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 1,369 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Nashville is a revelation, btw. Keith Carradine wrote a song about Lilly Tomlin that deservedly won an Oscar and also Vassar Clements is in it.

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I always love recommending Nashville to people. A classic.

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Where’s Wallace?

He’s on stage accepting his flowers.

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6 hours ago

*opera and ballet devotees look directly at camera*

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!!!!!!!!

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6 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the ads are a lot longer than the winners' speeches, so maybe they could change that to make the show shorter? Just an idea

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7 hours ago

Jesus walking into the Temple that one time:

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And "Annie's Song"!!

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7 hours ago

Nice to see the composer of "Greendale Is Where I Belong" getting his flowers.

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3 days ago

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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1 day ago

Search your camera roll for hell

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Good morning, Seattle. Good night, Seattle.

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2 days 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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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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2 days ago

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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3 days ago

They went, but not enough

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3 days ago

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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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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3 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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3 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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I seem to be watching an entirely different game than the refs in this UNC-Clemson game

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vaxxed?

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3 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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4 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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