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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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Study History. 100%. Absolutely. Study History.

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"Bye Bye Braverman" (1968) directed by Sidney Lumet, is in the new Criterion Channel collection. It's uneven; turns into a road movie where the road is somehow all in the five boroughs. I laughed! But it bogs down in an extended joke about a marathon service and a Hamlet-inspired cemetery reverie.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

AHHH

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

republican administration approaching trade and tariff policy like redecorating the foyer. new paint, new furniture, get somebody in to replace the front door, what do you mean no customers want to come here anymore, let's get the old furniture back in, but leave the paint, no change the paint

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

this is like three nested tropes/memes/references? Holy hell, chef's kiss

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

I had a joke about Ariadne but 1/🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Got a seat with my name on it! It’s for donating to the renovation of the local rep theater’s small screening room. I guess it’s one path to an endowed chair. makingthemisco.rivoli.net

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

yeah me too buddy, me too

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Email was a mistake. Let’s cancel that whole thing. If it’s not important enough to be typewritten, mimeographed and circulated into physical inboxes, it doesn’t need to be said.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My financial planner said my investments took a little “dipsy doodle” and I suddenly feel like I’ll never be able to retire.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

John Cusack & Minnie Driver in George Armitage's Grosse Pointe Blank, which was released 28 years ago today 📷 Melinda Sue Gordon, 1997 #filmsky @johncusack.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The White House recently directed the termination of thousands of grants from federal agencies that serve the history field, including NEH, IMLS, and NPS. We are asking history orgs that received cancellation letters and emails to send us copies of these notices. Read more at tinyurl.com/479x3r2f.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Artist: Innocent Chikeze

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A zombie apocalypse story where everyone still has to keep showing up for work and paying bills the whole time

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

hey, uh. college textbook publishers: where, exactly, in the world, are your textbooks printed? Is it outside of the United States? Are those textbooks we just ordered for Fall 2025 going to have tariffs added between the time that they were chosen for classes and when they're ordered?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment