E. C. Thompson
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E. C. Thompson
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Historian: the American South, public history, museums, monuments, 3d modeling & AR for monument removal.
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UCF Texts & Technology (w/ concentration in Public History) PhD student

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Unhinged Miami Heat takes.
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Lot of new folks here lately. I'm a Texts & Technology PhD student with a concentration in Public History. On the text side of things, my research interests include confederate memory and memorialization. On tech side, 3D modeling incl. of monuments for removal & for digitizing museum collections.
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I heard Mamdani has this messed up routine where he pretends to remove the nose - OF A CHILD - but it’s actually his thumb the whole time????
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It's a beautiful day for homecoming. I'm at home, writing, but delighted to hear @mikegolicjr.bsky.social on the UCF call. Shame the school won't commit to go all-in on the Citronaut. At least the space game is coming up.
October 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I spent last weekend away for a delightful fall wedding. I consumed no sports. I'm learning about it all from the @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social, including the weekend shows.

Wow, it sure seems like lots of stuff happened!
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As a @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social Orlando correspondent I went to report live from the scene of the Paddlefish heist. I see nothing out of order, @edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi @hollyanderson.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Committing a cardinal sin and walking into the parking garage to grab something I forgot in my car. Someone will be very angry when I go to my car, and then walk back away. Sorry.
September 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Stańczyk vibes, but also View of Lyse Abbey near Bergen, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1826
August 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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There is no game situation Mario Cristobal cannot turn into Kobayshi Maru
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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more evidence that the Europeans should be mandated to take one (1) oval racing course at least once in their junior careers
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
cowards.

new mayor when?
August 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
nothing like the first day of the 23rd grade
August 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
So I guess we've got a concentration camp a couple of hours from here.

not sure what specifically there is to be done about it.

Network, protest, talk rationally to folks about it, talk irrationally to folks about it, organize, vote in every election everywhere

In short - be the change, fucko.
July 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Sternly saying "I will fight you" when my reformed street cat is trying to steal and eat my dinner like she'll understand. All she sees is chicken and she reverts to her feral form.
May 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
firing off the last assignment of the first year of PhD coursework:
a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
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April 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Why, did something happen ?
So many people have a meme from a tv show uploaded and ready to post
April 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Went and watched some racecars yesterday at the 12 Hours of Sebring.
March 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
incredible stuff
We can't deny that we get a certain amount of guilty pleasure from making it onto r/SubredditDrama, Reddit's premier source of meta-level commentary.

Cases like this one are fascinating from both a moderation but also public history perspective...

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March 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
All this talk in design spaces on the internet about "dark academia" design trends.

Meanwhile, in actual academia, I'm drowning in beige, cardboard boxes, and bad airport carpet.
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective
Imagine in the 1920's if you kept hearing from Grover Cleveland's campaign strategist about needing to do what worked for them in 1892
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is violence, Spotify.
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"I don't have a question, but instead a comment"

*ducks*
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The lack of UCF Citronaut hockey hoodies confirms that, regrettably, @homefield.bsky.social ain't know puck. No Florida schools? this is the most successful hockey state over the last ~5 years and yet we have no representation.
SHOP THE RINKSIDE HOODIE 🏒

AVAILABLE FOR 17 SCHOOLS.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm getting my PhD in something called "texts and technology" and this conversation between @pablo.show and @chrislhayes.bsky.social a few moments from this are perhaps the best piece of non-academic media that I could give someone to explain what the field discusses.
I found myself repeatedly underlining the new book from @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

So we met up to discuss spam, SNL, Dominion vs. Fox, the MSM, Blaise Pascal, Rick Pitino, the Cocktail Party Effect, mentions, HammerKing75, Neil Postman, piglets, and a Socrates hot take 👀 youtu.be/N2VvOTAoywU?...
Chris Hayes on Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and His New Book "The Sirens' Call" | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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January 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
...public history folks: y'all good?

many people in the field are obviously directly federally paid, but lots more have their paychecks funded by various grants.

can't imagine the vibes are great in the lunchroom.
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I was just checking to see if the guy ended the war in Ukraine - since it's been more than the 24hrs he said he'd need - and the crazy thing is that he didn't! do you think he lied?
January 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
shutting down media consumption for the rest of the day. we need nothing else.
January 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM