Rebecca Spang
@rlspang
Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo. ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow. once/future Mainer Atheist
. @pdpolly.bsky.social and I went for a little hike to celebrate our anniversary. At the top of the hill, students in a photography class were busy practicing. So here’s our semi-official, semi-professional, 30th Wedding Anniversary photo!
Because of my travels, I missed the last two #Caturdays. So here’s Mr. P. Schuster Bell (white cat with very fluffy tail) posing with Shakespeare on top of a bookcase
I kept thinking of your prediction and while I probably would have been more comfortable in April, it was never unbearable! Plus SO much vegetation grows there, from giant dogs to tiny trees
I have been away from the land of my birth and from Bluesky. Did anyone miss me? Guess where I’ve been?!
I had the same thought when I saw this critter hanging around a sorority house
Somebody scrambled onto the back of this chair and then down into my lap. He says it’s #Caturday somewhere
I was planning to read final papers but since they were all submitted via Canvas and all I can see is a ransom note…. Maybe I will go home, change my clothes, and do some weeding.
Despite the extraordinary storms, we still have power. So it’s time for cheesy potato cakes night!
I think all I have done today here is to repost gloom and anger. So here are four flowers of cheer and hope
When all existing institutions have been delegitimated and no agreed upon structure exists for adjudicating difference. This, I think, is the definition of a revolutionary (transformative) era. Or a failed state.
Indivisible of Waldo County estimates there were 1700 at the Belfast Maine #NoKings3 protest yesterday. With an official population of ~6900 that's basically 25%. There were simultaneous events at three nearby smaller towns, so nobody traveled far to this one!