iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I realize this is a small inconvenience in the overall scheme of things but I think I have, for the third year running, scheduled my summer vacation for the month that my garden is actually going to be producing. All the tending, none of the eating.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why does J Rees-Mogg have a reality tv show?

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

One door closes and another opens…today I got an invite to speak at a bigger venue and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without yesterday’s cancellation. This work will prosper and finds its audience.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Here’s one reason I love my medical practice…today’s text.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Well, it’s been a hell of a day. There’s the….you know, whole DC situation…but more personally, one of my speaking invitations was withdrawn when it became clear that I really do plan to talk about Black survivance and white resistance to Black liberty. Cold feet happen a lot in southern Indiana.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today I'm being my own agent and coordinating a public history speaking tour. I'll be in Indianapolis on Juneteenth and am going to be doing talks in southern Indiana thereafter. My program title is "Surviving Emancipation in Southern Indiana."

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This week triggered every bit of my brace for impact side. I both feel a little crazy and wonder why everyone isn’t finding their LifeStraws, solar lanterns, crank chargers, and Mason jars. At least I can do something about the state of my woodpile.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So, my liver is indeed bunged. Extent of bung yet to be determined. Waiting, waiting, waiting on a Friday afternoon so I don’t have to wait until Monday morning.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I do this kind of work. I do it independently for a reason. Harvard should be ashamed.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Limited By Body Habitus — “she’s fat and despite the widespread prevalence of obese people in the US population, we haven’t designed our machines or trained our techs to adequately diagnose…” because fat women should just crawl off and die, I guess.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This morning’s bloodwork won me a “yeah, you should go right over to the imaging suite” ultrasound. I know people in US complain (rightly) about our healthcare system being slow, so you notice when everything suddenly picks up speed. Maybe they just want pics while I’m still fasting…

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Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Freedom on the Move is back! Hello BluSky! We have an announcement: We are recruiting for our final cohort of Data Fellows. The ad will soon be posted to HNet. Stay tuned. #predoctoral #summerfellowships #oncampus #History #enslavement

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I will not outlive all the bastards but I do plan to outlive this set.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Crud. Bloodwork is suggesting my liver hates this new round of cancer drugs. Time for a quick consult.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Snoop understands how Gs operate. He’s got a lot of past criminal and civil cases and assuredly has a warehouse of unaired dirty laundry. That’s how fascist regimes coerce people. They live to force the outspoken into public submission. Hate the player if you want, but that’s the game.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Disgraceful. If condemning the destruction of a national university system and the murder of faculty and students rests outside the AHA mission, it exists only to pamper and congratulate. No thanks.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today was more consultancy on the early Black history of Southern Indiana…helped a family reclaim an ancestor (joy! the best!) and turned up some records for a historical society so they can flesh out an upcoming community exhibit on a local Black community’s mutual aid work.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Saved by the paywall from losing a little more faith in humanity. Thankfully, that obstacle gave me a moment to reconsider: is that tawdry heartbreak going to aid in my mission? Or is it just (confirming) gossip? Back to my work, then.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I did this back in my undergrad days (when I was a wee twee English major with a tendre for 18th c BritLit) and it was fun. I might do it again!

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Pursuant to my post a week ago about the plume of industrial toxins that regularly spread over my house…another of my childhood neighbors who was part of “the study” has died prematurely. Not alleging anything, for we were all poor as bridge rats and poor people don’t live so long in the US, but…

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today I had a Zoom meeting with a southern Indiana county historical society that’s doing some solid Black history primary research collecting to discuss their funding needs, grant possibilities, and ways to connect to others doing the same. It was a lot of fun hearing what they were up to…

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“There’s a weapon that we must use in our defense -silence.”

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Again, I remind followers that if you try to sell me something, I block you. That’s not why I’m here.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m blocking out news today by diving deep into early 19th c US Black history records. Drawing courage from the survivors, connecting with their kin, telling their remarkable lives…

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Some days, you fall down the rabbit hole that is the Trianon de Porcelaine...what a delightfully extravagant place that must have been. How did I wind up there? Because I visited Charlottenberg a year ago and was idly thinking about the connection between porcelain and performance of rulership...

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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#Kindness requires making generosity easy and meaningful to accept. #Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #quote

If you know a caregiver and honestly want to help them out, don t say, “let me know if there is anything | can do.” That puts the burden on the caregiver and they are already burdened enough. Say, “l’d like to come over and spend a couple hours with your loved one so you can...take a nap, go shopping, read a book, take a shower, etc., etc.” Say, “I’ve made your family a casserole and dessert. When would be a good time to drop it off for you?” Say, “I’m heading to the grocery store. Do you need anything?” Say, “I’m doing laundry tomorrow. Want me to do a couple loads for you while I'm at it?” Say, “Would you like me to listen while you have a good cry/rant?” Get the idea? And, please, whatever you do, don't forget to say, “I’d like to give you a hug.”

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Michael Hattem @michaelhattem.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A few thoughts from a historian of memory and the American Revolution on why Speaker Mike Johnson used a fake quote on the floor of the House meant to depict Thomas Jefferson as a decidedly pious individual...

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Today, I made some new contacts in my public history work — not sure how helpful I can be, but this is a small good thing I can do with thirty years of research.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Six minutes into January 2 and I’ve finished my second book of the year — Fern Brady’s Strong Female Character.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I guess it’d be ungracious to mention that Carter supported Pol Pot, Suharto, & Somoza, leading to appalling repression and outright genocide. He had a lot to repent for and I credit him with understanding that if his theology was correct, he stood in need of abundant mercy. I hope he receives it.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Good article. I think you should read it.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The next four years in and around Trump is going to make the Affaire des Poisons look like a paragon of morality, good government, order, and probity, isn’t it?

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My favorite night of Hannukah: the third night, when every day miracles are celebrated. I’m not Jewish…just like that concept.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Time for “weird childhood memory” storytime. I grew up a dirt road on a woody boggy patch of scrap land on the outskirts of a farm town — the part nobody wanted, where they had originally sited the gunpowder maker and the town charnel house back in the early 19th century.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This is chilling news

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Today I made the best holiday dinner I’ve ever made and had a peaceful, joyful day. Hope you have had a lovely time.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Cosmo wishes you all a warm and light-filled holiday.

A tuxedo tabby cat named Cosmo sits in front of a 3-ft small white Christmas tree and looks at the camera. A fireplace glows in the background.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Solstice! Today, I’m keeping warm, enjoying holiday lights and cider with my family, and hosting Taco Night. I am grateful for this abundant life.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Today it’s snowing softly, so I’m going to do some simple baking (bread, yogurt cake) while doing trip planning for various upcoming vacations. I am trying not to catastrophize and keep my head together.

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Bridgett Williams-Searle @profbridgett.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Today, I am once again writing up life histories of enslaved workers owned by a former US president, in hopes of influencing a historical site associated with him to present any information about the people who worked in his mansion, barn, and farm. At least they can't say they don't know.

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