to correct him that the cats wake us up, and I spent too long trying to remember the form II of “despertar.”

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