Helenaluna
@helenaluna.bsky.social
Reader, writer, historian, interested in smart takes and political gossip. Labor and land.
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In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal...
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
The RESISTORS: Teen Hackers Who Saw and Lived the Future of Computing
In the 1960s, before PCs and the Internet were a thing, the RESISTORS were O.G. computer hackers, learning to code on old mainframes in a New Jersey barn.
spectrum.ieee.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal...
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
(An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum)
spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack...
#HistSci #computing #History 🗃️
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#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK.
They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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December 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK.
They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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America’s unions celebrate the long-awaited release of SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Welcome home, brother.
Welcome home, brother.
Federal judge orders release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention — General President Coleman responds - SMART Union
General President Coleman responded to a federal judge ordering Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from immigration detention.
www.smart-union.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
America’s unions celebrate the long-awaited release of SMART union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Welcome home, brother.
Welcome home, brother.
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Been watching a few quality TNG episodes with my kids recently, and it makes me so happy to be able to do that as they get older. Many ST episodes are fun and smart but more importantly have at their core thoughtful people doing their best, working together, protecting each other. It's just great.
Rewatched some Star Trek tonight.
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Been watching a few quality TNG episodes with my kids recently, and it makes me so happy to be able to do that as they get older. Many ST episodes are fun and smart but more importantly have at their core thoughtful people doing their best, working together, protecting each other. It's just great.
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The women who revolutionized libraries in the midst of the Great War 🗃️📚
en.ara.cat/culture/the-...
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The women who revolutionized libraries in the midst of the Great War
American writer Janet Skeslien Charles recounts the history of the creation of the first libraries for children
en.ara.cat
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The women who revolutionized libraries in the midst of the Great War 🗃️📚
en.ara.cat/culture/the-...
en.ara.cat/culture/the-...
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#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1978, the Milkwaukee Does and the Chicago Hustle play the first Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) game.
The WBL lasted for three years, and was the first professional women's basketball league in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
The WBL lasted for three years, and was the first professional women's basketball league in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1978, the Milkwaukee Does and the Chicago Hustle play the first Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) game.
The WBL lasted for three years, and was the first professional women's basketball league in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
The WBL lasted for three years, and was the first professional women's basketball league in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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New from me: I reviewed Daniel Clark's "Listening to Workers" for @irsh-iisg.bsky.social. 🗃️
Daniel J. Clark, Listening to Workers. Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2024. 230 pp....
Daniel J. Clark, Listening to Workers. Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2024. 230 pp....
www.cambridge.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New from me: I reviewed Daniel Clark's "Listening to Workers" for @irsh-iisg.bsky.social. 🗃️
The Surprisingly Convincing Case Against Cars newrepublic.com/article/2019... via @newrepublic.com
The Surprisingly Convincing Case Against Cars
Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Surprisingly Convincing Case Against Cars newrepublic.com/article/2019... via @newrepublic.com
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️
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#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️
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December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️
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#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory 🗃️
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #painting
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.
Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.
Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #painting
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.
Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Miró painted the moon and the stars as a coping mechanism to escape from the cruelty and devastation of World War II into the comfort of a fantasy world.
Joan Miró “Nightingale’s Song & Morning Rain” (1940) • More in ALT
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Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape.
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
By @gingerthompson.bsky.social, with research by Doris Burke
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Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
clioreframed.hcommons.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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This is well worth reading 👇
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow #skystorians 🗃️
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow #skystorians 🗃️
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is well worth reading 👇
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow #skystorians 🗃️
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
A Radical New Approach to Human History
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow #skystorians 🗃️
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...