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Wren (they/them)
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ENG/ESP | "Anne of Green Gables meets Beat Poet" | Former HispLing grad. Historical dialectology, language maintenance, GIS. I also work with historical societies in Massachusetts.
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In rural Massachusetts, there's the Route 2 Standout in Gill, overpass standouts over I-91 (changes location daily/weekly, but always in Franklin County and organized by the same group). The Historical Society of Greenfield shared the photo below of their city's No Kings II Rally.
People dressed in white togas with red, blue or purple sashes march down the road carrying torches made of duct tape and red and yellow tissue paper. In the background, three people hoist up a lady liberty dressed in white with colorful braids and a purple, white and green sash reading "COURAGE."
October 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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their ideal city is a greebled city
August 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"My dear friend Spock"
Captain Kirk holding up Mr. Spock, Spock's arm draped over Kirk's shoulders, from Star Trek The Animated Series. Kirk is saying "My Dear Friend Spock"
March 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Edgar cut
Spock and Nurse Chapel, from Star Trek The Abridged Series
March 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Three of these characters participated in a panty raid.
Spongebob Squarepants characters, from left to right, Sandy Cheeks, Pearl, Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, Squidward, Plankton, Gary, Karen, Patrick Star, Mrs. Puff
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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1890s McKinley-posting.

McKINLEY PRICES ARE UPON US!
Political cartoon from Puck magazine. Railroad magnate Jay Gould lectures a laborer and farmer, saying "If the new tariff makes clothing cost more, you'll have to get along with one suit instead of two! If you can't afford to patronize a barber, cut your own hair. If you can't afford to keep a horse, you'll have to pull the plough yourself. If you can't afford to keep your last pair of twins, you'll be obliged to parts with them. If you can't afford a fire, you must keep warm by violent exercise. If you can't afford to buy a turkey all alone, club in with your next-door neighbor, each pay half, and then have a raffle to see which family shall eat it. McKinley prices are upon us! A galaxy of Gouldians for the laboring classes. end quote. Above each statement is a sketch of a family following Gould's advice, including a baby holding dumbbells, the farmer with a yoke on his neck while his wife pushes a plow, and the laborer haphazardly cutting his hair.
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Muscular arm labeled Tibetans interlocked with a muscular arm labeled Italians. Where their hands meet, it reads pasta and veggies in tomato sauce
August 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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I think this says everything you need to know about #StarTrekV
Captain James T. Kirk wearing a white shirt that reads "Go climb a rock." with an unbuttoned star fleet uniform
August 6, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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These AI colorized "remasters" of pre-war B-roll would really have us believe the entire world was a rust brown, eh?
Video titled "Detroit, Michigan nineteen-thirties in color 60 FPS, remastered withsound design added. Video frame shows a row of buildings that have been re-colored to be stone gray or a dark, rusty brown. All signs and awnings are either black, brown or red with white text. There is a row of nineteen thirties cars, all colorized to black or maroon. A cloud of dust or exhaust can be seen in the distance as cars drive on the road.
May 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Wooden painted sign reading: Welcome! To Building number 19, the home of good stuff cheap. Come on in, and bring money! The sign also has a picture of a chubby cartoon man's head with glasses and a smile.
May 2, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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Came across this report by a small Massachusetts town's Board of Health in 1920. Sound familiar?

