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Amy Lively

@mshistorian.bsky.social
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High school history and literature teacher, music nerd, baseball fan for longer than some of you have been alive, podcaster at For the Record: The 70s. Disco doesn’t suck.

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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The looks that everyone else gives this asshat tell you all you need to know. How this man still has a job is beyond me. The suicide crisis line is 988. Please use it if you need to.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This was the best they could do when they picked a family member to announce her death?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70
Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
San Diego is full of walking MAGA hats. I wonder how they feel about their leader just casually suggesting their city be blown off the map.
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Roberto ‘Rob’ Camacho @robcamachosd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BEWARE: Don’t share content from Mexican American Roots, Raices Mexicanas MX, or Lost Mexican America on Facebook or Instagram. They’re AI-slop pages posing as pseudo-history accounts. They post dozens of automated AI-generated images hourly, deliberately made to resemble old, historical photos.
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're big fans of @bookshop.org's anti-Prime day! Free shipping today and tomorrow. Your purchase supports independent bookstores and, through our shop, independent book coverage! Find lists of books by podcast guests, new books we're anticipating, craft books, & more: bookshop.org/shop/draftin...
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Drafting the Past Bookshop
Drafting the Past is a podcast dedicated to the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Shop books by our guests, their recommendations, and some of our favorite craft books and support th...
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On another note, what is happening here?
Padres pitcher sniffing something out of an orange and yellow can.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Forget AI. The innovation of the century is that someone finally invented a technology that could fact-check Donald Trump at scale: gas pumps.
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What if Democrats let Elon Musk and the massive forces of capital buy this election?
It’s not victim-blaming to say that we must blame the villains if we want to make voters heroes.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump's Net-Approval On The Economy In: 🔴Texas: -18% 🔴Kansas: -18% 🔴Alaska: -19% 🔴Ohio: -27% 🔴Iowa: -28% Siena / Oct 1, 2026
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 17
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 01/08/2026
Successful festivals produced by Olivia Rodrigo and Brandi Carlile are debunking the myth that women can't headline or lead concert lineups.
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Olivia Rodrigo and Brandi Carlile Are Debunking the Myth That Women Can't Lead Festivals
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 03/10/2026
Reincarnated DAWG.
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have done both 🤷🏻‍♀️
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this was scary to see
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now let's make sure Coach is ok!
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gabby Williams: "What up George Lucas? That's pretty cool!"
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 30/09/2026
Have we discussed the Astros winning their division at 81-81 and then having the unmitigated audacity to do a bullpen game in Game 1 of the postseason? That's disgusting. A bigger affront to baseball than the trash can thing
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hate the Yankees because they made me cry when I was a kid in the 70s. They were always the ones that beat the Royals in the playoffs and kept them out of the World Series. The Dbacks beating them in 2001 was extra sweet.
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not only are the Astros cheaters, their fans have got to be the most lifeless crowd I have ever heard at a playoff game. I have heard more energetic spring training crowds. 🥱
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Absolutely not!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I always enjoy when Obama gets in on the imagine if Obama did that game
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok so Trump is *promising* that he will pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans win the House & Senate. And as I’m sure other astute observers are noting, that’s essentially a taxpayer-backed, congressionally unapproved $1.3 trillion bribe. He’s bribing the entire country—with our own money
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I assume you’re saying literally you believe A.I. could kill us all by the end of the decade.” “Yeah.” 😕 Jacob Coxon tells CNN why he decided to leave Anthropic, says he was shocked his warning about A.I. maybe killing us all went viral.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I see the Seahawks and the Patriots are running back their scintillating Super Bowl performance.🥱
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shout out to journalism and a big middle finger to those who really seemed to want Torre to be "wrong." It would be cool to see journalism be in vogue again.
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ctice90.bsky.social @ctice90.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Unlike cowardly google, who now show this in Canada. Thank you mapquest
Lake Ontario labeled as Lake America
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram issues damning TCU report after having credentials revoked
On August 26, the Fort-Worth Star Telegram reported that TCU banned the paper from covering all Horned Frogs athletics. According to the Star-Telegram, TCU rescinded its credentials over its reporting on a locker room fight. TCU’s decision did not have the desired effect, as it did not intimidate the Star-Telegram out of reporting on the incident and its…
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m glad I participated in #HATM this week. I loved Dolly & cried my eyes out over her this week. I also made a short post. karencoxhistorian.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...
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For the love of Dolly
The best of the Appalachian South.
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Carla @cwalworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is why no decent person or their kids will go unvaccinated. It KILLS BABIES. www.nbcnews.com/video/an-inf...
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An infant was one of the two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania
One of the two people who recently died of measles in Pennsylvania was an infant, the state Health Department said. The department announced that two unvaccinated residents had died of measles, the fi...
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Cameron Brink calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘stupid piece of sh*t,’ condemns ‘clickbait’
On Monday night, Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink swatted five blocks in a loss to the Atlanta Dream. Her most impressive block of the night came before the game even started. Brink, the 2024 No. 2 overall pick, spoke exclusively with Jarrod Castillo of Mirror US about the disingenuous media cloud hovering over the…
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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My relationship with this game that was such a part of my youth (born and raised on Husker football) gets more complicated all the time.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...
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On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era
Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/08/2026
I have really enjoyed the experience of reading story after story about how good and selfless and beloved a recently deceased famous person was
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 25/08/2026
One of the best-selling musical artists of all time, Parton had 25 singles top the Billboard country music charts. She starred in blockbuster movies and beloved Christmas specials. Her theme park, Dollywood, is one of the most popular in the United States. She was also a champion for literacy.
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Dolly Parton, country music icon and 'book lady,' dies at 80
The country music legend, who sent millions of free books to children through her Imagination Library, died Tuesday in Nashville.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Garrett Mitchell gives classy tribute to Karl Ravech during on-field interview
The utility of the on-field interview during MLB games is questionable at best. First and foremost, these are professional athletes who are attempting to perform at the highest level while also bantering with whoever is on play-by-play. Beyond that obvious hiccup, conversations can be stilted and awkward, with the wind and weather making communication between…
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Jane McManus @janesports.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The press release could be titled WNBA TO KANTOR: FUCK OFF
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It ain’t about trans people. It’s about middle aged men’s egos.
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
understand that the wnba has been under siege because it’s a league of women, especially black women. the Right™️ thinks it’s sweet out here and ripe for rabble rousing, but —as is usually the case— the Right has underestimated black women.
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