Karen Dick
@krdick.bsky.social
(she/her) 🇨🇦 History teacher, cat lover, avid reader.
#hamont (but actually Dundas)
#hamont (but actually Dundas)
Not sure if this is still the case, but when Netflix had "Five Came Back" at first, they also had (nearly?) all of the films mentioned in the documentary. Extraordinary collection.
Have you seen “Five Came Back”? It’s a documentary about 5 Hollywood directors who went to war and the films they made during/after.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Not sure if this is still the case, but when Netflix had "Five Came Back" at first, they also had (nearly?) all of the films mentioned in the documentary. Extraordinary collection.
All non-fiction books should have decent margins. 3/4 of an inch is not sufficient. I bought a PHYSICAL book. I need room for my marginalia. #ShoutingIntoTheVoid
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
All non-fiction books should have decent margins. 3/4 of an inch is not sufficient. I bought a PHYSICAL book. I need room for my marginalia. #ShoutingIntoTheVoid
LOVE THIS! I show this film to my genocide studies class when we’re talking about dehumanization. It sticks with them and it comes up in conversation all semester.
Oskar Schlemmer ~ Wire Figure and Abstract Figure from the Triadic Ballet, c.1924
#Bauhaus #Constructivism #Cubism
#Bauhaus #Constructivism #Cubism
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
LOVE THIS! I show this film to my genocide studies class when we’re talking about dehumanization. It sticks with them and it comes up in conversation all semester.
And this is why I gave up driving and now take the bus.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
And this is why I gave up driving and now take the bus.
Putting together our Remembrance Day Assembly. I’ve done it for 27 years and this is my last one.
Writing the script, it feels like a three hankie event.
Writing the script, it feels like a three hankie event.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Putting together our Remembrance Day Assembly. I’ve done it for 27 years and this is my last one.
Writing the script, it feels like a three hankie event.
Writing the script, it feels like a three hankie event.
Today’s lessons: the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1930s and then the long term causes of the French Revolution. I was happier teaching history that was properly in the past instead of this current events nightmare. #HistoryTeacherProblems
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Today’s lessons: the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1930s and then the long term causes of the French Revolution. I was happier teaching history that was properly in the past instead of this current events nightmare. #HistoryTeacherProblems
Could this be a reverse Reichstag fire moment? The destruction of a national treasure galvanizes the people against the State rather than the other way around?
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Could this be a reverse Reichstag fire moment? The destruction of a national treasure galvanizes the people against the State rather than the other way around?
Teaching the American War of Independence today: so, the Quartering Act….. you’re gonna want to remember that.
I've been living in interesting times (derogatory) for so long, I forgot what normal is like.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Teaching the American War of Independence today: so, the Quartering Act….. you’re gonna want to remember that.
I said to my grade 12 history class AGAIN today: I was much happier teaching history than living through it.
I've been living in interesting times (derogatory) for so long, I forgot what normal is like.
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I said to my grade 12 history class AGAIN today: I was much happier teaching history than living through it.
Tinned ham mixed with mayo* and lots of diced dill pickles spread thick on toast.
* definitely not a recommended amount of mayo. So. Much. Mayo.
* definitely not a recommended amount of mayo. So. Much. Mayo.
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Tinned ham mixed with mayo* and lots of diced dill pickles spread thick on toast.
* definitely not a recommended amount of mayo. So. Much. Mayo.
* definitely not a recommended amount of mayo. So. Much. Mayo.
I always recommend this to my students after we finish WWII. It was my high school history teacher, dear Mr. VanDuzer, who recommended it to me.
The Best Years of Our Lives is really a miracle of a movie for how beautifully it speaks to the moment in which it was made while keeping one eye open for how it can serve as a kind of historical record. It's so hard to tell stories directly about the immediate present, but it manages it.
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I always recommend this to my students after we finish WWII. It was my high school history teacher, dear Mr. VanDuzer, who recommended it to me.
October 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”.
Check out this video from this search, gershwin blue rhapsody share.google/yfjejgvosQJI...
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Also the best place to wear your favourite fox hat.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Also the best place to wear your favourite fox hat.
youtu.be/kb0kiiB3O-o?...
youtu.be/kb0kiiB3O-o?...
Oh yeah! He did a whole series called *Engineering an Empire*. It’s great! Use it in my history classes. (youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
September 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Oh yeah! He did a whole series called *Engineering an Empire*. It’s great! Use it in my history classes. (youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
But the indescribable wonder at finding a tiny pile of sand at the base of your book rest that has trickled out of the binding of a 17th century naval Captain’s log book. The slow closeup on the tears in her eyes.
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
August 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
But the indescribable wonder at finding a tiny pile of sand at the base of your book rest that has trickled out of the binding of a 17th century naval Captain’s log book. The slow closeup on the tears in her eyes.
“Someone forgot to bring a sweater”. I would binge this until the prompt came up to ask if I was still there. 🤣
NGL I'd watch this reality show. "The Reading Room," in which historians & fellow travelers go thru boxes in silence until someone deep sighs or LOLs. The newbie who can't get down with the rules. Someone forgot to bring a sweater. Elaborate camera tripod set-ups. Super-nerdy interview scene snark 👀
No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.
August 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“Someone forgot to bring a sweater”. I would binge this until the prompt came up to ask if I was still there. 🤣
And this is the main reason why I gave up driving in April. No regrets.
I also have thoughts about pickup truck drivers -- specifically pickup truck drivers who use their vehicles to intimidate others -- but right now it's mostly just swearing.
July 31, 2025 at 2:26 AM
And this is the main reason why I gave up driving in April. No regrets.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
July 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We had that in my home town of Dundas Ontario!
June 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We had that in my home town of Dundas Ontario!
Took a bus-load of students to the ROM today. Phones off and away and I am an excellent role model. I appear to have missed quite a bit. 😆
June 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Took a bus-load of students to the ROM today. Phones off and away and I am an excellent role model. I appear to have missed quite a bit. 😆