do you think that George Washington’s head gardener William Spence (bachelor) and George Washington’s clerk Albin Rawlins (bachelor), who lived houses directly across from each other, ever explored each other’s bodies
Ike Makos
@ikemakos.bsky.social
Toiling away in the history mines. Public history professional. Board & tabletop gaming enthusiast. MA in Public History 2020. BA in History 2016. Pronouns are he/him/his.
North Korea, South Korea, Manchukuorea, Hokkaidorea, Vladivostokorea, the list goes on
sick public transit, gloria@seung.bsky.social · 5d agohow many Koreas are there? me, Joe Bidenly: at least three
in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
mynbc5.com
Anyway, I find these frequent 'trick battles' in TV and film (Rings of Power is lousy with them) really annoying because the tricks are things that would never work in a real battle, rather than someone pulling a strategem that was real. Which wouldn't be hard - there are whole books of them!
anyway going outside into washington dc, aka the president's personal construction site, that is full of soldiers because of nonexistent crime
Today is Septidi the 17th of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate flax. #JacobinDay See today's page
The nice thing about living in a democracy is that our leaders aren’t kings and you can be rude to them if they deserve it
3 AUGUST 1776, NEW YORK: Washington’s daily orders call on the Continental Army to clean up their language: “The foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion;”
Today is Sextidi the 16th of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate marshmallow. #JacobinDay See today's page
becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together
Why did you unblock me, exactly?
George Washington's inner thoughts as he presides over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, 1787:
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d agohow do you all have so many opinions
Worried that Emily Wilson is establishing a rockstar standard for translators that will kill future generations of classicists like Keith Richards’ tolerance killed a generation of succeeding rock stars
Amusing myself and my wife by referring to him as Peter Spiderman, like he's a guy we met once at Shul
PhD candidates are goons. "PhD candidate" is an oppressive class, like homoromantic people or white people.
I want members of Congress who have the decency to talk down to the brain-melted bosses of corporate America like the dogs they are
just finished: THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS by @stevesarson.bsky.social Fascinating look into the ways the Declaration grounded itself in history and how that explains the seeming contradictions between rhetoric and reality that people began identifying almost immediately after it was circulated
just finished: AMERICAN PATRIARCH: THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by H.W. Brands this is now, I think, my go-to recommendation for those looking for an introductory biography of Washington. It touches on everything, but rarely gets deeper than surface-level on any particular thing.
We don't have to tolerate the status quo of tech companies setting the world on fire in search of a nebulous profit incentive. The way social media operates and the way public, easily accessible AI tools are deployed don't have to be this way
Haulin' Oates, my new podcast recording while driving the nation's highways and byways with Joyce Carol Oates in a big rig, discussing her latest posts