Brad Proctor

Brad Proctor

@bdproctor.bsky.social

Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan. Olympia, WA. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

2,743 Followers 817 Following 1,365 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

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14 hours ago

Search your camera roll for hell

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Good morning, Seattle. Good night, Seattle.

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1 day ago

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

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2 days ago
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Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign.

Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

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2 days ago

yet another thing to put in our back pocket. "ship em to the Hague" is a completely valid option for a long and growing list of people who need to be dealt with

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The systematic defunding of higher ed, especially in the humanities is having the (arguably intentional) result of making the world less informed. We could know so much more about so many things.

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They went, but not enough

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Let's GO

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The killing of schoolchildren should shock our conscience and cause us to recoil in horror.

A nation whose leaders can so easily shrug off the death of children, no matter the cause, is in need of moral repair. 

There must be accountability and lessons learned from this tragedy. And we must never forget that Iranian children, too, are children of God.
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Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

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2 days ago
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New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities!

It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response.

yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...

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2 days ago

This is over and clearly it was the momentum swing to Clemson that just took the wind out of Carolina. But what a disappointing game!

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2 days ago

I don't mean to blame the refs for the score, but there have been some truly wild calls and non-calls. I thought hitting the literal forearm of a 3-point shooter before he releases would be a foul, but apparently that is no longer the rule.

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2 days ago

I seem to be watching an entirely different game than the refs in this UNC-Clemson game

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3 days ago
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vaxxed?

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2 days ago

I would entertain the idea of stripping the citizenship rights of any American who favors government by hereditary aristocracy

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3 days ago

anyway! if you want to know what Nekima Levy Armstrong, founder of the racial justice network and one of the first people to call for this boycott, has to say about it here ya go

in short: do not give target your money

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The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

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If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

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6 days ago

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

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1 week ago

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor

chotiner: sure. go on

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1 week ago

He is a hypocrite, a monster, and a violent sadist.

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1 week ago

In the early morning/late night aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Lindsey Graham gave a speech on the floor of the Senate denouncing Trump and saying he was done with Trumpism for good.

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1 week ago

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

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Only reasonable coping strategy!!

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1 week ago

Newgarden and Duke winning on the same day: cursed. And we lose an hour of sleep tonight. Gross.

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1 week ago

I'm pretty sure I saw Henri Veesaar get punched in the mouth and then dragged to the floor without a whistle

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