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Meaghan Walker

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Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. She/Her

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Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️'s avatar Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social
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I'm posting this pic everywhere because I'm So Pleased with myself! We got taken cod jigging by some new friends today & this was my first catch! I do not know how to hold fish!! 🐟✨️
#nfld #codfish

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I admitted my great periodization theory that there is no modern history, we are still early modern, and my old supervisor looked at me like I was insane, but like [gestures wildly at l’état c’est moi all around] can you blame me????

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No full-motion video though! The 3D models of people are find but don’t have the same 90s charm.

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The new stuff is very good and subtle in the sense that it fits very well into the feeling of the game. There are a few twists that got some really laughs and gasps out of me in the early game but the whole thing is worthwhile just for the beautiful 3D environments.

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Playing through the new Riven remake and I forgot how explicitly anti-colonial it was and they have leaned into the conflict between the D’ni and the Rivenites for this new edition.

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I love how British politicians wear ribbons like they are all prize cattle lined up at the fair.

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Are they returning the minister of silly walks? Please say no.

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Raw milk is also a tuberculosis vector, so it was also a way of spreading TB to vulnerable populations.

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Also, every time someone appeals to the immutable infallibility of the founding fathers they should have to wear an increasing number of 18th century clothes. Periwig, wool suit, breeches, stays, slippers etc.

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Ok but if Biden is in power now with this immunity ruling, why can’t he just add 20 new justices to the supreme court and fire Roberts et al?

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And of course I am to blame, even though it was missus who trotted her little butt straight out the door. How dare dogs exist! How dare they interrupt my ladyship’s pursuit of salad!

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Gyups just met the upstairs dog and it’s so funny how the dog treats her as a quaint novelty in its daily routine and Guy is screaming like the dog is about to collapse space-time. She’s currently having a post-crisis bath intermixed with stress eating and yelling at the door for good measure.

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My third kidney is here keeping me chill with some snoring asmr.

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I cannot express enough how a lot of fish there used to be.

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You know you’ve been in Newfoundland too long when you double-take, thinking the bread slices were tiny split dried fish.

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You can write it and send me the piece.

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The fossil museum at Miguasha is stellar, the restaurant at the historic site at Pasbébiac is wonderful (byow), and the huge sand beach just north of Percé is phenomenal.

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I still laugh because that’s how I found out it took a relay of horse couriers 24hrs to bring news from Plymouth to London, but it took two days to get papers from the Navy Board at Somerset House to the Admiralty, lol.

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Hawaii Worms's avatar Hawaii Worms @hawaiiworms.flangecircus.com
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I'm reading this. Give me a number between 20 and 230 and I'll tell you which Country that Doesn't Exist you are

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Bless my cat, who sat screaming at me for half the duration of an AGM on zoom and then promptly went to sleep as soon as I ended the meeting.

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Everyday life, sure, but also there is nothing more wild than looking across the barn and being like “oh shit, there’s a small cow appearing out of a large cow.”

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All prompts will be in the form of a comment rather than a question.

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Really hope these people come home and the hammer falls on Boeing’s repeated cost-cutting and incompetence.

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Okay but in my defense, when I said it would be better to be stranded in space than in a sub at the bottom of the ocean, I did not WISH for that scenario to occur basically a year later. 😬

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Well, that’s me for the day. 😗

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But, I do have exchange rates for Sicily in 1800 if anyone needs that little nugget of info.

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But, in a demonstration of the limitations of my extremely specific doctoral specialty, what was going on in Sicily was beyond my expertise and I’m not very confident the scholars I read about the island’s economy where very attuned to questions about piece-work, so I could be totally wrong!

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At the time it was still viable to make straight-lasted shoes, meaning they weren’t shaped to fit left or right feet, so conceivably you could buy them singly if you only needed one!

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Yeah, but there weren’t any piece-work logistics in place for such an order as far as I can tell, so the Brits just organized it out of nothing by literally going to around the island and buying all the shoes.

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They were some real caddy bitches in the Royal Navy, let me tell you. Big Brother, Napoleonic RN edition, would have been ON FIRE.

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I have asked Sicilians about this and they are just as baffled. It seems like British envoy went around and bought them from cobblers and shipped them to Malta in 1800 I think? AND by the time Keith wrote the letter, he’d distributed all the shoes! It is unclear if he meant pairs but still.

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Anyway, the complainer got his ship captured by the French and his political capital tanked so they threw out the inquiry but not before Keith got to write a little victory letter where he says that he would get so much more work done “if not for these vexatious remonstrances”. And boy, same!

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My fav is that Adm Lord Keith had to order 20,000 shoes from Sicily and we’d probably never know except one guy was mad that his crew would have to pay 4s 6d for them and everyone else was getting them for 2d less (allegedly) and he was a friend of Nelson’s so his complaint was taken seriously.

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Few articles will come close to surpassing the excitement of that mail one coming in clutch to help explain how the documents I was working with were moving around the world so they could be plunked down in front of their Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and have “read” scribbled on them.

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When I was writing my phd I used threedecks everyday for crew and location details of ships. I also lucked out on a whole article about how the UK post worked at sea during the nap wars that literally appeared in Mariner’s Mirror as I was writing my methodology like it was written just for me!

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I’m a maritime historian interested in clothes and logistics and I can see the light go out in people’s eyes when I explain that I don’t care that much about battles except to know when it will cause bedding shortages or require a big contract for shoes.

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I mean, the most useful thing to me would be a computer that could keep track of surface-level merchant and naval tech, battles, law etc but I already have that. It’s the work of maritime history enthusiasts who document things on forums and publish articles. Maritime history’s greatest strength.

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Meaning it will be extremely knowledgeable on specificly one topic and nothing else?

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Sad to hear famous Saint John mural Donald Sutherland has passed.

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Just transcribed a 1817 letter from Newfoundland ordering a captain to ballast his ship with salt after he sold the cod in Porto.

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