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ProfGadfly

@profgadfly.bsky.social
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Historian, podcaster (isn't everyone?), ex-professor, Canadian and American, consumer of ridiculous amounts of tv and film, grumpy person. liesagreedupon.com

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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 1h
How are we expected to believe the GAC is taking this seriously if they won't even be adjacent to people who are studying and reporting on it?
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Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 23h
Impeccable.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky.
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Tired Man Falling Down at Home
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sure, go ahead Florida. Piss off one of the few groups of Canadians who were still crossing the border.
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve been following this thread. But I didn’t post because I just couldn’t think what sketch to pick. And then this came up and I knew - the Pear Dream.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You mean Baghdad Bob Hassett?
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is also what happens when you live in community with other people. If you never overhear conversations on a crowded train or walking down a bustling street then you never get a chance to realize how many cultural touchstones you share with your fellow humans.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, please do not worry about li’l ol’ me back here being left behind. Please. In fact, can you be more specific about when, exactly, you’re going to leave? I’m really going to be fine once I don’t have to listen to you threatening to leave al the time.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overhearing the adults talk about how desperate he must have been to try that. I had a basic understanding and couldn’t stop thinking about someone being that desperate.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first memory I have of a wider world I was, I guess, 7. It was a photo on the front page of the newspaper of a man hanging off the wheel or wheel well on one of the last flights out of Saigon. 1/2
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hate it when that happens.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Geologist & astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: the "most vertical human" in history. + From space: 1st American woman to walk in space, 11 Oct 1984 + To the deepest point of Earth's seabed: 1st woman to dive to the Challenger Deep (🔽 35,853 ft), 7 June 2020 She was born #OTD in 1951. #WomenInSTEM
An official NASA studio portrait of Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) during her early career as a space shuttle astronaut. Taken ahead of her groundbreaking October 1984 mission where she became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk, this image carries deep historical significance for women in STEM fields. The composition is a classic, vertically oriented portrait focusing on Sullivan from the waist up. She stands positioned at a three-quarter angle while turning her face back toward the viewer. Sullivan looks just to the right of the camera lens with a warm, confident smile and a gentle, approachable expression. Her brown hair is styled in a voluminous, feathered 1980s shoulder-length cut with soft curls framing her forehead. She wears a professional navy blue short-sleeved polo shirt featuring a prominent, authentic red and white NASA "worm" logo patch on the left breast pocket. In the background on her right stands a large, vibrant United States flag with its stars and stripes prominently displayed. To her left, softly out of focus on a table, sits a scale desktop model of a NASA Space Shuttle attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. The mood is formal, patriotic, and inspiring.A candid photograph of pioneering American astronaut and oceanographer Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (born 1951) celebrating her historic June 2020 return from the Challenger Deep—the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans. This moment solidified her legacy as the first person to both walk in space and reach the ocean floor. The outdoor shot frames Sullivan off-center against a deep blue, slightly undulating ocean that stretches out to a hazy, light-clouded horizon line under bright sunlight. Sullivan stands leaning slightly out from a white oceanic vessel hatch or submersible entry point. She smiles broadly with triumphant energy, looking off-camera to the left. Her left arm is fully extended outward, flashing an enthusiastic thumbs-up sign. On the far left edge of the frame, another crew member's hand wearing a black textured glove mirrors her thumbs-up gesture. She wears a cobalt blue utility flight suit featuring a golden rectangular patch over her right chest. Her light brown hair is short and windblown, and she wears rectangular tortoiseshell sunglasses. Thick, bright yellow heavy-duty rigging straps slice vertically through the left foreground, framing her body, while a curved metallic silver handrail sits to her left. The overall mood is joyful, victorious, and adventurous.
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Auntie Fa @madamew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You mean Hawkeye Schmitt?
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so enraging. Not Sargent, but the whole, "Wait. What!?! You mean if the press refuses to kowtow and does it's job, they might actually perform their sacred, civic role in democratic society? Why didn't anyone point this out earlier?"
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can't honestly say I've never heard "Choosin' Texas" before because, now that I played the vid, I CAN say it sounds like every other goddam country song.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So - how many in this bunch of asshats will end up convicted of being a pedophile/rapist 10 years from now? I'm going with 60%. Don't get me wrong - they all look like great candidates. But I'm betting a good percentage just don't get convicted.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nice. I've got my eye on some choice boulders. That's next after my new fence. That's right. I said it. I'm getting new fence.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely the correct approach. Hey, we gotta let the kids from the sticks have their stories about that time they went to the big city.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Respond with an image of your favorite Bond (wrong answers only)
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Guilty Busted: Exasperated Reaction
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seriously? Anyone telling themselves that boycotting is some sort of noble, principled action that makes them especially virtuous is next level delusional. Would people stop trying to make themselves exceptional!?! Just be an average, participating member of the polis.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think the one thing we’ve established is that they are well-suited to each other. They’re very odd. And happy being odd together.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mine too. It’s just straight up a great flick. I also agree her performance in Hustlers was so good. Acting coulda been her main gig.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Are you, by any chance, an automated system?
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fantastic thread. Yes!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/09/2026
Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
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Trump notes that falling asleep onstage at 9/11 ceremony technically counts as moment of silence
ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - Awakening briefly, President Trump addressed Americans assembled to pay their respects to the victims of the September 11th attacks, insisting that his mid-morning nap constitut...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Poi Division
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A magic escargot and chorizo stew in Madrid c2004. Squid in peanut sauce with fresh mint, at multiple restaurants in northern Vietnam in 1996. Berber pizza in the Moroccan Sahara c2017. Not technically a restaurant meal but still heartbreakingly fleeting. A kaiseki in Tokyo earlier this year.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 08/09/2026
Counter-Tariffs take effect as Canadians brace for life without American truck nutz
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Counter-Tariffs take effect as Canadians brace for life without American truck nutz
OTTAWA - With anti-American counter-tariffs taking effect as of September 8th, Canadians will be forced to make due without easy market access to their most-purchased American products, namely chrome ...
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JFC - the language of these “proclamations”. It’s the modern day legalese imaginings of cut-rate bottom of their class business majors in buy 1 get 1 1/2 off suits. Cousins to the guys writing ye olde “proclamations” for the duke at medieval LARP fests, really just there to hit on tavern wenches.
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is a response a retaliation? Why are we automatically adopting the language of the aggressor?
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh, this is not going to go well. I smell the distinct whiff of the “Great American State Fair” all over again. Which - don’t get me wrong - is fabulous. Bring it on.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not able to pull it off a shelf right now to make a specific recommendation, but something from Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The oval office looks like Uncle Larry's man cave.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have you ever, ever seen one actually being used as a truck? I've never seen the back open and full of stuff on a single one. Their owners really just bought them because they're assholes.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
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ProfGadfly @profgadfly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The article is even more disingenuous because it repeatedly uses "taxpayer funded" to imply taxes are being improperly used. All the Mayor's office and staff are "taxpayer funded." That's how government works. A press release or interview with a familiar journalist would also be taxpayer funded.
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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ukrainian LSU women’s basketball player leaves team over signing of Russian recruit Kate Koval departed the program “to remain true to myself, my values and my country.” www.nbcnews.com/sports/colle...
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Ukrainian LSU women’s basketball player leaves team over signing of Russian recruit
Kate Koval departed the program “to remain true to myself, my values and my country.”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/09/2026
Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
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Hilroy to remove additional province from map of Canada every year until demands met
MISSISSAUGA, ON – Earlier this week Canadians noticed that Hilroy had excluded Newfoundland and Cape Breton from the map of Canada on the cover of their latest notebooks. Today, the company confirmed ...
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