Melissa Johnson, PhD
@ladyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
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needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
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The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.
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The reason you have to learn about poetry or chemistry to get a degree is that a degree means more than you spent money at a place.
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The reason you have to learn about poetry or chemistry to get a degree is that a degree means more than you spent money at a place.
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If you want to be a customer, a diploma mill will sell you the bullshit credentials you're looking for.
If I’m not a customer then why do I pay so much? I’m definitely a customer and as a customer I have certain expectations for the service rendered.
YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you want to be a customer, a diploma mill will sell you the bullshit credentials you're looking for.
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Here’s a sample of the 3D printed, scale model volcano tissue box covers I’ll be offering tomorrow in my Etsy store. In the coming weeks, I’ll also list a few new boxes (Etna and Stromboli)
phaneritic.etsy.com
phaneritic.etsy.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Here’s a sample of the 3D printed, scale model volcano tissue box covers I’ll be offering tomorrow in my Etsy store. In the coming weeks, I’ll also list a few new boxes (Etna and Stromboli)
phaneritic.etsy.com
phaneritic.etsy.com
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don't make me sit in a tiny hard chair in the middle of a loud cold room with my back facing a giant bright open space with my ass hanging out all over the place! give me WALLS and a place to put my PURSE where it won't trip the STAFF
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
don't make me sit in a tiny hard chair in the middle of a loud cold room with my back facing a giant bright open space with my ass hanging out all over the place! give me WALLS and a place to put my PURSE where it won't trip the STAFF
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I say this every ding dang year, but PLEASE if you have friends/family who you don't know what they need for the holidays, ask if they need something for their pets.
I'm helping SO many people raise funds for spay/neuter right now. Many people want help, not presents 💗
I'm helping SO many people raise funds for spay/neuter right now. Many people want help, not presents 💗
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I say this every ding dang year, but PLEASE if you have friends/family who you don't know what they need for the holidays, ask if they need something for their pets.
I'm helping SO many people raise funds for spay/neuter right now. Many people want help, not presents 💗
I'm helping SO many people raise funds for spay/neuter right now. Many people want help, not presents 💗
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Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man the best AI prompts to get a fish, and he'll always depend on an algorithm someone else has written to decide whether the statistically most probable response is to give him a fish.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man the best AI prompts to get a fish, and he'll always depend on an algorithm someone else has written to decide whether the statistically most probable response is to give him a fish.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man the best AI prompts to get a fish, and he'll always depend on an algorithm someone else has written to decide whether the statistically most probable response is to give him a fish.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Teach a man the best AI prompts to get a fish, and he'll always depend on an algorithm someone else has written to decide whether the statistically most probable response is to give him a fish.
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Same for lawyers, some medial specialities, marketing etc - fields previously thought too specialized. I don’t think they believe the tech is good enough to replace these workers. They believe it no longer matters to making a profit. And they are kind of right in the short term.
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Same for lawyers, some medial specialities, marketing etc - fields previously thought too specialized. I don’t think they believe the tech is good enough to replace these workers. They believe it no longer matters to making a profit. And they are kind of right in the short term.
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Every Trump interview now is like a serial killer taunting the police to stop him.
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Every Trump interview now is like a serial killer taunting the police to stop him.
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The firm handshake, "your word is your bond" type of masculinity that was communicated to me as a kid was hacknied and often toxic in practice, but at least it explicitly valued saying what you mean. A far better value than saying whatever provokes a reaction in others.
It was still toxic, but there was something genuine at the heart of it. Magnum and the masculinity he portrayed *believed* in something, which our postmodern masculinity definitively does not.
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The firm handshake, "your word is your bond" type of masculinity that was communicated to me as a kid was hacknied and often toxic in practice, but at least it explicitly valued saying what you mean. A far better value than saying whatever provokes a reaction in others.
During the second Reconstruction, we should finally make this the national anthem
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
During the second Reconstruction, we should finally make this the national anthem
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems
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if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
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The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
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Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.
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Okay #AcademicSky, #HistorySky, etc:
There's a lot of chatter abt how we're moving forward with assignments in the "Age of AI." Especially for those of us in writing disciplines.
I also want to hear what YOU'RE doing. Let's create a master resource thread-list here!
There's a lot of chatter abt how we're moving forward with assignments in the "Age of AI." Especially for those of us in writing disciplines.
I also want to hear what YOU'RE doing. Let's create a master resource thread-list here!
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Okay #AcademicSky, #HistorySky, etc:
There's a lot of chatter abt how we're moving forward with assignments in the "Age of AI." Especially for those of us in writing disciplines.
I also want to hear what YOU'RE doing. Let's create a master resource thread-list here!
There's a lot of chatter abt how we're moving forward with assignments in the "Age of AI." Especially for those of us in writing disciplines.
I also want to hear what YOU'RE doing. Let's create a master resource thread-list here!
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The unitary executive theory is just a farce. An absolute whopper of bullshit. They should just say they want a strong leader and drop the pretense of constitutionalism.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The unitary executive theory is just a farce. An absolute whopper of bullshit. They should just say they want a strong leader and drop the pretense of constitutionalism.
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Wait I’ve spoken French for 30 years and am just learning that eggnog in French is called chicken milk?????
It’s everyone’s favourite time of year!
Milk of chicken time 🐓🥛
Milk of chicken time 🐓🥛
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Wait I’ve spoken French for 30 years and am just learning that eggnog in French is called chicken milk?????
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Is it a storm if it's just normal wind & rain? The dogs on the stormy beach. Sylvie, age 9, gets a raincoat. Teaho, age 1, chose to run into the ocean to chase the lone gull she found. No gull chasing on video just dogs saying yay in miserable weather.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Is it a storm if it's just normal wind & rain? The dogs on the stormy beach. Sylvie, age 9, gets a raincoat. Teaho, age 1, chose to run into the ocean to chase the lone gull she found. No gull chasing on video just dogs saying yay in miserable weather.
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Really fuckin tired of how they take every case and use it to address some hypothetical future harm that doesn’t exist instead of the very much real harm sitting in front of them.
The conservative justices have their talking point -- what if Congress turned every department into a multimember commission -- and it is totally absurd considering that has never happened under the existing law.
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Really fuckin tired of how they take every case and use it to address some hypothetical future harm that doesn’t exist instead of the very much real harm sitting in front of them.
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anybody else sick of seeing these WHORES at disney world???? these women of low merit?? hello??
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
anybody else sick of seeing these WHORES at disney world???? these women of low merit?? hello??
I have a theory about this
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I have a theory about this
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OH THAT IS INTERESTING
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
OH THAT IS INTERESTING