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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)@ploddinghistorian.bsky.social |
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Taking PhDing to new levels of avoidance, procrastination and delay, but, maybe this time, there is an end in sight. BlueSkying history, Musical Goddess Kate Ceberano and clouds. I do love clouds. Even though they are in The Outside. Which I don't like.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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I believe he still owns close to 50% of the media over there doesn’t he? Fox News, plus a share of CNN? The New York Times. The Washington Post too? It is 2 am though and I’m in a flat that’s cold and damp so it could be affecting my memory.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Thank goodness this was rejected because it would not look right on the site it was proposed for here in #Canberra. It would be so wrong for this site. Gives me hope that the NCA will choose something a little more fitting with the style of Civic. Altho, there are some utter monstrosities now, alas.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Don’t be silly. #EvilMurdoch hasn’t decided whether he’ll allow this to be reported yet. He’s probably trying to work out a way to angle it against Biden or Biden’s troublesome son.
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CindyLou
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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I started reading the health chapter of the #Project2025 dossier. It’s The Handmaid’s Tale on steroids. Goal #4 was particularly interesting given what’s just come out about #AliceMunro & vile 2nd husband. And I could refute the claims within 5 minutes with a simple Google search.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Love it!!
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@fladdle.bsky.social
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Post something blue to brighten the skyline… Meshell Ndegeocello on stage at the Melbourne Recital Centre, March this year.
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CindyLou
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Post something blue to brighten the skyline!
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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#AliceMunro “wrote: “The thing is to be happy… No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances.”
“The wilful determination of her words now echo at a very different pitch.”
#ChildAbuse #ParentalFailure
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Post something blue to brighten the skyline! Yes, I’m going to do this and then I’m not going to look at social media today as there is too much depressing stuff here. People are just so awful.
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Gabe Ortíz
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Experts said the policy constituted torture & enforced disappearance, “which occurs when state agents conceal the fate or whereabouts of a person who is deprived of liberty.” “Enforced disappearance” has usually been associated w/human rights abuses in dictatorial regimes in Chile & Argentina.
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Guardian Australia
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Why does being right on climate feel so wrong? | Fiona Katauskas
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Marisa Kabas
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.
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Jen the Feisty Librarian
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There was a lot to love with the Dr Jen Gunter interview on the Sunday Magazine, but I especially loved when she described anti-vaxxers as pro death. I'm definitely borrowing that term for future use. www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...
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Chris Levesque
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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H-Net
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H-Net only has this conference ONCE a year! If you're interested in innovative strategies involving community building, classroom inclusion, and much more, register now for free! Click the link below for more information.
conferences.h-net.org/e/2024-teach...
#Education #Conference #Humanities
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Dawn Xiana Moon
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The French History Podcast
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Claire Jowitt
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Now published OA! You can download the book here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Thanks @amsterdamupress.bsky.social & @erikagaffney.bsky.social & congratulations Nuno Vila-Santa! 👏👏👏 #seafever #history
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Navigator Research
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🚨 NEW POLL: Opposition to Project 2025 grows as people learn more about the plan. After reading 19 proposed policies for Project 2025, opposition grows from 49% to 63% (net +14) while support for the plan declines from 31% to 24% (net -7%).
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Willem Huiskamp
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The creeping authoritarianism in Australia is really bleak. HRLC examines two decades of governments eroding the right to protest.
"These laws have disproportionately targeted environmental defenders and people advocating for action on climate change."
www.hrlc.org.au/reports-news...
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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I was surprised by how young they were as well.
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Four Years Ago Today
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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Hang on!!! The miscast young version of #JeanGrey in #DarkPhoenix… She kills #Mystique!!! So how is Mystique back from the dead in the first #X-Men?
#X-MenFilms #ChronologicallyChaotic #ItMakesNoSense
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Or Logan “returned” from 1973 in between the second and the third films. Which would mean that the horrible ending for #JeanGray and #ScottSummers still happens? No, I prefer to think he came back at the end of the former storylines of the first three films. #X-MenFilms #HopelessRomantic
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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That would explain how #ProfessorX is back for #Logan, although there was a little bit at the end of the third one to explain that, but… And also how some of the events and character connections don’t work in the first three films.
