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Historian. Conservationist. Land steward on the tall grass prairies of Nebraska. Writing about cows, grass, and politics across the North American West, Great Plains, & Canadian Prairies · Books and more: jasonheppler.org · Views own · ⚓ .. more

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Sep 18
I’m joining the starter pack train: here’s a bunch of historians of the American West here on Bluesky!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 18h
Heck yeah
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Explaining to my spouse this morning about how my goal this week is to read 4 articles and maybe skim 1 book in order to write maybe 2 sentences.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18h
Explaining to my spouse this morning about how my goal this week is to read 4 articles and maybe skim 1 book in order to write maybe 2 sentences.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
Comparing the old paint against the new.
A red McCormick Farmall tractor is parked on gravel next to a red barn.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
Before / after
A red tractor is parked in front of a large, weathered red barn on a sunny day, before fresh paint. A vintage red tractor is parked on a gravel path in front of a rustic barn and a small shed, after fresh paint.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 2d
Looks terrific!

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Valentine's Day!

The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex.

Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.
Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
As far as I know it literally has no meaning, comes from a song I think? And there's a gesture to it, too, I guess.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
My favorite is if my kids say six or seven next to each other not meaning to, I call out the meme and they hate it 🤣

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
Probably a tossup between Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout 4.
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d
Name a videogame you've put 500 hours into.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d
Name a videogame you've put 500 hours into.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
I'm here for the Nebraska shoutout

and the best sandwich ever devised

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
dang I haven't had a reuben in a while, I might have to fix that this weekend

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d
in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha

and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut

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Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
as a regular cowboy boot wearer, it's hard to know where to start with this

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 3d
Deadline approaching: submit your proposals for #AHA27 by February 15, 2026. Our 2027 annual meeting will take place on January 7–10, 2027, in New Orleans. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals.
Call for Proposals - AHA
The AHA's annual meeting is the largest yearly gathering of historians in the United States. All historians are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals. The AHA also invites historically focused proposals from colleagues in related disciplines and fr...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d
come on
US Attorney General Pam Bondi with Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sitting on a stage talking. Eric Schmitt is wearing a navy suit with a white or light blue dress shirt, solid red tie, and black cowboy boots. His pants are very slim causing them to ride up high when he sits down and revealing a bit of leg betwen his pant hem and the tops of his cowboy boots.

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 4d
"Philistines are always declaring that no one reads literary criticism, but the record shows that publishers systematically underestimate the popularity of book reviews."

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 5d
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
Is it true that Gallup plans to stop tracking approval ratings of political figures? Why? That's a terrible idea. It’s crucial for citizens in a democracy to have the ability to voice their opinions of the leaders they’ve elected and make those opinions known. As a longtime Gallup pollster, I’m ashamed that you’d even consider cutting off this important marker of American political feeling. Please reconsider. Thank you!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
Great! It’s about to get even better 🙂

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
guess I have to break out this oldie today
jasonheppler.org Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Jul 16
Someone is failing the Turing test and it isn't the machines.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 15
Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
I'm thrilled to hear a local model doing well with this because I'd much rather do that than rely on claude/openai/etc.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
The prompt and code are here (starting at line 35): github.com/hepplerj/cla...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
Pretty excited about a refresh of Religious Ecologies that we have coming soon. Here’s a tiny sneak preview, as a treat.
A map displays numerous blue circles of varying sizes scattered across southern Connecticut and parts of New York, indicating data points or densities.

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Michael Squires @mgsquires.bsky.social · 6d
“Email correspondence obtained by ProPublica shows that government officials were alerted to the presence of PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters as early as 2021.”
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Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years.
As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d
ooof

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 7d
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 7d
• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits

This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research

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RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
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