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Broken Historian

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Historian, geek, social justice advocate, storyteller, maker ✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈‍⬛ Black Cats

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 16h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 6h
“I do not calculate factorials. That is not a government service.” We need this on a t-shirt…
America.gov

The current U.S. flag has 50 stars, one for each state.
• U.S. Embassy: flag facts 7
• Smithsonian: flag facts 7
• GPO Ben's Guide: current flag 7 i do not calculate factorials. That is not a government service. For official flag information, use the links above.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 6h
Also, I intentionally didn’t search the date in question because I suspect the hearing yesterday will poison the results.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 6h
Typing “what basketball games took place…” then a random winter date yields *only* NBA games for me. So Google’s AI results are misogynistic and ignore NCAA entirely. Then his staff lazily and willingly accepted that misogyny.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 19h
It responds consistently - like that is the exact same response I just got.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 19h
What the actual - and I cannot underscore this enough - fuck? “…and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov “and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid…”
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 29/09/2026
Controversial extension: NPS should be shifted out of Interior and put under Smithsonian so it can operate quasi-independently as well.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 29/09/2026
What advertisements will be left on basic cable after 10pm after this!?
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Lynched Today @lynchedtoday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Will Brown - lynched today in 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska. #BlackLivesMatter
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AKlien @ancestrlrge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have 3 sisters. Fellas, do not respond with “not all men” when a woman voices concern for their safety. If you feel need to prove you are not apart of it, do so through action and empathy. And holding your male family and friends accountable.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 28/09/2026
Speaking out matters. It shifts minds. Sometimes those minds are District Attorneys.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lynched Today @lynchedtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Fitch - lynched today in 1896 in Alabama. #BlackLivesMatter
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is an internet-wide psyop to try to get me to buy a squishable toy shaped like a stick of butter
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 27/09/2026
[Exit, pursued by fucking bear]
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 27/09/2026
Repeat after me: We don't live in a monoculture anymore and that's fine
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/09/2026
I mean - the outbreak here is also almost exclusively localized to Lancaster County and the anti-vax Mennonite community there. Lancaster just has a *massive* density of those communities and then bleed over into the “English” who live around them.
A map of measles cases in 2026 in Pennsylvania. Most of the state is empty; Lancaster County is bright-fucking maroon.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/09/2026
It’s been a perpetual argument from The Simpsons and South Park to Hazbin Hotel and The Amazing Digital Circus: “Cartoons are only for kids; adults can’t have whimsy.”
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 26/09/2026
Listen, I hate Meta as much as the next sane human… but this pearl clutching feels like “How dare this adult animated series use swears! Cartoons are only for kids!”
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Mayor Defiant @eminence.fun · 26/09/2026
News from 2046: “Kate Winslet has declined to reprise her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in ‘Avatar vs Titanic II: Ascension of The Bloodrose, Part VII.’ Her house has subsequently been burned to the ground. If you know the whereabouts of Kate Winslet, @ the authorities.”
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 25/09/2026
Happy birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social - best known for his work on Wing Commander III: Heart of Tiger (1994), Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1996) & Wing Commander Prophecy (1997). Also, "The guy from Star Wars."
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 24/09/2026
This was unequivocally the correct outcome.
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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My friends, the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs bracket is over. The winner? With a dominant victory over an irrepressible blue genie, it was Part of Your World. youtu.be/SXKlJuO07eM?...
youtu.be
Jodi Benson - Part of Your World (From "The Little Mermaid")
YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 24/09/2026
“If you don’t laugh, you cry.” is like a mantra for me sometimes.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 23/09/2026
Small cathartic moments in a sea of sorrow… embrace them.
An SMS exchange:

