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Stu F.
@sdfstu.bsky.social
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The words I thought I brought I left behind.

Long suffering* Philly sports fan. Historian, REEES.
(*once again, after a bit of a reprieve)
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Oh if I may, thinking this might go old school
In an old black and white photo Chuck Bednarik (#60) celebrates over the prone body of Frank Gifford, whom he has just knocked out with a vicious hit. The ref and other players are to their ref, including #44 of the Giants who stares on a bit horrified.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"the sandwich 'looks bent and out of shape'"
my god: bsky.app/profile/moll...
Homer Simpson sitting on the couch eating the multi-foot hoagie in S4E13 Selma's choice which Marge points and looks at it skeptically/anxiously.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Photo of Ted Cruz at an Astros Jersey wearing ng some weird combo of an orange (maybe Astros) button down shirt and a black vest jacket thing, waving to fans even though they were booing him
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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I'm sure Jonathan Greenblatt is all over this, since combatting the normalization of anti-semitism is ADL's core mission.
No? You say his only reaction of any kind is to thank the f'cking National Review for showing basic f'cking decency, and he himself stopped mentioning Fuentes 2½ years ago?
The image is a screenshot of a xtwitter search of tweets from Greenblatt's account mentioning Fuentes. While he used to reference him semi-regularly, his last post doing so was on March 7, 2023.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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My sign from two weeks ago:
Me holding my sign up in there against partly cloudy blue skies with trees with fall leaves in the background. The sign (which is admittedly not high quality production, written in red and black sharpie on bent brown cardboard) reads: Hey STEPHEN, my BUBBE are from beyond the grave to say that trying to be a Jewish white supremacist is a SHONDA … and also really f'ing STUPID [The words in all caps here are in red and underlined on the sign]
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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When you're far too proud of QT'ing one of your own very stupid tweets:
A black and white photo of Brezhnev holding a poster board painting of himself wearing the same suit and three stars over his left breast pocket. The expression on his face could be proud, but it also could be surprised (they can do that now?), or simply vacant.
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Turns out it was these guys, and we do, in fact, live in the blurst of times. They are not, in fact, stupid monkeys, just justifiably angry and highly contagious ones!
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Have this all ready to go, told my publisher we can let it rip as early as the year 2200:
A screenshot of the top half of the first page of François Furet's famous essay entitled “The French Revolution is over,” first published in English translation in 1981, which asserted that after almost 200 years the bitter emotional investment and partisanship concerning 1789 had at last dissipated enough to allow for objective analysis. In the screenshot the words French Revolution have been crossed out and “2016 Democrats Primary” put instead. The rest of the text,with the first 1 ½ paragraphs showing, has not been altered, however. Full text of screenshot: Part I The French Revolution is over 2016 Democratic Primary I Historians engaged in the study of the Merovingian Kings or the Hundred Years War are not asked at every turn to present their research permits. So long as they can give proof of having learned the techniques of the trade, society and the profession assume that they possess the virtues of patience and objectivity. The discussion of their findings is a matter for scholars and scholarship only. The historian of the French Revolution, on the other hand, must produce more than proof of competence. He must show his colours. He must state from the outcot where he comes from what he thinks and
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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In Milosz's Captive Mind those who take the Pill of Murti-Bing are initially relieved of their doubts and experience harmony, but they eventually become schizophrenic due to their inability to erase their old selves completely.
Screenshot from near the conclusion of “The Pill of Murti-Bing,” the first chapter of Czeslaw Milosz's _Captive Mind_. It reads: "It is an aura of strength and unhappiness, of internal paralysis and external mobility. Whatever we may call it, this much is certain: if Hell should guarantee its lodgers magnificent quarters, beautiful clothes, the tastiest food, and all possible amusements, but condemn them to breathe in this aura forever, that would be punishment enough."
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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May have to ban these throughout the Delaware Valley for a while
It's a photo of sesame seed bagels, a reference to the horrifying story of how Sixers rookie Zhaire Smith almost died of a severe sesame allergy in 2018, just one of several stories of insanely weird things happening to Sixers 1st rounders/rookies
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Meme with Garth Marenghi (played by Matthew Holness) saying “I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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It's on here and it's pretty solid even if putting it together with AI seems a bit odd (yes I get what the link they have going here but it still feels like a strange juxtaposition)

www.grahamforsenate.com/platform
Keep government out of our private lives; defend the right to choose • Government intrusion and surveillance into every aspect of our lives should concern every American. The surveillance state has gone too far, and I will work to restore safeguards and due process. • This extends to the government's regulation of some of the most private and personal decisions a person can make: whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. I support a strong federal guarantee of the right to choose. • In addition, I'll support legislation to restrict corporations' use of Al to surveil, track, and subject Americans to predatory pricing practices.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Wait no if I'm doing branding than of course gotta be this:
The No Kings logo superimposed over the top of Vladimir Makovsky's painting “Evening Party” (started 1875, finished 1897), which is also the image used on the cover of my recently published book.
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Going to stay on brand tomorrow and have a no kings sign depicting just, like, Figner & Perovskaia.

