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Lyn Belzer

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Editor, Administrator, Stand-Up Medievalist. LynBelzer over on The Old Place.

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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aw, it's the last episode of this year's series of NATALIE HAYNES STANDS UP FOR THE CLASSICS. Farewell until next year, beloved nerd comedy. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Got Season 1 of #RizzoliAndIsles on in the background. It's been a long time since I watched the show, and seeing #LeeThompsonYoung is breaking my freaking heart.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
One of the great AI-proof assessments I'm leaning more heavily on lately are primary source evaluations, but based on sources drawn directly from the archive rather than more popularly accessible ones ChatGP would likely be able to engage with. Happily, I've seen AI rates plummet accordingly.
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
From this AM's HCR: "Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ramp up their arrests and confrontations, the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen." I do so love this woman's writing style.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
John Kelly is not a bleeding heart liberal. If he says “no dude really, I worked for the guy and he’s a fascist lunatic,” then I believe him.
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am loving the new series of @deathinparadise.bsky.social. (I watch via BritBox.) The current characters have only had the cute, adorkable, semi-broken Inspectors. They don't remember how very much Richard irritated the living daylights out of everyone on St. Marie. 😆
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...
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ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES
If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Someday, I will be a good enough writer to pull off a Lu-Tze/Iroh crossover.
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@bmorecitydot.bsky.social , y'all know you are my very favorite municipal department of transportation. But what the heck is going on with signals today? Some are out, some are flashing, and there are railroad warnings going off for no apparent reason!
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This time was preceded by an era where big business literally owned your labor. Company towns, company stores, etc. the presidency was owned by big business from McKinley to FDR (minus Roosevelt & Taft yrs) The fight it took to get to the golden era of the blue collar worker was just that, a fight
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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
This! This is the real story!!
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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Maybe we all need to start writing this on sidewalks. Get out the chalk.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
8 years ago today Philando Castile was murdered. The criminal legal system failed to convict the cop who shot him despite the recorded evidence. We had to watch that video live just 24 hours after we watched cops shoot Alton Sterling in the back. (The video does not play at link)
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July 6th, 2016 | A History of Racial Injustice
On this day, Philando Castile was shot and killed by an officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Still pissed off at the moderators for not challenging Trump’s lies at the debate. And by “the moderators” I mean the pundits and posters on here who haven’t mentioned any of those lies ever since because they’re now more obsessed with Biden’s age than the NYT was with her emails.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit
Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Happy fourth
Tweet from Grosdoriane: This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
Snowden tweet: darkly amusing to watch panicked dems suddenly searching under the couch cushions for a candidate when kennedy is literally standing right there
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/07/2024
those arguing that taylor swift can't be a role model because she is an unmarried and childless woman at 34 are doing a great job of arguing that children need more women role models who are unmarried and childless at 34
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Charlotte the Host Origami @carolotta.me · 05/07/2024
SOMETIMES WHEN ONE HAS AGENCY THEY NEED TO KEEP A LID ON THAT SHIT IN A PUBLIC FORUM.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Seeing multiple folks in my feed losing their shit because Biden is not tarring the entire GOP with the Dobbs decision. From a political science perspective, this a legit criticism. From a "running for re-election" perspective, however, this is both unsurprising and sensible.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
So I went back and read Breyer’s dissent in Bruen and it clearly and simply lays out the terrible problems with the originalist reliance on history, ie: what, and whose, history counts? And why should we now be constricted by what someone did >100 yrs ago? www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/06/2024
After hundreds of pilgrims died in the scorching desert heat during the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, the Egyptian government is taking action against tour companies that facilitated the travel to Saudi Arabia, and said on Saturday that it had suspended the licenses of 16 companies.
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After Hajj Deaths, Egypt Suspends Companies That Took Pilgrims to Mecca
The action against 16 tour companies came as governments look into whether many travelers were not properly registered to make the journey into the desert.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
A sort of “savvy” take has emerged that American journalists take themselves too seriously and a bit of British cheek would help shake them out of their torpor. This is a helpful antidote to that lazy POV: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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All The Washington Post Has Is Its Credibility
The uproar over a publisher’s ethics is a matter of survival.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/06/2024
a friend of mine just lost her pup to an unleashed dog that attacked it, so this my reminder to you to leash your fucking dog when you’re in public
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
WaPo being understandably careful in its language but it’s flatly illegal under current law. (There is zero enforcement of campaign finance law so 🤷🏼‍♂️)
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Brain-eating amoeba in the Gracie Mansion water supply, I swear to Dog...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Big: Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from HIV
nytimes.com
New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Women
An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
As St. Petersburg gears up for a big Pride festival today, I'm surfacing this moving edition of NPR's Up First newsletter w/wonderful stories of queer staffers talking on work and life. As homophobia and transphobia rises here, this was a welcome and much-needed message: READ: loom.ly/bCkE3X8
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/06/2024
Still amused that 8 justices in Rahimi are saying 'the lower court applied Bruen wrong, that wasn't what we meant' while the guy who wrote Bruen is dissenting alone like YES TF IT WAS Also KBJ concurring like 'I wasn't on the Court yet when y'all did Bruen but that was bad fyi'
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Your email found me well. It has not left me so.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
I know everything looks bleak and Donald Sutherland just died and God knows what fresh hell SCOTUS will release tomorrow but, as a small bright spot in the gloom, the Orioles are beating the living tar out of the Yankees in NYC right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/06/2024
With even Fox News now acknowledging that Biden is pulling ahead, who's writing the big think piece about how Trump should gracefully bow out at the RNC for a younger, fresher candidate? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Nate Silver!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/06/2024
I loathe air conditioner shaming. It’s bizarre Puritan nonsense that gets vulnerable people killed in heat waves. (Did you know a lot of people who die in heat waves HAVE AC, but never turned it on?). Shut it down wherever you encounter it.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Only a tiny portion of Black Americans were granted the land they were owed after the civil war. And then, almost immediately, the government took it back. Here’s where the people, and the land, ended up. Remarkable investigative reporting from the Reveal folks here:
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40 Acres and a Lie
40ACRES AND A LIE A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down...
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
I'm having a string of less-than-awesome mental health days. The problem, mainly, is that, I've hit the point in voluntary unemployment where the novelty of being home has worn off, but this freaking heat dome has me trapped in the house!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/06/2024
Many Black Texans didn’t receive the news about the end of slavery until 1866. “Slaveowners resorted to tricks. They delayed. They postponed. This was money,” said historian C.R. Gibbs.
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Why Juneteenth didn’t actually end slavery in Texas
Enslavers across the state resisted the emancipation order and hid the news from enslaved Black people, many of whom continue to labor under ruthless enslavers.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/06/2024
Something I love about this place is that all the shitposters have graduate degrees
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
<FACEPALM> Oh, and the pools don't open until a week from tomorrow.
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Lyn Belzer @lynbelzer.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
The "many" referred to here is opinion columnists. Do not get me started on how either Gail Collins, or "The Conversation" editor, or both continually allow Bret Stephens to dominate every column. There's cordial collegiality, but Collins allows Stephens to steamroll her week after week.
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