Professor KPA 🗃️😷
@kpanyc.bsky.social
Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
This whole horrifying thread is exhibit A on why you cannot, in fact, teach yourself college with a library card. Education requires being constantly challenged.
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This whole horrifying thread is exhibit A on why you cannot, in fact, teach yourself college with a library card. Education requires being constantly challenged.
Pretty quad this morning but all those clouds need to go if we're going to see any aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pretty quad this morning but all those clouds need to go if we're going to see any aurora.
Just riding MetroNorth, sighing
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just riding MetroNorth, sighing
I want to think this is a bot, but unfortunately I've been online long enough to know that many among are indeed dumb as a box of rocks. Like Schumer. There is no way to have a functioning democracy with citizens like this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I want to think this is a bot, but unfortunately I've been online long enough to know that many among are indeed dumb as a box of rocks. Like Schumer. There is no way to have a functioning democracy with citizens like this.
Was complaining about pulling out old, disgusting grout and spouse remarked that it might be easier to think of it as picking at the intestines of, say, Trump or Stephen Miller. While that does not help with the grossness factor, it does help with motivation.
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Was complaining about pulling out old, disgusting grout and spouse remarked that it might be easier to think of it as picking at the intestines of, say, Trump or Stephen Miller. While that does not help with the grossness factor, it does help with motivation.
The kids' pumpkins:
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The kids' pumpkins:
This shit, man. Let fucking Karl rest. It's a new century. Think your own thoughts.
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This shit, man. Let fucking Karl rest. It's a new century. Think your own thoughts.
Americanist, Eastern Europeanist, Western Europeanist
October 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Americanist, Eastern Europeanist, Western Europeanist
Look at this in the replies. No wonder we can't have a national conversation about anything - people are wildly ignorant and incoherent, and media has made them this way.
September 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Look at this in the replies. No wonder we can't have a national conversation about anything - people are wildly ignorant and incoherent, and media has made them this way.
Caturday: Little Man senses a breeze and is hiding out in his warm spot.
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Caturday: Little Man senses a breeze and is hiding out in his warm spot.
I always open my course on Imperial Russia with this slide (and discussion about it), but it's going to have some new valences this year...
August 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I always open my course on Imperial Russia with this slide (and discussion about it), but it's going to have some new valences this year...
Spouse & I, who are comically not handy, are going to put custom shelves in a 125yo closet full of quirks. This is going to be... interesting. But the back side of a cupboard that sticks into it has axe marks! How cool is that?
August 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Spouse & I, who are comically not handy, are going to put custom shelves in a 125yo closet full of quirks. This is going to be... interesting. But the back side of a cupboard that sticks into it has axe marks! How cool is that?
Shopping for wood, found a cat.
August 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Shopping for wood, found a cat.
Got my syllabi done, courses up on Brightspace, and office clean for the new semester, while the world burns.
August 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Got my syllabi done, courses up on Brightspace, and office clean for the new semester, while the world burns.
I am Kate, daughter of Daniel, granddaughter of Flossie.
I read books and nap. Catch up if you can, losers.
It's every skeeter for themselves: you look tired already, but can you tell us who YOU are?
I read books and nap. Catch up if you can, losers.
It's every skeeter for themselves: you look tired already, but can you tell us who YOU are?
August 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I am Kate, daughter of Daniel, granddaughter of Flossie.
I read books and nap. Catch up if you can, losers.
It's every skeeter for themselves: you look tired already, but can you tell us who YOU are?
I read books and nap. Catch up if you can, losers.
It's every skeeter for themselves: you look tired already, but can you tell us who YOU are?
We ate pizza at the new pope's pizza place. They had a throne and table set aside for him.
July 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We ate pizza at the new pope's pizza place. They had a throne and table set aside for him.
Good luck to AI in being able to even read this, let alone know what means or being able to put it into meaningful context.
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good luck to AI in being able to even read this, let alone know what means or being able to put it into meaningful context.
We're way behind on 10yo's birthday parties because she wants all outdoor stuff and it's been heinously hot or raining every July for 3 years running. We took a chance today and ended up doing a tie-dye picnic indoors. The living room survived, barely.
July 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We're way behind on 10yo's birthday parties because she wants all outdoor stuff and it's been heinously hot or raining every July for 3 years running. We took a chance today and ended up doing a tie-dye picnic indoors. The living room survived, barely.
THIS! I don't know what's going on with your fellow white guys, they're clearly very emotional right now, but I appreciate those who are taking out the garbage among their own.
June 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
THIS! I don't know what's going on with your fellow white guys, they're clearly very emotional right now, but I appreciate those who are taking out the garbage among their own.
