curmudgeon
@drneikirk.bsky.social
Digitizer of Cultural Heritage (mostly old maps), trashy punk rock and all the various sub-genres that came from it, and watching history repeat itself while our country implodes...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Keep posting this and never show your membership card to anyone.
September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Keep posting this and never show your membership card to anyone.
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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Who built your F’n house? Who picked the vegetables n fruit? The jobs that MAGGATs whine r being stolen, but MAGGATs aren’t running to claim them now! Viva Mexico ✊🏼 #mexico #arresttrump
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Who built your F’n house? Who picked the vegetables n fruit? The jobs that MAGGATs whine r being stolen, but MAGGATs aren’t running to claim them now! Viva Mexico ✊🏼 #mexico #arresttrump
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Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own.
She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
August 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own.
She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
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Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
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A couple came in today because they read this a while ago when it came out. It's still something I'm incredibly proud of. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/06/m...
Meet Andrew Middleton, the map man charting a new course at R.I. business - The Boston Globe
After winning a national contest, the California man moved across the country to reopen Pawtucket’s Map Center where “the store is selling stories."
www.bostonglobe.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A couple came in today because they read this a while ago when it came out. It's still something I'm incredibly proud of. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/06/m...
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August 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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If this pisses MAGAts off; then, hell yeah, I'm all for it.
The MAGAt base is too stupid to even realize what satire is; so, lets give them what they fear; because, fear is all they are.
#OwnTheMAGAts
#TheAlliedForces
The MAGAt base is too stupid to even realize what satire is; so, lets give them what they fear; because, fear is all they are.
#OwnTheMAGAts
#TheAlliedForces
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If this pisses MAGAts off; then, hell yeah, I'm all for it.
The MAGAt base is too stupid to even realize what satire is; so, lets give them what they fear; because, fear is all they are.
#OwnTheMAGAts
#TheAlliedForces
The MAGAt base is too stupid to even realize what satire is; so, lets give them what they fear; because, fear is all they are.
#OwnTheMAGAts
#TheAlliedForces
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Provenance researchers must be detectives — reading in multiple languages, consulting known sources and locating new ones, and figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are still all too often unwilling to disclose.
The Stories of Art History's Detectives
The provenance researcher must be a detective, figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are often unwilling to disclose.
hyperallergic.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Provenance researchers must be detectives — reading in multiple languages, consulting known sources and locating new ones, and figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are still all too often unwilling to disclose.
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It seems META is taking down the original cartoon that was done as two sections.
My buddy David joined it into one single cartoon post; and for now, FB seems to not notice it.
Since they don't like it, we should make sure it gets seen by as many as possible; for, it is truth.
#TheAlliedForces
My buddy David joined it into one single cartoon post; and for now, FB seems to not notice it.
Since they don't like it, we should make sure it gets seen by as many as possible; for, it is truth.
#TheAlliedForces
June 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It seems META is taking down the original cartoon that was done as two sections.
My buddy David joined it into one single cartoon post; and for now, FB seems to not notice it.
Since they don't like it, we should make sure it gets seen by as many as possible; for, it is truth.
#TheAlliedForces
My buddy David joined it into one single cartoon post; and for now, FB seems to not notice it.
Since they don't like it, we should make sure it gets seen by as many as possible; for, it is truth.
#TheAlliedForces
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Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy
Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature.
www.openculture.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy
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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
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Welcome to my military parade
a group of soldiers in military uniforms are standing in a parking lot .
ALT: a group of soldiers in military uniforms are standing in a parking lot .
media.tenor.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Welcome to my military parade
I'm really terrible at posting anything these days. But I work at a map library and I'm in charge of digitizing the collection. We've been doing it for roughly fifteen years now. I decided to reshoot our Portolon chart of the Mediterranean today.
June 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I'm really terrible at posting anything these days. But I work at a map library and I'm in charge of digitizing the collection. We've been doing it for roughly fifteen years now. I decided to reshoot our Portolon chart of the Mediterranean today.
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June 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM