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i do art, sometimes i do other things too (like get my PhD in history) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ don't repost my art without permission thanks 🔪✨

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I miss my boy Perry 😭

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Idea for the folks with undead OCs/favourite characters (be it ghosts, zombies, vampires, etc):

Draw this as them!! The first part being them when they were still alive, the second being how they are now

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At the history department picnic

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Guys I’m losing my mind I’m speaking on a panel at a big history of science conference this summer and I’m sharing a panel with two full professors who are really big deals in our little niche field- they were publishing in academic journals when I was in high school IM NOT READY

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@climatecleric He lives next door to Margaret thatcher

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I love tomodachi life what do you mean I can put all the 18th century scientists I research on an island with the entire cast of American dad, my cats as people, every other random character I’ve ever hyper focused on, and a smattering of real world politicians??

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It’s me day 🎉

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I cannot stress enough how much I love the new haircut (and this shirt I thrifted last week)

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Sisterly love!!

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Chopped off my hair to twin with my 11 year old self

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Sometimes I see a picture of Saddam Hussein and it reminds me why when I was a kid I genuinely thought he was my grandfather because they looked so similar 😭

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And I guess it makes sense in the age of AI that they don’t learn these skills - if you can always just ask ChatGPT the answer -not even sift through search results, why would you learn to think critically about where information comes from? You’ve never had to gather it yourself

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Grading midterms and realizing how little these (200 level) college students know how to write about a source. Like, there’s no ability to analyze a primary source critically or think about why it is the way it is

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I don’t want to sound like an old person but it’s a bad sign if kids in an intermediate level college class can’t analyze a source. It’s not just a useful skill in a history class, you need to be able to recognize the biases and merits of a source any time you read news

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They can’t articulate “this source says this (subjective and/or incorrect) thing, here is why the author might think this and here are the facts to contextualize it” -they either describe the source in an uncritical summary or they don’t explain it at all and just say “its wrong”

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@feederofcats I LOVE YOU DWEEB

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I need to stop doom scrolling and start actually talking to my twitter friends again how are we divas?

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Guess who’s having a very expensive midnight trip to the emergency vet

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Fat chud son broke into the hamantaschen

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Rugelach achieved

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Stress baking rugelach but honestly hamantaschen might have been more appropriate