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Paul Renfro
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Historian at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (@oxunipress.bsky.social) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (@uncpress.bsky.social). Writing THOSE FEARFUL DAYS and THE PASSION OF MATTHEW SHEPARD for @liveright.bsky.social / @wwnorton.com.
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Let’s goooooooooooooooooooooooo 🗃️
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Where does this go on my CV?
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
T.I., “On Top of the World” (featuring Ludacris and B.o.B), Paper Trail (Grand Hustle LLC, Cinq Recordings, 2008).
December 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Juan Pablo Dos: VIP
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’m at a Queen Elizabeth II-themed gay bar in Puerto Vallarta.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Spotted in Puerto Vallarta. Feliz Navidad.
December 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
How many times can @theatlantic.com publish the same fucking essay? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Feliz cumpleaños, Jesús.
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
December 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Apparently this kid is a student the University of Iowa. Go Hawks.
December 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Feliz Navidad, mis amigos.
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It’s a day that ends in “y,” and this guy’s being racist again. (I screenshotted because he blocked me.) 🗃️
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Happy holidays, folks!
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Me to my college roommates as they beg me to stop playing track six on Paul Simon’s Graceland:
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
As a cis white guy who landed a TT job in 2019, I’m proof-positive that white men DO regularly get hired on the tenure track—despite ludicrous claims to the contrary. Further, even though I’m queer, I’m largely insulated from the racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination endured by people of
No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chefs, today I’ve made for you a deconstructed pretzel fluffernutter with Splits pretzels, Fluff marshmallow crème, and a Jif peanut butter emulsion. Enjoy.
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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🗃️ I already posted but I’m re-posting @drhonor.bsky.social’s post because we’re so excited about this opportunity!! 🤓🙃🤓🙃
December 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reply with a holiday song, and I’ll indicate whether it’s a bop or not.
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Apparently the men of FIJI are concerned about the threat of mass Jokerfication.
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I finished a draft of yet another chapter in the Atlanta book. Please clap. 🗃️
I finished a draft of yet another chapter in the Atlanta book. Please clap.
I finished a draft of another chapter in the Atlanta book. Please clap.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My best friend attended Brown for grad school and now works there as an administrator. His campus and my campus have both experienced mass shootings this year. In any sensible, functioning society, such a thing would not only be impossible—it would be unthinkable. This has to end.
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM