Alan Boyes
@alan-hi.bsky.social
Dad of two littles, community college history guy.
Views expressed here do not represent those of my employer. Or myself.
Views expressed here do not represent those of my employer. Or myself.
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I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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This dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
Scoop: Military officials on Weds presented Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, per sources. Hegseth, Caine at White House yday afternoon for briefings. No final decision made, two of the sources told @cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
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In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.
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i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
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it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up
September 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up
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New Mexico State’s mascot looks like his mission in life is to hunt down and kill the New Mexico mascot
March 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New Mexico State’s mascot looks like his mission in life is to hunt down and kill the New Mexico mascot
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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Tired: e. coli tainted lettuce
Wired: RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP
Wired: RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
abcnews.link
August 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tired: e. coli tainted lettuce
Wired: RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP
Wired: RADIOACTIVE SHRIMP
Slightly diminish a band: ZZ Top 10
Slightly diminish a band: Waterguns N Roses
Slightly diminish a band: Judas Deacon
August 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Slightly diminish a band: ZZ Top 10
Slightly diminish a band: Waterguns N Roses
Slightly diminish a band: Judas Deacon
August 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Waterguns N Roses
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I am once again asking economists to read a minimum of one (1) history book before weighing in
June 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I am once again asking economists to read a minimum of one (1) history book before weighing in
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For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.
June 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Here’s what I find weird about this - these folks act as if there are forces preventing them from eating beef tallow or being tradwives, and it just isn’t true. They can choose all of these things for themselves.
What’s really eating them is that other folks are free to make different choices.
What’s really eating them is that other folks are free to make different choices.
June 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Here’s what I find weird about this - these folks act as if there are forces preventing them from eating beef tallow or being tradwives, and it just isn’t true. They can choose all of these things for themselves.
What’s really eating them is that other folks are free to make different choices.
What’s really eating them is that other folks are free to make different choices.
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like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud
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This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
June 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
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Spring remix of this popular professor meme just dropped...
April 14, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Spring remix of this popular professor meme just dropped...
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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“You there, boy! Do androids dream of electric sheep?”
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“You there, boy! Do androids dream of electric sheep?”
Hey kid, want to see a dead body?
I say this as a historian — history will remember you utterly failing to meet the challenge of this moment.
At the rate you’re going, “Schumer” is going to end up somewhere between “Chamberlain” or “Quisling”
At the rate you’re going, “Schumer” is going to end up somewhere between “Chamberlain” or “Quisling”
History will remember April 9, 2025 as America’s actual liberation day—the day that President Trump backed down from his ridiculous tariff fiasco.
April 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey kid, want to see a dead body?
