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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I am pictured here and I fully endorse it.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Pretty familiar to those of us of Jewish extraction too.

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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 · 20/12/2024

Do we really want to encourage Backpfeifengesicht as justification for including characters?

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

We'll need to update our green pickup truck plans. Both the lecture version and the runaway to discover the country version.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm a decent amateur analyst when it comes to the Middle East, but it's not my primary field. Any experts out there feel like weighing in? Rapt audience right here.

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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 · 03/12/2024

Digging into this story with my colleague for an article was one of the highlights of my career in academia. It was just phenomenally crafted. Thank you for building such an incredible story.

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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

Hand any foodways ones to your cooking-obsessed former students?

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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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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Are sandals acceptable? Slippers are too warm.

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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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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Can comics historians join the fun? Got a small group, including myself, who'd love to join in.

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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 · 02/01/2024

Hail to the victors! #GoBlue! Onwards to the national championship game.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Maradaine in Marshall Ryan Maresca's interlocking book series. Personally love the something for everyone tone of each of the four different strands.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I'd take the tailgunner seat. Extra miles and low chances of intercept fighters these days.

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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

Putin and the muskrat have got to be in it. Probably Bibi has worked his way into top three these days.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

With Thatcher long dead now, and Kissinger deceased, I think my new year resolution is updating my list of exactly these people.

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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 · 23/11/2023

I think the blue-flu parallels are the most apt comparison in the piece. Frankly, I think a less pipe-dream outcome is more a defiance of Taft-Hartley in that vein. The reality of coordinating thousands of union contracts is impossible. Hell, my own union's units aren't even coordinated that way.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Haha. I see it's time to move the goalposts. You know nothing about me. About my race, creed, orientation, religion, or any other factors of identity. You can choose to attack me and assume the worst. But you continue to demonstrate a contemptible behaviour in excess of that you claimed as offence.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

I choose my words with care when I find myself potentially at odds with others. You are free to interpret that as you wish.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

You misapprehend my point.It doesn't bother me in the least. The original author and I came to a kind conclusion. I find it amusing in the extreme that you critique my tone with a more aggressive manner and with such persistence. Let me be plain. I find you a laughable hypocrite. Enjoy your day.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Hahaha. Intriguing. I made a statement of opinion that I didn't like the style. Followed by a wholehearted endorsement and support of the central premise. I then find myself chastised by random strangers for my tone in writing. Irony abounds.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

I have no intention of picking a fight with someone who, as they used to say, "buys ink by the barrel." I stated an opinion on a matter of taste in writing. I didn't attack you. I didn't call you names. I even agree with you. If you choose to take it personally, that is your choice.

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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 · 22/11/2023

But the hitting is worth it. I speak from experience.

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Lawrence Abrams @yidcaledon.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I'd definitely be joining that small cluster in Portugal. But I'd be hopping from there to all over Europe and N. Africa.

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