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Lou Roper

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Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century. Co-General Editor, Journal of Early American History. Professor @ SUNY-New Paltz.


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It's the least I can do, Amanda (TM L Roper)! I do, though, look forward to working together a bit!

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Permit me to be the last to congratulate you, Dr Summers 😁!

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has filed articles of impeachment against U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito- MSNBC

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This human!!! (Not the peacock.) This wonderful brilliant human!!! Is now a Doctor of Philosophy!!!!!!!!! Felicidades!!!!!!!!!!

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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

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This deserves a quoteskeet because this will not be business as usual: this will be worse. In the event Biden drops out and Harris becomes the nominee, the republicans will launch a coordinated campaign of misogynist racism (misogynoir) against Harris, the likes of which we have never seen.

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Joshua Foust  🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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"Among other things, the law stipulates that contracts can’t include or allow for tuition sharing and can’t grant an OPM ownership over faculty members’ intellectual property." Minnesota's Democratic trifecta continues to do great things for the state.

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America's farcical pier will be "permanently removed" from Gaza in a few days. It cost $230m, it lasted for less than two months (and it was functional for only half that time), and in that time it delivered the equivalent of a mere ~500 trucks of aid.

apnews.com/article/gaza...

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Good morning! We are hiring an editorial assistant. This is a great job to learn the fundamentals of editorial acquisitions at a UP. It’s also a great job for you if you simply cannot get enough of my stupid jokes, because boy howdy do I make a ton of them in meetings. jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimor...

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Some editorial boards understand what’s really at stake. READ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Haaretz with an excellent chronological account, summarizing how Netanyahu actively and methodologically worked for months behind the scenes to prevent a hostage/ceasefire deal. In Hebrew.

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Lou Roper's avatar Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social
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(not for anything, but he's sixteen bloody years old)

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That equaliser really seemed to throw them for a loop?

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Hadn't done anything thus far and that record didn't improve tonight?

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Griezmann dropped is a good start, though?

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

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I can think of no 'jurist' who better incorporates the qualities of intellectual dishonesty, pious self-importance, false gravitas, and cringeworthy cravenness required to generate such rhinoceros dung, sorry, 'jurisprudence'

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Meanwhile this fucking guy decided it's been too long since he got some attention for being a fascist. So he did a fascism.

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"[T]he Bitcoin mining industry is urgently trying to push bills through state legs, incl in IN & MO, which would exempt Bitcoin mines from local zoning or noise ordinances. In May, OK gov Kevin Stitt signed a “Bitcoin Rights” bill to protect miners & prevent any future attempts to ban the industry."

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Bermuda: haven for smugglers and pirates (ed. one of any number of such bases) since 1615?

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Mijn Heer Klooster is a very careful scholar whose figures must be regarded as conservative, I reckon. So Fisheries and Oceans Canada (ed. provides the opportunity to use Canadian governmental agency name 😁) have as much success as Royal Navy/HM Customs!

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permit me to add tobacco trade and traffic in enslaved Africans to this 'mix', the scale of which was enough to attract continuing interest, of course (including the Crown intermittently) but must remain unknown? Bloody people have no consideration!

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Unsurprising given that the Crown couldn't even 'manage' the Sussex coast? I suppose we must be content (for now) knowing that 'smuggling was ubiquitous'?

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Anyone get caught, Neil? At least that provides a glimpse of what was going on?

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"In Oct '21, Gov Greg Abbott hosted lobbying grp TX Blockchain Council at gov’s mansion. The grp insisted that their industry wd help the state’s overtaxed energy grid; during energy crises, miners would be one of the few energy customers able to shut off upon request, provided that they were paid."

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that's shocking, Prof Kennedy 🤣

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Folks, I'm getting to teach a maritime history course 🤩(arguably every course I teach is a maritime history course, but still). LOVE to have your faves/recommendations for the syllabus. It's on the North Atlantic before 1850, but happy to have later period/other ocean recs for comparative classes

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Cooper Lund's avatar Cooper Lund @cooperlund.bsky.social
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They’ve been pretty up-front about all of this, too

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Kevin Collins's avatar Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social
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Ideally with a comparison to the equivalent numbers for stories on Trump's authoritarian campaign pledges on social media and at rallies

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I feel like, by now, people should know better than to believe anything a breathless tech bro tells them will be revolutionary.

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Yes, the NYT crusades against Biden's age. Beyond Trump being unfit for office, they could write a thousand stories about Dobbs losing at the ballot box. They bury any real reporting in fucked up headlines and dozens of dogshit op ed hit pieces.

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a tech billionaire and major Trump donor making the case the the GOP is the American equivalent to a far-right party founded by Waffen-SS veterans, financially beholden to Moscow, and whose in-house security details are manned by streetfighting neonazis

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Lou Roper's avatar Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social
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I do like the subtlety of her colo(u)ring

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Agreed! Are they found in Britain?

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"The media is doing exactly what they did in the 2016 presidential race – providing wildly asymmetrical and inflammatory coverage of the one candidate running against Donald J Trump.... They are not reporting that he is a loser; they are making him one."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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See also: HS student stringers reporting HS games being replaced by an algorithm that takes minimal info and regurgitates a “story.”

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Lou Roper's avatar Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social
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I can't draw for toffee but female evening grosbeak for consideration:

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PS Hope this helps, but am keen to discuss further

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Venn and MT had sway over the City Artillery Company, but Sir Paul Pindar and Sir Nicholas Crispe were also members in the 1630s (Adamson, Noble Revolt, 65-82). They were also on the 1647/8 Ordinance creating a Militia Committee for Tower Hamlets, AOI, 1057-8.

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Not at all! Please watch this space!

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I'll have to do some rummaging to find the roster of the trained bands

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Measles is endemic & resurfaces whenever vaccination rates drop below 95%. Until Covid, measles was the most infectious disease known. Measles is not trivial. Vaccines save lives. Do not go unvaccinated & vaccinate your children!

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