Cindy Thames
@miss-grimke.bsky.social
History nerd, currently dwelling in 18th century South Carolina, author of The Radical Printer (https://radicalprinter.substack.com/p/the-radical-printer), aspiring bluegrass mandolin player and many other things.
Can't keep people from waiting till Turkey time
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Can't keep people from waiting till Turkey time
Release the epstein files
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Release the epstein files
This brightens things up
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This brightens things up
Some people don't like talking about kidnapped Africans, the forced immigrants and their descendents who built our country. One of the milder ways to punish a runaway
August 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Some people don't like talking about kidnapped Africans, the forced immigrants and their descendents who built our country. One of the milder ways to punish a runaway
The company you keep
June 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The company you keep
Paperless office (what the wind did)
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Paperless office (what the wind did)
May 29, 1775, a 2000-word front page call to arms appeared the South-Carolina Gazette, a direct response to the casualties at Lexington and Concord🗃️ #skystrorians
May 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
May 29, 1775, a 2000-word front page call to arms appeared the South-Carolina Gazette, a direct response to the casualties at Lexington and Concord🗃️ #skystrorians
Article 29 of the Magna Carta:
“The body of a free man is not to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way ruined, nor is the king to go against him or send forcibly against him, except by judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
“The body of a free man is not to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way ruined, nor is the king to go against him or send forcibly against him, except by judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
May 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Article 29 of the Magna Carta:
“The body of a free man is not to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way ruined, nor is the king to go against him or send forcibly against him, except by judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
“The body of a free man is not to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way ruined, nor is the king to go against him or send forcibly against him, except by judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
I can't stand it. I want to <3 everything here from the Pitchbot to the Owls and Eels to all the history 🗃️
February 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I can't stand it. I want to <3 everything here from the Pitchbot to the Owls and Eels to all the history 🗃️
Anything Pym or Pymish
February 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Anything Pym or Pymish
in 1775 the state was a vulnerable woman and her constituents had to man up 🗃️
November 18, 2024 at 8:14 PM
in 1775 the state was a vulnerable woman and her constituents had to man up 🗃️
And now for a closer look
August 26, 2024 at 1:45 AM
And now for a closer look
Sorry. I had to pawn it. Times were lean. Either that or I had to move to New York in a Fiat 850 spider. It didn't make the cut. The car was green. The engine was in the back. I miss it, too.
February 7, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Sorry. I had to pawn it. Times were lean. Either that or I had to move to New York in a Fiat 850 spider. It didn't make the cut. The car was green. The engine was in the back. I miss it, too.
For a blog post about South Carolina and Massachusetts being the last hold-outs for nonimportation I asked Bing to make an image of the two holding hands. The flags are weirdly wrong but it's pretty cute. I need a Prompt Engineer.
January 26, 2024 at 9:31 PM
For a blog post about South Carolina and Massachusetts being the last hold-outs for nonimportation I asked Bing to make an image of the two holding hands. The flags are weirdly wrong but it's pretty cute. I need a Prompt Engineer.
The economics of human trafficking #c18th: When small planters’ debt threatened to leave their bankers empty handed, Britain “cut off for a season the importation of slaves. When this form of capital was excluded from the province, even the poor planters where able to clear themselves of debt.”
November 9, 2023 at 4:59 PM
The economics of human trafficking #c18th: When small planters’ debt threatened to leave their bankers empty handed, Britain “cut off for a season the importation of slaves. When this form of capital was excluded from the province, even the poor planters where able to clear themselves of debt.”
I'm introducing myself with this provocative image and thanking @gwendolynium.bsky.social for the invitation to this amusing and informative place.
November 5, 2023 at 4:33 PM
I'm introducing myself with this provocative image and thanking @gwendolynium.bsky.social for the invitation to this amusing and informative place.
When Nose Twisting was a thing:
In 1767 Henry Laurens twisted the nose of a customs official on a Charleston street. Two years later a customs official grabbed for the nose of James Otis in a Boston coffee house, but missed and beat him with a cane instead. The twister looking all innocent:
In 1767 Henry Laurens twisted the nose of a customs official on a Charleston street. Two years later a customs official grabbed for the nose of James Otis in a Boston coffee house, but missed and beat him with a cane instead. The twister looking all innocent:
November 2, 2023 at 5:03 PM
When Nose Twisting was a thing:
In 1767 Henry Laurens twisted the nose of a customs official on a Charleston street. Two years later a customs official grabbed for the nose of James Otis in a Boston coffee house, but missed and beat him with a cane instead. The twister looking all innocent:
In 1767 Henry Laurens twisted the nose of a customs official on a Charleston street. Two years later a customs official grabbed for the nose of James Otis in a Boston coffee house, but missed and beat him with a cane instead. The twister looking all innocent: