Benjamin Beresford
@bjberesford.bsky.social
Teacher and Historian. Interested in pedagogy, curriculum dev, UDL and accessible learning, classroom as laboratory of democracy. Occasional research on authoritarianism, democracy, and popular culture.
Are these all UC Irvine?
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Are these all UC Irvine?
In all your crate digging, have you ever found that CS Lewis, Jr. album?
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
In all your crate digging, have you ever found that CS Lewis, Jr. album?
Is that the new Wicked sequel? Annoying for Good?
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Is that the new Wicked sequel? Annoying for Good?
I was just gonna say that! The famously anti-violence Spartacist League
January 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I was just gonna say that! The famously anti-violence Spartacist League
It’s maybe the most harrowing book about the Holocaust. It’s up there with Neighbors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It’s maybe the most harrowing book about the Holocaust. It’s up there with Neighbors.
Which office did you call?
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Which office did you call?
Two cars in every garage and test pressings on every hi-fi.
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Two cars in every garage and test pressings on every hi-fi.
This album throws off my Apple Music stats every year because the kids wanna listen to it during our 50+ minute commute every day in November and I am happy to oblige.
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving OST:Charlie Brown Christmas OST::In a Silent Way:Kind of Blue
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving OST:Charlie Brown Christmas OST::In a Silent Way:Kind of Blue
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This album throws off my Apple Music stats every year because the kids wanna listen to it during our 50+ minute commute every day in November and I am happy to oblige.
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving OST:Charlie Brown Christmas OST::In a Silent Way:Kind of Blue
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving OST:Charlie Brown Christmas OST::In a Silent Way:Kind of Blue
TEEN GIRL SQUAAAAD!
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
TEEN GIRL SQUAAAAD!
The entire premise of this map is flawed because it uses the Mercator projection.
September 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The entire premise of this map is flawed because it uses the Mercator projection.
Don’t sleep on C: Anyone who has had Georgian or Tajik food will tell you it’s too legit to quit.
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Don’t sleep on C: Anyone who has had Georgian or Tajik food will tell you it’s too legit to quit.
German bomber pilots would tune in to the BBC to listen to jazz music en route to bombing London.
September 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
German bomber pilots would tune in to the BBC to listen to jazz music en route to bombing London.
I know we’re in different teaching spheres, but somedays I come home and I’ll be like, well at least a student felt like they could be themselves in my classroom.
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I know we’re in different teaching spheres, but somedays I come home and I’ll be like, well at least a student felt like they could be themselves in my classroom.
To be fair, there are Mets teams of recent memory who could easily have been the AI Slop product of “Assemble a winning baseball team” prompt.
September 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
To be fair, there are Mets teams of recent memory who could easily have been the AI Slop product of “Assemble a winning baseball team” prompt.
Will we finally see elites return to the aesthetics embraced by the European aristocracy of the 17th century? They are, after all, the progenitors of “taste=status” framework.
September 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Will we finally see elites return to the aesthetics embraced by the European aristocracy of the 17th century? They are, after all, the progenitors of “taste=status” framework.
🎶 Joe Tor-re, Joe Tor-re 🎶
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🎶 Joe Tor-re, Joe Tor-re 🎶
Normally, he’s among my fave TV play by play guys when he’s just doing Royals broadcasts. Maybe had trouble adjusting to a national broadcast?
August 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Normally, he’s among my fave TV play by play guys when he’s just doing Royals broadcasts. Maybe had trouble adjusting to a national broadcast?
He’s the Royals’ play-by-play guy, so he is probably less likely to have Provus-esque enthusiasm.
August 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
He’s the Royals’ play-by-play guy, so he is probably less likely to have Provus-esque enthusiasm.
I recently learned about Catherine Nixey’s “The Darkening Age”, which late antiquity scholars absolutely eviscerated, but every major newspaper gave it 5 stars.
July 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I recently learned about Catherine Nixey’s “The Darkening Age”, which late antiquity scholars absolutely eviscerated, but every major newspaper gave it 5 stars.
Rescue or Reno?
July 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Rescue or Reno?
I think a great option would be a dramatization of Ken Follett’s novel “The Fall of Giants,” the first third of which covers the social tensions and the IR environment that leads to war from multiple perspectives based on class and place.
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I think a great option would be a dramatization of Ken Follett’s novel “The Fall of Giants,” the first third of which covers the social tensions and the IR environment that leads to war from multiple perspectives based on class and place.