Poppy Fry
@pfry.bsky.social
Lapsed academic, Historian of Southern Africa in/and the British Empire, currently: MSW at UW Tacoma, lifelong Mariners fan, Toastie, probably watching baseball or British Antiques Roadshow, she/they
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Trump and Musk are so misinformed about South Africa's Expropriation Act that white nationalists in South Africa are correcting them. Read @carolyneholmes.bsky.social in @goodauth.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/misinfo...
What South Africa's new land act really says.
The Trump administration's executive order against South Africa makes unfounded claims about the new land act.
goodauthority.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump and Musk are so misinformed about South Africa's Expropriation Act that white nationalists in South Africa are correcting them. Read @carolyneholmes.bsky.social in @goodauth.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/misinfo...
I need to give @lollardfish.bsky.social credit for his book promotion skillz. I'm going to a book exchange where the genres are self-help and smut, and I still had a moment of :shrug: "maybe Oathbreakers would work?" :shrug:
December 28, 2024 at 1:06 AM
I need to give @lollardfish.bsky.social credit for his book promotion skillz. I'm going to a book exchange where the genres are self-help and smut, and I still had a moment of :shrug: "maybe Oathbreakers would work?" :shrug:
This is so true. Being even a smallish fat in grad school at Harvard was a nightmare, and the contempt I encountered was absolutely grounded in anti-Blackness. I cannot fathom how much worse it is for Black women.
October 27, 2023 at 7:34 PM
This is so true. Being even a smallish fat in grad school at Harvard was a nightmare, and the contempt I encountered was absolutely grounded in anti-Blackness. I cannot fathom how much worse it is for Black women.
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'From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the Huygens Institute and various partners.' 🗃 #earlymodern #c18th
Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records
From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...
nltimes.nl
October 10, 2023 at 2:39 PM
'From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the Huygens Institute and various partners.' 🗃 #earlymodern #c18th
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🎶 austerity is a lie 🎶
"The net result has been a $50 million increase in administrative salaries over that time, as the university’s enrollment fell by 15%."
August 22, 2023 at 6:50 PM
🎶 austerity is a lie 🎶
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One thing about the crisis at WVU that isn't coming up is that this is NOT just an attack on the humanities; t's an attack on SMALL CLASS SIZES. Jazz, high school ed., special ed., landscape architecture, ceramics, languages, creative writing, math PhDs all require small instructor:student ratios.
August 20, 2023 at 6:08 PM
One thing about the crisis at WVU that isn't coming up is that this is NOT just an attack on the humanities; t's an attack on SMALL CLASS SIZES. Jazz, high school ed., special ed., landscape architecture, ceramics, languages, creative writing, math PhDs all require small instructor:student ratios.
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This.
It was never about proving our "relevance." We already were that. But insisting we take that idea on board as a program to our own salvation was a neat distraction.
It was never about proving our "relevance." We already were that. But insisting we take that idea on board as a program to our own salvation was a neat distraction.
The biggest takeaway from the WVU shitshow is that all the public humanities style solutions haven’t addressed the fundamental antagonisms towards our work
August 20, 2023 at 9:35 PM
This.
It was never about proving our "relevance." We already were that. But insisting we take that idea on board as a program to our own salvation was a neat distraction.
It was never about proving our "relevance." We already were that. But insisting we take that idea on board as a program to our own salvation was a neat distraction.
August 17, 2023 at 1:59 AM
I think I might need remedial Bluesky lessons, but I suppose I'll just post some favorite memes. This, for example, is me in pretty much any faculty committee meeting.
August 17, 2023 at 1:52 AM
I think I might need remedial Bluesky lessons, but I suppose I'll just post some favorite memes. This, for example, is me in pretty much any faculty committee meeting.
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reskeet with a meme that lets us all get to know you better
August 17, 2023 at 1:37 AM
reskeet with a meme that lets us all get to know you better
I have to say, she's very good at her job.
August 17, 2023 at 1:38 AM
I have to say, she's very good at her job.