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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).

Mastodon: @stopthatgirl7
Lemmy: stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world

My mastodon accounts:

• @kjr (Mostly) in English
• @kjr in Hebrew

We are a small publisher focusing on translating primary history sources into English

opa, professional genealogist, power walker, avid reader, technologist, historian, civil libertarian, constitutionalist, NAFO member

My postings are selected for their informational value; I "do not" necessarily agree with their content.

Woke Antifa Mobster. 24/7/365 stream of: news, salty commentary and vitriol from a mostly leftist/progressive perspective. News feed is my own custom, hippie-biased algo. Commentary is me. I try to answer in a somewhat timely manner but often fail, so... sorry. #fedi22 #news #resist #antifa #woke #politics #socialjustice #fbr #ifb #science #openscience #openaccess #opendata #reproducibility #opensource #foss #privacy #based

#Space
#UFO
#Aliens

• Married to the best man ever on the world (https://swiss.social/@paulfoerster). ❤️
• Owning a small 🏡, a beautiful oldtimer Yamaha Virago 750 🏍️ and a small 🚗 in a small, but beautiful country.
• Freelance artist.
• Hobbies: #Pottery #GlassBeads #Gardening #Nature #History #Fossiles #Music #Animals, #DVDs #Reading #Travel
• Pets: 4 🐈, 5 🐡, 3 🐓, 2 🦆

#NoBot

Profile banner image: sea of fog covering area Solothurn to Aarau, Alps in the background, sunrise red/orange, picture taken by me

Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account at Mastodon. You can also find us on:

FB: http://facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial
IN: http://instagram.com/auschwitzmemorial
TT: http://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum

#museum #memorial #NeverForget #NeverAgainIsNow #histodons #fedi22 #Remember #facts

Themes: #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Shoah #antisemitism #WorldWar2 #ww2 #memory #history #Nazis #genocide #museums

After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️ Our main series follows the history of Rome from the founding of the city. We also interview scholars and fantastic people about the ancient world. Dr Rad (she/her) specialises in Spartacus. Dr G (she/her) specialises in the Vestal Virgins. 📍 Dharug and Bidjigal Country. #Podcast #Ancient #Histodon #Historian #Rome #AncientHistory

Every day women have, and are, making history. ​Follow for daily posts.

We started the project in 2017, on a bus home from a Womens March.

#memes

Warrior, thief, smuggler, king, knows that running su is like picking up a heavy and very sharp axe.

Economic historian with broad social science & historical interests. I investigate aspects of population health, mobility & inequality, incarceration & the lives of prisoners in Canada, NZ, Australia & SouthAfrica with census & other digital resources

current project: https://thecanadianpeoples.com

tfr

Welcome to Flipboard’s culture and entertainment picks. You'll find insightful interviews, revealing reviews and thought-provoking features. Posts are handpicked by Flipboard editors. Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting. #Culture #Entertainment #TheArts #Food

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Header photo: Group of people having fun at concert. Photo by Getty Images

IHC - Institute of Contemporary History
Multidisciplinary research institute in modern and contemporary history located at NOVA University Lisbon and at the University of Évora.
Founded in 1990.

Header: our logo
Avatar: our symbol

Historian currently at Universität Augsburg | #BookHistory #PaperHistory #DigitalHistory #MediaHistory #UrbanHistory #NewsHistory #DigitalPublicHistory and more | Co-editor "Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte" (JbKG) | Vertrauensdozent https://mastodon.world/@boeckler_de | Alumnus FU + HU Berlin + Gerda Henkel Stiftung | born at 338 ppm | Team #histodons in the Fediverse and #skystorians activity at Bluesky | Recently started #LibraryStampMadness | Once gave a lecture on a train | I do enjoy my work

#democraticsocialism #LGBTQally #transally #EU #independentScotland #antifascist #SOSNHS #FOSS
Male, retired. Equality for all, regardless of gender, colour or sexual orientation. Society without socialism is not society, but exploitation of the weakest. He/him Lives in Hawick, Scottish Borders bobjmsn@twitter.com
Header is a drone photo of my former home in Shetland.
Avatar is Aurora borealis over Loch of Voe Shetland

Settler historian. Prof, University of Toronto, member of the Montreal History Group (https://ghm.uqam.ca/) and Associate Editor, Canadian Historical Review.