Will answer any questions from the mostly older folks who (impressively) go to protests around here solicitously but in my blandest nerd history teacher manner.
Sofia Perovskaia leading member of the “People's Will” who helped organize the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 and was executed shortly thereafter. Vera Figner, another leading figure in the “People's Will” also involved in the assassination. After initially evading arrest, she spent more than 20 years in prison, a significant portion of it in solitary confinement.
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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obligatory …
Normal calm @normal_now Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school 4:49 PM • 2/26/19 - Twitter for Android
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Think John must have an old map, this one that they just provided on Air Force One clearly shows that Qatar and Iran obviously share a land border.
The map is the same one in the post I am quoting of the region that clearly shows that the Persian Gulf separates the Arabian Peninsula where Qatar is located from Iran. But I have doctored by drawing black lines into the Gulf extending both countries like Trump did way back when with the hurricane forecast with a sharpie.
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I mean c'mon
Screenshot of wikipedia article: History [edit] Louis Zabar, born Mordko Leib Zabarka, (1901-1950) came to the United States through Canada from Ukraine, Soviet Union, in the early 1920s. His father, also a merchant, had earlier been murdered in a pogrom in Ukraine. Louis first lived in Brooklyn, where he rented a stall in a farmer's market. He married Lillian Teitlebaum (1905-1995) on May 2,
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A frame from the Simpsons with the criminal Snake getting out of prison when a car (driven by Maggie) crashes into the wall, saying “All right, time for a crime spree”
October 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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My brother earlier
Text from my brother when they showed Koufax on screen earlier: "Sandy Koufax looks pretty good for a guy turning 90 this year. Must be those Jewish genes."
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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RETVRN
Garry Maddox being lifted up on the shoulders of Dallas Green and other coaches after catching the final out (and having driven in the go ahead run) in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the 1980 NLCS
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Heartbroken at the thought that the exquisite majesty of one of the best tweets of all time might not resonate fully with the Polish people.
Screenshot of @skullmandible.bsky.social 's first ballot hall-of-fame tweet: Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible ••• most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns 6:50 PM • Dec 12, 2013 • Twitter for Android
October 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Khrushchev in his (obviously self-serving) memoirs portrays an even more twisted Beria behaving in a way that is easy to project onto Vance
Screenshot of the translation of Khrushchev's memoirs, a preview of which can be seen at https://books.google.com/booksid=uv1zv4FZhFUC&pg=PA149 It reads: "As soon as Stalin collapsed, Beria began openly showing his anger and hostility toward him. He cursed him and made fun of him. It was simply impossible to listen to! It's also interesting that the moment Stalin regained consciousness and it seemed that he might recover, Beria threw himself on his knees beside him, grabbed his hand, and began to kiss it. When Stalin lost consciousness again and closed his eyes, Beria got back up on his feet and spat on the floor. That was the true Beria! He was perfidious even in his attitude toward Stalin, a man he supposedly worshiped and glorified."
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Brings this to mind
Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social + Follow Me, a communist: "Schumer needs to whip his caucus harder into opposing the secretary of labor nominee! 17 yes votes is unacceptable." Sheryl, retired lowa schoolteacher who caucused for Klobuchar: "so what if he carries his kid around, a 4 year old isn't stopping a bullet" March 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM 206 reposts 18 quotes 1.6K likes
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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On the one hand, this is excellent, on the other, why is it so hard? Why should we (I) immediately clock it as extra-ordinary, as note-worthy?
Screenshot of part of the interview. There are ellipses in it so it is not quite verbatim. Some of it the judge has put in bold for emphasis. This excerpt reads: Martin: Is protesting a deportable offense? Edgar: You're focused on protests. I'm focused on the visa process. He went through a legal process .... Martin: Are you saying he lied on his application? He's a lawful permanent resident, married to an American citizen. Edgar: I think if he would have declared he's a terrorist, we would have never let him in. This screenshot picks up immediately after the previous one left off. It also has ellipses indicating that the text is excerpted, and reads as follows: Martin: And what did he engage in that onstitutes terrorist activity? Edgar: I mean, Michel, have you watched it on TV? It's pretty clear. Michel: No, it isn't. Well, explain it to those of us who have not or perhaps others have not. What exactly did you do? Edgar: Well, I think it's clear or we wouldn't be talking about it. I mean, the reality is that if you watch and see what he's done on the university . . . Martin: Do you not know? Are you telling us that you're not aware?
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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That seems to be exactly what's happening
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/25/r...
Screenshot of an excerpt from Moscow Times article: “Wholesale gasoline prices in Russia have surged in recent months, driven largely by Ukrainian drone attacks that have damaged oil refineries and forced shutdowns at several major facilities. In response, the government introduced a temporary …”
September 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM