Cathie Grimm
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Newly retired German teaching prof. My youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
Finally have time to peruse my stack of New Yorkers. This cover is Barry Blitt‘s „War-A-Lago“.
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"The only way he could come to terms with himself was to forget himself. and that was what he was always doing." Marguerite Young, Miss Macintosh, My Darling. #MargueriteYoung #MisMacintoshMyDarling #litfic #booksky
Lumbar steroid shot side effect sent me to the ER with breathlessness and chest weirdness. All is well. Life is a wild ride. #lumbarsteroidshot #steroidsideeffects
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Won’t forget the intense foil on a filling pain I felt when receiving my epidural steroid shot this morning.
Austin Powers: Ouch Baby... Very Ouch
ALT: Austin Powers: Ouch Baby... Very Ouch
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See the Stunning Images Psyche Beamed Back From Mars
See the Stunning Images Psyche Beamed Back From Mars: The spacecraft took a much-need detour en route to the asteroid of the same name
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"referred kinetic chain pain" is both the name of my hardrock band AND the specific type of pain I'm suffering from today!
Pedro Pascal: 'My back is killing me'
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Make sure to mark this in your calendars. Call is open now #envhist #cfp
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History@eseh.bsky.social · 4w agoThe call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum
Both parties elevate sociopaths but the base of only one demands their removal from ballots and offices
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Discussing the pros and cons of public urination with Reddit peeps is hilarious. „Dude, women do it too“ „Dude, I hate paying for toilets“ „we hate you let us pee wherever want“ etc… delightful insights into the minds of redditors, who love using „dude“ as their preferred form of address. 😆🤮😆🤮
This was the post I saw after my post about Germany going through some stuff:
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · last mo.An iconic figure of Germany’s far left is extending a hand to the surging far right in an effort to bring down the mainstream parties governing the country.
Have been in Germany for almost 7 weeks and I feel like as a country it’s going through some stuff. It feels different.
German moments good: witnessing the woman conscientiously picking up her dog’s 💩. German moments bad: looking out my hotel window and having to witness countless men using the corner of the train station as their pissoir. 🤮🤮🤮
TIL about the 1915 German pig massacre. Really stupid idea.
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Reading Gabriele tergit’s fantastic novel the Effingers is teaching me things: the 1918 Spanish flu actually started an Kansas, but wartime censorship meant it didn’t get to be known until it “went” to Spain. #Tergit #effingers #spanishflu
Maybe if the German goaly had worn a nice shade of pinky lavender things would have turned out differently.
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CFP: Global Childhood (s) and Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Leeds 16-18 November. Keynote by Dr Sebastián Gil-Riañ. Deadline for submissions June 22nd hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/c...
oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy
Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
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