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skattebo's eating that dog food. we know that.

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only good thing about watching football today is that I got to show the 4yo a man named booger

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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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And just when he gets it a little bit together...Garo Yepremian mode

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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every play feels like every player is running a different play

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can't even make a film about your will triumphing

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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

hairy terry mclaurin not ready for that one

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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 · 29/08/2026

he was (is, maybe?) a regular part of the globe's opinion rotation. which is why I no longer subscribe.

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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

my tv keeps suggesting i use my phone as a remote instead of my remote. but i will not computer. i am here to tv. tv my shows!

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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

the only lake i recognize is lake tenkiller, oklahoma's clear water lake

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It remains my platonic ideal of a fake chatbot quote--adding nothing but using the form of a primary source quotation to do nothing but confirm aggregated generalizations.

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But last fall I was deluged with chatbot-hallucinated quotations (i.e., falsified evidence), including the hilariously-generalized quote, "You see? That's the Great Migration right there."

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Russell has several interesting things to say about his family's experiences in West Monroe, LA, and what prompted them to leave during WWII.

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I always took care to compile an intriguing list of primary sources for students. Since I teach north of Boston, I would include an oral history interview that Bill Russell did with the LOC several years before his passing.

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before I had to shift away from papers, my main paper assignment in my post-1865 course was on the Great Migration.

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so i was just listening to "ghetto supastar" and discovered that the "1st phone interlude" that follows it on pras's album has a "call" from...donald trump

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Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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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"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

that man pooped the front of his pants

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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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Students used a variety of source materials to study the block parcel-by-parcel--including records from the Lawrence Redevelopment Authority that are housed in the Lawrence History Center. (Thanks to Amita Kiley!)

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The idea behind the project was to tell the story of renewal in the city by focusing on a single block in the area designated for the city's first renewal project in the 1950s and 1960s--"Common-Valley-Concord." (If you know Lawrence, it's the block where they built the new police station.)

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Urban Renewal in Lawrence

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

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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you tellin me there's a new mizone?

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