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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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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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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

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 · 2d

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…).

Powecom® KN95 - Black and White Ear Loop - Bona Fide Masks

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 · 20h

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

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 20h

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

Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 20h

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.''

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking news from 1775

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 1d

An update

TWO gray and white kittens sit on a concrete stoop.

Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

Boo!

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

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 7d

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

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 2d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

That's what Colin did because I'm an idiot

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Eph ✨️🫂 @strawberryjester.bsky.social · 2d

I think CEOs should make significantly less money and there should be a UBI in lieu of a minimum wage.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween shaped!!!!!

An impossibly tiny gray and white kitten stands in the stereotypical Halloween cat pose, aka, back arched and tail up.

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to perpetuate stereotypes, but I'm glad I married a man because I can't get the stopper thing out of my new deodorant 😑

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Fanta🔮💫@BLFC DD 313 @saintfax.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

Here’s a list of some fellow native owned shops and artists from last year that y’all should still check out!

A brown oval sticker with orange and white text that reads LandBack
There are flowers with four petals on both sides of the text in the colors of the Medicine Wheel

Behind the main sticker is a pile of out of focus stickers of the same type in a pile on a while background

Sticker by Saint Fax

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Cee @horationelson.bsky.social · 2d

one of the neighborhood cats brought her baby to us and it's the cutest creature i've ever seen

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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