Kenny Linden
@kennylinden.bsky.social
I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A quick reminder to apply for a range of @aseh.bsky.social environmental history research prizes by 20 November. See the link below for more info! 🌿🐂🐏🐄
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
American Society for Environmental History - Prizes for Scholarship
www.aseh.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A quick reminder to apply for a range of @aseh.bsky.social environmental history research prizes by 20 November. See the link below for more info! 🌿🐂🐏🐄
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
www.aseh.org/Research-Pri...
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"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Simpsons joke from 1994. 31 years and still accurate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Simpsons joke from 1994. 31 years and still accurate.
I loved reading Star Wars Insider when I was a kid. Not sure when I started, but it was definitely before the special editions of the the original trilogy in 1997, and I read it all through the prequels, devouring every detail of prerelease content before the films came out.
RIP.
RIP.
Oh no.
After more than 200 issues and 30+ years, Star Wars Insider will end its current run in 2026. 🫡
Star Wars Insider issue #237 will be the magazine’s last with Titan. “As we fly off into the twin sunsets, Titan intends to go out in a blaze of glory,” editor Christopher Cooper adds.
After more than 200 issues and 30+ years, Star Wars Insider will end its current run in 2026. 🫡
Star Wars Insider issue #237 will be the magazine’s last with Titan. “As we fly off into the twin sunsets, Titan intends to go out in a blaze of glory,” editor Christopher Cooper adds.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I loved reading Star Wars Insider when I was a kid. Not sure when I started, but it was definitely before the special editions of the the original trilogy in 1997, and I read it all through the prequels, devouring every detail of prerelease content before the films came out.
RIP.
RIP.
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sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.
Truly wild that less than a week after a nationwide decisive victory Senate Democrats cave in return for getting absolutely nothing in return.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Truly wild that less than a week after a nationwide decisive victory Senate Democrats cave in return for getting absolutely nothing in return.
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"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.
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Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 10) the tables are turned: I’m the guest on the Greenhouse #envhum book talk to discuss Ghosts Behind Glass with @finnarne.me & guest host @medievalpenguin.bsky.social
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Join us online for the discussion! 4pm CET/3pm GMT/10am EST
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
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Darth Vader has assured Lando Calrissian that Princess Liea and Chewbacca will be left under his supervision in Cloud City and that's good enough for Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Darth Vader has assured Lando Calrissian that Princess Liea and Chewbacca will be left under his supervision in Cloud City and that's good enough for Chuck Schumer.
Here is the prettiest yak in the county two years running that I paid to "ride" on (a young girl walked me in a circuit of two yards).
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Here is the prettiest yak in the county two years running that I paid to "ride" on (a young girl walked me in a circuit of two yards).
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But I’ve got the touch… :(
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
But I’ve got the touch… :(
Oh man! This game launched a whole genre of games. Pbta is exactly the sort of system that I would love to run. Sadly also never got a chance to play any pbta systems (other than Ironsworn... does that count?) but I hope one day I can run Apocalypse World. And if I do, I'll have the 3rd edition!
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oh man! This game launched a whole genre of games. Pbta is exactly the sort of system that I would love to run. Sadly also never got a chance to play any pbta systems (other than Ironsworn... does that count?) but I hope one day I can run Apocalypse World. And if I do, I'll have the 3rd edition!
So exciting! I have got all the Free League The One Ring 2e books. I have to run a single session with them, but I love them and they are so cool, I can't help myself.
And maybe some day I can wrangle people together to run an adventure in Middle Earth.
A man can dream...
And maybe some day I can wrangle people together to run an adventure in Middle Earth.
A man can dream...
The preorder for my next ONE RING rpg supplement, HANDS OF THE WHITE WIZARD, is up!
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...
freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So exciting! I have got all the Free League The One Ring 2e books. I have to run a single session with them, but I love them and they are so cool, I can't help myself.
And maybe some day I can wrangle people together to run an adventure in Middle Earth.
A man can dream...
And maybe some day I can wrangle people together to run an adventure in Middle Earth.
A man can dream...
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Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.
Thanks to Kerra for this write up on the Plague maqama article. @uniofexeternews.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Myths about rapid spread of the Black Death influenced by single “literary tale”, experts show
Myths about how the Black Death travelled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found. Modern portrayals of the plague qui...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.
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Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Rivers are messy: Beyond the water bias in research and management
This article reviews current trends in interdisciplinary river research to argue that a “water bias” or tendency consider rivers as synonymous with water can hinder our understanding of rivers and con...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Kathleen and Kip are two of my good friends from the Indiana University and studying in Mongolia days, and they will be talking about Kip's new book on horses and music and video games! I can't wait (even though I will be a bit late!)
#tengri #mongolsky
#tengri #mongolsky
Tomorrow! Tune in 4-6 PST as I join the Nevada Humanities Twitch Stream to talk about Mongolian music, culture, and environment while we check out the demo for Legend of Khiimori, a Mongol Empire Pony Express adventure:
www.nevadahumanities.org/events/2025/...
www.nevadahumanities.org/events/2025/...
Humanities at Play: The Legend of Khiimori with Kip Grosvenor Hutchins — Nevada Humanities
November 6, 2025 Online - Twitch
www.nevadahumanities.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Kathleen and Kip are two of my good friends from the Indiana University and studying in Mongolia days, and they will be talking about Kip's new book on horses and music and video games! I can't wait (even though I will be a bit late!)
#tengri #mongolsky
#tengri #mongolsky
Mongolian National University of Education (MUBIS) last year posted a series of videos about reading Classical Mongolian on Youtube.
Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi...
#mongolsky #tengri
Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi...
#mongolsky #tengri
Монгол бичгийн хичээл 1
YouTube video by Хэлний бодлогын үндэсний зөвлөл
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Mongolian National University of Education (MUBIS) last year posted a series of videos about reading Classical Mongolian on Youtube.
Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi...
#mongolsky #tengri
Hat tip to Dr. Dotno Pount for sharing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFi...
#mongolsky #tengri
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the editorial board said before the primary that Mamdani "seems to lack [...] political savvy and [an] instinct for compromise," a take that has aged like milk because he proved them dead wrong by exhibiting precisely those qualities between then and the general election, as chronicled in this piece
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
the editorial board said before the primary that Mamdani "seems to lack [...] political savvy and [an] instinct for compromise," a take that has aged like milk because he proved them dead wrong by exhibiting precisely those qualities between then and the general election, as chronicled in this piece
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If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028.
by Rahm Emanuel
by Rahm Emanuel
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028.
by Rahm Emanuel
by Rahm Emanuel
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
A+ Chinese history joke right here.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A+ Chinese history joke right here.