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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 3h

My work bag has been turned to a new and better purpose.

#cat

A grey tuxedo cat cinnamon buns atop a navy fabric courier bag.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks for putting it together, Ben - that's a useful contribution to ye olde Wiki. :)

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 5h

New Wikipedia article, hot off the presses

(with thanks to @sschwinghamer.bsky.social and others at Pier 21 for already publishing a comprehensive piece about Victoria, BC's immigration facilities, which I have linked to in the footnotes)

Immigration Building - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 7h

*looks up from apple pie, sees excellent second course*

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 7h

I had somehow missed the "Ask A Slave" series (thanks @jamesopp.bsky.social) and it's such a great, hilarious hook for talking about living history with #PublicHistory students.

(There are articles and stuff, too, if you're feeling text-obligated)

www.youtube.com/@AskASlaveTh...

Ask A Slave: The Web Series

Ask A Slave is a comedy web series based on the actress' experiences working at Mount Vernon portraying one of George Washington's slaves. All questions and interactions are based on true life events....

www.youtube.com

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 9h

emploi - Université de Moncton

Histoire de l'Atlantique français à l'epoque coloniale - Professeure ou professeur

Fermeture du concours : Le 5 janvier 2026

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@cndhistassoc.bsky.social #cdnhist #etudescanadiennes #francophonie

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21h

James Joyce is like some extremely expensive scotch: people play along because they figure they'll look unsophisticated if they just point out that it's an unpalatable mess.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21h

*looking around at aaaalllll the places jailing powerful people*

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrating settler colonization day with mango chicken curry chips!

#HistorianParenting

#HappyThanksgiving

A mango curry sauce simmers and thickens in a black pan.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to an interesting conversation between Luke Savage & @caradrianh.bsky.social - although tangential to the podcast, I'm thinking about how tribalism has supplanted and is now mistaken for ideology in public political discourse.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Ni...

Luke Savage - The Age of Fascism, AI & Genocide: (Re)Considering Ed Broadbent & Social Democracy

YouTube video by In Bed with the Elephant (with Adrian Harewood)

music.youtube.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, if a male grifter like Chris Rufo or Ben Shapiro were named the head of CBS News, yes, the reaction would have been just as fierce.

No one is objecting because she's a woman. Jesus, get a grip.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

You think for ONE SEC that a man in her position who was named head of CBS News would be the subject of so much to-do? Come on.

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 2d

The whole "you should be proud of Bari Weiss because she's a WOMAN entrepreneur" argument reminds me of this comic:

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social · 1d

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

Just one more lane.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 1d

I really just want the Pope to do an appearance in an inflatable frog costume

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

Given what we're watching in Portland...

Here's information on attacking dictator-types with humor and mockery.

It's been branded "laughtivism."

And the Portland frog is showing how it works.

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

Pushback Politics Part 2: The Power of Humor

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

www.youtube.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 2d

It's bike infrastructure.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

Even though nobody wears bike helmets in the Netherlands, the fatality rate there is significantly smaller than that of the United States. What have they figured out that we haven't?

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

www.newyorker.com

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King Moonracer @king-moonracer.bsky.social · 7d

Trump literally signed the law.

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