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This film was my personal kickoff moment for the 90s swing revival.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
This film was my personal kickoff moment for the 90s swing revival.
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Of course Irving Berlin already wrote the perfect song for today’s disappointment back in 1941 youtu.be/WJYCh8Sqzsw?...
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Of course the right still needs someone to listen to them while they rant at thanksgiving. That’s why they’re all complaining about the Bluesky “bubble” right?
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Roger Daltry in Highlander the series. An excellent regular guest star and so funny!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re weak.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s one of those ones I’m always excited to see when he shows up in a film or tv show
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s the little things you do together Setting our alarms together Checking lists we made together Going old and grey together… That make marriage a joy! Uh huhhhh
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
In tabletop games there are totally collectors like this who don’t even play what most of what they buy and store
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Oh. My. God.
grimm ☀️ (@mugrimm.bsky.social) reposted
I think if we could sneak in a guy dressed from head to toe, stage ready, as Magical Mister Mistoffelees into the Lincoln Bedroom he could trick Trump into doing anything.
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I can’t imagine being an ordinary family then becoming the center of this mess.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I had watched hours of Intervention where they emphasized not being judgmental over drug use and supporting the person above all. Then I flipped onto the biggest loser and the coach was standing over a panting man lying on the gym floor and the coach had his foot on the man’s chest yelling at him.
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I didn’t like Clippy I don’t want this either
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m in them now!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
My parents got a Havanese and my dad trained it to take to do hospice visits. He is now their favorite child 😂
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I really appreciated that my book I bought for welcoming the premature baby said bluntly at the beginning that there is no “natural” alternative treatment for everything the hospital is doing for your baby. The natural alternative is that they die.
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Love the read!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Groundbreaking
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
No secrets between sailors!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
You don’t have to hand anything to Glenn Youngkin especially on economics
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
Glenn Youngkin sucks
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
Dork ass losers
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We just intentionally bought our new Nintendo from Best Buy to avoid Walmart and Target
Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted
Just saw someone call Mamdani a “Dem op” because Obama called and congratulated him after he won the primary and they chatted for a bit and for the love of god y’all have got to stop being such fucking weirdos.
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Dreamy right?
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Just another thing to sell for parts
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you I’ve been wondering about that fabric!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Would attend this con!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I love all of Peggy’s smart looking hats
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
The only crime is the outrageous prices at beverage carts on the mall
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Fubar 🇨🇦 (@captainfubar.bsky.social) reposted
A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I learned this a few years ago but everyone in my family pronounces it like Herbert. I’m fine being wrong
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ (@skwinnicki.bsky.social) reposted
"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.
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Not even the original “Gods not Dead” movie, he’s in the lesser sequel lol
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Bring tissues for the show! I cried!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
We paired Korean BBQ at Don Don (v close!) with our maybe happy ending matinee and the staff there was tops!
Damon (@vf25fsherylkai.bsky.social) reposted
How about a bill for an onlime registry of jobs that don't respond to applications instead I'm sure that will be way more useful
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Why should employers waste their time snitching on interview no shows to the government? That sounds onerous for the employer as well as dumb policy.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
We just saw the god Bacchus, just has to be…
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I didn’t need to be outside. I was a shy nerd who never even went to high school parties…but I had a summer job where I was working with college guys and older at 16. That’s enough. 😂
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
One of Karla Holmolka and Paul Bernardos victims had been locked out for coming home late. She never went home again
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I love Kurm because he’s also always really depressed
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
No actually a LOT of ladies are into the Beast on that show. They made a poetry album
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
When I first heard of the Muscular Christianity movement I think I guffawed for an hour doing the reading for a class. Then I saw the bro culture get real big a few years later with the evangelicals…
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Matt Gabriele (@profgabriele.com) reposted
fwiw we don’t hear enough about the parents of the young men who are radicalized
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the kind of innovative immersive productions the Sphere was originally promising either. This is just IMAX that sucks
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Noooo what will take care of my stress hives?
