Airball
@airball47.bsky.social
Historian of religion & medicine in early modern Europe; refugee from academia. I’m not Pazuzu, but I know Pazuzu. I've also written some historical fiction: https://a.co/d/1ATj2Is
As a history teacher I just want to give a shout out to whichever propagandist put together this image. There is so much good stuff to dig into.
March 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As a history teacher I just want to give a shout out to whichever propagandist put together this image. There is so much good stuff to dig into.
In addition to cutting the video on redlining, the College Board deleted all the videos about women and economic development.
So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).
March 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In addition to cutting the video on redlining, the College Board deleted all the videos about women and economic development.
Every morning at dawn, a dedicated military contingent marches to a pristine slab of marble.
While the rest of the squad holds up a tarp - for decency's sake - one member poops in the middle of the slab.
The squad marches into the sunrise, leaving the poop behind.
There's your monument.
While the rest of the squad holds up a tarp - for decency's sake - one member poops in the middle of the slab.
The squad marches into the sunrise, leaving the poop behind.
There's your monument.
November 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Every morning at dawn, a dedicated military contingent marches to a pristine slab of marble.
While the rest of the squad holds up a tarp - for decency's sake - one member poops in the middle of the slab.
The squad marches into the sunrise, leaving the poop behind.
There's your monument.
While the rest of the squad holds up a tarp - for decency's sake - one member poops in the middle of the slab.
The squad marches into the sunrise, leaving the poop behind.
There's your monument.
Ballgame!!!!
Let’s go, Guards!!!
Let’s go, Guards!!!
October 11, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Ballgame!!!!
Let’s go, Guards!!!
Let’s go, Guards!!!
Abolish the death penalty.
September 25, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Abolish the death penalty.
Pretty much.
September 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Pretty much.
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listen, i’m not saying Trump caused those two dudes to take a shot at him…but let’s not pretend like he had nothing to do with creating an atmosphere where dudes are taking shots at him (gift link)
Opinion | The Donald Trump Guide to Civil Discourse
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.”
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM
listen, i’m not saying Trump caused those two dudes to take a shot at him…but let’s not pretend like he had nothing to do with creating an atmosphere where dudes are taking shots at him (gift link)
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,384,386!
September 17, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,384,386!
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He thinks cats are being eaten because he heard someone say their pussy got ate and neither he nor JD have any idea what that means.
September 11, 2024 at 1:39 AM
He thinks cats are being eaten because he heard someone say their pussy got ate and neither he nor JD have any idea what that means.
Fuck, I hate that racist chant.
September 6, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Fuck, I hate that racist chant.
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i truly hate this guy apnews.com/article/jd-v...
JD Vance says school shootings are a 'fact of life,' calls for better security
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage.
apnews.com
September 6, 2024 at 12:51 AM
i truly hate this guy apnews.com/article/jd-v...
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"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
www.techpolicy.press
August 30, 2024 at 11:02 PM
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
I met Richard Belzer and Bob Seger a Bruce Springsteen concert for which I did not (technically) have a ticket and they were no help at all, but I still saw the show from the floor.
August 29, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I met Richard Belzer and Bob Seger a Bruce Springsteen concert for which I did not (technically) have a ticket and they were no help at all, but I still saw the show from the floor.
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I just saw someone call JD Vance “Hillbilly Vanilli” and I can’t breathe
August 25, 2024 at 9:35 PM
I just saw someone call JD Vance “Hillbilly Vanilli” and I can’t breathe
Class prep is going great, why do you ask?
August 9, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Class prep is going great, why do you ask?
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This is by far the best coverage of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting I've seen. Short version: Despite assertions to the contrary, neither is trans, and there's no evidence in the public record that either has XY chromosomes.
Explained: The gender controversy miring women's Olympic boxing
Two Olympic boxers have found themselves at the centre of a fractious controversy in recent days, following a decision by the IOC to allow them to compete in Paris
www.rte.ie
August 1, 2024 at 3:46 PM
This is by far the best coverage of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting I've seen. Short version: Despite assertions to the contrary, neither is trans, and there's no evidence in the public record that either has XY chromosomes.
Cat just threw up her breakfast and promptly ate it.
I admire her commitment to the bit.
I admire her commitment to the bit.
August 1, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Cat just threw up her breakfast and promptly ate it.
I admire her commitment to the bit.
I admire her commitment to the bit.
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JD Vance: "No, my family doesn't have wealth. When my pappy died, I didn't get any money, though I did come into a lot of furniture"
July 25, 2024 at 12:44 AM
JD Vance: "No, my family doesn't have wealth. When my pappy died, I didn't get any money, though I did come into a lot of furniture"
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If you're not following @kimkelly.bsky.social on coal miners, today is a great day to start.
Republicans Just Handed Down a Death Sentence to the Nation's Coal Miners
As black lung continues to kill coal miners, House Republicans moved to block enforcement of a life-saving safety rule.
inthesetimes.com
July 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
If you're not following @kimkelly.bsky.social on coal miners, today is a great day to start.
Your honor, with all due respect, in a sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street-fighting man.
Your honor, with all due respect, Saturday night is all right for fighting
Your honor, with all due respect, EVERYBODY was kung fu fighting.
July 3, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Your honor, with all due respect, in a sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street-fighting man.
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AC, and a I cannot emphasize this enough, AB www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/f...
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
www.sbsun.com
May 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM
AC, and a I cannot emphasize this enough, AB www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/f...