Maggie DePond
@maggiedphd.bsky.social
U.S. historian, copy editor, museum professional, and reality tv addict. Trying to find time to finish my manuscript. All rants are my own.
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Just took a relationship test, and apparently my type is a quaint independent bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Just took a relationship test, and apparently my type is a quaint independent bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
I would just be delighted that someone read my dissertation
poor fragile Dan Patrick, read this article to see how easily he is rattled.
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/23/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/23/t...
Dan Patrick seeks Alamo Trust’s CEO’s exit over dissertation
The lieutenant governor has insisted that the Alamo’s story remain focused on the 1836 battle over broader narratives addressing Indigenous people and slavery.
www.texastribune.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I would just be delighted that someone read my dissertation
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Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children
Someone went into a generative AI app and asked for Nazi propaganda but make it American.
Through Project Firewall, we’re rebuilding our workforce and ensuring American Jobs go to AMERICANS FIRST!
October 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Someone went into a generative AI app and asked for Nazi propaganda but make it American.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.
October 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.
Fire destroyed the census
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Application sent by post
Application sent by post
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
New library catalogue website.
New library catalogue website.
October 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fire destroyed the census
Learned a new word today: trepanation.
An outdated procedure of removing a piece of bone from the skull.
An outdated procedure of removing a piece of bone from the skull.
September 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Learned a new word today: trepanation.
An outdated procedure of removing a piece of bone from the skull.
An outdated procedure of removing a piece of bone from the skull.
I don’t even have that much published material but it’s all in there. Thieves.
Yep, they’ve stolen a bunch of my books, articles and reviews. Pay UP.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and a Washington Post article, to train its AI with which it makes billions. Pay UP.
March 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I don’t even have that much published material but it’s all in there. Thieves.
Reason 5,437 to hate “AI”
A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad
March 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reason 5,437 to hate “AI”
With Pope Francis’s letter to US bishops I can safely say ICE is against my religion.
February 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With Pope Francis’s letter to US bishops I can safely say ICE is against my religion.
Gandalf: “I have no memory of this place”
Mom in law: “we must be the same age”
Mom in law: “we must be the same age”
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Gandalf: “I have no memory of this place”
Mom in law: “we must be the same age”
Mom in law: “we must be the same age”
We’re watching Lord of the Rings with my mother in law. She’s never seen it before, had zero reference points. She’s already in love with “the ranger.” lol.
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We’re watching Lord of the Rings with my mother in law. She’s never seen it before, had zero reference points. She’s already in love with “the ranger.” lol.
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How it feels right now every time I close any social media app.
(Via Reddit: Archangel Michael locking the entrance to the Hell-mouth, from the Winchester Psalter, Cotton MS Nero C IV, f. 39r, 12th century)
(Via Reddit: Archangel Michael locking the entrance to the Hell-mouth, from the Winchester Psalter, Cotton MS Nero C IV, f. 39r, 12th century)
February 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
How it feels right now every time I close any social media app.
(Via Reddit: Archangel Michael locking the entrance to the Hell-mouth, from the Winchester Psalter, Cotton MS Nero C IV, f. 39r, 12th century)
(Via Reddit: Archangel Michael locking the entrance to the Hell-mouth, from the Winchester Psalter, Cotton MS Nero C IV, f. 39r, 12th century)
How I feel about this EO:
January 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
How I feel about this EO:
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TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
Again…
TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
Again…
TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
January 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
Again…
TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
Again…
TRUMP LOST. WE WON.
Cathay Williams, enlisted as William Cathay, was the first, and only known, female Buffalo Soldier.
She was denied military disability, not because she was a woman, but because her sickness was not military related.
No one cared she was a woman dressed as a man. No one cared!
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She was denied military disability, not because she was a woman, but because her sickness was not military related.
No one cared she was a woman dressed as a man. No one cared!
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Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cathay Williams, enlisted as William Cathay, was the first, and only known, female Buffalo Soldier.
She was denied military disability, not because she was a woman, but because her sickness was not military related.
No one cared she was a woman dressed as a man. No one cared!
wapo.st/3CtXQVB
She was denied military disability, not because she was a woman, but because her sickness was not military related.
No one cared she was a woman dressed as a man. No one cared!
wapo.st/3CtXQVB
This is why I have job security
Wow, it’s really been a rough few years for the university
January 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is why I have job security
“History is often viewed as facts, but sometimes interpretation is necessary to make sense of it.”
Sometimes? History doesn't mean anything without interpretation.
Sometimes? History doesn't mean anything without interpretation.
January 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“History is often viewed as facts, but sometimes interpretation is necessary to make sense of it.”
Sometimes? History doesn't mean anything without interpretation.
Sometimes? History doesn't mean anything without interpretation.
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Numquam putavi faciem meam pardis vesci.
January 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Numquam putavi faciem meam pardis vesci.
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
I’m being forced to watch the inauguration and be polite about it
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’m being forced to watch the inauguration and be polite about it