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Jesse Ritner, Ph.D.
A skier & environmental historian trapped in the Texas!
Editor at NiCHE
#skiing #history #climate
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Today we have "Seeing like a Peon: Warcraft and Perspective in Forest History" by @jason-l-newton.bsky.social

This is the eighth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist
screenshot: Winning a game of Warcraft III.
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
theliftline.bsky.social
The relationship between tourism as a revitalizer of economies & an example of disaster capitalism is fascinating and deserves a book!
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
More than half a million Jamaicans whose jobs depend directly or indirectly on tourism. After the Caribbean country was battered by its first Category 5 hurricane, officials are rushing to reopen dozens of hotels in time to salvage the vital winter travel season. trib.al/KY1Rfcx
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️

Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments

Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026

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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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In the latest piece for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social, @callmarkkent.bsky.social examines "'Indoors or…. What is indoors?' Unsettling Settlements in Fallout 4."

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#envhum #videogames #fallout
“Indoors or…. What is indoors?” Unsettling Settlements in Fallout 4
Fallout 4 explores blurred boundaries between inside and outside through player-built settlements, artificial environments, and survival mechanics shaped by radiation and shelter.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Today we have "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction" by @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social

This is the seventh article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhum
Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction
Adeline K. Piercy's video essay examines the unanticipated ways Frostpunk serves as a coping mechanism for neurodivergent players with sensory dysfunctions — particularly those who struggle with the h...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Friends! Come join me at GCSU!

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Georgia College & State University - Executive Director of Historic Museums | H-Net
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October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The federal government is trying to extort U Texas by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. Sign this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...
SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”
The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...
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October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today we have "Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public" by Sherri Sheu

This is the fourth article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist #envhum #games
Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public
Environmental board games from the 1970s onward reflect shifting ecological concerns; curating them at SHI revealed their educational, historical, and interactive museum value.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Check out "The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track" by Desiree Valadares

The latest article in our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #ushistory
The 1966 Motorific Alcan Highway Torture Track
Amid wildfire smoke, assembling a vintage toy racetrack evokes reflections on U.S. militarism, consumer culture, and the erasure of northern Canadian histories.
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October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Spread far & wide!
Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border
It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Check out this game that @scoutblum.bsky.social designed for our Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social!!

Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games

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Diverse Environments Rules: A Card Game about Diversity in Environmentally-Themed Board Games
In Diverse Environments, you will work to create a diverse selection of eight games for your syllabus. You’ve got colleagues working on the same thing, though, and you don’t want to duplicate their ef...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.
Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
theliftline.bsky.social
I love watching documentaries from the early 2000s about peak oil… and every time I hear someone tell me about peak emissions I can’t help but want to point this out to them
September 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social

This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhum
History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games
Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Quebec did not have a comprehensive system of formal segregation such as the 'white’s only' signage in the southern United States, but it did have a history of slavery and pervasive anti-Black racism." - @stevenhigh.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory
Green Gentrification: Race and Class Exclusion in an Urban National Park
This post is part of an ongoing series called “Whose Nature? Race and Canadian Environmental History.” This series examines the intersections of race and environment in Canada’s past and asks how huma...
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September 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
theliftline.bsky.social
It all makes sense now! If we leave PFAS and don’t use tylenol & vaccines, all illness will disappear! I’ve just been so confused thinking vaccines help people and forever chemicals wreck our environment and bodies… It’s good to feel informed again.
Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide
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September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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In our latest book review, @jakebreadman.bsky.social examines @rossfair.bsky.social's Improving Upper Canada: Agricultural Societies and State Formation, 1791-1852 ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2024)

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#envhist #aghist #cdnhist #bookreview
Review of Fair, Improving Upper Canada
Ross Fair’s Improving Upper Canada examines agricultural improvement’s role in state formation, political conflict, and environmental governance in nineteenth-century Upper Canada.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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These people need to take an intro level environmental history class. There I’ll learn unintended consequences are the rule, not the exception. This is argonaut, idiotic, antidemocratic, and disgraceful. They should be ashamed.
Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet
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September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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In 2009, we asked:
How does the environmental & social history of the river inform the current debate?
What environmental changes will a dam introduce?
What are the possible social and economic effects?
Are there alternatives to secure BC’s future electricity needs?

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Considering Site C
The Peace River in northern British Columbia is currently being considered for a major hydro-electric project at Site C, near Fort St. John. The river has already been dammed twice. Another dam raises...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
theliftline.bsky.social
I never realized how useful 10 key texting in the early days was to my note taking until I had Gen Z students turn in a notes assignment. So many fewer activations, so many more words, so many questions when I recommend “text-like” writing
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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As always, great work on NiCHE!
nichecanada.bsky.social NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Sep 17
"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

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#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Codfish drying on the Newfoundland waterfront, pre-1892.
September 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

niche-canada.org/2023/01/31/c...

#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Codfish drying on the Newfoundland waterfront, pre-1892.
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM