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the ghost of cee

@horationelson.bsky.social

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she/her, 30s, leftist, queer, spouse, writer, historian, video gamer, cosplayer, southerner, cross-stitcher, german speaker, bog body. icon by @mxmorel.

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi y'all! I should probably do an intro. I'm Cee (she/her), an independent social historian in the American South. I study medieval Britain, the American colonial period, World War I, and the history of death & mourning. I do living history as an 18th-century cannoneer and needleworker. 🧵

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 2d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, remember in 1783 how Philadelphia built a triumphal arch to celebrate the end of the Revolution and then God used the celebratory fireworks to burn it down and kill people and injure its designer, who came to regard it as punishment for his hubris? Anyway.

www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/...

reconstructed drawing of Charles Willson Peale's Triumphal Arch, which burned in 1783. Drawing by Lester Hoadley Sellers, 1969, from details reported in newspapers. In the collection of the American Philosophical Society
https://www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/peales-triumphal-arch

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10h

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 26d

Bluesky is like if the world was divided into people who are silly and the literal silly police

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 10h

i just got sir'ed by some fourth graders and it was for sure intentional and malicious because i told them to stop climbing on things lol

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 11h

🚨 New pattern project! The Agnes Etherinton Art Centre has put together an offering of patterns drawn from extant garments, together with images of drag artists in reproductions. 🗃️🪡 agnes.queensu.ca/digital-agne...

Patterns for All Bodies - Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Agnes Etherington Art Centre is a public, university-affiliated art museum located at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, Canada.

agnes.queensu.ca

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 12h

she also doesn't mask anymore but at least she doesn't judge that i do (most of our visitors do judge me lol)

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 12h

how do we encourage people to get vaxed when even medical professionals advertise that they're not? how do i convince her that she's the one being fooled, not me? she's never had covid and has been vaxed before.

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 12h

yesterday one of our volunteers, who i generally respect, said she's not getting a covid vax this year cos it's "controversial." i explained that no, not really, but she said her doctor (who gave her a flu shot) also wasn't getting one.

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone should use alt text, but educators/communicators and artists specifically should make sure they're using it.

Accessibility makes the world a better place, takes less than 2 mins, and allows more people to find you!

Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · Mar 10

No worries! If an image has ALT in the bottom right, it has alt text! Alt text helps everyone from those who use screen readers to those who need extra context on why a photo or gif was used.

It also helps posts become discoverable in searches.

You can toggle it to be mandatory in settings.

An infographic on how to write alt text.

Title: Writing Alt Text
Subtitle: Identify who, Expression, Description, Color, Interesting features (all in different color bubbles)

Sentence describing the image on the left: A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head.

Various parts of the sentence are bubbled in matching colors to indicate which aspect of alt text is being used.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

Just trying to keep track of the conservative definition of "children" here.

Children:
- racist Republicans in their 30s
-trans adults seeking medical care
-embryos

Not children:
-Black people under age 18
-Gazans under age 18
-immigrants under age 18
-rape victims under age 18

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "holy shit i hate all of this"

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 3d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

It’s not that fucking complicated. No one can make you care about people who have a different risk model than you have (or think you have…).

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Like the N95, the FDA Authorized KN95 face masks sold by Bona Fide Masks™ are rated to provide 95% ore greater filtration of particles larger than 0.3 µm in diameter such as bacteria, viruses, dust & ...

bonafidemasks.com

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 1d

Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is continuing to go to my email job during These Times.

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 1d

my computer restarted last night and i thought i was free from its clutches but no. i'm still in designville

the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a red shirt is smiling and saying `` you 're welcome . ''

Alt: a woman in a red shirt is smiling and saying, "you're welcome.''

media.tenor.com

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking news from 1775

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 2d

One protester arrested, the rest remain across Lexington yelling “shame,” among other things, at officers who just detained a person.

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the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

An update

TWO gray and white kittens sit on a concrete stoop.

the ghost of cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

i liked bbc musketeers and i don't care who knows

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 3d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

i do not like living under a government run by the worst facebook posts you've ever seen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 8d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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