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John Craig Hammond
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Associate Professor of History, Penn State
Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/
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I'm someone who has had a very stormy/complicated (and mostly bad) relationship with Catholicism in my life, but I dunno, reading this just reminding me of its good parts, and also shamed me into signing up for a shift driving for the local food bank. May it also shame you, person reading this lol
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
johncraighammond.bsky.social
This is some damn good reporting
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 11d
Back for Day 2 of Sandwich Guy’s trial. In government opening statement: “This case is about the fact that you can’t go around throwing stuff at people when you’re mad.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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remodeling my bathroom like a king
A medieval latrine in the guardhouse at Caerphilly Castle, Wales. A stone room with a thin, glassless window. The toilet consists of a board with a large round hole positioned on a small stone bench built into the wall.
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The Versailles-ification of the United States
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. (They all suck, anyway)
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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We will never stop speaking out. Transphobia is white supremacist brain rot and the sooner we can shame these people out of polite society the better.
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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There is some masterful writing in this complaint.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"We owe allegiance to no crown," John Woodside, c. 1814

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Image of the painting, we owe no allegiance to no crown, by John Woodside, c. 1814. In the foreground, an American sailor holds the US flag. Lady Liberty hovers over him holding a laurel wreath in one hand, and a hole with a liberty cap in the other. In the background is a sailing ship.
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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OpenAI 2024: We're going to cure cancer with AGI.

OpenAI 2025: Please buy our sex slave that may drive you insane.
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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These beauties arrived last night as author stock. Pub date is Nov 4 and I can’t wait to share these stories and this sprawling history…
A stack of new hardcovers of Richard Bell’s new book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World.
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I’m fine being on their side
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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bettyhumpter25.bsky.social
They were TERRIBLE
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Oct 2
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt https://theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-down-street-with-cup-of-coffee-1819574012/
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule
Article clipped from The Montreal Star * Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders: * BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطا party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean." "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspape Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per- mit ourselves to be ridiculed.” The five actors were W Or- ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as. "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Loving me some Sunday morning woke Bill Kristol.
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Sep 14
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This one is for FBI Director Kash Patel.
"Keep an eye on
There in Washington
Watch the watchingmen
Watching Washington
Feel for you
Feel for me
Feel for the light that liberates the day!"
-fIREHOSE, Honey Please
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fIREHOSE - Honey, Please
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September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
The big reason I'm trying to hammer "civil conflict/political violence" here is because I've spent a substantial chunk of the last five years looking at mass graves. I want a society where people aren't plotting to kill their neighbors and throw them into one. That's where all this can lead.
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
johncraighammond.bsky.social
Unless your last name is Ramone, you should never use the term "blitz."
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Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Official Music Video)
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September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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TIme to break up the Union and form a new one.
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
johncraighammond.bsky.social
So is Trump gearing up the Texas National Guard for Columbus Day celebrations in Philly, Newark, NYC, and Providence? I hear Furio was spotted at the Bing.
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Columbus Day - The Sopranos HD
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September 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This always kills it in Lecture 1,
History (as an academic discipline) vs. Heritage
"The Sopranos," "Christopher," Season 4.
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August 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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He might not be the hero (sandwich) we deserve, but he's the hero (sandwich) we need.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 13
The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.

"I did it. I threw the sandwich," he said while he was being processed.
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM