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Harlotry History
@harlotryhistory.bsky.social
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I'm Ava and I'm a trained public historian in Albuquerque trying to turn my opinions into YouTube videos and rekindle some old dreams while managing complex chronic illness 🐑 Hampshire College alum 🐑
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This potato temptation is whispering to me that the New York Times is clearly pulling out all the stops to tempt us to visit its website in spite of, let's say, *inconsistent* editorial standards that are an increasingly widespread cause for concern
Screenshot of a Facebook ad from The New York Times, featuring a photograph of a golden and crispy-topped potato dish fresh out of the oven. The Facebook ad copy says This cheesy, golden and glorious mash-up of potato gratin and Hasselback potatoes has been engineered to give you both creamy potato and singed edge in each bite. The ad includes links to the recipe and a video of the dish being made, as well as a caption to the photo, which proclaims Meet the Potato Dish Everyone Will Fight Over This Thanksgiving.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Remember: fascism is colonialism turned inward.
Image of text in antique-style typefaces on a marbled pink circle, reading Remember: fascism is colonialism turned inward.
September 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
harlotryhistory.bsky.social
POV you're handstitching the hem of a cherry blossom print curtain panel while listening to TrueAnon talking about Pete Hegseth in between tangents, until you are compelled to exclaim, out loud, to absolutely nobody:

"NoooooooOooooo do NOT grok the Megyn Kelly!"
Photo of crisp cotton fabric fabric with a folded hem that has a needle and thread inserted into it in mid-stitch. The fabric is a cherry blossom print on a black ground, with large motifs in red, pink, white, and pale chartreuse, with hints of tan and brown. A straight pin with a shiny red glass is securing the hem at the bottom of the frame, waiting for the progress of the needle.
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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When people don't specify a first name
A pair of pictures of a ribbon-like storm, one of which shows the sky of an alien world, with a person standing on a platform, arms outstretched, awaiting the approaching lightning storm. Overlaid text reads: The view inside of my brain when people don't specify a first name. End description.
September 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Every time someone mentions destroying data as a means of resistance and solidarity, I think about this Dar Williams song, and today, for the first time since I was a teenager, I listened to it again. I sobbed through the whole thing.

It's excruciating how relevant this protest song is right now.
Image description: A background of crumpled dark gray paper, with text at the top that reads: Lyrics from I Had No Right, by Dar Williams The title is followed by the lyrics from the first verse of the song, which is a protest song about anti-Vietnan War activism: God of the poor man, this is how the day began Eight co-defendants, I, Daniel Berrigan Oh, and only a layman's batch of napalm We pulled the draft files out We burned them in the parking lot Better the files than the bodies of children Below the lyrics is a journalistic photograph published by Reuters. The photograph shows a Palestinian woman grieving as she holds the covered body of her little niece in a hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza, on October 17 of 2023. end description.
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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alas
Image shows a watercolor-style loaf of bread with two cut slices, on a woven aqua background, with text that reads: Sometimes, alas, beloved things go stale.
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Sutton reminds me of the cat with the mustache in the first Rescuers movie, especially in the second picture
June 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Can we get some folk songs about the plantation conflagration, pretty please?
Image shows a campfire surrounded by glowing embers and sparks against a dark background. Above the fire is added text which reads Can we get some folk songs about the plantation conflagration, pretty please?
May 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Between the omnipresence of boxing and the developments about the border, I think it's time that we all start asking @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social what else she can prognosticate

