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Gabriel Winant

@gabrielwinant.bsky.social

Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
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I’m gonna make the skillet cookie in my giant cast iron pan, then I’m going to do it again, then I’m going to make the world’s largest ice cream sandwich
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Desaponification, there’s a great word
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My most insane, untrue belief is that your body reacts not just to current temperature but to direction. Like if it’s getting warmer you feel like it’s hotter than it currently is
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My office this year has a transom, first time I’ve ever had one. Any transomheads out there
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lawgivers, you don't hear so much about them anymore
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This site is for nice little observations about animals, herbs, family foibles. The other one is for getting denied tenure for my antizionist politics
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Great thing about my in laws visiting is sustained discussion of what different plants, herbs, and spices are called in Amharic v English and how we use them different or similarly
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Can’t fucking believe my way of dreaming about the Middle East was that I was going to a free Palestine demo which became a Pink Floyd concert with my grad school friends … dreams truly are to keep you asleep
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I was playing around with Dall-E trying to see if it could replicate the sociological type that I am and I got it to create Eric Foner
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Things are coming together for the podcast on the history of the CIO that I've been working on with @alexnpress.bsky.social, @andrewelrod.bsky.social, Emma Teitelman, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, @yesnomabie.bsky.social. We now have a Patreon page. www.patreon.com/notification...
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Weird how this book seems also to have no blurbs?
there's another, also quite negative review here: networks.h-net.org/group/review...
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it's painful for me to admit this but I never can come up with a good strategy for cranberry beans except just to do 'em with kale in some Italian type configuration
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“El Paso” has been an answer in like four NYT crosswords this week… what are they trying to tell us
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If things go south in my life I have to admit there’s a chance I end up with the hair of David Ben-Gurion
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When I pleasantly surprise my wife by accomplishing something basic I love to say “I’m not an animal,” try this one out fellas
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Part of how I wipe clean the sins of the previous year during my fast is nonstop whining about how hungry I am
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Honestly too perfect that they got to a TA on Yom Kippur
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If you want to see the closest Kol Nidre can come to a rock and roll Protestant service, go to it on the beach in Santa Barbara. Pretty nice actually
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The crows my mom befriended in the pandemic now have a second generation who are much more entitled and less nice about getting food from her
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Bay Area life is turning on the radio while surrounded by teslas on all sides in traffic and it’s Richard Wolff talking about Mondragon
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Feeling wise because I took my bottle of Tums on the move across country to California
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I am a little bit, just a little, getting Paulie Walnuts hair
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My professional situation this year is all about getting max crossbreeze
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About to have one of life’s peak experiences, medical irrigation of the ears
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It doesn’t say anywhere in the rules that you *can’t* use your waterpik on your ears
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Here is the long sought historical link between the Bay Area Popular Front and the postwar regional haven of bohemian subcultures
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Bridges: “what’s cooking?” Molotov: “ok”
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If you really press me on it, I think the most amazing thing humanity has ever done is the Polynesian migration
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Do you ever realize you’ve mistyped your password before hitting enter, but not soon enough to stop the automatic movement of your hands, so you hit enter anyway? That’s so cool
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Crazy number of primates in today’s spelling bee