“Hi
We are assisting with the U.S.
Border Patrol's effort to identify highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to apply for their entry level Border Patrol
Agent positions.
Border Patrol Agents are focused on securing our international land borders and coastal waters between ports of entry.
Interested in learning more? Reply YES. Reply NO or STOP to opt out of future CBP job opportunities.”
“Fuck DHS, Fuck ICE, Fuck CBP, Chinga la Migra!”
“Your message has been flagged as inappropriate. You will not receive any more messages from this number. Thank You.”
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 23/09/2026
Fun fact: Chuck is tweeting this from a Nokia 1110 he first got in 2005. He has been paying a monthly rental fee on it since then.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 23/09/2026
There is one right answer to this question: choose wisely.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 23/09/2026
I think there’s a real argument to be made for “America has been periodically mercurial like this for a long time, but the periodicity has shrunk with each cycle and is now approaching zero.”
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mel, binface’s knight 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
every captain is required to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost, and proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress if informed of their need of assistance what’s the point of the royal navy if it’s not enforcing this at the end of a cannon?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 22/09/2026
I know Jim Cummings feels slighted by… well, everything at the moment. But this honestly sounds like a potentially good that will work. Mark Hamill will bring something special to Darkwing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, it's definitely a DEI plot that prize-winning histories are often about minorities. Couldn't be that those works represent the cutting-edge research into fields that *haven't* been mined to death like Great White Men Histories and also have compelling underdog stories people love. Nah. DEI.
Much the same goes for the Pulitzer Prizes. Of the past 10 years’ worth of winners for music and drama, nearly all have been minorities. Whether or not the winners are themselves minorities, they almost invariably win for work about minorities. For the prize in history, Kathleen DuVal won in 2025 for her history of Native American nations; Jacqueline Jones in 2024 for her account of Black workers in Boston during the Civil War; Jefferson Cowie in 2023 for his examination of white supremacy in an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries; W. Caleb McDaniel in 2020 for his story of a former slave’s fight for justice in post-Civil War America; David Blight in 2019 for his biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The most blackpilling part of the last 10 years is that every liberal party in the industrialized ‘western’ world has embraced austerity, immigration restrictionism, and anti trans bigotry and it has objectively been a complete failure and their only idea is to just keep doubling down.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“You’ve seen me deliver.” That’s what Collins told Kao, he said, as her staff pressured him to up his donations. Kao wound up giving the Collins super PAC $150,000 in late 2019. Weeks later, according to an email, Collins’ office agreed to support $32m in new Navatek projects.
A photocopy of a hand-written check made out to 1820 PAC, the Susan Collins super PAC, for $150,000.
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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Even the defense contractor’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” one said. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
I mean… applying CPI inflation adjustment brings that 2006 price to about $4.12 I get the point, but inflation flattens things. We’re still screwed; only screwed equal to the Iraq War so far. Which is pretty screwed (notes the elder millennial…)
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
Everyone must observe in their own way; a loving god will accept any honest form of devotion. You’re a good egg, Madame Mayor.
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Mayor Defiant @eminence.fun · 21/09/2026
As an incredibly impoverished trans Jewish woman, I have spent a good portion of the last two years on the verge of starvation. Last Yom Kippur, I was able to fast “easily” because it was in the middle of three days without food. So this year, I’m gonna skip the fast.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
Good - I’ve tried to no avail to get into The Clone Wars, so the help will be appreciated. :-)
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
And why do you need drones and snipers in a domestic setting? [insert snapping goose meme]
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
nytimes.com
Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
Hey @starwarsexplained.com - Mortis gods primer and media watch/reading list soon? Or is the one from a couple years ago gonna cover the base for me?
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 21/09/2026
The authority himself hath spoken.
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Mayor Defiant @eminence.fun · 21/09/2026
Guy That Stabs People: “I will stab everyone!” People: “I like this kid’s moxie and I don’t think he’ll stab me, so let’s make him President!” Guy That Stabs People: “I will absolutely use my limitless power to stab everyone!” People: “Hell yeah, this guy really tells it like it is!”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
We have gotten three mandatory Birth of a Nations per year every year since 9/11 what the hell are you taking about
The poster for Daily Wire Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a film in which Jonathan Majors portrays a thinly veiled surrogate to Ben Shapiro, who of course fantasizes about being a large Black marine. He is a speaker at a colleges & has to kill Muslims The poster for Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante in which Uwe Boll plays a white American immigrant in Europe that is enacting vigilante justice on immigrants for being brown
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Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 20/09/2026
(And yes, I know, the movie wasn’t trying to be predictive. It was a study of war correspondent stress and dehumanization set in a landscape that allowed audience focus on that idea. And yet…)
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