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jdmathewson.bsky.social
Higher Ed Admin, Huskies Fan, International Relations and Political Economy PhD, Sports Complainer. Formerly @RationalPastime on the dying bird site.
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After missing 461 days and 63 games with head/neck injuries, Caroline Ducharme explains how — and why — she returned. “I always was set on coming back but I'm not gonna lie, there were definitely times…where I didn't know if it would actually happen.” www.uconnwbbweekly.com/p/how-caroli...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I love WikiTok for replacing my social media scrolling addiction. I love it even more when it sends me Medieval European stuff like en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragyndr... cc: @annetheriault.bsky.social who I always think about when I read about relics.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In general, it is useful to get your Boomer/Silent Gen parents understand that when they ask you to convert it to crypto, that is *the* blinking red light that it's a scam and no one will ever know where the money has gone. </Subtext>

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As universities ready themselves for rough times ahead, I've heard some professors say that the case can be made for *their* departments and not others, bloat, DEI, etc. These professors are delusional. They're aiming for the whole thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Donated lifetime pint #72 / gallon #9 this evening (of blood not beer).

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you want about Kendrick but the fact that people are figuring out what “40 acres and a mule” in 2025 is why any education to black history is important, no matter no big nor small.

submitted 14 days ago • 265 comments

The Philadelphia Eagles have rejected White House visit, Again. I love that for them!!! Philly fans SHOULD BE PROUD as hell of their team.

submitted 13 days ago • 446 comments

Still you have to respect her skill in tanning red patent leather from the skin of literal puppies.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

she would like to speak to the manager of basketball

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The only colleges for everybody —bulwarks for democracy.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

I don't know how any American parent can ever again look their kid in the face and honestly tell them not to let the pigeon drive the bus

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Has the shift to QR code menus diminished the authenticity of the culinary experience? Writer @annetheriault.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/qr-code-restaura...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Supper at Emmaus, by Pontormo, 1525, 📸 by Austin Bigoney

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Been a while since I cranky posted about sports or anything else, so let me just take this opportunity to say that if you hate the new scorebug FOX debuted during SB LVII just accept that you have no taste and get over it. It’s an absolute masterpiece of clean, direct, accessible data-dense beauty.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I have been informed that my 2021 book, RESTRICTED DATA: THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR SECRECY IN THE UNITED STATES, has an 84% off deal today for its Kindle edition ($3.99). Just... passing that on! amzn.to/4hJAdas

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

If you see this, post a gif from one of your comfort shows.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Hug your parents and grandparents while you still can. And your uncles and aunts. And your brothers and sisters. They’re not around forever.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

That tour if you visit the museum is called "A Union of Hope." I'm proud to be an academic consultant for that tour and to participate in an early pilot run of the tour.

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

Another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction, this one of a paper by Sabine Hazan and Peter McCullough et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It's the 12th for the drug, among the 467 retractions of COVID-19 papers on our list. retractionwatch.com/retracted-co...

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Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1625

submitted 62 days ago • 25 comments

Well, woman the way the time cold, I wanna be keepin' you warm / I got the right temperature fi shelter you from the storm Wow my wife is so lucky

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Question that was posted on /r/AskHistorians: Why was the untested Little Boy used first before the tested Fat Man? Three main reasons that I know of:

submitted 428 days ago • 2 comments