Greg Specter
@gregspecter.bsky.social
Moravians. Early America. Video games are neat. Meerkat enthusiast.
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You have no idea how happy I am that Mike is doing this. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
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November 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
You have no idea how happy I am that Mike is doing this. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
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For everyone, but especially those of us who waited a little long to start planning a #SHEAR2026 panel [insert "who's got two thumbs..." meme], the program committee has graciously extended the CFP deadline to December 15! shear.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers – SHEAR
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For everyone, but especially those of us who waited a little long to start planning a #SHEAR2026 panel [insert "who's got two thumbs..." meme], the program committee has graciously extended the CFP deadline to December 15! shear.org/annual-meeti...
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Just got done speaking to a journalism class about my work and experience, press freedom and the state of the news industry...that was really cool and thanks @chrisdunker.bsky.social for the invite :]
If anyone else wants a slightly curmudgeonly renegade journo to chat with their students, hmu!!😂
If anyone else wants a slightly curmudgeonly renegade journo to chat with their students, hmu!!😂
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just got done speaking to a journalism class about my work and experience, press freedom and the state of the news industry...that was really cool and thanks @chrisdunker.bsky.social for the invite :]
If anyone else wants a slightly curmudgeonly renegade journo to chat with their students, hmu!!😂
If anyone else wants a slightly curmudgeonly renegade journo to chat with their students, hmu!!😂
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this isn’t shocking or scandalous in the slightest if you’ve been paying attention to gazans or pro-palestine activists or (as always) sex workers
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
this isn’t shocking or scandalous in the slightest if you’ve been paying attention to gazans or pro-palestine activists or (as always) sex workers
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Sadao Hasegawa was an influential Japanese gay artist. He has his first solo exhibition in 1973 and was published in Japanese gay magazines. Hasegawa's influences included Go Mishima, Tom of Finland, Tamotsu Yato, mythology and spirituality.
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sadao Hasegawa was an influential Japanese gay artist. He has his first solo exhibition in 1973 and was published in Japanese gay magazines. Hasegawa's influences included Go Mishima, Tom of Finland, Tamotsu Yato, mythology and spirituality.
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Our Executive Editor had his students put this podcast together over the course of ... well... his course. Give it a spin.
Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...
Who Cares about The Marquis de Lafayette? | Podcasts | Columbus State University
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November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Our Executive Editor had his students put this podcast together over the course of ... well... his course. Give it a spin.
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Myths: "Native people didn’t farm." "They were always hungry."
These myths shaped history—and justified land theft.
In Ep. 426 of Ben Franklin’s World, Michael Wise busts these myths and reframes Indigenous foodways.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
These myths shaped history—and justified land theft.
In Ep. 426 of Ben Franklin’s World, Michael Wise busts these myths and reframes Indigenous foodways.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
Episode 426: Michael Wise, Beyond the First Thanksgiving: Indigenous Agriculture and the Hidden Science of Native Foodways
Discover how Wampanoag and Cherokee farmers shaped early America through Indigenous agriculture, Native foodways, and hidden science.
benfranklinsworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Myths: "Native people didn’t farm." "They were always hungry."
These myths shaped history—and justified land theft.
In Ep. 426 of Ben Franklin’s World, Michael Wise busts these myths and reframes Indigenous foodways.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
These myths shaped history—and justified land theft.
In Ep. 426 of Ben Franklin’s World, Michael Wise busts these myths and reframes Indigenous foodways.
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/426
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OK nerds listen up. The OG Pi zero does not come with wifi or Bluetooth. It costs $10. Have students build up simple word processors with this, and fuck Chat GPT forever.
www.adafruit.com/product/2885
www.adafruit.com/product/2885
Raspberry Pi Zero - Version 1.3
At first glance, the Pi Zero isn't much. It just looks like a slimmed down version of the Raspberry Pi we know and love. But when we started to think of the possibilities - ...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
OK nerds listen up. The OG Pi zero does not come with wifi or Bluetooth. It costs $10. Have students build up simple word processors with this, and fuck Chat GPT forever.
www.adafruit.com/product/2885
www.adafruit.com/product/2885
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The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
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We are happy to partner with Heaux History to collect donations!
Stop by the Leather Archives & Museum to put your donations in the drop off bin this week!
