this is fucking nuts:

No kidding, what is a "challenge coin"?

I said off-handedly a month ago that the "what happens to the economy when people can't buy anything" was a bad argument because the real juice they want is AI consumers, not AI workers.

If I was one of the Artemis astronauts I’d call up one of the other Artemis astronauts today and be like “remember when we were in space?”

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Thanks to @SmithRebe for inviting me to talk Appalachian history on the @Alarmist pod cast. I had a great time:

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This Day in Labor History: April 7, 2000. The Workers’ Rights Consortium formed at a New York conference. Let's talk about the anti-sweatshop campaigns of this era and the attempts to create solid monitoring practices to ensure dignified working conditions globally!

Greetings to all new followers

Add me please, Appalachian/Southern newspapers

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- SLUGGO AND ANOTHER BOY ARE WALKING BY A TRAILER CAMP ( RV PARK) BOY : WHAT'S THE IDEA SLUGGO? SLUGGO IS COVERING HIS EYES P2- SLUGGO: I ALWAYS COVER MY EYES WHEN I PASS THIS PLACE BOY:WHY? P3- SLUGGO: WHENEVER I FALL IN LOVE WITH A GIRL HERE -- P4- SLUGGO: --- IT NEVER LASTS MORE THAN TWO DAYS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 05,1954

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About 2 hours south/southwest of here.

The Smell of Death, by Edvard Munch, 1895

I've read a couple thoughtful pieces on the irrationality of the markets swinging on Trump's pronouncements about the war which boil down to the former having Trump derangement syndrome. Think that's reversed. Irrationality of the markets give birth to Trump not vice versa.

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Bracket now completely ruined by, befittingly, former employer

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

I'm getting this new netflix campus comedy mixed up with that other campus comedy that's not on netflix.

Thousands of Colorado Meatpacking Workers Are on Strike- 3,000 immigrant workers in United Food and Commercial Workers walk out at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, CO

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The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Excellent essay by @moiradonegan.bsky.social about Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Bluestorians,
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JOB: TT Assistant/Associate Professor, Apparel & Textile History, Auburn University
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Black Appalachia - The University Press of Kentucky Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited successor to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioecon...

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it’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one

That was 2016 for me. It's hard to explain to other people.

Assistant Teaching Professor of History Position Title: Assistant Teaching Professor of History Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University invite...

Friday evening news drop: Iowa State department of history is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Modern European History. 3/3 load, 3-year contract, possibility of renewal. Come be my colleague! 🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 4, Episode 8

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing.

they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran.

for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation