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Shayne Leslie Figueroa, PhD
@shaynefig.bsky.social
Food history professor and romance novel reader. Loves her cats and yours, very much.
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Seriously who do I talk to in the NFL about this unfortunate white pants situation.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I heard people wanted Chicago content?
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Would really like to see some subtle trolling of an incrementally bigger maple leaf on the Blue Jays caps each game.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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it is my belief that when people spend years and decades of their lives poring over a subject I find really boring, like the law or regulations or medical research, I should just listen to them and spend my time on things I actually like doing and am capable of comprehending by myself
May 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Springsteen addresses fans in the UK tonight:
“Rise with us.
Raise your voices against authoritarianism.
And let freedom ring.”
Wow. Listen to Bruce Springsteen kick off his European tour, talking about what is happening here.
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The best of all worlds - sports bracketology Conclave fun.
May 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Post a movie from the year you turned 18.
April 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
April 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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You can't acknowledge #WomensHistoryMonth without celebrating UFW co-founder @DoloresHuerta for all she has done since the early days and all she continues to do today to inspire and improve the lives of farm workers and working people. ¡Viva Dolores Huerta!
March 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’ve had the scream at 3:50 of MGMTs “Kids” as a default reaction sound efffect in my head when reading any news since November.

youtu.be/VHb_XIql_gU
Kids
YouTube video by MGMT - Topic
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"We didn’t become the greatest shirtwaist factory in the world by resting on our laurels. That’s why we’ve brought in a new efficiency czar, Noel Skum, whose job is to cut unnecessary spending and roll back overly restrictive safety regulations."
Thanks to Our New Efficiency Czar, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Is Saving More Money Than Ever
“Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration…. Sources told CNN the ...
buff.ly
February 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Choose your fighter: painfully dry hands season.
February 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Cranberry pear pie at Cutchogue diner.
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Every time we see this, we should repost it.

Let's make it the anti-fascist version of the "Tom Holland Lip lip syncing to Umbrella in a corset" video: everyone must reshare every time, and no one gets annoyed.
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
December 6, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Happy leftovers weekend to all who celebrate.
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Built a pause into the undergrad classes next week. My students think it’s for them…
a woman in a white sweater says oh please in orange letters
Alt: The Kate great Betty White in an episode of Holden Girls in a white sweater says oh please in orange letters
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Have so far curated my Bluesky community thusly:
1. Quirky food history stuff
2. Romance novelists
3. Cats
4. Other Professor Figueroas
5. Shaynes

Pretty solid choices all around.
November 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM