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Laura Mitchell

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wasn’t fucking nervous before, BUT I AM NOW
A trade card for Carter’s Little Nerve Pills, featuring a huge bipedal frog managing a baby
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rounding the Horn Terry Watkinson 2020
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Filling up my to read list with the books in this thread.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026
"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Magic spell translation: SQUARE SQUARE THIS IS A SQUARE I know y'all want medieval magic to look more exciting but it was often just geometry.
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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A good thread which honestly applies to more than history. AI in the classroom is a sign of prioritizing the final result over the process. Any good teaching is going to be heavily "show your work/thinking" and this is even more important now that AI exists as a shortcut.
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've only heard of three of these people and I am quite content to be a dinosaur who's not in the know anymore.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026
Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/08/2026
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
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Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
LOS ANGELES - Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the m...
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
just read about a medieval guy amassing an army of ‘50 thousand clowns’ by ‘beguiling them with his juggling’ and got so excited before i realised clown used to mean ‘farm worker’ and juggling used to mean ‘general trickery’
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
iconic Hallmark movie setup actually!!!!!!!!! can the homeowner be a divorcée who impulsively bought a disaster of a house on a remote island just to get away from her big city ex, and can the builder be a kindly local hunk with a large dog who works for his dad and lost his side many years ago
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
Brennan Lee Mulligan from the Oreo CEO sketch with a speech bubble implying he is saying the quoted post
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have been looking forward to this for months!
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026
This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026
1. keep yelling about how awful Rowling is and what people are supporting by signing onto this show, it’s working 2. suddenly don’t feel so bad for harington not having much success post-GoT
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Notes on a castle: www.tom-cox.com/notes-on-a-c...
The mountain view, at dawn, from one of the gothic bedroom windows of Clytha Castle in Wales, where I stayed the weekend before last. You can read about my impressions of it in the link.
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This thread is art.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
lmao at Iddin-Sin, an ungrateful little shit of yore
Screenshot of a translation of this 4,000 letter, linked within the quote-skeeted article and reading as follows:

"Tell the Lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message:
May the gods Samas, Marduk, and Ilabrat keep you forever in
good health for my sake.
From year to year, the clothes of the (young) gentlemen here
become better, but you let my clothes get worse from year to
year. Indeed, you persisted(?) in making my clothes poorer and
more scanty. At a time when in our house wool is used up like
bread, you have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam,
whose father is only an assistant of my father, (has) two new sets
of clothes [break] while you fuss even about a single set of clothes
for me. In spite of the fact that you bore me and his mother only
adopted him, his mother loves him, while you, you do not love
me!"

Available at: https://lustria-online.com/threads/letters-from-mesopotamia.21099/
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Literally yes
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/08/2026
this is the correct response to anything Potter-related no "I personally disagree with her but I'm going to do it anyway" it's a hard no, end of story
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I had not heard about these accusations until today and this breakdown is fascinating. I've also added Tillie Walden's book to my to read list.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Jelly Shelf Mary Pratt 1999
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026
Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
SERVINGS: THIS IS A PRIVATE MATTER 
TIME: 20 MINUTES
SOURCE: SMITTEN KITCHEN
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I was not prepared for how awful the noise is.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Friday night lights aka late breaking news release. Ka boom. Toronto anger was not for naught. You moved a monolith: the Liberal caucus. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion
The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
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Mari Stein (מרים שטיין) @heymaristein.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Laughing nervously what the fuck
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Laura Mitchell @medievallaura.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Listening to my sister talk about how much she loves ai and we truly live in different worlds. Love that we are burning the planet so she doesn't have to write her own emails anymore.
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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of my favourite reviews of “Platform Decay” by @marthawells.com 😂😂😂 No spoilers!
Tumblr post from shrubfriend:

I love you Martha Wells. I Love you and your beef with privatized transit and whatever happened to you at Rainforest Cafe.
#the murderbot diaries #platform decay
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When a cat is a prophet
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.
Carney:

"The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario. 

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive.  
 
On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe.
 
Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Come forward, patron saint of Bluesky!!
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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
3 shots from star trek deep space nine.
1 and 2: Q, with a fake handlebar mustache, sitting on the ground after being knocked down, says "You hit me. Picard never hit men"
3: Commander Benjamin Sisko, standing over him and looking exasperated, says "I'm not Picard."
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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City dresses their statue of Baby Jesus in whatever uniform the national team is wearing in each game. My God I love the World Cup, just incredible things happening everywhere. Also, Sister Michael would no doubt approve, she loves a good statue.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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