Natalie
@historyadjunct.bsky.social
Still has teacup and skills, will travel. She/her.
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Natalie
@historyadjunct.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Finally left the bird site, but not before taking a final reminder of my warning from years ago:
Where's Weird Al to advise you on accordion purchases when you need him? Because, seriously, I am in need of accordion advisement for the elder child.
September 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Where's Weird Al to advise you on accordion purchases when you need him? Because, seriously, I am in need of accordion advisement for the elder child.
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My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
July 3, 2023 at 12:04 PM
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
A good reminder that at any time you start to think a little too fondly of GWB in the current climate, just remember who appointed this (among many other horrible actions).
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
September 15, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A good reminder that at any time you start to think a little too fondly of GWB in the current climate, just remember who appointed this (among many other horrible actions).
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When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
September 15, 2026 at 2:19 AM
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Kansas Football’s hype video for the Mizzou game features John Brown.
Kansas Football on Instagram: "It is that deep."
3,504 likes, 40 comments - kufootball on September 10, 2026: "It is that deep.".
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September 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Kansas Football’s hype video for the Mizzou game features John Brown.
I regret that we had so many people in my fantasy league that I had to go with the Patriots for my defense, and now I am stuck urging them on for a shutout. Gross.
September 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
I regret that we had so many people in my fantasy league that I had to go with the Patriots for my defense, and now I am stuck urging them on for a shutout. Gross.
Wild, given that twenty years ago, I was trained as an undergrad not to touch old manuscripts with gloved hands. If that's magic, it's damn slow magic.
September 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Wild, given that twenty years ago, I was trained as an undergrad not to touch old manuscripts with gloved hands. If that's magic, it's damn slow magic.
We live in the dumbest possible time. Jesus.
August 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
We live in the dumbest possible time. Jesus.
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(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own.
Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
August 25, 2026 at 6:35 PM
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own.
Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Dolly Parton supported a fight against a drag ban in Texas and the ban was
ruled unconstitutional this morning.
ruled unconstitutional this morning.
August 25, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Dolly Parton supported a fight against a drag ban in Texas and the ban was
ruled unconstitutional this morning.
ruled unconstitutional this morning.
My kids benefitted from this program, just like every other child in our Title I county in East Tennessee. I knew her as a great singer first, my kids knew her as the Book Lady. I thanked her in passing once as the Book Lady once in Dollywood, and her face lit up as she waved to me and my kids.
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
imaginationlibrary.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
My kids benefitted from this program, just like every other child in our Title I county in East Tennessee. I knew her as a great singer first, my kids knew her as the Book Lady. I thanked her in passing once as the Book Lady once in Dollywood, and her face lit up as she waved to me and my kids.
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It's a dark damn day. #IWillAlwaysLoveYou
August 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
It's a dark damn day. #IWillAlwaysLoveYou
I gotta tell y'all, you let them them celebrate their grandaddies who wanted to tear down the republic to enslave our brothers and sisters. Too many official Confederate Days, too many clebrating "all who served." What did you expect? Damnatio memoriae should have been how we treated it all.
Source nypost.com/2026/08/22/u...
NY GOP House candidate honored Nazi grandfather in bizarre Veterans Day post: ‘I salute all who served’
“Look, war sucks. Plain and simple, it really does. And to have my dad grow up without his father is just, you know, it really changed him,” the lawmaker, wrote.
nypost.com
August 25, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I gotta tell y'all, you let them them celebrate their grandaddies who wanted to tear down the republic to enslave our brothers and sisters. Too many official Confederate Days, too many clebrating "all who served." What did you expect? Damnatio memoriae should have been how we treated it all.
Good God he does NOT want to rile up LES QUÉBÉCOIS.
Not sure I have the extent of it but it sounds a lot like Trump wanted Carney to ease Canadian French language rules (and enrage Quebec) so the Ellisons could save a buck on localization
August 23, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Good God he does NOT want to rile up LES QUÉBÉCOIS.
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With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it!
act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg...
#WeFeedYou
act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg...
#WeFeedYou
August 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it!
act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg...
#WeFeedYou
act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg...
#WeFeedYou
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In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness.
They produced NOTHING we still read.
Thinking about that a lot lately.
They produced NOTHING we still read.
Thinking about that a lot lately.
August 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness.
They produced NOTHING we still read.
Thinking about that a lot lately.
They produced NOTHING we still read.
Thinking about that a lot lately.
You ever think about how those old 1950s westerns were set in the 1880s, and if we were to do that today, we'd have a big boom in movies set in the 1950s?
Anyways. I'm sitting in the hospital waiting room.
Anyways. I'm sitting in the hospital waiting room.
August 17, 2026 at 7:44 PM
You ever think about how those old 1950s westerns were set in the 1880s, and if we were to do that today, we'd have a big boom in movies set in the 1950s?
Anyways. I'm sitting in the hospital waiting room.
Anyways. I'm sitting in the hospital waiting room.
I want us to quit writing "Meets Texas standards" for K-12 educational materials and start writing "Meets Texas insanity."
August 12, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I want us to quit writing "Meets Texas standards" for K-12 educational materials and start writing "Meets Texas insanity."
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still feel this way about pi tbh
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
August 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
still feel this way about pi tbh
Hahahahahahaha. I love it for him.
UEFA has given FIFA President Gianni Infantino an ultimatum: resign or face a no-confidence vote, The Telegraph reports .
It says all 55 members would back it. Only 43 votes are needed.
It says all 55 members would back it. Only 43 votes are needed.
August 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Hahahahahahaha. I love it for him.
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bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris
July 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris
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chris nolan should make another odyssey movie but this time write odysseus like the most accurate version we've ever seen of him
July 26, 2026 at 9:11 PM
chris nolan should make another odyssey movie but this time write odysseus like the most accurate version we've ever seen of him
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DoorDash is lobbying against DC Home Rule. Time to find another way to get your meals, because no one should support a company that works to deny democracy to DC residents.
DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it.
Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...
Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...
July 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
DoorDash is lobbying against DC Home Rule. Time to find another way to get your meals, because no one should support a company that works to deny democracy to DC residents.