How many Outposts are there...? I think I'd better reread #SantaOlivia and #SaintsAstray and check on a few things
Image shows a screenshot of a Facebook post from New Mexico Political Report, which says Senator Martin Heinrich has questions and sharp words about the new federal quote military unquote base along the New Mexico border hashtag nm pol hashtag border security. The linked article heading shows a photo of a white man in a blue suit and an unfortunate striped orange tie, with the article source given as NM dot news, and the article title Senator Heinrich demands answers on land transfer to Army in southern New Mexico The post has 54 reactions, 24 comments, and 4 shares. End description
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I searched for "nottoway plantation" on JSTOR and this was the 4th article in and I just
Image shows a screenshot from the academic research website JSTOR with a search result for a digital resource, which reads Book Chapter Actually, It’s about Ethics in Feminist Criticism: Where White Feminism and #GamerGate Converge Author: DIANNA E. ANDERSON Pages 78 through 91 From: Problematic: How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism, Potomac Books (2018) Quoted excerpt: "...she announced a retreat for feminist singers and writers in Louisiana— at Nottoway Plantation and Resort. The former plantation has been converted into a large resort hotel and, in order to market themselves better, had sanitized the fact that the plantation had once been home to 86 Actually, It’s about Ethics..." End description
May 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The Exile's Lament, from my favorite book in the world, specifically because I found the perfect font #KushielsDart
Image shows a crumpled sheet of parchment with rough edges, with the text of a poem entitled The Exile's Lament written in a blackletter typeface imitating Medieval calligraphy. The poem reads Beneath the golden balm, Settling on the fields Evening steals in calm And farmers count their yields. The bee is in the lavender The honey fills the comb, But here a rain falls never-ending And I am far from home. The poet's name is given as Thelesis de Mornay, and in the lower left corner is the further note of attribution that reads, from Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. In the lower right corner is a small watermark in the name of HarlotryHistory. End description.
April 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Biblically accurate lesbian ✂️

(Does anyone know who made this? I found it wandering free)
Photo of many pairs of scissors arranged as a three-dimensional starburst shape, with around twenty pairs of scissors in various sizes all conjoined at the point. Meme text over the image reads "Biblically accurate lesbian"
January 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I'm trying to escape the clutches of Facebook *and* connect/reconnect with people, so I'll just leave my contact details here, since BlueSky is a nice, reasonable platform that doesn't demote posts for mentioning other social media sites
Graphic shows text on a red watercolor background, which reads Alternative Contact Information for Ava (in this thrilling age of social media decline) BlueSky: @harlotryhistory.bsky.social also: @hampshirenostalgia.bsky.social Discord Account: @harlotryhistory Discord Community: Just A Ro Laren Fan Club Proton: harlotryhistory@protonmail.com Google: harlotryhistory@gmail.com YouTube: @HarlotryHistory Pinterest: BygoneGlamour (I also use a pseudonym in certain circles, and it's an obscure joke about being a cat lady)
January 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Which do you prefer, the ghostly edit or the regular edit? #timetravelingmaybe
A visibly edited photo of a pale woman wearing glasses and a purple silk scarf and layered purple top, standing in front of a blank wall and an old-fashioned candlestick telephone. She has long dark hair with silver streaks and she looks directly at the camera with an ambiguous expression on her face. The photo is edited with a ghostly effect and an antique-style frame Photo of a pale woman wearing glasses and a purple silk scarf and layered purple top, standing in front of a blank wall and an old-fashioned candlestick telephone. She has long dark hair with silver streaks and she looks directly at the camera with an ambiguous expression on her face. The photo is minimally edited.
January 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Tbh I think Artemisia Gentileschi would completely be completely on board with this usage of her work
Modified image of a 17th century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith Slaying Holofernes (painted 1614–1620, now in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi I Florence), with added speech bubbles that read "your body" and "my choice." For more information on the painting depicted and its context, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi?wprov=sfla1
November 24, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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#TDOR
Text reads: "Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living." #TDOR. Artist's watermark reads: THEFOXFISHER
November 21, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Those transcendentalists and their dangerous ideas~
post from r/Teachers with the subject "Had a parent get upset over a "trans" field trip" tagged humor. "I am an English teacher and my colleagues and I are planning on bringing our 11th grade students on a field trip later this year. Today another English teacher got an angry email from a parent saying that they could not believe we were bringing our students on a field trip where they would "learn about being trans." The field trip they were talking about? We are a New England based high school currently teaching about Henry David Thoreau. We are planning on taking our students to Walden Pond to learn about his writing. He was a transcendentalist. This parent heard a word that had "trans" in it and freaked out. Tagged humor because if I don't laugh I'll cry!"
November 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Inceldom is a mindset that is, I assure you, not cured by access to a woman's body. Trust me, I tried.
Post from @ginnyhogan_ that says "I will not accept blame for incel culture. I've had sex with an enormous number of undesirable men. I did my part. What about you?"
November 19, 2024 at 10:19 PM