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@somasacademy.bsky.social
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Soma (Any/All). History Educator. BA in History and Anthropology, MA in Precolonial West African History. I'll be able to call myself a Youtuber if I ever develop a reliable upload schedule (Channel: www.youtube.com/@SomasAcademy)

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Soma @somasacademy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
no no don't do it you're raising its salience
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No lies detected.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Between this, and the way these schools treated Gaza protesters, and so how many rolled over for Trump, I'm in favor of having the states seize the Ivy League, turning them into community colleges, turning the dorms & frats into public housing We gotta think big, people
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Charles Snart (Histobat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We taught a chimpanzee the politics of a median UK voter etc etc
Newspaper headline reading: Half of Reform voters think Britain should have closer ties to the EU, poll shows: The polling comes after Andy Burnham admitted he is open to reversing Brexit, insisting he could go ‘all the way’ in proposing to rejoin the European Union.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Democrats haven't openly hated their opposition like this in a while and God it's hot
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Brad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time.
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These are the same people who also don't think it's important to memorize your address or phone number.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i think the much-discussed "what's wrong with the video game industry" issue falls along similar lines. weaponization of dark patterns to turn what should be a fun activity into a grim addictive grind that serves to benefit the game's publisher
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 30/09/2026
there's a point to be made about the love for recycling and regurgitating the excremental byproducts of human civilization made literal but its somehow both too obvious and too contrived
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You ever think about how between the end of USAID, the Iran War, and whatever horrid plague RFK Jr. unleashes, the backlash to Me Too will probably kill more people than the backlash against the actual literal act of war on 9/11?
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PRC and ROC soldiers in Ukraine.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!
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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can't believe people are upset my by "say what you will about the Nazis but at least they burned books I didn't like" tshirt
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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's fucking me up that I wrote this four years ago 😭
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
South Africa spent a lot more time trying to pretend the bantustans were sovereign than Israel does; the Israeli position is *explicitly* that there is no sovereign Palestinian state, the Territories are under Israeli jurisdiction, but also Israel has no responsibility for the people who live there.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yeah the basic thing you have to do is just take a hammer to the Greek system. not police it. end it. because there are enough men like this that they can assemble their own culture without you. bsky.app/profile/walm...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
"During the Reagan administration, Regan advocated Reaganomics" and other Very Serious facts of US governance
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JOrion @jorion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JJ: “Beast Boy, I am proud of what you accomplished in your animal rights work and wholeheartedly support you!” Beast Boy: “Wow dude, I didn’t even know you were cool like that Jonn! Thanks.” JJ: “of course I make it a point to show green solidarity when I can. gotta keep the whites down.” BB: ?
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
to an ARAB DEMOCRAT???
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
...the republicans are losing the America First people???
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doing *something* about selective service is probably a political necessity because its current existence as something that only directly impacts young men is a massive problem when it comes to messaging given the advantage Republicans have in that space
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
26 pages??
Alexis de tocqueville
which I am sure most americans have read
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will outlive this I will outlive them
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my story from a little while ago about workers’ fight for recognition
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Workers Behind Immensely Popular Game Theorists YouTube Channel Will Get Their Union, With Or Without MatPat’s Help
"We are still people, even if we are not on camera, and we need to be treated as such"
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EmperorTigerstar @emperortigerstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow this is bad. And clearly AI based on the faded labels over random areas.
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Graphs like these are best illustration of the consequences of trade imbalances and why politicians of all nations and in all eras should fear the impact of permanent trade deficit on the well-being of their countries more than armies. The current British government should take note.
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BOOles @awawa.pics · 28/09/2026
Yep, we need to abolish greek life. Every fucking time it's frat boys. How many hazing incidents is enough? How many Title IX incidents is enough? How much trauma in what's supposed to be your formative years is enough?
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RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Translating "ilicet" as "It's so over" and getting this reaction in the seminar
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Monty Python Firing Squad Sketch
Alt: Monty Python Firing Squad Sketch
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900) From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-textil...
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The Textile Industry of pre-colonial Southern Nigeria (c.1500-1900)
From Yorubaland and Benin to Nupe and Igboland.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is who and what they are.
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm sure one big speech will really start to turn things around.
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Outis @sweetcheflife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🙇‍♀️
 Japanese drawing of a woman cutting the edge of her kimono off so as to not disturb the sleep of her cat.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even samurai must still honour their superiors. 😸 #iaido #battojutsu #iaijutsu IG: @tanukibayashi Kamakura, Japan www.instagram.com/tanukibayash...
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