Rick Jobs
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
so true; I've thought the same for years
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
so true; I've thought the same for years
Jason, if you end up in PDX sometime (I'll be gone those NYE days--actually I'll be in FL with 88yo KY dad), let me know and we'll eat and drink and be murray
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Jason, if you end up in PDX sometime (I'll be gone those NYE days--actually I'll be in FL with 88yo KY dad), let me know and we'll eat and drink and be murray
I hope it's an underground lair with tunneled monorail transport.
December 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I hope it's an underground lair with tunneled monorail transport.
Have a Happy Murder!
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Have a Happy Murder!
Thank you! We think so!
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thank you! We think so!
we can't get our 15yo to read the manual and take the test for a permit--we keep saying "wouldn't be great if you could drive yourself to soccer practice next fall?!"
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
we can't get our 15yo to read the manual and take the test for a permit--we keep saying "wouldn't be great if you could drive yourself to soccer practice next fall?!"
new jersey nanny state
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
new jersey nanny state
I got a measles booster last spring. I told them my age and they said, yeah do it. Apparently the vaccine from late 60s to early 70s was a bit dodgy
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I got a measles booster last spring. I told them my age and they said, yeah do it. Apparently the vaccine from late 60s to early 70s was a bit dodgy
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A new(ish) book thinking through French interventions in post-colonial Africa:
Colonialism Devours Itself | Hurst Publishers
A historically grounded account, from de Gaulle onwards, of how France's neocolonial influence crumbled in Africa, with devastating and unforeseen consequences.
www.hurstpublishers.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A new(ish) book thinking through French interventions in post-colonial Africa:
