dr.kwittman
@kwittman.bsky.social
Community eng.+sustainability pro & historian. Knitter, runner, & adoptee rights activist. Cubs fan & cat mom. MS-born, Midwesterner at heart. Étudiante 🇫🇷.
Interests: history of integration @ community colleges.
she/her/dr.
Interests: history of integration @ community colleges.
she/her/dr.
Do you have favorite places in York, or Yorkshire more broadly? Hit me up, folks!
I’m here for quiet pubs, excellent cask ale, museums, books, history, fiber arts, long, moderately technical rambles, arts, and music…
#travel #yorkshire #york #england #history #visityork
I’m here for quiet pubs, excellent cask ale, museums, books, history, fiber arts, long, moderately technical rambles, arts, and music…
#travel #yorkshire #york #england #history #visityork
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Do you have favorite places in York, or Yorkshire more broadly? Hit me up, folks!
I’m here for quiet pubs, excellent cask ale, museums, books, history, fiber arts, long, moderately technical rambles, arts, and music…
#travel #yorkshire #york #england #history #visityork
I’m here for quiet pubs, excellent cask ale, museums, books, history, fiber arts, long, moderately technical rambles, arts, and music…
#travel #yorkshire #york #england #history #visityork
“They should move to a blue state!”
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I am so terribly exhausted by THIS FUCKING TAKE. People trot it out any time a Republican-led state does something harmful to their citizens, as a barrier to further discussion - Pilate washing his hands of needing to care any further about Those People.
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I am so terribly exhausted by THIS FUCKING TAKE. People trot it out any time a Republican-led state does something harmful to their citizens, as a barrier to further discussion - Pilate washing his hands of needing to care any further about Those People.
July 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“They should move to a blue state!”
🧵
I am so terribly exhausted by THIS FUCKING TAKE. People trot it out any time a Republican-led state does something harmful to their citizens, as a barrier to further discussion - Pilate washing his hands of needing to care any further about Those People.
🧵
I am so terribly exhausted by THIS FUCKING TAKE. People trot it out any time a Republican-led state does something harmful to their citizens, as a barrier to further discussion - Pilate washing his hands of needing to care any further about Those People.
Overjoyed to cancel my Paramount+ subscription today and note in the reason that capitulation to fascism will never be rewarded with my paycheck. I also noted for them that my monthly donation to my local PBS affiliate would increase accordingly.
July 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Overjoyed to cancel my Paramount+ subscription today and note in the reason that capitulation to fascism will never be rewarded with my paycheck. I also noted for them that my monthly donation to my local PBS affiliate would increase accordingly.
Tonight’s dinner: golden fried tofu and bok choy stir fry, with chicken mini wontons instead of rice or noodles. Cooking lower carb for the diabetic foodie in my house has led to some unorthodox but delicious adjustments.
July 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Tonight’s dinner: golden fried tofu and bok choy stir fry, with chicken mini wontons instead of rice or noodles. Cooking lower carb for the diabetic foodie in my house has led to some unorthodox but delicious adjustments.
Every day is #caturday here at Chez kwittman, especially the day after I slipped with wet feet when headed into the walk-out basement and fell, hard, down the stairs. Dr. Tibby is here to help.
July 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Every day is #caturday here at Chez kwittman, especially the day after I slipped with wet feet when headed into the walk-out basement and fell, hard, down the stairs. Dr. Tibby is here to help.
Knitting and my sweet Tibby today. A good day to be quiet and creative.
July 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Knitting and my sweet Tibby today. A good day to be quiet and creative.
Oooh. May I recommend a *delightful* book?
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Oooh. May I recommend a *delightful* book?
Have had an eye-wateringly bad headache for the past several hours, but Nurse Tibby is helping. Sweetest boy.
June 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Have had an eye-wateringly bad headache for the past several hours, but Nurse Tibby is helping. Sweetest boy.
But, of course, this is an overstatement of disregard by the media in 2003. Protests were widely reported, even in communities that avidly supported the Bush II admin.
June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
But, of course, this is an overstatement of disregard by the media in 2003. Protests were widely reported, even in communities that avidly supported the Bush II admin.
