Sitting on my deck listening to the drone of amateur fireworks. The ever-increasing rumbling and booming makes it seem the Tet Offensive is inching closer my way. Happy 4th.
Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦
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Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own. Слава Україні! Web: https://www.drrobthompson.com
Friends, is this a scam? My intuition says yes, but I’d like to know for sure. The email is clearly full of AI text—no layperson could summarize my niche book otherwise. Anyway, I’m all for promoting my book, but I’m not about to get involved in a scam. #skystorians
Reposting my anti-Ken Burns stuff because someone told me I should be thankful for him. 😵💫
Ken Burns is the Michael Bay of documentaries.
Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · 2y agoKen burns recycling his soundtrack from the civil war for his baseball series makes for a wild juxtaposition *Weeping, sad and lonely plays* Civil War: "I lost my best friend in all the world. And my kidney. Elisha Hunt Rhodes" Baseball: "and that's how jingo whippets got banned from the NL"
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.” With those words you need not contemplate his documentaries further. Ken Burns is a boring story teller at best, a charlatan at worst.
What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution
On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.
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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
@nataliaantonova.bsky.social has me thinking about Camus, again.
Boring. What if the Central Powers won WWI is far more intriguing.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 3mo ago“what if the Nazis won WWII” alt history is boring — I wanna know your “what if JFK hadn’t been shot” alt history
I’m just gonna scootch right by ya and… *ope*… slap several people upside the head with this field manual right here. You can read it when I’m done.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoCaine: "These paratroopers are constantly ready to jump from Air Force aircraft into ground combat and seize key terrain if ordered to do so, just like their predecessors did in Sicily and Normandy in World War 2."
He probably said this while picking his teeth with a raccoon penis.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4mo agoRFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.
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Presidementia is doing a fantastic job of making Iran the rational actor in this unnecessary conflict.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4mo agoIran said yesterday there will be no talks unless US “drops the extreme conditions”. Today, the president is telling callers that he will “blow Iran up”. Time will tell.
He’s always the stupidest person in the room, no matter what.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "For the first time in more than 50 years, we now have reverse migration. A beautiful thing actually."
Remember, you, too, can become Christ in your death cult.
Maybe JD can champion cancer next so that, too, can die.
On this Easter I’d like to remind everyone to refrain from joining a cult.
American Christianity helped justify slavery and, later, segregation. Today it remains antagonistic to the teachings of Christ and continues to function as a firehose of white supremacy and nationalism.
Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 4mo agoA lot of what is culturally normalised Christian ideology in the US seems really fucking wild to the rest of the world.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Stunning. (Credit: NASA)
Summer Warhammer Chick@celticdragon1.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Stunning. (Credit: NASA)
Finally paid my respects to the grave of LtC. Robert E. Whitbeck. If you’ve read my book, you’ll recall he gave his life defending his command, the U.S. Army artillery and radar site at Tuy Hòa North Airfield on 30 January 1968. I also visited the grave of Lansdale, whose papers shaped my work.
