Reposted by Margaret ComerInside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"I stand with you, I am your brother": Legendary actor Richard Gere supports Ukrainians and recites a poem by Ukrainian poet Yuriy Izdryk. 182103952633
Reposted by Margaret ComerAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Academics with comfortable jobs, tenured, a billionaire, the people who hunted Arday across Twitter made my skin crawl. The gleeful, violent, vicious joy they displayed. The "jokes" The dismissal of the suggestion that there could be consequences. 710432
Margaret Comer @mcomer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Horrific. So many gleeful ghouls, ranging from far right to liberal, who jumped on this issue to vent their spleen over everything they think they’re entitled to if only they didn’t have to share with people they, deep down or shallowly, deem unworthy. A murder by social media witch hunt. 02911
Reposted by Margaret ComerAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it 381708451
Reposted by Margaret ComerAlina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A quick G&T after the gig of a lifetime with my historian pal @mcomer.bsky.social 😍... we don't just do history stuff together 💪🏼 #SystemofaDown 191
Reposted by Margaret ComerMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."ctvnews.caFor women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard studyWomen are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic. 12655141394
Reposted by Margaret ComerChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV 3841501022
Margaret Comer @mcomer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Have to keep busy within Polish borders until my karta pobytu comes 🥰🏍️ 020
Reposted by Margaret ComerDr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One BIG problem though. Kazakhstan pavilion in Venice was supposed to have this work of Asel Kadyrkhanova on Stalinist repressions as one of the central pieces at the exhibit. The vice minister of culture of Kazakhstan came to “inspect” it the day before pre-opening & ordered to remove it 22620
Reposted by Margaret ComerRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion. 12863571164
Reposted by Margaret ComerDr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026People who are making tectonic shifts in postsoviet decolonial thought: Dr Nodira Kholmatova Dr Olga Burlyuk Dr Gulnaz Sibgatullina Prof Madina Tlostanova Dr Tereza Hendl Dr yours truly Dr Assel Tutumlu ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 0192
Reposted by Margaret ComerTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/01/2026These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol. 621128174
Reposted by Margaret ComerAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed 221138265
Reposted by Margaret ComerNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help. 5027511239
Reposted by Margaret Comerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/09/2025one cynically funny thing about Hegseth thinking he can retcon the genocide atop which America was built is that the rest of the world is not fooled & will never be fooled. World history will always teach that the Army committed organized murder of civilians at Wounded Knee. It’s generally known 22818115
Reposted by Margaret ComerVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/09/2025"getting snatched off the street by armed agents of the state, sent to the gulag, and then deported is the same thing as a multi-millionaire having his show cancelled. I am very smart and get paid to share my ideas." 17598116
Reposted by Margaret ComerAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Every woman I know with advanced degrees has dated this guy/met this guy at a party and he has implied how ignorant/stupid she actually was because she didn't recite the History of the Peloponnesian War from memory. And then he's been blocked/avoided by every one of those women. 2722616274
Reposted by Margaret ComerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick. 571104602354
Reposted by Margaret ComerKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators 12880452501
Reposted by Margaret ComerCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The Alarm. Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1902, unsent. 80139541223
Margaret Comer @mcomer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Recently, via a series of strange events, I moved to Warsaw’s Muranów neighborhood - since today is the 82nd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, here are some photos of the memorial I took on a walk. Today, this neighborhood’s tragic history feels hauntingly present. 010
Reposted by Margaret ComerIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. Seamus Heaney #botd 1939 17022
Reposted by Margaret Comerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/03/2025given its applicability to the present moment I feel like the word revanchist is severely overdue for a comeback. normalize calling your enemy a revanchist piece of shit 22885105
Reposted by Margaret ComerDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s... 29279722076
Reposted by Margaret ComerTimothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025An insane decision by the State Department to terminate the Title VIII program, which has allowed American students to study the languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia – all essential for foreign policy, intelligence, the military and not least a better informed citizenry. 410843
Reposted by Margaret Comerghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · 17/02/2025they should invent a passage of time that isn’t relentless 2142
Margaret Comer @mcomer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025My overview of “Gulag Heritage” in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict: link.springer.com/referencewor... It’s a “living reference work,” so I’m happy to hear suggestions for future updates!link.springer.comGulag HeritageThe gulag system, which stretched across the Soviet Union and lasted in some form for almost all its existence, comprised a network of prisons, concentration camps, forced labor camps, and other sites... 020
Reposted by Margaret ComerUAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Ratatouille but it's world war 1 and the rats are all incredibly skilled marksmen and the humans they ride as steeds are merely cannon fodder for sniper duels between them 592482250
Reposted by Margaret Comerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply. 7495845611304
Reposted by Margaret ComerAlexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 29/01/2025MDGA make depression great again 0181
Reposted by Margaret ComerJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/01/2025lol reply bots 391187271154
Reposted by Margaret Comerantler @antler.bsky.social · 25/12/2024twas the night before christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. the risotto was ruined 393346326
Margaret Comer @mcomer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Unclear why my parents collaborated on this tiny ghost of Christmas…past? Present? Future? Canning the holidays and going to the beach? Holiday heist? When did I book my return ticket for, anyway? 020
Reposted by Margaret ComerLady Becky, Baroness of Bunzy, Bestie of Kim, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @beckybunzy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Eating cheese to avoid a hangover this holiday season ‘cuz I read it in a clickbait article. 6587
Reposted by Margaret ComerJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Academic scandal Mad Libs www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... 29526151
Reposted by Margaret ComerHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 19/11/2023when reviewer 2 says anything at all about my ethnography 1724
Reposted by Margaret Comere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/11/2023If you're in line to boo Elon Musk, STAY IN LINEpagesix.comElon Musk 'spiraled' after being booed at comedy show, locked himself..."I think he truly cares about his reputation," "Breaking Twitter" author Ben Mezrich said of the Tesla co-founder in a new interview. 20739135
Reposted by Margaret ComerJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 24/08/2023Laura Ingraham says Democrats' platform is pot, porn and Planned Parenthood, and I think we've got a winning slogan for 2024 1083639786
Reposted by Margaret ComerIf you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 04/11/2023Hospital, school, church, refugee camp, refugee camp, telecoms, hospital, hospital, car, bakery, ambulance, mosque, solar panel, water tank, olive trees. Everyday atrocity. 0164
Reposted by Margaret ComerGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/10/2023My favorite part about this is you know his campaign staff is deeply wrestling with it. Crisis comms meetings, focus groups. A consultant is paying off their house helping them respond to this. 109216
Reposted by Margaret ComerOleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social · 29/10/2023Sorry for the twitter link, but content important. The continued normalization of the Russian state's instrumentalization of history, targeting children, with ideas of "Great Russia" while whitewashing Soviet repression, is significant. This will have long-term impact. twitter.com/BBCSteveR/st... 092
Reposted by Margaret ComerPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 29/10/2023How to hibernate. 114048
Reposted by Margaret ComerDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/10/2023Whether it's caused by an airborne virus, guns, or war, refuse to normalize mass death. 71614561
Reposted by Margaret Comerhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/10/2023Sometimes when I am driving through England I am overtaken by the sense of passing through a continuous haunting. A question of not if a village has a ghost-troubled house, but how many and just how beset by phantoms they are. An I-Spy game I'm compelled to play. – D.A. Kilroy 18115
Reposted by Margaret ComerKuna @wryote.bsky.social · 26/10/2023These darling anarchists are going Viral on Twitter, but they should make their way here too! 261844722