Thinking about Indigenous peoples, capitalism, the state, and colonialism, especially the fiduciary and fiscal varieties. 🎶 and 🚴 too. Posts in English. En français itou. #histodons #CdnHist #HistQC #19thcentury | tfr

The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.

A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.

Pictured: just a few of our recent writers.

Free to read, without paywalls or ads (and free to republish, too, under Creative Commons license).

We combine academic rigor with journalistic flair.

Male, gay, introvert, nonconformist.

I post things I consider to be interesting in some way. That does not necessarily mean I share the opinion expressed in the article/video. Similarly, a boost does not imply agreement.

Areas of interest include:
#History
#Archeology
#ClimateCrisis
#Languages & #Lingustics
#Astronomy
World #Music
#SecondLife
#LGBTQ issues

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Uni Łódź archaeologist, table-top gamer, book worm, punster, science fan, blogger, Leftie, Swede

#archaeology #ttrpg #boardgames #books #science #blogging #progressive #stockholm #sweden #lodz #poland

An absurdist comic strip romp through time.

Dark jokes. Dumb gags. Mature audiences 🔞

💌 Cartoon roundup emailed monthly
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Superversive humanist. Prolific graphomaniac. Newsjunkie. Reading, thinking, writing things🖖🏼

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Indio Gringo™ de Tennessee, ruthlessly pursuing #Joy

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Veteran of Eternal September since ‘99

Fresh IT news from a variety of sources. Public service by @emanuel

#WerkstattGeschichte ist ein Ort, an dem über #Geschichte und ihre Akteur*innen ebenso reflektiert wird wie über historisches #Forschen und #Schreiben.

Die #Zeitschrift erscheint zweimal im Jahr.

Alle Ausgaben nach einem Jahr #OpenAccess auf unserer Website: https://werkstattgeschichte.de

Publisher, Postcard Dealer and Peel Session uploader. Sheffield, UK

Formerly catalogued historical manuscripts at the Royal Institution of Cornwall and Cornwall Record Office

Flesh and blood is who we are, our cover is blown...

Serious About Curiosity > Ideas Roadshow is an award-winning multimedia initiative and producer of upcoming films about the Italian Renaissance: from detailed explorations of famous artists, to wide-ranging profiles of renowned thinkers, to focused examinations of a range of intriguing specific topics.

Coming soon: RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT, https://ideasroadshow.com/raphael/
Other films on the Italian Renaissance: https://ideasroadshow.com/renaissance/

Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.

Author. Scientist. Host of PBS Serving Up Science. Sustainability, Politics & Science Communication at Michigan State. #HistoryRemix for stories of diverse trailblazers in science & the arts. #SharedPlanet to explore biodiversity

🤠Texan 👾Gamer 👩🏾‍💻“big tech” worker
📸terrible photographer 🐧Linux noob

I mainly share old photos of Houston and talk about Black & Southern history, books, and tech.

Sometimes I whine about work, my computer, the state of the world, and share bad photos I’ve taken.

Historian 📚. Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University 🎓. Queer history of science and medicine 🐧. Oxford's LGBTQ+ history (https://queeroxford.info/) 🏛️. Awarded my doctorate in 2021 🥳. I'm currently transforming my thesis into a book ⌨️. Now living on the South Coast (close to Brighton) ⛵. Interested in LGBTQ+ history and issues, especially sciencey stuff 🏳️‍🌈 :transgender:.

Historian of #emdiplomacy, #peacecongresses and #peacemaking with a past with queen #ElizabethI; occasionally also editing the #autobiography of Karl Brandi.

Award-winning historian, Yale. Early US politics & violence; A.Ham. Author: "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War." SHEAR President, 2021-22. #histodons #history #politics #Congress #politicalviolence #democracy #podcasts #birbs

Omnia mea mecum porto.

