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Tracy K'Meyer

@tracykakes.bsky.social
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(Address is college nickname. My name and initials were taken) Historian of modern US social movements; fan of Kentucky Shakespeare and local performing arts; hiker, nature lover, music fan and bibliophile.

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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 11h
Hey @nytimes.com she has a point, why are you erasing murdered women?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I cant tell if this is suppised to be sarcasm
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
hot take: so most people in the arts don't make a bundle. But, do we want to not have people go into the arts? (speaking as the parent of a musician who makes just over the median for an independent musician but is the happiest person I know in his age group).
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I sympathize and wanted to express my support for what you do. Whenever I'm asked I think, "well, someone read mine." full disclosure: I actually LIKE reviewing manuscripts. It is my favorite form of service and allows me to say no to university committees.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The process she is so proud of is the problem...relief from tariffs is peacemeal and depends on sucking up to and flattering trump
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I saw someone brag about using ai to do art with their toddler. Isn't that what paper and crayons are for?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why are you shilling for amazon?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is mine too. Those creepy little f$%kers gave me nightmares for weeks
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yeah. For years I wouldn't look at meteor showers.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't be afraid of the dark (1973) . those creepy little creatures still give me the heebie jeebies. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark share.google/1gx4vcOA3hQa...
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me too. I couldn't sleep for fear of arm or leg being bitten!!!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This really isn't that hard to understand. Opposing the actions of a particular government is not a comment on a religion. Opposing Netanyahu's actions is not a comment on his religion. Opposing terrorism by settlers in the west bank against Palestinian families is not a comment on their religion.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Neither of my parents went to college. I knew a bunch of ministers' kids in grad school, but not too many offspring of academics.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On an essay exam today many many students used the expression "people groups" to refer to minority communities. I've never seen that expression before. Are they picking it up from chatgpt? I did find it on a missionary website. Could they all be getting it from there?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This annual celebration is on reason I stay on social media
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My musician son is constantly being asked to perform for free or "exposure". Nope.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My priorities for a new democratic congress: Healthcare, Healthcare, Healthcare. an aggressive environmental policy. Restore and heal our public health and scientific research system.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ha!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amen. I love a spontaneous sing a long. But if you tell me when to sing, I will clam up
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same, especially when our class sizes keep going up and our fearless leaders think we shouldn't be having history students write until their upper level classes at all!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sorry for typo on admin, how embarrassing 😳
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our history department is trying to fight ai use. Problem is our admins, who thinks undergrads shouldn't have to write at all in first and second year courses in any discipline other than english. We are getting NO support in this battle
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
as a new semester begins I'm noticing again that sooooo many students spell business as "buisness." What is up with that?????
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Over the summer the university remodeled a whole building, merging small classrooms for 35 students with movable desks into large lecture halls capable of housing 60+ students at long tables with fixed seats. This is supposed to improve our teaching.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes st. John's. And 5 other Atlantic canada airports/cities.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes gander (38 planes) but also st. John's (21), halifax (47), and other smaller cities and airports in Atlantic Canada, even teeny Deer Lake! I've seen come from away 3 times and love it. But we should remember the broader story.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The American historical association's big report on Ai in the history classroom did the same....sure there are ethical and environmental problems but we're not gonna talk about those ....made my head explode (not in a good way)
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Im gonna use this in my historical methods course!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
or maybe dog stars is failing because its yet another movie where after an apocalypse kills much of the population, the remaining people decide to try to kill each other off. snore.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Plus you're a newfoundlander so I immediately trust and like you!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oooh. Thnx
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
😂
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I know there's soooo many more important things but as someone who has spent so much lovely time in Canada this Lake America thing is royally pissing me off. Just had to vent. Thanks.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've switched to mapquest and duck duck go. Where do I go for an alternative to gmail? open to suggestions.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I watched this trio on TV as a kid. Very formative experience
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Something representing my favorite province youtube.com/watch?v=nXvU...
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Ordinary Day by Alan Doyle & Séan McCann, arr. Leslee Heys
YouTube video by Shallaway Youth Choir
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Slings and arrows is my favorite television show of all time
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I reviewed a book proposal that was ai generated. My suggestion to press was to reject the proposal. If you can't even describe your book in your own words, how are you going to write it and why on earth should anyone read it?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My reaction exactly. Im thinking of attaching it to my syllabus this fall!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The line about blue state educational collapse....uhm which states dominate the top of every ranking by education?
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fire and rain. The song that stops me in my tracks every time
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
And let's not forget his early promotion of jd vance
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My favorite covid story...about two weeks in when people were panicking about toilet paper, an anonymous toilet paper fairy left packages of 18 rolls on the front porch of every house in our block where there were children. To this day we have no idea who it was.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We were able to get takeout and our favorite restaurant and take it to the parking lot of our favorite brewery to watch my son play jazz piano to scattered groups around 10 feet distant fire pits. We were not oppressed.
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
They want to avoid massive running in the special election and splitting the republican vote
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Amen
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And hospital would deny him any info as required by law. No, people dont get to justwalk up to your hospital and ask how you are. And a governor had no authority over a senator
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I just got the most positive book review of my career...of my Under the Greenwood Tree: A Celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare....from the Shakespeare Bulletin. I've felt sort of like an imposter with this book in this field so this sort of made me tear up!!
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nyt, do you get now that this is as much or more the real America than 5 old white dudes having breakfast in rural Kentucky? (I won't say "in a diner" cause believe me those places aren't diners)
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Tracy K'Meyer @tracykakes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
just submitted the final manuscript of my new book (We had a hammer: the origins of mutual self-help housing in the united states) to UNC Press. Really excited to be working with UNC again. But, this one feels weird. Been working on it soooooo looooong.
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