Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social

Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social
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At some point a narrative about cancel culture collided w the aftermath of Me Too and made people think things “went too far.” The reality is it was awful for accusers, and a lot of the men — even credibly accused ones who left the limelight — got their jobs back.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/what-happened-to-the-women-of-metoo
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co
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So, here’s a fun thing I just discovered. The IRS website has 1040 forms going all the way back to 1916.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social
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men are so stupid bc "entire team of women plus their one special little guy" is a top tier coworker situation to be in
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it's like when you invite some entertainer back into the fold after a while. you're saying you don't care about the safety of the women who will have to work with him.
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there's a real omelas vibe every time something like this happens. like there's a certain number of future women whose safety people are willing to trade away for whatever political security they think they'll get.
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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social
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Every generation just wants a decent job where they are paid well and not treated like shit by colleagues or customers.
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today was a work parking lot, grocery store parking lot, driveway kind of day
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social
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Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social
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whenever people announce they're taking a break from bluesky, it's usually because they're astronauts experiencing a mandatory communications blackout as they re-enter earth's atmosphere. that's why they always come back in six minutes
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This is not meant to shame. Quite the opposite. It’s just that people are being awfully self righteous when they know how awful and complex this stuff is.
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Everyone saying “how could people know about a creep in their workplace and not report them?” knows a creep they didn’t report.
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Maybe one goal should be a hard reset of both houses of Congress. Just unbend a paper clip, stick it in the hole, and re-elect all of it from scratch.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/feed/aaahuawzr46cm
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It really drives home how awful it is for one administration to tear so much of it up by the roots.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social
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One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.
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what if he said five green crew members. what if they brought a friend back
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This kind of return feels retro and cool when you've only been alive for the space shuttle era.
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Why do we choose to do such awful things as a country when we can clearly do neat things instead?
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sorry but "still on drogues" is funny
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Boy oh boy is this a lot to experience
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You can and should teach this in your US history surveys! Both halves! Anti-Catholicism is an important part of US history *especially* if you’re talking about the late 20th c evangelical/Catholic alliance over abortion.
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There’s an enormous literature on this if you are interested in it. The fact that the Church is an ancient transnational organization that also had temporal power until fairly recently is important, but it’s also been a key foil for American political identity formation since the colonial period!
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The same basically goes for all people in American Protestant culture. So much of the shock over the Vatican’s positions, from USians of all political backgrounds, comes from the fact that an imagined version of the Church has been a tool of US political discourse for centuries.
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social
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kind of funny that Benedict's social conservatism is basically how 95% of trads understood him when the man was infinitely more complex
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social
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Non-Catholic rightwing talking heads slowly starting to put a voice to anti-Catholicism advocacy.
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social
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Iran has no cards except for this one card I wanted so badly that I threatened to destroy their entire civilization
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I suppose there’s an argument to be made that the decision to use AI instead of doing the work is part of the phantom limb aspect of faculty life at this point, but it doesn’t sit right with me at all.
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Sometimes I feel like I was a real sucker when I was still in academia.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social
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I'm imagining an emerging technology that enriches workers and is based on stolen corporate patents while also driving up the cost of private jet fuel. How quickly would that technology be regulated out of existence and its creators imprisoned?
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump isn’t subject to regular calls to be at the very least convicted and imprisoned for the rest of his natural life is the one aspect of Beltway consciousness nearly as insane as he is.
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