Cash donations also welcome at $HEAUXHISTORYPROJECT (Cashapp or Venmo)
Stop by the Leather Archives & Museum to put your donations in the drop off bin this week!
Cash donations also welcome at $HEAUXHISTORYPROJECT (Cashapp or Venmo)
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are happy to partner with Heaux History to collect donations!
Stop by the Leather Archives & Museum to put your donations in the drop off bin this week!
Cash donations also welcome at $HEAUXHISTORYPROJECT (Cashapp or Venmo)
Stop by the Leather Archives & Museum to put your donations in the drop off bin this week!
Cash donations also welcome at $HEAUXHISTORYPROJECT (Cashapp or Venmo)
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America is so broken. Every country touched by a permanent slavery based on race is broken. And in America, religion was poisoned in a particular way to justify the abuse of black people and to keep people who engaged in it from going mad.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
America is so broken. Every country touched by a permanent slavery based on race is broken. And in America, religion was poisoned in a particular way to justify the abuse of black people and to keep people who engaged in it from going mad.
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*dominatrix youth pastor voice* you know who else can restrict your movement for $350/hour
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
*dominatrix youth pastor voice* you know who else can restrict your movement for $350/hour
I miss K-Mart. You could get everything you wanted from K-Mart.
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I miss K-Mart. You could get everything you wanted from K-Mart.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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this is lovely bc in many fields 90% of the job is telling students every conception they had of a topic is wrong. in my experience for ppl who look like stereotypical authoritative professors to students this lands as “whoa I learned something new” & the rest of us get “pretty sure that’s wrong”
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
this is lovely bc in many fields 90% of the job is telling students every conception they had of a topic is wrong. in my experience for ppl who look like stereotypical authoritative professors to students this lands as “whoa I learned something new” & the rest of us get “pretty sure that’s wrong”
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Appealing directly to Fremont:
"Colonel, I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated and perfect Freedom exists in love matters and you will, be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters."
"Colonel, I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated and perfect Freedom exists in love matters and you will, be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters."
Prepping to talk veg history to a friend's class next week and I still come back to how much I love the political cartoon that helped push me down this path and especially the blurb from the Free Love advocate (1/2)
digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/ob...
digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/ob...
The great Republican reform party, calling on their candidate. [graphic]. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections
Cartoon lampooning the Republican Party's constituency of radicals and reformers who supported the first Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, in 1856. In the right, Frémont receives his...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Appealing directly to Fremont:
"Colonel, I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated and perfect Freedom exists in love matters and you will, be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters."
"Colonel, I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated and perfect Freedom exists in love matters and you will, be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters."
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FYI to Scranton folks looking to show support: our closest union shop is the one in Dickson City!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
FYI to Scranton folks looking to show support: our closest union shop is the one in Dickson City!
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This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Oh hey I'm quoted in the History Channel talking about Stephen King! www.history.com/articles/ste...
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Oh hey I'm quoted in the History Channel talking about Stephen King! www.history.com/articles/ste...
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Aaand only two months behind schedule but finally got around to popping up a press release (thanks @rascal.news)...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Get Out & Play with the Field Agent Handbooks
Pick one up today and become a pendulum-dowsing Field Agent
www.rascal.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Aaand only two months behind schedule but finally got around to popping up a press release (thanks @rascal.news)...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
I saw the monster movie last night. I thought the castle gothic tower looked like it came out of Assassin's Creed when it popped on the screen. Then the guy later parkoured up that thing like his name was Altair.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I saw the monster movie last night. I thought the castle gothic tower looked like it came out of Assassin's Creed when it popped on the screen. Then the guy later parkoured up that thing like his name was Altair.
Whenever I see I guy like this I remember what the woman at Boot Barn told me:
"Pull it down. It's not a baseball cap."
She explained it's one of the biggest tells for a fake.
"Pull it down. It's not a baseball cap."
She explained it's one of the biggest tells for a fake.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whenever I see I guy like this I remember what the woman at Boot Barn told me:
"Pull it down. It's not a baseball cap."
She explained it's one of the biggest tells for a fake.
"Pull it down. It's not a baseball cap."
She explained it's one of the biggest tells for a fake.