Yes, I’ve been thinking about this too much. #X-MenFilms
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Having been obsessively watching the #X-MenFilms over the past two weeks, in terms of the storyline chronology, I argue that #X-MenDaysOfFuturePast should be placed after #X-MenTheLastStand. The events of 1973 have changed the timeline so that what happened in the “first” 3 films didn’t happen.
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Dr Andrew McInnes
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Perhaps perversely, woke up with Alasdair Gray’s maxim in mind:
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Excuse my French, but what an arsehole. How about just give them a sandwich? People suck. Going to go back to cocoon in bed watching Hugh Jackman movies. Take care over there and I hope things work out a lot better than we’re all fearing .
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John Lipponen
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Jonathan Cohn
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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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On our national broadcaster, the ABC, which I generally watch during the election counts, at the last election when our Labor Party won, it was the same thing. The journalist going on & on about the losing Liberal govt, silencing & ignoring ALP members on panel. That’s the #EvilMurdochInfluence.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Just which leaders over the last 20 years have had star power other than for a brief time Tony Blair?
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Ketan Joshi
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"Oh SHIT we're running out of GAS we gotta extract MORE GAS" is one of the filthiest lies from Aus' fossil fuel industry, yet somehow it's also extremely successful and largely received completely uncritically every time it gets repeated by their cheerleaders
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Dave Hutchinson
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And the Telegraph winds up its election coverage with one last ‘fuck all of you’.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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That’s owned by #EvilMurdoch, isn’t it? Isn’t it just right what he and Lachlan want you to write, no questions asked or you don’t get paid? The 21st-century equivalent to making a deal with the devil.
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Iron Spike
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Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Thank you to the scientists for doing their great work, but I don’t want to know about the science behind #Fireworks. I just want to enjoy the pretty spectacle with all the colours in the big bangs. 🤭🤭
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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Bloody love pastilles. Every time I was scheduled for the Bath tour, I’d head to the Aussie shop in Covent Garden and get myself a packet because after I tasted the waters at the Roman baths, pastilles, 4 to be exact, were the only thing to get that bloody awful hot metallic taste out of my mouth!
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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The UK is teeny in comparison to Australia and they have 650 constituencies? I mean that’s insane. That’s too many politicians. No wonder the UK is in such a mess. #CooksAndBroth #UKpol #UKElection2024
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Rima I Anabtawi
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Newborn babies are starving to death in #Gaza hospitals and camps. Their mothers are so malnourished that they can't breastfeed them while Israel deliberately withholds formula, food, and clean water from entering the Gaza Strip
news.sky.com/story/newbor...
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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If #Meta #BansNews in #Australia, what will happen? #Canada’s experience is telling
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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I could never read the books again because the writing was so bad, but I did like the story and that’s what kept me going. And I never thought of her as a girl power feminist, but I’m lying here thinking about what you’ve just said. I may at least have to watch the films again.
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British History Online
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Not what I was looking for, but even better:
The Royal Historical Society has a complete (I think) list of the historical calendars etc published by HMSO
files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...
#History #Archives 🗃️
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Michael
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In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Sheepie
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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It doesn’t seem right to like that, so I’m responding instead. How utterly sad. Please talk to people young ones. Don’t trust your traitorous brains, which are also getting all muddled because your hormones are going crazy too. Speak to somebody. Lean on someone. 😢🙏🏼🩷💚
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Margot Finn
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"In an economy as regionally unequal as the UK’s, higher education is one of the few countervailing forces, spreading revenue and jobs to parts of the country that otherwise have little to fall back on....a financial crisis in this sector does not only impact on lecturers."
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The Plodding Historian (Lisa)
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It’s going through the city I live in, but of course hardly anybody’s wearing masks, I’m not sure about vaccinations, and they act all surprised when they come down with it. “But COVID is over!” Yeah, nah. Our govts have wished it was over & act like it‘s over. And everybody else followed suit.
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