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Historian, teacher, and raconteur to teenagers. Formerly the front man for Deth Specula. Future Hall of Famers.
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@washingtonpost.com's recent piece uses the oldest extant country recording to explore the fraught relationship between race & music. MAH's new Take Three on the banjo provides perspectives from @jakeblount.com @jmthompson.bsky.social @popcultureamerica.bsky.social on the topic in the 20th century

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@hankgreen.bsky.social are you guys also poisoning the AIs? arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/h...

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youtube.com/watch?v=omON...

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RIP Maryanne Faithful youtube.com/watch?v=DzjW...

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seems legit youtube.com/watch?v=WMEW...

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if i had a nickel for every high school history teacher who saved my life, i would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that there’s two of them #thebookofgoodtimes

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"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found". This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.

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I know a cold as cold as it gets I fight a war, I may never see won I live only to see you live to regret Everything that you done Everything that you done Everything that you done --Patty Griffin

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First they came for the immigrants and the trans kids, and I spoke up. Because I’d read the fucking poem.

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Did anybody else see these here in Santa Cruz yesterday morning, an hour before dawn? Pretty impressive noctilucent clouds! www.abc10.com/article/news...

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Emma Goldman may have said it best, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.” If the tone police don’t appreciate your current level of outrage, or your cat videos, just move along.

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Your thirty seconds of zen

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☹️ www.engadget.com/social-media...

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YES you take fascism seriously, while also NOT reacting to every provocation, and avoiding perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

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“Bluesky is used as a microblogging platform similar to Twitter/X: More than 10 million people have signed up for Bluesky since early November, moving away from Twitter/X…” www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/01...

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#wikipedia Says the Same Thing - 😁

submitted 31 days ago • 118 comments

We all need to resist tyranny and oppression, without the overwhelm which leads to compassion exhaustion and apathy.

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The Taoiseach of Ireland has renamed the Atlantic ocean greater Galway Bay. Don’t fall for the Gish Gallop. #GishGallop

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White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention 404 PAGE NOT FOUND www.whitehouse.gov/ogvp/

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I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up

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Requisite en pace Garth Hudson, keyboard player and last surviving member of The Band www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eT... #GarthHudson #TheBand #TheWeight

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