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Dr Samuel McLean

@canadianerrant.bsky.social

Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style

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Okay my goals for this week are to try to bake a baguette, to make mustard, and trace out the pattern for the shirt I want to make

07.12.2025 04:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VII Part 1 of 3 (1905) Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VII Part 1 of 3 (1905) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume VII Part 1 of 3 (1905)

Raising awareness about the important history of the Early #GermanGayRightsMovement – one translation at a time #LGBTQhistory #Transgender #Intersex Studies #MagnusHirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld, #KarlHeinrichUlrichs 🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ο
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNB1D448

06.12.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899) Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume I (1899)

The world's first Gay group issued a yearbook, the Annual of Sexual Intermediaries. Volumes 1 to 13 now in English. 1899 to 1913. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersexuality recorded in real time. eBook, Paperback, Hardcover #lgbtqHistory 🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ο
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7FDN81J

06.12.2025 23:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This 1000%. Heck I'm much more concerned about the students who would benefit from accomodations but either don't know about them or can't afford to get them officially recognized.

accommodation requests also made me a better teacher..i.e. a blind student made me much better at describing images

02.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

This should be one of many.

03.12.2025 05:31 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.

Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

04.12.2025 02:16 — 👍 568    🔁 225    💬 14    📌 9
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

03.12.2025 22:19 — 👍 6769    🔁 2318    💬 27    📌 167

Siccing dogs on people is a slave tracker thing, a Bull Connor thing, a police brutality thing, a jackboot thug thing, an evil abuse of both dog and man which only a fully corrupted spirit could enact.

06.12.2025 07:12 — 👍 1068    🔁 303    💬 5    📌 5

Just saying that if any other contracted group blew their budget by even 5%, much less this 13-20% (not sure which numbers were approved) their contract would be at minimum up for review and most likely not renewed.

A police union contract should be treated like every other contract.

06.12.2025 19:23 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Jokes on that dude. I like that song

06.12.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huzzah

06.12.2025 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was talking to Ashley about how much the boys hockey gear smells and she reminds me I used to cook me home from work smelling like ship diesel and well that's what Lush's most aromatic citrus soaps are for

06.12.2025 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is genuinely revolting and might possibly qualify as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

06.12.2025 20:07 — 👍 251    🔁 57    💬 18    📌 0

It never does

06.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abby favourites from last night?

06.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

06.12.2025 16:24 — 👍 171    🔁 78    💬 1    📌 7

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.

hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

06.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 367    🔁 120    💬 6    📌 6

that's hilarious.

06.12.2025 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

no hockey tomorrow! so pleased. It means I dont have to get up too early and we will be able to wash the boys' hockey gear because it's super smelly and gross.

So gross.

06.12.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

happy birthday to @kelseashanty.bsky.social

06.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

that's fair :p I'm losing track of things that are supposed to be coming out but it's always a delight to find something new I had no idea was coming

06.12.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I teach it in class first bc of how long it often takes students to get past the fact that they’re not arguing against “Idea A”

06.12.2025 17:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

One assignment style I've discovered that AI cannot (yet) deal with is the "Four Sentence Essay." It has students essentially distill a whole paper into four sentences of argument between two opponents about whatever topic. It boggles the students' minds & AI just can't do the logic piece of it.

05.12.2025 21:15 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

Anything you're waiting for in particular?

06.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Love and Legends Books

Love and Legends Books

It was a little heavier on romance/romantasy/fantasy than I personally might want, but I’m glad this place exists and look forward to patronizing it

06.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Who ‘owns’ Torcs? These papers look at who owns, or believes they own, our shared national heritage – be that the artefacts themselves or the research that stems from them. In these blogs, I look at some of th…

If you want to know more, it's all here: detecting, Treasure, ownership etc etc etc...

bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...

06.12.2025 15:25 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We HAVE to start calling these things out.

I get it, we're scared if we say anything then detectorists will stop reporting, more will be lost. But honestly, we can't carry on like this...

I've read so many 'we're so grateful to have' media reports recently. It's stomach churning.

#Archaeology 🏺

06.12.2025 09:06 — 👍 63    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 1
The Pack A.D - Everyone looks like Everyone
YouTube video by LifesaTaco The Pack A.D - Everyone looks like Everyone

I stopped watching Letterkenny a while back, but I am so thankful that the show introduced me to this song

youtu.be/UL7GHN6dC64?...

06.12.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah. It's really something

06.12.2025 12:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sensational stuff in the fourth innings from Shai Hope, Kemar Roach, and most of all Justin Greaves, who got just enough time to register a double century before the end of play. One of the truly epic innings

06.12.2025 06:00 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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