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Lawrence Abrams

@yidcaledon.bsky.social
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Teacher. Co-Editor Historians Without Borders. World and Modern Britain historian. Scotland, the military, and comics. Sucker for good food and cute creatures.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Moments like this are why I wish better databases on sales trends existed for scholarly research. The ones we have are a slog to dig through and tend to be year-on-year. Now of course I'm complaining with absolutely no time or willpower to fix it myself. C'est la guerre.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Oh bravo. Something that might hit big enough to make it west of the pond so I can practice my Gàidhlig. There are only so many old Dòtaman reruns an adult can tolerate.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Lets be very clear. Threatening military/economic force to annex the sovereign territory of a NATO ally is just plain buggering nuts. News outlets that normalize this kind of rhetoric without reporting it as the patent insanity it is have failed in their journalistic duty. Stop normalizing crazy.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
There's a joke here about British hegemony and historic domination of Ireland but I can't quite get the punchline off my shoulder.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
With Israel invalidating the '74 truce line, HTS in the north, SDF in the northeast, and the hodgepodge coalition in the south, not even accounting for the Turkish "buffer zone", I have to wonder about potential balkanization of Syria at this point. Assad's fall is likely only the first domino.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A useful explanatory thread. Given how fast things have moved in the last two days though it will be especially curious to see what takes shape now that Damascus has fallen to groups in the south, depriving HTS from completing their sweep down the central axis highway.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
GO BLUE! HAIL TO THE VICTORS! What a stupidly ugly edition of The Game. But a win is a win. Well done #Wolverines.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It was fascinating to see the Church promote remote use of contact healing relics like the Shroud of Turin over zoom and other remote systems during Covid. It raised some peculiar theological questions but was generally explicable in existing faith frameworks. This? This is a theological pretzel.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
1,000 days of war. We can and must do more. #SlavaUkraini
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Between this and the recent Mayan discoveries, remote sensing technology is really having its day in historical studies. It makes me curious to see what we might find if the same level of sensing systems were applied to already discovered sites and how it might affect our understanding of them.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Definitely the old copies of Giant sized X-men #1, and Hulk #181 (first appearance of Wolverine) that I inherited from my dad's collection. Both classics, but also ones I've written papers on that helped me start my academic work in comics.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So I hit a 100 followers. I don't know why or how given what I do on here. But more power to ya you weirdos.
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Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A friend just texted me, “Caligula only appointed one horse.”
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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
A Note from Daily Planet Publisher Morgan Edge:

In the ongoing battle between Superman and Lex Luthor, the Daily Planet has decided not to support either figure. We trust our readers here in Metropolis and elsewhere to make up their own minds. While some may question our decision, calling it an abdication of responsibility, we don't see it that way. We are merely returning to our roots. I note that the Planet only started endorsing those involved in metahuman conflict in the Crimson Avenger/Ultra-Humanite battles of 1937, for understandable reasons at the time. I accept the resignations of Editor in Chief Perry White, reporter Lois Lane, gossip columnist Cat Grant, politics desk editor Ron Troupe, and staff photographer James Bartholomew Olsen. Steve Lombard, formerly of the sports division, has accepted the role of EIC and will lead the paper to new heights. I am also proud to announce our new media partnership with LexCorp.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Whole lotta people gonna get tenure off this. Really cool revisions to Mayan history coming if they find more sites like this.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Oy vey. It's even worse stateside. It used to be hold the battlements at Thanksgiving. Now we're lucky if we can guard the hastily erected barricades at Halloween.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
This is such a useless framing. They wouldn't need a lifeline to call out about guns in schools if we dealt with the damn guns.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
A really thoughtful op-ed. Trying to deconstruct problems of popularized Fanon/Said, decolonization, and the current version facing Israel-Palestine. Comes closer than most I've seen to a proper expression of what I struggle with daily in explaining to students. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/o...
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Go Blue! #nationalchampions
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Hail to the victors! #GoBlue! Onwards to the national championship game.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
So I'm seriously wondering if we can get an SNL riff on Kissinger dying the way they used to do "Fransico Franco is still dead". This is now part of my holiday gift wishlist if anyone knows a producer or writer for the show.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Fixed it for you: Henry Kissinger, war criminal, has died aged 100.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
The ongoing erosion of the post office under the current Postmaster General and board of directors is a mounting problem. Turnover on the board and subsequent removal of the PMG cannot come soon enough.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
This is a tragedy. I grew up reading popular science at the local library. Deeply saddening loss.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
This is art.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The tone is a little ridiculously hyperbolic. But as a union member currently out on strike in solidarity with a different bargaining unit this year, I can see the appeal. My unit is much smaller and has less bargaining power next year. Mass action would certainly fix that. Let's get French-mode on.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This is just too damned cool.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Stand with #teachers. Tell Portland Public Schools to come to the table with real proposals. We will walk the picket as long as it takes for a fair contract for students and teachers. #UnionStrong #SolidarityForever.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
So awesome to see my old sport getting some love. Having broadcasts of games and now the Olympics rocks. But blocking out the Haudensaunee would be virtually criminal. They originated the game and are still one of its leading lights. IOC needs to make some kind of special provision.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
This is monumental progress. Getting rid of the corroboration requirement and soon the "not proven" verdict option will massively advance safety against sexual assault in Scotland.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Some fantastic and clearly readable graph analytics of the Speaker problem. Especially in light of the now failed second vote, this issue looks fairly intractable. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | How the House GOP’s disruptive poles influence the speaker vote
One, of course, is more disruptive than the other.
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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
The usual incisive commentary from Krugman. But with an extra dose of Green Lantern. @kjknoblauch.bsky.social does this mean we're legitimate now if GL is in openers for op-eds in the paper of record? www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/o...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Okay, Bluesky, do you know more about religion than the average American? Take the 15-question quiz here and let us know your score www.pewresearch.org/quiz/u-s-rel...
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U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz
How much do you know about religion? And how do you compare with the average American? Here’s your chance to find out.
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