Broken Historian
@practicalnecromancy.com
Historian, geek, social justice advocate, storyteller, maker
✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈⬛ Black Cats
✊🏽 History of Racism | ⚖️ Social Justice | 📚 Ergodic Fiction | 📝 Interactive Storytelling | 🗣️ Communication Theory | 🏗️ Scale Models | 🏰 Disney | 🧱 LEGO | 🚀 Star Wars | 🐈⬛ Black Cats
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Broken Historian
@practicalnecromancy.com
· Dec 31
Guess I'm moving to ANOTHER platform...
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What I Geek About:
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✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History
⚖️ Social Justice
🌲 Southern PA History
📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs
🗣️ Communication Theory
🏗️ Scale Models
🧱 LEGO
🚀 Star Wars
🐈⬛ Black Cats & Voids
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What I Geek About:
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✊🏽 History of Racism and Black History
⚖️ Social Justice
🌲 Southern PA History
📚 Ergodic Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
📝 Interactive Storytelling & ARGs
🗣️ Communication Theory
🏗️ Scale Models
🧱 LEGO
🚀 Star Wars
🐈⬛ Black Cats & Voids
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So now, if you’re a consumer facing company you have to worry about your market research being used by one of the most unpopular political figures in the world to prop up his “starve the poor” campaign...
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So now, if you’re a consumer facing company you have to worry about your market research being used by one of the most unpopular political figures in the world to prop up his “starve the poor” campaign...
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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The definition they are using for woman is solely based on reproductive capacity. If you cannot be a breeding vessel for men, you are not considered a woman. That's it. That's the world they want. A fascist eugenics based world.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The definition they are using for woman is solely based on reproductive capacity. If you cannot be a breeding vessel for men, you are not considered a woman. That's it. That's the world they want. A fascist eugenics based world.
Maybe I’m a cheap bastard, but I’ve never heard of any of the brands impacted.
Not that this won’t have knock-on effects as the domestic pasta market can’t instantly fill the supply gap, but… these all feel like the really bougie pastas.
Not that this won’t have knock-on effects as the domestic pasta market can’t instantly fill the supply gap, but… these all feel like the really bougie pastas.
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Maybe I’m a cheap bastard, but I’ve never heard of any of the brands impacted.
Not that this won’t have knock-on effects as the domestic pasta market can’t instantly fill the supply gap, but… these all feel like the really bougie pastas.
Not that this won’t have knock-on effects as the domestic pasta market can’t instantly fill the supply gap, but… these all feel like the really bougie pastas.
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[P] WHOOP WHOOP
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
[P] WHOOP WHOOP
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
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We spent months working to rebuild the Democratic brand in the eyes of young voters who wanted leaders who'd fight for them.
Senate Democrats just lit all that work on fire.
Senate Democrats just lit all that work on fire.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We spent months working to rebuild the Democratic brand in the eyes of young voters who wanted leaders who'd fight for them.
Senate Democrats just lit all that work on fire.
Senate Democrats just lit all that work on fire.
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Apparently, it is negotiable!
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Apparently, it is negotiable!
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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I am so fucking angry.
Senate dems are about to ensure that myself and my kids and millions of other families will most likely not be insured next year, or on insurance that might as well be nothing.
Fuck Chuck.
Senate dems are about to ensure that myself and my kids and millions of other families will most likely not be insured next year, or on insurance that might as well be nothing.
Fuck Chuck.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I am so fucking angry.
Senate dems are about to ensure that myself and my kids and millions of other families will most likely not be insured next year, or on insurance that might as well be nothing.
Fuck Chuck.
Senate dems are about to ensure that myself and my kids and millions of other families will most likely not be insured next year, or on insurance that might as well be nothing.
Fuck Chuck.
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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The Heritage Foundation is making it clear exactly whose heritage matters, in their eyes.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Heritage Foundation is making it clear exactly whose heritage matters, in their eyes.
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Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.
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4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
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hell yeah this is sick
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
hell yeah this is sick
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Not giving up. Just being realistic, random boomer.
Come up with another plan. The Epstein Files aren’t going to bring about some magical MAGA downfall.
It’s like you people don’t believe us legal experts when we tell you The Rule of Law is dead. Or maybe y’all don’t know what that means?
Come up with another plan. The Epstein Files aren’t going to bring about some magical MAGA downfall.
It’s like you people don’t believe us legal experts when we tell you The Rule of Law is dead. Or maybe y’all don’t know what that means?
Wow, so negative. We all just give up?
What will happen, the FACT that rich men protect other rich men with be undeniable. A functional Congress enacts laws to strengthen the existing laws, to prosecute all parties involved in a pedophile ring, & where brutal physical acts get life in prison.
What will happen, the FACT that rich men protect other rich men with be undeniable. A functional Congress enacts laws to strengthen the existing laws, to prosecute all parties involved in a pedophile ring, & where brutal physical acts get life in prison.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Not giving up. Just being realistic, random boomer.
Come up with another plan. The Epstein Files aren’t going to bring about some magical MAGA downfall.
It’s like you people don’t believe us legal experts when we tell you The Rule of Law is dead. Or maybe y’all don’t know what that means?
Come up with another plan. The Epstein Files aren’t going to bring about some magical MAGA downfall.
It’s like you people don’t believe us legal experts when we tell you The Rule of Law is dead. Or maybe y’all don’t know what that means?
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
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If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
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'Maybe we'll cancel SNAP and 10-20% of all flights through *Thanksgiving* and *Christmas*' is just an insane political position.
You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.
You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
'Maybe we'll cancel SNAP and 10-20% of all flights through *Thanksgiving* and *Christmas*' is just an insane political position.
You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.
You do that and the annual Turkey fryer injuries won't be from turkeys, but from folks attempting to fry whole GOP senators for Thanksgiving.
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Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Exciting news. We’ve got a pub date for the 2nd edition of No Common Ground & it’s in paperback! It’ll be out Feb. 1, 2026 & there’s a 30% discount on preorders by using the code 01SOCIAL30. @uncpress.bsky.social