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Katy Telling

@katytelling.bsky.social

JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD. Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal

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Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hi y'all, Would love if you joined us for this roundtable conversation tomorrow! Working as both a contributor and editor for "The Palace of Thundering Gods" was such a unique, exciting, challenging experience. I'm so excited to talk with everyone! congregationallibrary.org/events/the-p...

The Palace of the Thundering Gods – Synthesizing Colonial American Religious History: A Virtual Round Table - Congregational Library & Archives

The Palace of Thundering Gods is a freely accessible, open-source resource that tells the history of Religion in the United States. It has been created

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Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · last wk.

The NYT 100 Best Shows of the 21st century is the perfect opportunity for me to once again share my unbending belief that whoever made the decision to cast Liza Minnelli as Lucille 2 on Arrested Development should be given the Medal of Freedom.

elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · last wk.

this is a fine piece but i think it's missing a crucial ingredient, and yeah it's a cliché for a millennial to say this on bluesky but whatever: GENDER, and the connection between empire and fetishized depictions of supposedly distinctly masculine virtues.

Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

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Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've taken the train from Richmond, VA to Providence, RI (and the reverse) many times and I always get a little verklempt seeing the beautiful rivers and bridges and skylines of the upper east coast roll by ❤️

RAIL Magazine@railmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Among the things I like most about passenger rail routes is the degree they interact with the unique territory, communities and landscapes they serve (in a way that most airport terminals do not). This is Amtrak’s Mardi Gras in downtown Mobile. The vibe is robust and distinct.

Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm actually not over this, b/c a) imagine you're having an argument with your nephew over his possibly having left the family faith and you can't respond to this letter until you think up a perfect rhyme scheme. b) is this just...a them thing? Or is everyone getting a limerick in the mail

Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · 4w ago

fighting for my life because this epistolary debate on Quakerism vs. Methodism in the 1780s is incredible but I'm undercaffeinated and every single letter is written as a rhyme

Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · last mo.

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

Katy Telling@katytelling.bsky.social · last mo.

The cat has just gained awareness of the full length mirror in the closet and has duly spent the last thirty minutes stalking her reflection. (She routinely naps behind the mirror and on a pillow next to it).

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

Real talk, all of this right now (in the U.S. anyway) is mostly about the fact that some people eked out the power to say, “no” and some other people lost their entitled minds over it.

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.