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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 22h

Tell em what you’re going to tell em, tell em, then tell em what you told em!

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Glasgow relatives would not be able to resist replying: all the more so since you say rarely get the chance! 😜🤪💀👌🍍🔥😺😀

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, right yes, that’s perfect. So much good work out there you lose track so easily. One of the witnesses describes the victim’s blood dripping in the most extraordinarily visceral fashion, poor student was quite shocked!

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a great honours undergraduate working on a grim murder in Bermuda in 1837. The inquiry is strikingly full of sounds, smells, sights, emotion. I read a fair bit of sensory history but does anyone know of recent(ish) work on this period specifically connected to court testimony? #SensoryHistory

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ha! New ad campaign “All our fishermen look like this. Don’t yours?” for Netflix show Below, filmed here on the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. All our Professors Look Like This, to follow soon, I’m sure. #Newfoundland

Photo of Times Square(?) advertising screen promoting a Netflix show called Below with image of Josh Hartnett beefcaking it up. A man in foreground points up at the screen, knowingly.

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Me too! The curated element is such a strength. When I subscribed I panicked a bit at the “leaving category”, and hurried through in an unorganized fashion. Much better to sit with a collection indeed.

Seconded and signed! I had two Wahoo sandwiches at the Onion last month. Not at the same time, mind you, that would be, err what’s another word for suspicious? 🐟🐠🐡

Finally, someone who appreciates high ART.

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monkey. The circus is in town! replied the barman. The circus, the monkey said, are they the ones with the great big tent? Yes, that's them, the barman replied. Huh, said the monkey, well why would they want a plasterer?

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the circus newly arrived in town. The barman said sure go ahead, and if you come to the bar tomorrow for lunch I have a hell of a surprise for you. So the next day, when the monkey came in to order his usual, the barman said to him I have an amazing job opportunity for you! What's that?, asked the

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with the rush of workers. The next day the same thing happened. This time the barman asked the monkey if he was new in town. The monkey explained that he was a plasterer working on the new houses down the road. Later that day a suited man came into the bar and asked if he could put up posters for

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The barman in a small town was wiping the counter prior to the noon rush when a small monkey in overalls entered the bar. The monkey climbed into a stool and ordered a pint and a sandwich, and started to read the newspaper. The barman was at a loss for words so brought the food and was soon busy

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He replied, “oh you only see me from behind walking away from the camera.” He added, “it’s a tongue in cheek film.” I suggested that was a phrase I did not want to hear after his telling me his ass was on film…

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Given where we are, and culture here, more than few students are performers or musicians of various kinds. My older actor student, a great big guy softened a bit in late 50s, told me this afternoon that he’d just been in a short art film. He said he was nude in it, so I thanked him for the warning.

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Haha, yes, quite likely. The ricotta has his attention but the bocconcini does not. He’s a big flavour kinda guy.

Fantastic! Thanks, the students will ge thrilled to not miss out…. 😜 🥸

Aha! Fabulous! Many thanks. Your DMs aren’t open I’m afraid, but I trust our spam blocker, so: nkennedy @ mun dot ca

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rats, there is a gap in my library's subscription to a journal from which I assigned reading! Any kind soul have access to: Pierre Gervais, “Neither Imperial, nor Atlantic: A Merchant Perspective on International Trade in the Eighteenth Century,” History of European Ideas 34, 4 (Dec 2008): 465–73?

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Twenty-five years ago today, at the Palazzo Vecchio, in Cosimo d’Medici’s bedroom, we were married by the Mayor of Firenze, and we haven’t stopped since. What a time it’s been. #weddinganniversary

Photo of us, in front of Pegasus statue in the Medici gardens, Firenze, this past May.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In our latest Current Debates essay entitled "The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare", Rahul Govind discusses how imperial practices couched in international law and Western notions of the 'right of conquest' derives from prize law. doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

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The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare

I would like to draw a genealogy of Donald Trump's rhetoric and military action in Venezuela and Iran, in particular, of how the acquisition of the resources of another country through a military o...

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haha, indeed! Shortly after this he lurched awake and wandered over to eye a chocolate birthday cake Spousal Unit had made for custodian of one of research centres she oversees. I managed to avert a repeat of the Great Bagel Fiasco of last week.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@drleonj.bsky.social Ever since he was a pup, big Yoda likes to sleep fully braced against solid objects, like a hungover freshman on a Sunday morning. #Dogs

Photo of large hairy dog sleeping on his side, inconveniently positioned in kitchen doorway, with both front legs stiffly pressed against a doorframe. Safety first! Why is this bed spinning?!?!?!

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ah lovely, yes our fate here soon enough.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a beautiful member of the family, so sorry for your loss Juan.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not a fan of the “the strength of this book is in its detachment” endorsement. It is not enough on its own, or centred as though a unique revelation, but a bit of attachment is no bad thing. I’d rather read Scanlan’s Slave Empire than Taylor’s The Interest, for example, though happy we have both.

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a fantastic, engaging article. I'm so glad I made the time this morning to read it. Jane Humphries "Microhistory and Women's Time Use," advanced open access in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

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Microhistory and Women’s Time Use*

Abstract. Gender historians have pioneered attention to ‘doing words’ to identify otherwise invisible women’s work. Searches in court records for verbs wit

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A little help over here, monsieur!

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love that the lions are at the bottom, underwater.

Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Where did the sacred artifacts smuggled out of Nepal by Mary Slusser end up? One answer is... a flea market. I explain in this video.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Plot summary feels somewhat reminiscent of Trier's milder version in Sentimental Values (2023)?

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That is a gorgeous happy pup! ❤️❤️❤️

Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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This is such a useful resource. I have been able to look up particular days and places to provide weather context for events in my books.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify? Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify?

Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It will not surprise you to hear Danny's name comes up remarkably often. His research partner Vince Walsh is still a daily fixture. It is a great fortune to take classes across the hall from my office to the Maritime History Archive and explore a vast maritime labour. So many lives.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘Toward a people’s history’ is on the list to start our discussion off this week, then four(!) others of yours I see. Many thanks for the work! I felt spoiled for choice this year, with great new work, Kevin Dawson, @maryhicks.bsky.social, and others, to place alongside Lemisch, Scott, and much else

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And those of us running courses about seafarers and seafaring this semester are very lucky you did.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We were out gardening today and he must have heard the new born baby of our new neighbours at the top of the hill. He galloped his mighty legs up the hill to the fence and peered through happily. He let out the saddest little moan when he realized there was no baby outside to lick. Or pizza.

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bowels sorted out after a somewhat messy day yesterday, and back on the kitchen lurking. I’m often amazed how big his snout is, all the better for snarfing up bagels. Match his giant thick feet.

Photo of a hairy white, tan and black malamute named Yoda, in his side in the kitchen on the most inconvenient spot

Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That’s how he gets away with it!!! He is cuddly to be sure, and snores like an old man. He’s worse than the cats for wanting out when he’s in, and in when he’s out. He’s a lovable lunk!