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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you want to say education isn't one of them, fine, but I note that Common Core and No Child Left Behind had their origins in a Republican administration. 2/2

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But is this the wrong debate? The question isn't whether centralizing power is good or bad but whether it's appropriate. Some things only a central power can do. 1/2

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

graffiti in garbadella, rome

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Indeed, the standard examples (Achilles, Hesiod blessing competition, potters signing their work, lyric poets like Archilochus or Sappho describing their personal feelings) only stand out by contrast with other near eastern societies.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I believe Burke thought the Americans were asserting their traditional rights. No one would call him a lefty.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think he steps down no matter what. If Republicans hold the senate, he gets a Republican replacement. If Dems win, he has to gamble on 2028 and would reasonably assume that a Democrat wins the WH, so Trump + R minority is his only option.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This really cheared my Friday: Paleoartists you are supported even by the pope 👇 #Paleobio

Pope Leo XIV declaration on the nature of arts

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Babylon Berlin should have been on there. The Bureau deserved a higher ranking. House of Cards was an interesting novelty in streaming but wore out its welcome quickly.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But I remember the Buster Crabbe Buck Rogers more fondly.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bluesky is where irony and sarcasm come to die.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have had several incidents where Claude or ChatGPT either got something wrong (and admitted it after I queried further) or just made stuff up.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of your better efforts. Should be widely read.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Obama was, in many (though not all) ways an African American Jacob Javits / Nelson Rockefeller.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unknowable, but I think he could have pulled off a win. But it would have been close.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

$1 and a counterfactual gets you a lottery ticket, but I think Carter would have narrowly won if not for the hostage crisis.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think one silly episode per season is ok, but this year they have had three so far, plus the very arch Chiaroscuro. They badly need to have a few real adventures. We watch the show for excitement and conflict, only occasionally and intermittently to be amused. Start firing fasers, please!

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Banger" doing a lot of work here. Care to clarify?

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd vote for you Tom but they want to much information.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sorry, only the first one was good. They should have left it at that. On the other hand, I have enjoyed the reboot.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The solution is creeping, under the radar expansion of Medicaid, an expansion that leaves room for supplemental insurance if that's what you (or your employer) wants.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This forced me to look up "furries." I did not need to know this.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/08/2026

College students’ increasing reliance on AI, John Paul Rollert argues, is teaching them a “knack for cutting corners, a disdain for community rules, and an assumption that a spirit of integrity, and the sacrifices it assumes, is the reserve of suckers and wimps”:

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A Society of Cheats

Students’ use of AI is teaching them a knack for cutting corners, a disdain for community rules, and an assumption that a spirit of integrity is the reserve of suckers and wimps.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

3 - . . . o one good teaching technique to make students focus on the sources, gone for ever.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2 - . . . but would need to write their answers in empty blue books on the day of the test. Once students began running the questions through AI and then trying to memorize the result rather than do it themselves, I had to stop . .

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1 - For a long time, one of my techniques for testing for my Greek and Roman history courses was to give two sets of essays for exams. One set they would only see on the day of the test. The other they got a week in advance (based closely on the readings in the sources) and they could prepare for,

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a stain on this nation. Especially on the Trump administration of course—but also on every member of Congress who’s failing to step forward to end this. I hope they can sleep at night. Actually, I hope they can’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don't know if this has come up or been suggested elsewhere, but I wonder if this isn't another emperor fantasy of Trump's, with race cars in DC instead of chariots in the circus maximus.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The really important questions are 1) does she ever get to come to the green room when you're in studio and 2) do they have treats ready for her?

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Best outcome at this point: Nicon just quietly drops off the media radar screen.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Don’t feel too bad. I’m at least six years ahead of you.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Majority (over 50%) was probably reached by 360s. See work of Rodney Stark. Paganus did not mean “hick.” See Alan Cameron, Last Pagans of Rome. Theodosian legislation only formalized what was already in effect.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

2 - . . . a clever student got himself elected to the city council, went behind the mayor's back and got a referendum on the ballot when the university was in session. Passed overwhelmingly, and the income it generated transformed the city into someplace almost liveable, with nice restaurants, etc.

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1 - Gotta disagree with you here. The campus where I work was for ages in a dry town and the old city fathers wanted to keep it that way, so every time a change to the liquor laws came up for a vote, they made sure it was on the ballot when the university was not in session--until . . .

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

C'mon. Time to focus on Farage vs. Count Binface!

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Timothy M Teeter @timothymteeter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do you need to watch For All Mankind to appreciate this? Because I have not.

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Stayin’ Alive: An elderly man and woman dance their hearts out on a summer evening in Rome’s Piazza Testaccio.

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