Yesterday was the big day! 23 years, 5 states, and two degrees after I started, I went back and finished the first graduate degree I began, an MA in history. My Pitt State supports were brilliant, and I had a former student who joined me in the audience. #oagaag #history #histsky
May 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
23 years ago, I started an MA. I married a fellow grad student and it didn’t seem reasonable for us to be a two-historian faculty. In 2020, a semester after defending my dissertation, I started classes again with the plan of finally finishing what I’d started, and today, I successfully defended. 1/2
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
23 years ago, I started an MA. I married a fellow grad student and it didn’t seem reasonable for us to be a two-historian faculty. In 2020, a semester after defending my dissertation, I started classes again with the plan of finally finishing what I’d started, and today, I successfully defended. 1/2
There’s no hierarchy in handcraft. I’ve long contemplated improving my crochet because there are so many beautiful crochet patterns widely available - including for jumpers and socks - and so many brilliant things can be crocheted more quickly than knit. Both can be beautiful. Both can be lovely.
January 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There’s no hierarchy in handcraft. I’ve long contemplated improving my crochet because there are so many beautiful crochet patterns widely available - including for jumpers and socks - and so many brilliant things can be crocheted more quickly than knit. Both can be beautiful. Both can be lovely.
Tibby says zzzzzz to all.
January 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Tibby says zzzzzz to all.
New Year, New Art. A Silphium laciniatum for me today.
January 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
New Year, New Art. A Silphium laciniatum for me today.
Last dinner photo of 2024: chicken and basil sausage with haricots verts, mushrooms, and roasted red peppers over cheese tortellini with a mustard and dill sauce. Brilliant with a Unibroue Blanche de Chambly.
December 31, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Last dinner photo of 2024: chicken and basil sausage with haricots verts, mushrooms, and roasted red peppers over cheese tortellini with a mustard and dill sauce. Brilliant with a Unibroue Blanche de Chambly.
I’m a month behind in getting this done, but listening to some Holst while lighting a Christmas pudding is a favorite, new to me, tradition.
December 29, 2024 at 1:11 AM
I’m a month behind in getting this done, but listening to some Holst while lighting a Christmas pudding is a favorite, new to me, tradition.
Banner headline wisdom from my local daily newspaper, growing up. (The rest of it not so much, but my eye snagged on the big one.)
December 20, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Banner headline wisdom from my local daily newspaper, growing up. (The rest of it not so much, but my eye snagged on the big one.)
I… guess Tibby has decided my writing for the day is done? 1743 words, so I’m not grumpy about it.
December 1, 2024 at 9:52 PM
I… guess Tibby has decided my writing for the day is done? 1743 words, so I’m not grumpy about it.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
December 1, 2024 at 10:24 AM
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
“Biden Laden”? And the typo remains posted for six+ hours, too? Can’t say I’d tip my hat to that, either.
November 21, 2024 at 6:56 AM
“Biden Laden”? And the typo remains posted for six+ hours, too? Can’t say I’d tip my hat to that, either.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy:
I love this picture. I have long imagined what Bernice Robinson (closest to us on R) has said to make Septima Clark (black dress, C) smile. Or Helstein and Horton, on L, maybe told a joke? Rosa Parks’ smile prompts mine.
From 1957, at Highlander.
I love this picture. I have long imagined what Bernice Robinson (closest to us on R) has said to make Septima Clark (black dress, C) smile. Or Helstein and Horton, on L, maybe told a joke? Rosa Parks’ smile prompts mine.
From 1957, at Highlander.
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy:
I love this picture. I have long imagined what Bernice Robinson (closest to us on R) has said to make Septima Clark (black dress, C) smile. Or Helstein and Horton, on L, maybe told a joke? Rosa Parks’ smile prompts mine.
From 1957, at Highlander.
I love this picture. I have long imagined what Bernice Robinson (closest to us on R) has said to make Septima Clark (black dress, C) smile. Or Helstein and Horton, on L, maybe told a joke? Rosa Parks’ smile prompts mine.
From 1957, at Highlander.
Dobby is very interested in any snacks you have, while Tibby just says shhhhhh human it will be okay.
November 14, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Dobby is very interested in any snacks you have, while Tibby just says shhhhhh human it will be okay.