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Public historian/museum educator for a quarter of a century. Marches to the beat of my own tuba. Opinions and random thoughts all my own—but I do share work stuff. She/her/hers
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Loooooool I had to look this up to make sure it was real. There is a 10% reciprocal tax on Heard and McDonald Islands. These are islands that form part of the Australian territory. Heard Island in fact has Australia’s active volcano and tallest mountain. Both islands …. are uninhabited lmao.

submitted 79 days ago • 139 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 97 days ago • 2771 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 120 days ago • 225 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 125 days ago • 413 comments

A whole table of food and a bunch of my son’s friends who politely take off their shoes at the back door. Makes my mamma heart happy 💙

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Me, to practically everyone at work, at the end of the day: “Nat, the Indian boy, was judged to be free!!” Them: “Who?” Me: “The court case I was following (transcribing) from 1777” #historythings #museumwork #publichistory

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect word for him...

submitted 134 days ago • 6 comments

aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 136 days ago • 150 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 137 days ago • 490 comments

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

submitted 138 days ago • 64 comments

This is a good time to remind people that there is no evidence that history educators are indoctrinating students. They are doing their job. 🗃️ www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

submitted 142 days ago • 7 comments

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

submitted 145 days ago • 306 comments

Nothing quite like quoting a felonious President as your touchstone 🤦‍♀️ Now I’m probably going to have to look up the quote and the context, because CB Vance probably screwed it up. Also, gtfoh with attacking hard working professors.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to point out, to all the comments saying that reading cursive is easy…penmanship in different time periods was, well, different. I can read 18th c penmanship (mostly) like a pro because I took lessons in cutting quills, analyzing paper, and forming the letters with quill and ink.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

So the Americans have been on Rednote for less than 48 hours and the friendly Chinese creators are already teaching them Mandarin and also that communism is actually a good thing. All because the US government told them that Chinese apps were “dangerous” so everyone got it out of spite.

submitted 158 days ago • 55 comments

The reporter “do you live in this area?” 😂

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

We will either get 1 inch of snow or 100 inches, in the next couple of days. No one knows 🤷‍♀️😂 #accordingtolocalfacebookpeeps

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

The most random/frightening thing I saw at the antique mall, today. Ho, ho, hell no 😬🤪

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

Time to step it up, 2025

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

This week I made 5 different kinds of cookies, put up 2 1/2 dozen jars of sauerkraut, 4 jars of tomato/hot pepper jam, and 6 jars of pickled beets. Who the heck decided family Christmas gifts were all food related this year?!?! F***. It was me 🤦‍♀️😂

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

So much stock from Thanksgiving duck and chicken (didn’t feel like turkey this year)

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

In which my husband and I accidentally try to break into another car 😂

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

This is CRAZY! A Williamsburg friend said that there is recent drone footage that shows the parking lot essentially collapsed, but I couldn’t find a link to that.

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

Very good points. Schadenfreude isn’t great when it’s so widespread

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments