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John Craig Hammond

@johncraighammond.bsky.social

Associate Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/

created February 2, 2025

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He is seriously damaged.

31/8/2025, 6:21:01 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congrats. I gotta give this a pleasure read.

31/8/2025, 12:28:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm in for a cool $50

28/8/2025, 11:53:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...

28/8/2025, 10:10:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh, Trump & Co. know a few things about mortgage fraud ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

28/8/2025, 10:09:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thesis -> Anti-thesis -> Synthesis

28/8/2025, 2:54:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much all ed tech since COVID (and much pre-COVID)

27/8/2025, 5:36:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So he wants ministers as overseers. Got it. Why did it take him 4 minutes to say that?

27/8/2025, 3:04:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Poor Houses.

27/8/2025, 3:03:16 PM | 65 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hate Illinois Nazis.

27/8/2025, 2:53:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The Joos" are controlling "the Blacks" is about a half a step aaway from the "The Joos" are controlling "The Slavs"

27/8/2025, 2:16:38 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait, I thought the Republicans were the fiscally responsible adults in the room who were going to curb spending and tackle the massive national debt.

27/8/2025, 12:50:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They watched every 80s movie and decided the bad guys were the good guys. Trump and JD and Miller are textbook John Hughes bad guys. Hell, JD was born a greaser but became a soc.

26/8/2025, 10:15:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just change your name to the Vichy Post or the Quisling Post.

25/8/2025, 10:34:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All true, but we desperately need to increase the size of Congress for about 100 different reasons.

25/8/2025, 7:54:57 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

And 30,000 Pennsylvanians

25/8/2025, 3:28:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This always kills it in Lecture 1, History (as an academic discipline) vs. Heritage "The Sopranos," "Christopher," Season 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD6...

25/8/2025, 2:51:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of television's greatest episodes EVER.

24/8/2025, 6:30:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MOOCs are the future my friend. A Harvard professor will teach your class and you will serve as a TA.

23/8/2025, 2:02:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love writing in cursive. So elegant. I always admired how my parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles had such distinct but excellent cursive.

21/8/2025, 11:50:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, the Intolerable Acts?

20/8/2025, 11:02:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God Bless America!

20/8/2025, 5:55:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What about natural reproduction?

20/8/2025, 5:31:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I recieved my first tape of this (1989-90?), we didn't know what ska was. We called it "punk reggae."

20/8/2025, 12:09:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alpha Males use Just for Men on their Beards.

19/8/2025, 11:49:11 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Quasimodo predicted all of this.

18/8/2025, 7:03:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGum...

18/8/2025, 6:56:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"When we fought the British ..." Dude, you fought the British? Or my favorite, "When we freed the slaves ..." Dude, I don't know where to begin.

18/8/2025, 11:53:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. There is no "we" in history.

17/8/2025, 5:03:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they should focus the entirety of 250 on the text of the Declaration of Independence.

15/8/2025, 12:35:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FWIW, this is exactly what I do at the beginning of all of my gen ed history courses. It's fantastic. The students really get into it.

14/8/2025, 2:58:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

14/8/2025, 2:20:30 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What if they go to Evil Genius School?

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14/8/2025, 2:19:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The true foundation of a university. I understand why traditional colleges of arts & sciences broke apart, but as someone with a BA in physics who went on to puruse a Ph.D in history (thanks humanities classes!), I will always have a softspot for the college of arts & sciences.

14/8/2025, 1:00:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am fully in the liberal arts/humanities camp.

14/8/2025, 12:58:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He might not be the hero (sandwich) we deserve, but he's the hero (sandwich) we need.

13/8/2025, 8:47:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"winding his arm back and forcefully throwing a sub-style sandwich."

13/8/2025, 8:44:39 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is proper that we honor the Revolutionary War Veterans who "took over the airports."

13/8/2025, 1:45:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah but Black, female, federal employees are not "real" union members. Only white guys in hardhats are union guys and "working class."

12/8/2025, 5:17:01 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Secession is unthinkable." Why? I am at the point where the Union has simply outlived it's usefullness.

7/8/2025, 3:42:40 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That fall catalog is a banger!

7/8/2025, 3:32:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

Same catalog!

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7/8/2025, 3:31:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next stop Canada? This has shades of the Fugitive Slave Law.

7/8/2025, 3:07:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The @pennpress.bsky.social Fall catalog is out. I feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when the phone book is released.

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7/8/2025, 3:02:45 PM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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"In what world would exercising the kind of political speech ..." One in which we have a king rather than a constitution. The unitary executive theory is just the Divine right of kings gussied up.

7/8/2025, 1:19:37 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That article is terrible. I want my five minutes back.

7/8/2025, 12:26:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Small Fisted Farmers, Mud-sills of Society, Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln.”

7/8/2025, 12:16:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pre-Revolutionary France shit.

7/8/2025, 12:55:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now I got them Steadily depressing Low down, mid messin' Workin' at the Cow wash blues

7/8/2025, 12:37:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did they even say thanks?

6/8/2025, 9:19:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

Equally important, your reasoning is i)transparent ii)supported by real evidence AI gives us neither.

6/8/2025, 9:14:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He loves NYC so much he moved to Florida.

6/8/2025, 8:59:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The healthy cigarettes.

6/8/2025, 7:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a BA in physics. A Ph.D in history. I would never try to do math like this in my head. There is no point to it. Do it longhand. In either case, I can reason my way through problems, whether in math or history. Can the same be said about AI?

6/8/2025, 3:40:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Digging the longhand multiplication!

6/8/2025, 2:43:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good God. Ramones, Bill Stevenson Black Flag, and Minutemen.

6/8/2025, 12:35:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Grown-ass men don't wear jeans anymore than "a don doesn't wear shorts."

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5/8/2025, 8:39:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Nepo-babies and trustfundicos will be our downfall.

5/8/2025, 8:28:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Hearden (@followtheh.bsky.social) reposted

The Kennedy Center presents: Diddler On A Roof (I can do this all day)

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5/8/2025, 3:40:37 PM | 85 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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5/8/2025, 3:29:42 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” ― Al Franken,

5/8/2025, 2:51:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh, executive privilege and official duties.

5/8/2025, 2:46:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"True Marxism-Communism has never been tried."

5/8/2025, 2:42:54 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Books are not "content."

4/8/2025, 4:18:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, just roll with the "to be" verb.

4/8/2025, 2:23:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reposted

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

3/8/2025, 7:36:36 PM | 3322 641 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tonight, Nick Lowe and Los Straigjackets at Hartwood Acres

3/8/2025, 6:44:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One more thing, Vance and Hazony's nihilistic nationalism fuels guys like this. www.wsj.com/us-news/cryp...

3/8/2025, 4:58:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's going to be a bloodbath for small, rural, private schools and their communitites, which depend heavily on international students.

3/8/2025, 4:25:16 PM | 42 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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More, it's clear that both Vance and Hazony (father of 9 children) just want to control their children and their womens. They are nothing more than weak-ass, wanna-be authoritarians.

3/8/2025, 4:14:24 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance and Hazony are also practicing weak-ass Whig history. In their readng, nations have a core, immutable essence and destiny. They can deviate from that essence and destiny. They can fullfill that essence and destiny. They falsely believe they understand the true essence of the nation.

3/8/2025, 4:12:35 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

The soundtrack to that ICE video is about young men who are broken by vice. How fucking clueless are these people?

3/8/2025, 4:06:30 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Craig Hammond (@johncraighammond.bsky.social) reply parent

At the end of the day, Vance and Yoram Hazony are trying to amplify and celebrate our basest desires, which is why they flock to people like Trump. We are living in the midst of a global struggle between the advocates of liberal democracy and authoritarians. I am not optimistic about the outcome.

3/8/2025, 4:01:28 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Invested $600,000 based on a Charlie Kirk infomercial.

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2/8/2025, 4:27:08 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We should talk some time. It's amazing how many swarmy men are still involved in youth soccer. It's more amazing to me, how many parents gladly sacrifice their daughters for the glory of D1 and the false promise of a spot on the USWNT, if they would just let their daughters play for those scum bags.

2/8/2025, 2:14:56 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's 33. He's Korean. He will be the king of LA and SoCal football. As much as I am eh on MLS, I might watch a few more games because he's playing.

2/8/2025, 2:08:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking for some inexpensive monographs or edited volumes for your classes this fall? Assign one of these and I will gladly Zoom in, and ... 30% off. Use the code 10VABOOKS. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3917/ www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3344/

2/8/2025, 1:41:15 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nerd out, man. Nerd out

1/8/2025, 10:32:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ANd they inspired a whole lotta punks to get their own Ph.D's.

1/8/2025, 6:20:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got to spend the summer playing in a competetive co-ed league with my daughters. Finished 4th out of 10 teams with a trip to the playoffs.

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1/8/2025, 5:47:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who in their right mind would allow their daughter anywhere near that club? Why dopes ECNL allow a club under his control to continue to compete in their league?

1/8/2025, 5:43:50 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any chance thye try to move up to USL 1 and the USL-C?

1/8/2025, 5:26:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In what capacity is he still involved n youth soccer?

1/8/2025, 5:14:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/8/2025, 2:54:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you.

1/8/2025, 2:47:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My daughter is the small one, 2016. She was tasked with marking the big one. We all had a good laugh, no "legitimate concerns" expressed by parents on either side.

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1/8/2025, 2:20:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Real men drink four shots of black espresso in the morning.

1/8/2025, 2:09:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coffee drinkers really need to rise up over these 50% tariffs on Brazillian coffee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLb...

1/8/2025, 2:16:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our job is neither to celebrate nor to condemn people in the past. Our job is to understand how and why; to understand the past on its own terms; tp understand the world as people in the past ocnfronted it. Do you wanna call the Conquistadors assholes? I agree, but you get zero credit for that.

31/7/2025, 10:02:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My first class is always on "History as an academic discipline." We examine interpretive vs. factual questions; arguments vs. beliefs; analysis of evidence; historiography lite. The point. Disciplines have rules.

31/7/2025, 10:00:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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State legislatures do the same thing. Pennsylvania has six R1 universities and the state legislature never uses them for any studies.

31/7/2025, 9:59:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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None greater

31/7/2025, 8:47:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Punk Rock changed our lives."

31/7/2025, 11:13:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want to extend my annual pilgrimage to Third Beach.

30/7/2025, 7:10:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Third Beach?

30/7/2025, 5:53:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just divy up the three lower counties between PA and Maryland.

30/7/2025, 2:34:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h4K...

28/7/2025, 9:25:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Punk. THere are quite a few old punks in academia.

24/7/2025, 1:56:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Professors will pretend to teach. Students will pretend to leanr and produce. Checks will clear. Crednetials will be awarded. What a disaster.

23/7/2025, 8:54:00 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tucker County, West Virginia Robertson County, Kentucky Hooker County, Nebraska All 100% White. They should move there.

23/7/2025, 7:56:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view