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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The death penalty is wrong, and the way it's undertaken - in highly controlled circumstances, often late at night - betrays a lingering sense of shame. But Trump and co. have no shame, and I have no doubt that if the accused was white, they wouldn't be doing this, nor livestreaming it.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.
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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Modest Capybara
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#histbookchat What a bonkers history of building this massive edifice in a year, during a war with no steel.
Photo of book cover
the Pentagon by Steve Vogel
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Why should I major in History?"
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It is 90 degrees in DC and I am on my way to the Great American State Fair. This had better be funny, because it sure isn’t going to be good!
Dave, wearing a Flaming Hydra tshirt. 

Flaming Hydra: fire up your brain.
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Very excited for this arrival! #HistBookChat
Picture of a book: Gun Shield Graffiti in the battle of the atlanric
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve. "Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ahahahaha. World central kitchen is one of Colbert's fav charity. Delightful
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11/05/2026
In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible. Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.
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Association of Canadian Publishers @cdnpublishers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Canadian publishers strongly condemn the proposed book restrictions in @albertagov.bsky.social's Bill 28, which undermine the core principles of public libraries: open access to information, intellectual freedom, & trust in professional expertise. publishers.ca/statement-al... @lpgcanada.bsky.social
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Canadian Publishers Condemn Alberta’s Proposed Restrictions on Public Library Materials - Association of Canadian Publishers
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Yes. This. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The list is unreal. Stats Canada: 850 positions InnovSci+Econ Development Canada: 614 Env+Climate Change Canada: 840 positions Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada: 655 positions Natural Resources Canada: 400 positions Canadian Museum of History, Canadian War Museum: 67 positions
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 04/04/2026
Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9
A collective photo taken at Firestorm Books. Our team, including five humans and two dogs, is sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building looking relaxed. The sky is bright but cloudy and flags on the building hang without any indication of wind. The building is painted forest green and various posters and signs are visible in the windows, which reflect the sky. The largest reads "Immigrants Welcome."
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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
With only the slightest apology for my language: Who the fuck actually wants these damned data centres?
cnn.com
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Working list of senior figures reportedly killed in Iran today (all tbc, and several not verified as yet); hearing plenty of other names too - but attributions more vague/less reliable as yet: Ali Khamenei, Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, son and heir apparent Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defence
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Surfacing to #HistBookChat
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Trump’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has triggered a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles.
versobooks.com
HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List
The United States, emboldened by its kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, openly declared in January that it aims to destroy the Communist Party of Cuba by the end of the year....
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 06/02/2026
Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
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Documentary Heritage Communities Program - Canada.ca
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 11/02/2026
Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org
styleguide.transjournalists.org
Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide
The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect ...
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: 

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated.  The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words.  These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation.  We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/02/2026
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout
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Owlkids Publishing @owlkids.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Next month is Black History Month ... celebrate diversity and culture with these books: THE LITTLE REGENT OSCAR LIVES NEXT DOOR READY, SET, MANGO! BEAUTIFUL YOU, BEAUTIFUL ME PATTY DREAMS A LIKKLE MISS LOU #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BHBFMonth ##BHBF #BHMReads #PictureBooks #Teachers #KidLit
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
i read a bunch of polar exploration books about greenland and the thing about greenland is the land fights back. like it doesnt want you there at all. you will lose a foot! or die in an ice cave. theres literally thousands of miles of empty ice
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Hope in humans post of the day
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for in a politician but not having every day be a nightmare of horrors would be pretty high up so someone should run on that
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Book mail! #HistBookChat
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Yes, hopefully they have shown that they are absolutely worth funding with how they brought the country together to support them.
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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The "right" holds a near-monopoly on politically motivated murders in the United States. Here is a map compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, showing right-wing political murders from 2002 to now. #ADL #PoliticalViolence #signalboost #fascism
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Exactly David Brooks: "The humanities, which teach us what goes on in the minds of other people, have become marginalized." Such a good definition of humanities. Also why it is essential to teach people to be good humans, not just preparing them for their careers.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten
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KitNCaboodle @kitncaboodle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Aaasnd flags ordered to half staff. Never did this for the Minnesota lawmakers.
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Christian Jacobs @christianjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am biased because he was a great colleague at grad school but I do think @hamremar.bsky.social "Fascists of the World, Unite?" is a very important contribution to debates about fascism internationalism in history and politics today. Do check it out and order it in your libraries.
Book cover (with the title above a drawing of four men raising their arms for the Roman salute)
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“I’m sure the incipient authoritarian order will only smite my enemies and bring about all I desire with no bad side effects” is sadly a reoccurring popular delusion across many cultures and time periods.
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just started this after listening to his interview on the new books network. Sounds fascinating. #HistBookChat
Cover of the book: Scorched Earth by Paul Thomas Chamberlain
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This is one of the receipts to keep when everyone claims they didn’t know/didn’t mean it. Alligator Island is a concentration camp.
Laura Loomer on X: 30 June, 2025. 4.41pm. 523k views. 

Alligator lives matter.
The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/06/2025
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2025
You will ask yourself—does anything matter? You will wonder if the protests mean anything, if resistance means anything. It does. They do. I know how it feels, but don’t give up. It took a decade to oust Nazis. Many, many decades to end slavery. Resistance is long and difficult. But it is the way.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Five things to remember about war:
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
An excellent idea
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significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Ahahahahha
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
COOL!
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