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mobyjane.bsky.social
@mobyjane.bsky.social
Public historian. Recovering archaeologist. Marylander.
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Get in line, whale
April 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny
February 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Good morning this Black History Month! DYK it started almost 100 years ago, in 1926, as Negro History Week? asalh.org/about-us/our...
ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | Our History
ASALH is itself part of African American History treated, as Carter G. Woodson often said, as “a negligible factor” in American and world history. While he labored with a singularity of purpose, Woods...
asalh.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is a fantastic museum and it's so upsetting to read about its dire situation.

The gift shop is also delightful, where else can you get a plush Tullimonstrum? Nowhere. Just saying.....
This is terrible news. 🧪

"The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors failed to fulfill a $30 million pledge..." @judylucas.bsky.social

ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
January 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This is terrible news. 🧪

"The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors failed to fulfill a $30 million pledge..." @judylucas.bsky.social

ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My kids have only been back in school 4 days in 2025 and we're on round 2 of illness. How?! Why?!
January 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
No better feeling than going on a run, showering, and changing into CLEAN pajamas.
January 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a text writeup! I don't want a video! I want a
December 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Very brief work trip to my old New England stomping grounds and pleasantly surprised not to be in nostalgia-induced despair. Turns out Maryland has my bases covered and I'm not sure I'd leave if I could.
December 9, 2024 at 1:50 AM
If there are no Armenians in the credits at all, is it really a movie? (I always look...i almost always find....)
November 25, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Went to see an actual live play and I'm still feeling the emotional echoes. It's trite that every play here seems to be about how Art Makes Us Human but sometimes...maybe yeah.
November 23, 2024 at 3:44 AM
I am reading this now! It's so good!
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War by Holly Miowak Guise. @hollyguise.bsky.social. Just published.
November 22, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Frankenstein is the story of a STEM dad whose son majors in the humanities
November 15, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Was not expecting an argument with my spouse about 1) how many verses of "America the beautiful" your average person knows and 2) if "undimmed by human tears" is weird and inhuman or just unrealistic
November 16, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Gender is a performance and I refuse to put on a good show for a bad audience.
November 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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What do we want?

TRAINS

When do we want them?

CONTINUOUSLY FROM 1870 ONWARD WITH APPROPRIATE ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENTS TO ACCOUNT FOR THE TRAIN BUBBLE BURSTING WITHOUT ABANDONING THE CONCEPT
November 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Incredible photo via Potomac Riverkeeper today (credit: Nathan Hitt) of the Shenandoah River, muddy with polluted runoff from Helene, meeting the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry.
October 2, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Don't usually say this, but I'm definitely enjoying this work trip.
September 12, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Belatedly left Twitter, don't post much anymore but looking to find and follow folks from the public history/archaeology communities who moved over here.
September 11, 2024 at 1:21 AM