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I swear I have never successfully posted from my phone without a typo
Any thread that can work in a Galadriel quote is a good
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This is a Nextdoor post
This is a really great piece
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Hey Chris! Loved the article. Iām excited to dive into the book! Looking at domestic popular culture and politics during that pre-pearl harbor era is so fascinating. If youāre doing any interviews, weād love to have you on as a guest on my history podcast
Today, Knight Foundation is committing $10M to the Public Media Bridge Fund ā part of a nearly $37M effort to support public media. Weāre calling on others to join us in ensuring public media remains a pillar of civic life. Read more in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
This sounds going viral hereās the original SinĆ©ad OāConnor performance
Iām so sorry to hear that. Been following the pup dates for the last week and really hoping for good news. My hear is with you and your family
Im helping sell my grandfathers black 1990 Mercedes 560SEL If youāre into a car thatās built to chauffeur people around in. Itās also got a ācountryā horn and a ācityā horn for the life of me canāt figure out why
āAnd that Douglass would have hated Black Lives Matter.ā The man sent his own two sons off to war to fight against slavery and for equal rights.
The United States would not exist if George Washington hadnāt ordered his troops to be vaccinated. We have spiraled back 250 years.
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
FFS: RFK Jr. announced "that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted." In his statement, RFK Jr. said "we're moving beyond the limitations of mRNA and investing in better solutions." Antivaxxers continue to despise and lie about mRNA tech.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. Thatās what theyāre taking away.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
License to I..L.L.* ā¦ ā¦ *(Inter-Library Loan)
Team: Iām thrilled to report that Worlds Turned Upside Down has surpassed 100,000 downloads on the strength of 17 episodes. Iāll have a full slate of thanks once I return from the Emerald Isle next week, but for now, thanks for listening!
what is the most unique museum u have visited for me possibly the ramen museum
Ngl socal has a bad rap. Itās pretty awesome
Congratulations! This is amazing news
Some exciting news. So excited to write about JQA with Basic Books, with JQDA by my side, naturally.
Beyond the painting, the post itself is a white supremacist dogwhistle. Two capital hās. 14 words total.
Those kids were planking 150 years before planking
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This is terrible framing. It didnāt admit anything. The causal relationship between what it says and the effects arenāt something LLMs process
Went through this with a cat earlier this year. Elderly cat passed away. He was a ton of work to take care of at the end but I miss him waking me up in the middle of the night
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Thank you so much!
I have some friends doing the same later this year. Do you have a link?
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines. Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us. NYT gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
This is definitely something institutions should be taking into consideration
Iām confusedā¦wasnāt most of the discussion about the story about the NYT framing and decision to publish itself?
One of the podcasts I produce is up for TWO People's Choice Podcast Awards! Worlds Turned Upside Down has been nominated for the People's Choice Award and Best History Podcast. I would really appreciate it if you would vote for Worlds Turned Upside Down! www.podcastawards.com
Itās like that every episode
The foundation of our society cannot be the generosity of the ultra wealthy
āIndependence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raidsā is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just canāt make up.
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nÄį¹£ir had "high quality copper"
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If Mamdani wins, prepare for the NYPD to throw everything at him. Even if he doesn't touch NYPD budgets at all, just his political positioning will cause rank and file to try to manufacture "city in chaos" stories with work slowdowns, ignoring calls, etc. We've seen it before in NYC and elsewhere.
Just for the record I agree with the terminology that youāre using but thats objectively not true in places like instagram, TikTok and YouTube. They arenāt trained by the users they have those parameters in place to serve advertisers
Part of the reason is that algorithms on other platforms will throttle the exposure of posts with those words. If they are being efficient and cross posting they are optimizing the language for those
I genuinely regret supporting your campaign
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York
The archive took the message down, yāall.
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily ā and deliberately ā all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
Ngl this is spot on
Thatās epic
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An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.
When @historians.org says "Everything has a history," they mean everything. Even watches and watchmakers. And that history is always tied into the larger human story.
Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. š§µ
We feed you. They hunt us.