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I was in NYC recently and took a photo when I found myself in front of the New York Horological Society like a big dork.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Wild now if you ever worked in customer service in the past. I didn’t know you could know so little about where you work and what you sell.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Much more money for much less luxury
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I asked an ulta employee to help me choose a foundation and she didn’t know anything about the different brand attributes or matching to my skin. Back in the day that didn’t happen except at the drug store for makeup there would be some skilled customer service employees with product knowledge!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Clothing is not the quality it once was at every level but luxury level now. I’m buying used and vintage older stuff because it is durable and better quality all over. Even brands I considered affordable/ less quality in the 90s like Newport News or Chadwicks are nicer than today’s mall store make
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A lot of us are insufferable assholes
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Watch but don’t share with us anymore
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
There was so much early support from AsAm theater fans. This is a misstep especially for a first replacement for the show
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
👀 It’s perfect. Too bad I have no one to buy her for. My kid is kinda over dolls
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s very satisfying!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
My daughter and I are going to practice lighting candles with matches this weekend. She loves our “grown up skills” mini classes. She’s used a kitchen knife and the stove for a long time.
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Love the name!
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At the private school we did for two years they sent out so many emails about parent conflict in the parking line and people were so awful and aggressive
Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted
Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
The Gullah Geechee, descendants from enslaved West Africans who were forced to work in the Carolina Lowcountry, are struggling to preserve sacred traditions as wealthy northerners swallow up valuable property around Hilton Head Island. nyti.ms/4mmAwdW
KEW blocks early and often (@kidadaewilliams.com) reposted
For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I made a large decorative hairpin out of sterling silver for my sisters wedding and people kept telling me to make them and sell them for 50$ The silver costs more than that
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascinating! My most boomer hippie mom opinion is we should all know more about our sexual organ function but I never thought of this comparison. We are all just a series of tubes bound by mostly water aren’t we 😂
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m busy trying to ignore both!
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Wow, can’t like this b/c those are suck ass chips but I support problematic women so you enjoy those!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought of then dancing too lol
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
My god! I lived to see this day!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
My husband and I are so locked in every week. He used to laugh at me watching it in S1. The Carrie Coon of it all got him though. Next to get him into Lestat/Louis’s shenanigans…
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Like how you temper chocolate!
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The absolute gall
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The guy who rode Lewinsky jokes for decades????
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted
Big issue here is they believe Paramount is “feeding” Colbert and not making profit from his labor.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
I read Stephen king at 10 and Flowers in the Attic at 11 lol
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
She looks like Sam’s mother fr
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
How do I wait until 2026?!?!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
“All up in the videos…dancing” was a true assessment of him in the end
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
Anyone who writes these needs to share their own heat and AC settings for the year
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The Kurgan would be a soulless corporate guy these days I guess
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
This moment from today’s Medicaid vigil is so powerful… Question: What do you say to the people who voted to cut Medicaid? Be honest. Samantha Phillis: They voted against my child’s life. #MedicaidCutsKill
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
Execution on his videos is always 🤌
Joe Sudbay (@joesudbay.bsky.social) reposted
Venezuelan makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention "It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me" he said www.reuters.com/business/med...
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Now it’s gotta be Sevvyn
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s how I got my first credit card. It went…poorly
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social)
“Name me anyone who cares as much as Eva Peron!!!”
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My husband works in board gaming. A friend was so insistent that chatgpt helped him learn rules faster, despite it telling him several mistakes during a game. Every time there was a question, those who just read the manual found the answer faster than the guy who claimed ChatGPT saved him time.
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It was great for most of the white people at that time with all the rickets and pellagra. I bet they loved grinding poverty and not owning anything while the planters LARPed at being royalty
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
So tragic!
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
Aw geez
Purity Tester (萬Q 紫米) (@anem0ne.net) reposted
there is something intangibly gross in how asian features are so frequently used for artificial, machine personas it's almost as if in popular imagination asian features are associated with a sort of controllable autonomous programming, but no soul.
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
There must be a million summaries already in existence but she loved the fact that it was AI written therefore better 🤷♀️
Average Historian (@averagehistorian.bsky.social) reply parent
When I saw Gypsy on Broadway this spring the very nice lady next to me proudly showed me the summary of the play she’d had ChatGPT do for her. She thought it was so novel. She was very nice so I didn’t say, why do you need a summary we are watching it right now????