Dan "A Malevolently Bad Map" Royles 🥥🌴
@danroyles.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of US History at Florida International University; he/him; use 01DAH40 to get 40% off To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661339/to-make-the-wounded-whole
Preparing a lecture on the Obama years, which led me to the 2010 midterms, which led me to remember that the Carly Fiorina "demon sheep" ad exists, and remains a perfectly insane piece of digital ephemera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GX...
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Preparing a lecture on the Obama years, which led me to the 2010 midterms, which led me to remember that the Carly Fiorina "demon sheep" ad exists, and remains a perfectly insane piece of digital ephemera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GX...
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I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
I really liked this op-ed by Kim Fellner about using curiosity and grace to engage someone with a radically different worldview—in this case, the person responsible for her end-of-life care:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I really liked this op-ed by Kim Fellner about using curiosity and grace to engage someone with a radically different worldview—in this case, the person responsible for her end-of-life care:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"Institutions should reinvest in disciplines like philosophy, history and political theory that teach people how to reason through disagreement and should equip faculty members to lead hard conversations constructively."
-- @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
-- @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | Elite Colleges Have Found a New Virtue for Applicants to Fake
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Institutions should reinvest in disciplines like philosophy, history and political theory that teach people how to reason through disagreement and should equip faculty members to lead hard conversations constructively."
-- @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
-- @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Coming soon—The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (until now a web-only resource) is putting out a three-volume set in October, which will include my essays on:
- AIDS and AIDS activism
- LGBT civil rights
- Legionnaires' disease
www.pennpress.org/978151282935...
- AIDS and AIDS activism
- LGBT civil rights
- Legionnaires' disease
www.pennpress.org/978151282935...
July 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Coming soon—The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (until now a web-only resource) is putting out a three-volume set in October, which will include my essays on:
- AIDS and AIDS activism
- LGBT civil rights
- Legionnaires' disease
www.pennpress.org/978151282935...
- AIDS and AIDS activism
- LGBT civil rights
- Legionnaires' disease
www.pennpress.org/978151282935...
I love to look up filming locations for Real Housewives of Miami to see where they're eating and drinking (and how far those locations are from the establishing shots of South Beach that they use all the time). 1/n
July 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I love to look up filming locations for Real Housewives of Miami to see where they're eating and drinking (and how far those locations are from the establishing shots of South Beach that they use all the time). 1/n
Okay but I would put my life in Kiki Barth's hands.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
July 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Okay but I would put my life in Kiki Barth's hands.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
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The "Vote Blue No Matter Who" bitches can vote Mamdani in November 😌
June 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The "Vote Blue No Matter Who" bitches can vote Mamdani in November 😌
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Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project
www.oah.org
March 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
So #wellsfargo has permanently revoked by access to #zelle and I have no idea why. I called three different numbers at the bank and all they do is read me the same boilerplate about how there was some violation of user terms, they can't tell me why, and the decision is final and irreversible.
March 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
So #wellsfargo has permanently revoked by access to #zelle and I have no idea why. I called three different numbers at the bank and all they do is read me the same boilerplate about how there was some violation of user terms, they can't tell me why, and the decision is final and irreversible.
when does the 30 days start
asking for 340 million friends
asking for 340 million friends
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
when does the 30 days start
asking for 340 million friends
asking for 340 million friends
We went to the one in Iceland! It was underwhelming! (Not a joke or a pun, it just was!)
seems like we're reaching new audiences on here who haven't seen our sign yet. here is our sign. don't make us tap it.
January 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We went to the one in Iceland! It was underwhelming! (Not a joke or a pun, it just was!)
Prepping a lecture on Reconstruction and thus in part on birthright citizenship for tomorrow while PEPFAR has been (temporarily?) defunded and the Senate is deciding whether to put an HIV denialist in charge of public health
Could stand to have what I do be less relevant, tbh
Could stand to have what I do be less relevant, tbh
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Prepping a lecture on Reconstruction and thus in part on birthright citizenship for tomorrow while PEPFAR has been (temporarily?) defunded and the Senate is deciding whether to put an HIV denialist in charge of public health
Could stand to have what I do be less relevant, tbh
Could stand to have what I do be less relevant, tbh
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AI fake account - block with extreme prejudice
December 31, 2024 at 3:52 AM
AI fake account - block with extreme prejudice
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You can't understand what the 2000s were really like without realising that the official release Paris Hilton sextape opens with a tribute to the victims of 9/11
December 16, 2024 at 7:08 AM
You can't understand what the 2000s were really like without realising that the official release Paris Hilton sextape opens with a tribute to the victims of 9/11
Other academics: when you published your first book (or all your books, idk, I only have the one) did you have post-publication depressions? How did it show up?
