Nick P
@npelster.bsky.social
Education, History, Futures Studies. Every four years: Water Polo expert.
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I like people who make things and try shit. Those are my people.
August 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I like people who make things and try shit. Those are my people.
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Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.
I have no doubt that Laura Loomer would be wearing a Nazi arm band in 1930s Germany.
But that does not make this concentration camp (or if you prefer, gulag) into an extermination camp.
It diminishes what happened at Auschwitz.
But that does not make this concentration camp (or if you prefer, gulag) into an extermination camp.
It diminishes what happened at Auschwitz.
July 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Everyone thinks of 1944 auschwitz and not 1933 Dachau. It didn't start as extermination camps. It's a process to get there and one the Trump administration is starting now.
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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This shit gives me life.
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This shit gives me life.
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A week ago I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which everyone who can should, and which got me thinking again about the essential work of the Freedom Riders. Some music here arising from that history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCN...
"I'm on my journey" from Freedom Ride
YouTube video by Chicago Opera Theater COT
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A week ago I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which everyone who can should, and which got me thinking again about the essential work of the Freedom Riders. Some music here arising from that history:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCN...
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Practice Democracy
January 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Practice Democracy
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Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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"Celebration of ignorance."
December 22, 2024 at 12:10 AM
"Celebration of ignorance."
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Key generational divide here: to young people, there is no distinct thing called "news." There's just stuff on screens.
Did a talk on journalism to undergraduates. Learned very interesting stuff about how youngsters consume and interpret information, and how they judge the news media (trigger alert for any journalists out there whose core belief is that we're important).
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news
December 3, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Key generational divide here: to young people, there is no distinct thing called "news." There's just stuff on screens.
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You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 AM
You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
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important description of "audience gathering" in disinfo- a tactic threat actors use early in the disinfo process. we used to call the use of hashtags for this ops "follow trains" on the other app 👇
Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
November 29, 2024 at 6:29 AM
important description of "audience gathering" in disinfo- a tactic threat actors use early in the disinfo process. we used to call the use of hashtags for this ops "follow trains" on the other app 👇