David M. Perry

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Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Read: #TheBrightAges http://tinyurl.com/brightages.

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David M. Perry

Man i have been saying for a minute that voters everywhere are rejecting fascist shit and it’s only the media that makes us think otherwise, but it’s nice to see that in play right now

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Dr. Rachel Schine

if you haven't read the brown article, it's a masterpiece of argumentation. you have to skip through the historiography bit to get to where it picks up.

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Michael Bazemore

And yet 50 years later …

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Michael Bazemore

Yep! I’ve sent out a few hundred pdfs of it to various folks :) but not that person.

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Nick Harkaway

And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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Dag.

I blocked that motherfucker. I don’t need that kind of ignorant in my life.

You are full of shit

Or unfixably ignorant. Are you a liar or a fool? Please let me know.

Imagine being nostalgic for 1994-2000 and 2010-2016 and thinking things were better with gop blocking everything. How we lost the courts. How we lost fighting climate change when it was easier. GTFO.

Big Mitch McConnell fan are you?

Yes, this. But also two weeks ago this outcome seemed unlikely. We have time. Not infinite time and our system is more unwieldy. But time.

Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like

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Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

good electoral news in england and france. nice to see in this era of far-right entrenchment.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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A cautionary tale

I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

miss my dad. but glad he wrote things people read who write things the next generations will read.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 5/20 (cc @lollardfish.bsky.social) #booksky

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Kevin Gannon

<3 makes me emotional to see this.

an email: Subject: OF COURSE FEUDALISM IS REAL!!! TEXT: Send me a pdf. I will keep an open mind. --- response: No.

like why would I want to be in conversation with someone like this?

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Asawin Suebsaeng

Your precious institutions are theoretically there, up until the point a clause or constitutional understanding about “emoluments” or “insurrection” become too inconvenient for their allegedly busy schedules and social lives

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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David M. Perry

if the body is going to keep the score it should at least have those little bowling alley animations too

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This thread, all of it.

Yes we have work to do on climate crisis & sustainable lifestyles, but do we really need orientalist takes on the "feudal" "ancient city" of Edo? Research on Japan's successes (and its many failings) in environmental sustainability was done by Totman decades ago. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

What the Japanese Edo period can teach us about todaywww.bbc.com How a recycled garment made from tattered rags symbolises the ingenuity of what could have been one of the world's first large-scale ecological civilisations.

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Ducky Krup

Was it rough? Awkward?

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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Ducky Krup

I mean it was 6 years ago

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Not kidding; wish I was

No worries <3

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David M. Perry

This is true:

Bluesky will never be great until we post a football culture into existence

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Madison after the War of 1812:

i owe Canada an apology. i was not familiar with your game

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Not kidding; wish I was

I am, genuinely, happy for you.