December 13, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Other academics: when you published your first book (or all your books, idk, I only have the one) did you have post-publication depressions? How did it show up?
After the vax, when we started traveling again and went to New York for the first time in a year and a half, I loved the outdoor dining structures. They sometimes had a chaotic, Kowloon-walled-city feeling, but they were weird and charming and made the city seem vibrant.
Sure, outdoor dining structures for 20 people to eat in are being taken down so 2 cars can park for free, but have you considered in some instances it's so only 1 car who did a really lazy job can park for free? (where Gerties' shed used to be)
December 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
After the vax, when we started traveling again and went to New York for the first time in a year and a half, I loved the outdoor dining structures. They sometimes had a chaotic, Kowloon-walled-city feeling, but they were weird and charming and made the city seem vibrant.
What is this taupe nonsense
Pantone hopes its 2025 selection for color of the year, “Mocha Mousse,” will fulfill people’s need for harmony between comfort and glamour.
This year’s shade is all about savoring a sumptuous treat.
This year’s shade is all about savoring a sumptuous treat.
Pantone’s 2025 color of the year is a win for quiet luxury
This year’s shade is all about savoring a sumptuous treat.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
What is this taupe nonsense
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Probably the best thing I did in my history since the 70s course was teach about ACT UP and aids, as @danroyles.bsky.social implores us all to.
Buy his book for 30% off (code 01UNCP30):
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Buy his book for 30% off (code 01UNCP30):
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
To Make the Wounded Whole | Dan Royles | University of North Carolina Press
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epi...
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December 1, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Probably the best thing I did in my history since the 70s course was teach about ACT UP and aids, as @danroyles.bsky.social implores us all to.
Buy his book for 30% off (code 01UNCP30):
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Buy his book for 30% off (code 01UNCP30):
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Remember this? Vladimir Putin doesn’t. Because Trump sent Putin a personal care package of COVID testing equipment, while the rest of us suckers waited in line for hours to get swabbed.
October 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Remember this? Vladimir Putin doesn’t. Because Trump sent Putin a personal care package of COVID testing equipment, while the rest of us suckers waited in line for hours to get swabbed.
A nontrivial number of people who have made being very online a big part of their personal and professional identities, but for whom frequent social media use also seems to be an active tool for self-harm
September 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM
A nontrivial number of people who have made being very online a big part of their personal and professional identities, but for whom frequent social media use also seems to be an active tool for self-harm
Let's not forget that Haitians were singled out as a nationality in the CDC's identification of the "4-H club" "risk groups" for AIDS during the early years of the AIDS epidemic—part of a long history of othering Haitians as a threat to American families that the pets rumor picks up on. 1/
This is a good thread. Will add white supremacists have had fever dreams about Haitians ever since the Haitian revolution over 100yrs before this. You see it in literature, philosophy, policy, pseudoscience across the west as europeans grappled w/ fear of losing bloodily to those they subjugated
The Haitian “zombie” folklore and mythology entered white American cultural consciousness during the 1920s-30s, that is, during the U.S. military occupation of Haiti.
September 11, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Let's not forget that Haitians were singled out as a nationality in the CDC's identification of the "4-H club" "risk groups" for AIDS during the early years of the AIDS epidemic—part of a long history of othering Haitians as a threat to American families that the pets rumor picks up on. 1/
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he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
September 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
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Haitian leaders in South Florida blast James David Vance for “vile” and racist lies accusing Black immigrants of pet-eating: floridapolitics.com/archives/695...
Haitian leaders in South Florida blast JD Vance for ‘vile and false’ accusations of pet-eating
‘This kind of rhetoric does nothing but spread fear, misinformation, and hate.’
floridapolitics.com
September 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Haitian leaders in South Florida blast James David Vance for “vile” and racist lies accusing Black immigrants of pet-eating: floridapolitics.com/archives/695...
who wants to play the “most famous person from your high school” game? bc mine is vanna white.
Saw an ad for Wheel of Fortune hosted by Ryan Seacrest and was almost like “not my Sajak” but then was like who gives a shit. Honestly a clever chimp could host that show
September 10, 2024 at 3:00 AM