Research Triangle: Next Generation Fayetteville: Deep Space Nine
Brent S. Sirota
@brentsirota.bsky.social
Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Shana tovah, y'all. Hope you all find your way into the book of life.
25 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it.
Just a brutal day. Time for a negroni and some Foat.
Trumps ability to corrupt every institution, virtue, and tradition we supposedly hold dear remains his superpower
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump pays tribute to Medal of Honor recipients: "The thing I really want is I want is, myself, a congressional Medal of Honor. And I've studied it. I'd give it to myself, I'd have no problem, but I'm not allowed to."
trump hit 'em with the gen X professor syllabus format
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump also take Canadian beer and wine and vermouth and cider and pisco and brandy and bourbon and rum and vodka and liqueurs and cordials and bitters and tequila and mezcal in quantities under 4 liters. /fairly sure the latter do not exist but they are included in the ban for some reason.
Fascism entails an endless stress-testing of reality, to find all the places it can be bent and all the places it can be broken entirely.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
Wouldn't a "New America" have to be somewhere other than the Americas? There are no doubt more important things to worry about but this is what my brain is getting stuck on.
they did too much. there’s too much fucking shit on him.
Philip K. Dick Trickle@pkdtrickle.bsky.social · last wk.
It should almost go without saying, but the new Steven R. Smith (@worstwardrecording.bsky.social) album on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social is absolutely exquisite
how am I just learning that there is a German producer who performs under the name Umberto Echo? That's incredible.
When I first moved down south, I asked my NC born and bred colleague how to deal with the heat. She told me to just "lean into it." I am happy to report that Babka has figured out how to lean into it.
Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
First of all, Markey has swag. Secondly, he takes your call. Same reason he beat that Kennedy twerp.
All I would do with a time machine is go back and tell historical personages to knock this shit off.
It's been almost four decades since I had to think about how stupid the name Cole Trickle is.
What stage of counter-revolution are we in?
Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE | CNN
Controversial British figure Milo Yiannopoulos, who gained a reputation as a right-wing provocateur more than a decade ago, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of ...
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It's really impressive how the GOP staffer class keeps getting worse and weirder
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
I love that in his little tantrums of semiotic colonization he can't come up with anything better to rename things than "America"