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jameslonghurst.bsky.social
college professor in the U.S. Midwest (all views mine); author of "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" / "Las Batallas de la Bici." Shop intern, historian of urban and environmental policy, gravel grinder.
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hey I’ve been off the internet for four or five hours traveling, anything interesting happen while I’ve been away or nah?

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This is an evening for some Noir. Let's see what's currently cooking on the Criterion Channel. They usually have one really interesting curated Noir set every month.

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we’re cooked

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The fight goes on ... Read the review by @jameslonghurst.bsky.social, author Bike Battles, of Wheeling Through Toronto, A History of the Bicycle & It's Riders (@utpjournals.bsky.social) #bikesky muse.jhu.edu/article/956872

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This film (Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang) is HARDCORE. Amazing it was made. www.criterionchannel.com/videos/hangm...

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Microsoft Teams is so bad it's like the team that developed it was using Microsoft Teams

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My prevailing feeling these days is come on, man

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from a UNC Trustee: “It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one.” so telling that he doesn’t see faculty as professionals entitled to the promotion structures outlined in our job contracts. we’re kids demanding treats.

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55 miles of single speed and a drive-in root beer float. No we did not get the budget special.

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Recession indicator.

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screw this [gestures broadly] I’m going for a ride

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I said at the time that #trbam 2025 felt like the last dance, but it literally was

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as a person from the suburbs of NYC I must make clear that "bacon cheese and egg" is not how a suburbanite says it, it's how an alien from a planet where lead instead of carbon is the foundational molecule for life says it

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Warner Bros Discovery shareholders reject chief executive David Zaslav’s $52mn pay package https://www.ft.com/content/9e98e421-715a-4282-ade1-7bcfdc6fe88b

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sorry to the midwest but when canadians say smoke 'em if you got 'em we do not fuck around

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I confess to not being completely sure how to exist in current times without blowing a gasket in my brain

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I personally know 5 early career and trainee level academic scientists who have changed jobs/ career paths in the last month. They did not see a sustainable future with ongoing cuts and attacks. The scale of decimation of the pipeline that the scientific workforce in U.S. faces is staggering.

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Death of Stalin speaks so strongly to the moment we are in right now Everything about it -- except for the fact that the Stalin character in our reality is very much with us www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minut...

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Somebody option the screenplay rights ASAP

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If you think school’s out for the summer, that’s just bogus. This week join Historians At The Movies to talk history education. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, June 8 at 8pm eastern for BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. #HATM

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hang on I have to sign back in to my light bulb

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there should be an emotional pain scale like 0-10+, how many funny animal reels do you have to watch per day to stay alive

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Hi everyone, I’m Jen Mapes, author of The New American Small Town: Lessons for Sustainable Urban Futures, and I’m taking over the WVUP account this week.

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hey #deaf and #hearingimpaired friends -- I need to buy a ringer/flasher to bluetooth pair with a cell phone for a hearing-impaired user. Are there any @nytwirecutter.bsky.social style guides for such a thing? And yes, I've checked wirecutter; they review hearing aids but not ringers.

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For decades, the US was the gold standard for car safety regs. Not anymore -- that title now belongs to Europe. In Bloomberg, global auto reg exec @davidjward.bsky.social and I discussed why cars have grown safer around the world – but not in the US.

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Join me for an AHA Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on Wednesday, June, 11, at 9 AM. The briefing is open to the public. I'll be moderating the panel, which features @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, @rauchway.bsky.social, and hope to see colleagues there! 🗃️

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