I compared that year's reports by the board of health and truancy officer and to say the town was the healthiest on record is an exaggeration. Reports from 1917 to 1919 are missing.
Gentlemen: I hereby submit my annual report for the Board of Health, town of South Hadley. In the early part of the winter of 1920 we had our second influenza epidemic, but with that exception, the town has experienced the healthiest year in the history of the Board of Health. There has been very little contagious disease of any kind. During the summer the infant mortality was very low; and since the fall, sickness in general throughout the town has been much less than it has for a number of years. In fact, with the exception of a small epidemic of chicken-pox there has been no contagious disease worth speaking of.
April 29, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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We were in traffic for 16 hours and my body still hurts from the drive, but seeing the eclipse in totality was priceless. We drove up to the source of the Connecticut River. Since most of our route had no wi-fi, we checked out a ten CDs from the library and listened to them along the way.
Two dweebs in the snow looking up at the sun with eclipse glasses on. The Connecticut River, as it appears in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. The river is about 12 feet across and is surrounded by rocky, snow-covered banks and conifers.
April 10, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Thank you, I will need the reminder again in 5 minutes, I am a goldfish.
A pop-up in Google Sheets. It reads: Heads up! Merging cells will only preserve the top-leftmost value. Merge anyway? Checkbox. Don't show this again for five minutes.
March 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Screenshot from Animal Crossing Wild World. Elvis the Lion says "So the earth goes around the sun, and every four years it does it wrong? That's...not comforting."
February 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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pov: it's the 1920s and you have one additional option
collage of images associated with the Ferrer movement and free schools. Images include a photo of a child in a tunic playing the violin next to very tall plants, a logo depicting a naked person dancing with a dog, a book titled "linoleum cuts by children of the modern school, stelton, new jersey", a photo of a child and two teenagers in a field in new jersey. one shirtless teen is wearing a straw hat and holding a rifle downwind while smiling. another is wearing a dress, flower crown and sticking her middle finger out at the camera. the smaller child is holding a very long pitch fork. A more recent photo shows an adult at a table with three children who look tired or distracted. Another recent photo shows the home of a Ferrer movement teacher, with custom plaster reliefs of a swan, stork, and industrial workers beneath the windows on the exterior.
February 23, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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1928 Chapter 0046. An act to designate the chairman of the board of sewer commissioners of the town of Dedham as a representative town meeting member at large. Boston: Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1928, Massachusetts
February 7, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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From Wikipedia: The designation "Sooner" initially had a very negative connotation. While "Boomers" were merely expressing "pioneer spirit" in their desire to take and settle former Indian territory, Sooners were essentially stealing from other white settlers by cheating on the claim requirements to get better land.
January 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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4 panel comic titled "celebrities shop too" by my silly comics. panel 1: at the store person says "...peach time" as they stand next to a can of peaches. panel 2: a close-up of the person's hand reaching for the can, but touching the hand of someone else reaching for it. panel 3: "ah! so sorry!" says the celebrity, edited to be jeff probst. panel 4: the person, looking blankly, saying "j... jeff probst..."
January 13, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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They're a typical wrasse, as they say.
Wikipedia infobox for Wrasses. It has the image caption on Wikipedia: Moon wrasse, Thalassoma lunae, a typical wrasse
January 7, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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Who is doing this? Is this the opposite of the "Poster's Bushido" that I'm told exists?
Bluesky thread preferences option: Random (a.k.a. "Poster's Roulette")
January 6, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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WHY IS IT LIKE THIS?
Bluesky thread preferences to sort replies. Sort replies to the same post by: Oldest replies first; Newest replies first; Most-liked replies first; Random (aka "Poster's Roulette")
January 6, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Yukon and Bumble at the Christmas Tree.
Rudolph, when the nose glowed.
Santa, with the nose glowing.
photo of puppets of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Hermey the Elf, the Bumble, and Yukon Cornelius
December 25, 2023 at 5:48 AM
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Soldier protecting child meme where the weapons are body hair, the soldier is carl foutley, and the sleeping child is normal people
December 23, 2023 at 1:58 AM
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video thumbnail from wikipedia showing astronauts playing dreidel. the caption reads "Dreidel in space."
December 22, 2023 at 1:24 AM
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Went to the Berkshire Museum today & they had a Baghdad Battery display! Label says it can produce "low voltages" & "there are no surviving primary sources to confirm the function of these artifacts"???

You included an unproven crackpot hypothesis but not what modern anthropologists actually think?
photo of two models of a supposed "baghdad battery" - one whole and one cross-section of it (right) and a time indicating lamp (left)
November 10, 2023 at 11:16 PM