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Walker Robins

@walktalks.bsky.social
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Historian of American Christians and Israel/Palestine. Author of Between Dixie and Zion (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2020). Takes the notes for the Melrose Pedestrian and Bicyclist Committee. Okie forever. Emergent Masshole.

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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just going to assume that rolling stone article is about the pee-pee penalty yesterday
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
skattebo's eating that dog food. we know that.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
only good thing about watching football today is that I got to show the 4yo a man named booger
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
really when you select your favorite teams on your espn profile the site should hide anything to do with them rather than put it up top
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mateer: youtu.be/d-pxMm_UdY4?...
youtu.be
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The infowars elf
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
kind of whack every athlete named terry gets nicknamed "scary" when "hairy" is right there
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
when chelsea first signed kai havertz years ago roger bennett said he looked "more like a consumptive poet than a 9" and it's all i've ever been able to think of when i watch him play
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Furious Bob Hoskins
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
what's a "lake" but a pronunciation of "llc"
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@pablo.show
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the only lake i recognize is lake tenkiller, oklahoma's clear water lake
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
yep yep yep
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
i don't know why but "islands in the stream" is the one i've been rocking with the most since dolly passed
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"In My Town, a Truck is a Troop," by Zach Luke Bryan Brown
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
wednesday: hey we're slaughtering a bunch of wild horses friday: hey we're importing tons of "beef" now
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
there is a fox in my backyard eating grapes under a pergola. will report when i learn the meaning of this fable.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am pleased to share this online exhibit that undergraduates in my "American City" course researched and wrote last fall on urban renewal in Lawrence, MA: merrimackhistorylab.com/urban-renewa...
merrimackhistorylab.com
Urban Renewal in Lawrence
In the fall semester of 2025, students in Dr. Walker Robins’s HIS 3320 (“The American City”) were tasked with examining the impact of urban renewal on nearby Lawrence, Massachuset…
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the metaphors are escaping
"they shoot horses, don't they"
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
in america you must warn fellow drivers that you're going to drive the speed limit
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
fun fact: i filmed alexander vindman's wedding.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
look I've played civilization and this is fine. if we build the space colony we can still win
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
point of sale liquor store labubus
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That's Berthwright Citizenship
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The theory of Westbrook, in his earliest days, was that he would truly come into his own once he stopped turning the ball over on every fourth possession, and that his peak would end once his athleticism went..."
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
pat mcafee ft. alexi lalas
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
youtu.be/IVW2TqpFpAs?...
youtu.be
Game-winner of the Year - Russell Westbrook
YouTube video by NBA
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
one time i saw russell westbrook outside bc clark's. oklahoma city was founded in this moment.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
headline from 2026 or something cut from the script of "demolition man" for being too ridiculous: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: ICE Wants to Give Officers Gloves That Deliver Electric Shocks
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
sen. robert wagner
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A couple of years ago I was giving a lecture on WWII and referenced Charles Lindbergh--none of my students knew who he was. Scrambling to find a parallel, I blurted out before I could even think it over, "You know Aaron Rodgers? Same type of guy."
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
legendary job opening available
overnight security officer listing at the gardner museum
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this magazine cover goes hard
"Outing" magazine cover featuring a couple on bikes
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this poster goes hard
poster for springfield, ma bike tournament
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i put an entire bag of lentils i'd had since the deep pandemic out for the birds to deal with like two months ago. they haven't touched it. it's just been sitting there outside this whole time. but i think they're starting to come around. gettin hungry. gettin curious.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
there's gotta be some guy or girl somewhere straight up named Taylor Farms
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I told y'all that @maldensafestreets.bsky.social did a great job with this forum and now you can see it with your very eyes!
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
was about to make a wishbone odyssey adaptation joke so i searched if it had been done and oh my god it has been done and yes we are all the same age here on the bluesky
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
what if disney's shareholders like sports
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just want to say that @maldensafestreets.bsky.social did a fantastic job hosting this candidate forum. What a beautiful evening in every sense--this is how we get safer streets.
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
doing archival research well means uncovering fresh perspectives
a man aiming a gun at a fish, apparently
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
kanye has a line that accidentally explains it all: "i keep it 300, like the romans"
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
luguentz forever
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
can't believe these people taking shortcuts to getting diarrhea at taco bell. put in the work!
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
real impressed by how good the new infowars is doing producing material my wife doesn't want me to show her
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Homer Sandwich, which also describes what will probably happen when the top of the order comes around a second time
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Melrosians, Melroseans, Melorussians of bluesky...the Melrose Pedestrian & Bicyclist Committee's monthly meeting is TONIGHT. Come watch me take notes. pedbikemelrose.org
pedbikemelrose.org
Ped/Bike Melrose
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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
look i've long said that the department of defense needs to start taking cues from commercial breaks on sports talk radio. our warfighters need the t, they need lap-band surgery and ozempic, they need divorce attorneys they can rely on, they need to get on out to diffee motors
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