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Jennifer Sherman Roberts

@jshermanroberts.bsky.social

Novelist. PhD in early modern lit. History of science fan. THE VILLAGE HEALER'S BOOK OF CURES (Lake Union 10/23). Oregonian. Rep'd by Alicia Brooks/Martin Literary Management

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I am never ever going to forgive a single one of these motherfuckers.

11.10.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

I don't have a printing press, but I do have access to a laser cutter and supplies for pendants and keychains. #DHmakes 🐸

10.10.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

"Proposals for virtual presentation are welcome."

Love to see it.

10.10.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know y'all have seen this, but I just want to do my part to ensure this video reaches ALL the corners of the internet as God and The Daily Show intended

10.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

10.10.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 581    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

07.10.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

10.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1111    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 9

#earlymodern

09.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Note to self: stop scheduling my mammogram during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

(Be assured, local health system, I'm VERY aware of breast cancer and really don't want a pink plastic bracelet to remind me)

09.10.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oregon.

08.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

The most important political thread of our time.

08.10.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3803    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 3

Thony, oh no!!!!! Sending all good thoughts your way for healing and comfort

08.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

08.10.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26405    πŸ” 7592    πŸ’¬ 1037    πŸ“Œ 523

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

07.10.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7586    πŸ” 1872    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 69
A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

08.10.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5020    πŸ” 1015    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 137
Emergency world naked bike ride planned in Portland screenshot

Emergency world naked bike ride planned in Portland screenshot

Can we puhlease call it the

"Crack The Ice" Ride??!!

#pdx

07.10.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...

"This book was crafted to live within any library in America. It was written by a team specializing in what is most important in good books: that it appeals to conservative politicians and that one mom on the PTA."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fin...

07.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

A boardwalk nature trail!

This would make such a good writing prompt lol . . .

07.10.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Toddler toy ring with plushie cell phone and plastic keys

Toddler toy ring with plushie cell phone and plastic keys

If you lost your keys and cell phone in Duck, North Carolina, have I got good news for you πŸ˜„

06.10.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, β€˜Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! πŸŒΏπŸ“š www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

06.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

EAT THE MIDDLE AGES YUM!

06.10.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
"History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details."Retry

"History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details."Retry

Starting today! Join us at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT for the first event of History of Medicine week! Registration links are in your email. Misplaced it? Didn't get it? Email us! histmed.org/history-of-m... #HistMedWeek #histmed

06.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

05.10.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
Image of Manna Gathering

Image of Manna Gathering

GOD:
"Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country, but treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
--- Leviticus 19: 33-34

05.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
Text of the fourth amendment β€œThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Text of the fourth amendment β€œThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

05.10.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5507    πŸ” 2171    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 81

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

05.10.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5515    πŸ” 1591    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 32

Evergreen post

04.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cigarette vending machine repurposed as an "art o mat" To dispense small pieces of art

Cigarette vending machine repurposed as an "art o mat" To dispense small pieces of art

Unboxing the art. Well wrapped tiny artwork outside of its cigarette shaped box

Unboxing the art. Well wrapped tiny artwork outside of its cigarette shaped box

Tiny little print of a crow standing on a post surrounded by some pastel colors in a little wood frame

Tiny little print of a crow standing on a post surrounded by some pastel colors in a little wood frame

Open gallery last night.

This repurposed cigarette machine dispenses little artworks.

04.10.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 462    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

β€œNo self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. β€œTrying to protect conservative ideas against being β€˜belittled’ β€” that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

03.10.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 828    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 29

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