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.

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Political science 31%

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 4h

Taking the evening to read some genre fiction

/lowers sunglasses

so I can talk about it with my mom.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 4h

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 13h

Ian, no one ever asks, how exactly do you feel about the beautiful but severe place you grew up? And all I can do is to point at Gordon Lightfoot and grunt incoherently.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 13h

It’s not a sign of good character but there is a tiny part of me, every November 10, that’s like 😍 UPPER PENINSULA MENTIONED 😍

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 14h

Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

UMMGC - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15h

It’s from the old site and it’s an older post, but the lessons here are timeless

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

(I got nothing useful to say otherwise. Stuff sucks; the specific ways the new stuff sucks are not yet clear to me; most to all of the suck has been baked in since November 2024, but that doesn't make things feel good.)

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

In these trying times it is a genuine comfort to know that one of the editors of Wikipedia's list of cheeses cares more about a single Montenegrin cheese than I have probably ever cared about anything

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Wikipedia's list of cheeses is great for many reasons. Funny names! Things you haven't tried yet! Obscure products that have shooters for some reason (e.g. a single Montenegrin cheese that got two full paragraphs).

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Wish people with any kind of audience would please focus on this shitshow still actually being Republican’s fault entirely

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a good beer, folks.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Second cousin, but we count those, for this

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Upside of the Commanders benching my cousin was that I could enjoy that Lions beatdown without feeling even a little guilty

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Black IPA. You can taste the ground up bits of gun in every sip (laudatory)!

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Even Costco noticeably pricy now. And we are comfortably middle class. So if we’re changing our habits some, people who are less comfortably middle class are really feeling it. And people who in normal times would be getting SNAP must be basically fucked.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 1d

This article talks a lot about how in peasant, subsistence life life was divided into "cycles," and while people in the past liked nice things - good food, nice clothes - imo the danger of nostalgic idealization is we tend to focus on the *high points of those cycles*

acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles

This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …

acoup.blog

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Poor, dangerous, unhealthy, and hungry in a way most people can’t imagine. Three meals a day and a lump of sugar for your coffee were the best recruitment tools that national armies had at their disposal.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck him up, Joyce Carol Oates.

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Just like Joshua Tree last time 💔

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Who got all this chocolate in my peanut butter?

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

God I need to find a choir out here, and time to be in a choir.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh man. Biebl’s Ave Maria is one of the greatest things in the male voice repertoire (so fun to sing!) and Cantus is the best in the game. This is so lovely.

Jeremy @floregonian.com · 2d

My dad sings in an incredible semi-professional choir in Portland and I’ve heard them sing this so many times and I cannot tell you how jealous I am that I don’t get to be one of the voices you never hear but you couldn’t live without who makes this sound possible

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 2d

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Dctrojan @dctrojan.bsky.social · 2d

I shouldn’t complain but man, espn, if I’m watching Louisville - Cal at 10:35 on a Saturday night, you can probably assume I know how college overtime works

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Лол.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

A woman ruined my workplace

By Jean-Paul Marat

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

My wife does an eggnog cheesecake at Christmas; can confirm

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