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Colleen Theisen
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan@knkeegan.bsky.social |
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Public and academic history & geography in action. She/her. Sometimes cake, sometimes politics. In the distance, sirens. kristen-noble-keegan.com & bywaterhistorical.com/
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Colleen Theisen
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
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Courtney Milan
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If they want to have a contest and excitement, have members of the public imagine the best thing we can do with the money we get when we start taxing billionaires like they’re baristas, and first prize gets to choose a billionaire to get a deep audit.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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New travel goal for you, @princejvstin.com!
exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/park/purnulu...
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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It's midwinter in Australia right now.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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I came here to say this. Do they really want us to think they're serious people, or is it just a bit?
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Noted on our road trip this weekend: The rare Trump signs along our usual route have been replaced by Kennedy signs. Interesting, eh?
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Seriously. Bless their sclerotic, geriatric hearts, if the Dems found a 35-year-old ham sandwich to nominate and run for the office, I'd still vote for it to stop Project 2025.
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Jacqueline Antonovich
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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Happy 4th, y'all.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Some of our books' covers still have tooth marks from one of our previous generation of cats. Annoying at the time, now a fond memory. 😸
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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NO KINGS IN AMERICA. Pass it on.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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The Civil War looks extremely obvious in hindsight, but in real time from 1850 to the outbreak of hostilities the Unionists thought that the Confederates were bluffing. After Bleeding Kansas, after Preston Brooks put Sumner in a coma, after Dred Scott, after the declarations of secession…
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Endless Screaming
@infinitescream.bsky.social
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Rachel Maddow's Civilization. It's on every week already, isn't it?
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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That "not famously laconic" bit gave me a laugh, thank you.
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Scott Lynch
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I'm not going to pretend this algorithmic mucous smudge looks amazing. It looks like a mockery of the thoughtful work that scientists and artists have been pouring into computers for decades to make useful, beautiful things. We're not finished with useful and beautiful things, goddammit.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Wow, you've got my car beat by a decade. But honestly, other than a joke I have no idea what they were trying to say.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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I heard that putting a cone on the hood of a self-driving car makes it stop working, so ... maybe it's a joke about your car?
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Oh, cool! I didn't know what was a thing. I can tell I'm going to get totally obsessed with it. 😆
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Oh hey, now we have a tornado watch too, how ... fine. It's fine.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Sounds good! Here's a bookstore floof.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Eeek! We had an actual tornado warning yesterday, that was 45 minutes of nail-biting I didn't need. We went for a walk at 8:30 this morning and I nearly melted.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Me: Rearranges desk around cat, starts working. Cat: Gets up and walks away.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Adultery used to be illegal & I'm pretty sure they want things to be that way again.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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With, let's be clear, results that were *absolutely* disastrous for the people who already lived here. (end)
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Was the struggle to not starve to death here easier or harder than avoiding persecution at home or trying to stay English on the continent? That's an impossible question. But it was the choice they made.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Which they felt, not unreasonably, was necessary because they were being persecuted. Then they picked colonizing over finding a safer European place because they wanted control and they wanted to stay English.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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I live in a region that was colonized by people who left reasonably good countries to occupy and struggle to survive in a place with barely sufficient resources, all for religious reasons.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Seriously, if your question is "How could they possibly choose to do things that are that stupid?" the answer is "Quite easily, I'm afraid."
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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If there's one thing I wish I could convince people of, it's that history shows that disasters have repeatedly been caused by people being extremely stupid for what they thought were good, smart, or even necessary reasons.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Our air conditioners still work! Thank heavens.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Greetings from hell.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Language is so weird. 😸
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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If you're from there it's Woostah. Otherwise, it's Wooster.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
@knkeegan.bsky.social
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Oh it's that feeling when you go to do a delayed task and the online system that the task requires isn't working.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Oh the cognitive dissonance ... on the one hand, it's funny because bubbles are a fun game! On the other hand, soap bubbles were a serious metaphor for the fatal transience of life!
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Will Oremus
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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Are we freaking out about it? I missed the memo.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Pennsylvania's genuine early openness to religious and ethnic diversity would've made a better touchstone for American history, but New England's early 19th century propaganda campaign was extremely successful, so here we are.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Someone who thinks a little alliteration is all a good speech needs.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Me, sad: The correct Latin plural form of "peninsula" has been abandoned! 😢 Everybody else: Good riddance.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Counterpoint: they believe people think like LLMs.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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... "that defense lawyers were not told about" is a phrase that should never need to be written about a case, correct?
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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This is true, but also, did none of these people take an actual statistics course? One of the ones where they tell you about the ecological fallacy? The entire enterprise is fraudulent at the root, just an excuse to do bias and pretend it's objective.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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King Canute called in backup.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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It's possible. We have a cricket pitch in my New England town, it was put in a couple or three years ago.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Looks cool, and also like a trademark protection suit waiting to happen. I wonder what the EU/US agreements on trademarks are.
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Charlie Stross
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New blog entry: Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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Which one though? Multiple books with different authors turn up when searching the Zon.
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Dr. Kristen "NO KINGS" Keegan
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"Storrowed" is my second-favorite word.
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