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Meggie

@teddybearparker.bsky.social
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A queer Public Historian with a focus on queer history. Hobbies include ttrpgs, cross-stitch, cosplay, and Dracula. She/they, 32.

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Theo L @foppishfiligree.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Nick is a good dude and this is an excellent read.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Boston loves a Revolutionary War reference @ #HandsOff Boston
In front of The Embrace, a sign that reads "Boston beating kings since 1775." There are three red circles with lines through them over a British crown, the LA Kings logo and Donald Trump’s hair. Fun fact: the Boston Tea Party was a protest against tariffs. Not sure this is technically true.Massachusetts still hates kings 250 years later on one sign. On the other it reads 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by CybertruckA man with a Ukrainian flag draped over his shoulders holds a sign that says "How many Tesla should we throw into Boston Harbor"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Take a moment to breathe in the air of resistance and community. And relish it. It’s ours. And it matters.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
TIL that the first ship built for the Massachusetts Naval Militia (1776) was called TYRANNICIDE @pptsapper.bsky.social
18th-century writing saying Tyrannicide
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/02/2025
A painting of a bird next to the words "Christ on a fucking hoverboard, what the fuck is this shit"
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Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Christopher Seider is going to Joseph Warren for improv classes.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I did not actually need my field guide to American Houses to be able to definitively say that this house is not Georgian Architecture. Or post-medieval English colonial vernacular. Or 18th century in general.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am currently organizing the articles I've written, and I just discovered they have been changed without my consent because I dared to include "trans" in my work. I know they are technically the NPS's intellectual property, but other rangers were at least given a say in what happens to their work.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Shouting to the void, but I feel like I’m going mad for thinking “Friday was the NPS purge. Looks like today is the National Archives. I wonder who’s getting purged next.” I feel like I’m living at the start of every dystopian piece of media ever written where this is just a casual thought to have.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Breaking — All probationary employees at OPM were just fired in a mass phone call. Acting Director Chuck Ezell told staffers, "I encourage you to use this as an opportunity for your next step forward," per recording I reviewed. On site staffers were given less than an hour to leave.
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
With everything happening in the NPS right now, I really didn’t think I could get more upset. But a project I worked on that meant the world to me was quietly deleted to follow the orders of the fascists in power. So much of this was already personal, but this is on another level.
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com · 13/02/2025
The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/02/2025
Ngl, this is the hater bowl. This is the greatest super bowl for haters ever.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
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Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I’ve never related to Private Joseph Bucklin more in my life.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hey what the hell is going on with Stonewall National Park right now? I’m starting to think my partner and I downloading LGBTQ+ articles and resource guides was the correct call.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is what it feels to be alive right now—
Girl in log flume decided like a bee about to go into a tunnel labeled “tunnel of bees” and there are bees literally everywhere
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just remembered that when I was a kid, I began working on a comprehensive history of my favorite dinosaurs. Whenever I was allowed to use our Windows 95, I’d spend hours researching with whatever the early internet provided. I saved my opus on a fucking floppy disk. I wish I could read it now.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This past week has truly been a rollercoaster of “Do I even have a job this summer?” Vs. “Do I even want said job this summer?” until I make myself sick with worry either way.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Puppet of a really fucked up looking yeti monster with voluminous and messy fur, glowing yellow cross-eyes, and a toothy frown on its face.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Watching Attack of the Clones and the number of times Obi Wan is like “how many times have I told you” to things that should NOT have to be said more than once is HILARIOUS. The implication that Anakin repeatedly and consistently jumps out of speeders and runs through electric fences is so funny.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Considering the absolute clusterfuck last season over whether NPS employees were allowed to participate in Pride events in a DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION, I’m not optimistic about this upcoming season. At all.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Inside me are two wolves: My desperate desire to live in a dark sky area. My desperate need to live in a major city. Fight.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/01/2025
I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Though I’ve worked in the history field for over a decade, I’m only now about to complete my degree. I don’t plan on giving up, and I might even go for my Masters next. But I’m so drained. It feels insane that classes are just business as usual while I fear for the safety of myself and my fiancé.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's January 23, & you want to know, don't you? You want to know which historical figure bought eels on this date. Of course you do. It was Cardinal Wolsey! In 1525, his kitchen account books show an expenditure of 16d. for "eels to roast." There you are. Now go enjoy your day! 🗃️🧪
Meme. Painting of Cardinal Wolsey by Sampson Strong from the late 15th C.  The cardinal is dressed in his carinal-colored carinal clothes, and his pointy hat. He is looking to your left, and there's no indication that he even knows you're here. His neck and chin look fat; he is very jowly, like he's trying out for the part of the bulldog in the Christmas pageant. Wolsey is pointing with two fingers. He might be blessing someone, or he might be indicating that he wants two eels. It's impossible to tell from the way I've clipped the image.

Not for nothing, but "Sampson Strong" is a wonderful name, and I like to think that it's a descriptive title. Adjectival Nominalism. He's not just strong, friends. He's Sampson Strong.

The meme text reads: 
"'Roast me some eels'
The original cardinal direction"
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
When you printed a glorious knight late at night in 1489, and woke up to notice that you forgot the lance ... #earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading
A page from the incunable "Der f°uszpfadt tz°u der ewigen seligkeyt/ diß Büchlein genant ist", from 1489 Heidelberg [GW 10429]. An armed knight sits on a horse. The missing lance has been drwan into the print by a later owner or user of the book. 
Source: http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/fusspfad1494/0057
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 21/01/2025
Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/01/2025
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Last Wednesday I had a panic attack so intense I had to go to the ER. This weekend our wedding venue was officially confirmed. Monday was… well. It was. And today I got a formal ADHD diagnosis at last. The epic highs and lows of high school football indeed. I’m ready for the weekend.
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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · 21/01/2025
how's january going, you ask?
Saint Margaret beats the devil with a hammer
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Meggie @teddybearparker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I hesitated getting yet another social media platform, but honestly it’s so nice to be reunited with so many accounts I lost on the ex-bird app. So hello again! It’s nice to be here.
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Theo L @foppishfiligree.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A meme I made for my fiancée to use when she stops at the store on her way home and wants to know if I need anything @universalhub.com
Screenshot of Mia Goth in the movie “Pearl,” when she yells “Please! I’m a star!” It has been edited to now read “Please! I’m at Star Market!” With the grocery chain’s logo.
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