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Ian Campbell

@iwcampbell.bsky.social

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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

History 47%

Political science 31%

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Critical support tbh

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Love her. The “everyday cakes” part of that site was one of my COVID projects.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

A satisfying evening project

With ganache

Not a bad crumb

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

One thing: I am always going to make ganache in the microwave and not whatever more complicated but marginally better way the recipe says.

Double boiler, my ass (I ain’t gonna set up a double boiler)

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

It’s so good and it happened to make use of some buttermilk and heavy cream that needed to be used in the next couple days.

orange chocolate chunk cake

I know there are people who don’t like orange and chocolate together, but this cake isn’t for them. It’s for us. And it’s phenomenal.

smittenkitchen.com

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

Cakes! In progress.

Two orange chocolate cakes drizzled with orange syrup

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 17h

Oh no, how did these chocolate chips get into my mouth, what a terrible mistake-accident

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 17h

I promised to bake for my class if they all got their drafts in on time and…now I have to actually DO IT? MODS?!

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

I had a joke that was based on his hilarious soccer career, but, ope, that's a younger brother.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

This is all to say that my high school friend in MPLS who still wears her whistle even when she's taking her daughter to and from chemo has objectively done more to fight fascism there than the Talia Janes of the world. Respect could be paid.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18h

This is a god damn country, not the Montessori Academy of Diarrhea

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

But also the weirdos who have Stancil brainworms need to remember that they're also shitting on thousands of people who they don't have parasocial beefs with.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, Stancil in particular is just...exceptionally stubborn. Which is a useful quality in this fight. (I would not want to be in an argument with him for exactly this reason.)

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

These are real people doing the work in Minneapolis. They didn't ask for it, but it came to them, and they stepped up. And it's working. Show some damn respect and figure out what you can do to help them or shut the fuck up.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot get over the number of ostensible leftists who saw a mass movement work to protect the most vulnerable among us in a time of creeping fascism and decided that the correct move was to shit on it because of bad vibes or not liking one specific guy. Good to know who you can't trust, at least.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

Good to know who you can't trust, I guess.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

I guess...we're getting a useful blocklist out of this nonsense, at least?

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 19h

we also should have learned not to conflate "can make a convincing front-facing video" with "has anything useful to say" but that hill may just be too steep to climb

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

You need something that's a guide to his own ideology and biography (the former revealed in the latter) and also a sweeping religious-historical epic about America.

So off the top that's what, a pastiche of Art of the Deal, The Book of Mormon, and...Camp of the Saints?

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21h

At the end of this road are months named “Mary Anne,” “Artofthedeal,” and “MAGA”.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

Once again the aesthetics of Trumpism feel eerily close to the aesthetics of Turkmenistan's despotic regime. I understand Trump did a lot of business in that part of the world after the USSR fell apart.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

Once again the aesthetics of Trumpism feel eerily close to the aesthetics of Turkmenistan's despotic regime. I understand Trump did a lot of business in that part of the world after the USSR fell apart.

A gaudy golden statue of the dictator Saparmurat Niyazov at the summit of the Arch of Neutrality

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21h

First one, at least, you can steer for a snowbank rather than going into traffic. Second one...you definitely feel like you're gonna die unless you get extremely lucky.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21h

Grew up in northern MI so this is a tie between 1. Car skidding while trying to stop at the bottom of a hill (lots of fast moving cross traffic just ahead) and 2. Tried to turn from a stop and instead spun in slow motion across three lanes of traffic.

New Year Same Paige 🏳️‍🌈 @paigetrnr.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the worst *short-lived* scare you’ve ever had? Where you were genuinely freaking out but then it was all ok within minutes?

I had a literal moth get trapped inside my ear for about 40 seconds. I was screaming. Then it was out.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, I read theory.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 22h

Oh man thinking about how these things might come together is taking me to some very dark places.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 22h

He’s our side’s claymore mine (laudatory, mostly).

Point the front toward the enemy, let it do what it does, under no circumstances get it pointed at yourself.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

No offense but if anything MN puts the lie to the idea that popular resistance takes a bunch of time and preparation by established activists who are allegedly quietly building goodwill. Mostly I see those people upset that it's succeeding and trying to gatekeep the normal people out of it

Because creating trust networks and community on the ground takes time and effort and isn't something you can easily share for clout.

A lot of quiet activity creating a lot of goodwill and connections has to happen to bring people together like in MN. And that trust breaks when people are careless.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

More’s the pity.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

And that's exactly why I don't publish more frequently. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

I am not going to engage in takeout discourse -- that's a fool's errand -- but it is absolutely astonishing to me that the mind that produced _The Wages of Destruction_ also produced this tweet.