#Mythology #History #Philosophy

India news, focused mainly on hindutva violence. Until the Scrolls and The Wires decide to show up on the fediverse.

Activist, dad, husband, UX designer, technologist, researcher, writer, soccer fan, musician, vegetarian, meditator, competitive gamer, lover, hater, potty mouth, actually ADHD. He/him/his. https://mas.to/about/more?instance_actor=true moderator.

#BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice #Antifascist #UX #Research #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Tofu

Him/he male Southeast USA archaeologist posting about archaeology, history, botany, geology, maps, LiDAR, & more. Twitter: @J_Green_505

Writing HTML since 1994. Salesforce stuff since 2009. Into music, art, science, etc. Married. Living on Hohokam land.

Sometimes I write at
https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com.

Black/trans lives matter. He/Him.
Racism/other bigotry = block.

#indieweb #weirdweb #roguelikes #arcadegames #shootemups #shmups #cats #horror #movies #tv #photography #punk #punkrock #garagerock #metal #deathmetal #brutaldeathmetal #antifascist #Wordpress #writing #writers #fedi22 tfr #nobridge #nobot #nokiddin

History | Postdoc | Research Coordinator and PR Management Prize Papers Project https://www.prizepapers.de | Lecturer Early Modern History University of Oldenburg | Teaching Early Modern History | Project Games & History #earlymodern #histodons #PrizePapers #FediLZ #Games #teaching #fedi23

Co-host of "The Dalrymple Report", a podcast dedicated to tech, friendship, and curiosities.

I wrote Audio Cupcake (audio processing app), bunch of dev books, created Ovichase.com (hockey site) support kindness and community,

CMU/Stanford alum.

Hashtags (sorted alphabetically): #ALLCAPS #APPLE #COOKING #DRUMS #FILM #FOODIE #FOOTBALL #GUITAR #HOCKEY #LOGICPRO #MLB #MOVIES #MUSIC #NFL #NHL #NWSL #PHOTOGRAPHY #PIANO #POLITICS #SPORTS #WRITING

Founded in 1954, the Texas Observer is a #progressive #nonprofit news outlet and print #magazine covering the Lone Star State.

Follow Interim Editor-in-Chief https://texasobserver.social/@gusbova
McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow https://texasobserver.social/@josephinelee

Become a member and support our work: https://texasobserver.org/join

#Texas #Politics #Culture

Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks.

According to Michael Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011), founder of Project Gutenberg, the mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away.

Former Sailor, past Mobile DJ, bragging up Nova Scotia, and sharing amazing places. Extremely varied interests (except Sports), no hard-line Politics, just part of daily conversation. If you don't describe your photos, I probably won't boost them. Here to share what I know for newbies on Mastodon. Talks too much. Easily excitable. Early riser full of ADHD & Vinegar!
ENGAGEMENT

Life is what you make it.

#WAYCTV (𝐖hen 𝐀re 𝐘ou 𝐂oming 𝐓o 𝐕isit?)
Profile Photo of a younger me, animated.

Musician, historian and mother.
Early music specialist and historical consultant for film, television, radio and theatre.
FRHistS.
Director of early music ensemble, Passamezzo.
#histodon
#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#broadsideballads
#tudorhistory
#iconography
#16thCentury
#17thCentury
#seasonality
#jacobean
#tudor
#plague
#folklore
#renaissance
Also #cats #bridge

Writer. Librarian at D & G libraries. Scottish, atheist and human. Ionnsachadh-Gàidhlig. Scots enthusiast. History nerd. Music lover. Science. She/her. Yes.

Overeducated, underqualified. Always a dabbler, never a professional. He/him/his. I am in #Denton TX USA

#sdf #powerpop #pcusa #economics #geography #cartography #transportation #ActiveTransportation #policing #SocialJustice
I love #cars but would rather be riding the #bus and #trains

Just an opinionated SDF member for 18+ years.

[Profile header is version of The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel]

All #Boston, all the time.

💙💛 #SlavaUkraini
Alles ist relativ - nur der Ablativ ist absolut.
I know who shot JR.

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