Step away from the dumpster fire that is the Earth for a moment and learn about the fascinating world of eels with @greenleejw.bsky.social! You won't regret it. #2complicated4history
Watch me talk about eels! This was a really fun conversation, and I'm delighted that it's out in the world! Also, I talk about maps a bit, and why meat is sexy in ways that eels just aren't!
I would prefer not to have my country destroyed by lies www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
I donāt think he knows what covert means
We got early access to Painterās Fire for an interview with Zara. Itās awesome!
www.instagram.com/reel/C9klV6f...
Just curious whatās the reason they give for the reduced impact?
Gotta make sure you donāt underbake. No one wants a Paul Hollywood with a soggy bottom.
This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.
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OMFG THE RIGHT WING OBSESSION WITH āAFRICANS WERE ACTIVE IN THE SLAVE TRADEā!! āAfricansā didnāt collectively sell themselves into slavery because they didnāt see themselves as Africans. They were Igbo, Fulani, Kongo, Mali. Nations. Just like slavers were Portuguese, Spanish, English. 1/
I donāt think Iāve ever been so duped by someone running for office
How did we end up in a situation where this fish gets to decide what vaccines I take?
This week, mRNA vaccines are set to face intense scrutiny from critics in Congress. Here's an explainer of how we know they are safe and effective www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/m...
Someone please send me on assignment to write about all of incredible history museums and historic sitesāmost of them small and run by volunteersāthat are still committed to the hard work of bringing people together to understand our history in all its messy complexity.
Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvadorās notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US governmentās request and at US taxpayer expense.
Folks were definitely writing that back in 2003
Yes. This is not one side v another. This is beyond even requiring one view to be taught-- it's requiring one view to be *thought.* Of a piece with undermining NARA, Smithsonian, LOC. And NEH, NEA, NSF and on and on.
#Cornwall #Kernow #Archaeology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Such a sweet smile! Happy for your family to be on the other side of such an ordeal
Hey @flintdibble.bsky.social has a new video discussing #RealArchaeology and pseudoarchaeology. Give this one a watch and definitely subscribe. š§Ŗšŗ youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw?...
This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.
Archaeology with Flint Dibble is expanding to Spotify. Give us a subscribe over there If you missed yesterday's episode, The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social it is available there We will port older episodes over soon open.spotify.com/episode/1toR...
The Ruins of Civilizations with Dr Paul M.M. Cooper @paulmmcooper.bsky.social We chat about real history, fake history, the romance of ruins, and what we can learn from the fall of past civilizations @fallofcivspod.bsky.social Premiering tomorrow at 7pm UK/2pm EDT youtu.be/E3GXbg5L4e4
We interviewed @paulmmcooper.bsky.social last season about a year ago on 2 complicated. Itās one of the only episodes Iāve re-listened to. Very excited for your video!
My @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social YouTube show last night was such fun! Thanks, everyone who came out for the live show! Recording below: monsters past & present; fun, utopian monsters, too. Lots for #StarTrek #TNG fans! 1/3 šš š§Ŗ š #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH
My interview on 2 Complicated 4 History, on everything from astrobiology to current affairs, is now on YouTube as well as Apple and Spotify. šš š§Ŗš #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH youtu.be/PaByiiRovuE?...
"She was always interested in history, she says ā particularly the Civil War and the westward expansion of the country." I would like to extend an invitation to Lindsey Halligan to come on my newsletter platform to talk about her interest in the Civil War. šš www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Finally leveling up our YouTube channel. Check out our trailer here: youtu.be/h1LrmkOaNZA
š§µ Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz WojczyÅski focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ā”ļø apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... š š§Ŗ #galactic
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Closing in on 50k! Who's gonna help push me over?
I spoke with @isaacsloftus.bsky.social and @lynnprobbins.bsky.social on 2 Complicated 4 History about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social. Apple podcast link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... šš š§Ŗš #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
Hi, Iām autistic and Iām the mayor of my city.
I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from IranāContra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.
Heās claiming to be my exact height and weight lol
What age did you start letting him play games on an iPad? Iāve got a little one of my own and my wife and I havenāt really figured out a timeline
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDCās entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
