there goes another word. use your adult words, people.

sensible Americans at mid-century writing with optimism about the breaking of the corporate power of the railroad and how the car both promoted personal freedom and collective action (since highways were a public good, not the domain of corporate power.)

Is "America's Public Bible" down or is that just an issue on my end? #skystorians

this had me check to see if there's a Brazillian restaurant in Thimpu. (There isn't - as far as I could tell!)

the introduction by the editor of the PENGUIN CLASSICS printing of BLACK EMPIRE (George Schuyler's Black Internationale stories) has an interesting discussion re:honoring authorial intent when the author thought this was all stupid nonsense.

Milton Wright April 17, 1857 I went to Garrison Creek, and at 3:00 pr., Ps. 50.2; to Columbia evening, Hebr. 12.28,29. JohnMalone was with me. I was much discouraged with my preaching. We lodged at father's. #wrightposting

going back over the vast list of words I have blocked, I can see all the times bluesky was going crazy over something I really didn't want to see any more of.

Milton Wright April 16, 1857 There are no diary entries for today. #wrightposting

okay the first race of men have gone extinct, and now the second race has gone extinct, and we've just gotten to the third race, but after this it's clear sailing for humanity, right?

archive.org/details/coll... tired of sad, depressing images of nuclear war? reader I have your back.

Milton Wright April 15, 1857 I went to John Morgan's and thence to a funeral (whose?); and went home to my father's in Fayette County, three miles south-east of Fayetteville, later named Orange. #wrightposting

Milton Wright April 14, 1857 I went to Charles Andrews' and dined & to John Morgans to school-meeting (?) and to Isaac Umphrey's. J.B. Ervin pr. Rev.- I lodged at John Miller's. #wrightposting

great news!

Highlights from the quarter-completed Andy Griffith Show manuscript - Insulting ethnic stereotypes beloved by the people in that ethnic group. How many costars did Andy sleep with? More than you'd probably think. We will admit to WWI and the American Revolution but other than that, hmm. /1

Milton Wright April 13, 1857 We had a good lovefeast, in the forenoon. Muth pr. in the evening, 2 Cor. 5.10, 11, and one joined as a seeker. I lodged at Samuel Stubbs. #wrightposting

Milton Wright April 12, 1857 G. Muth pr. at 11:00, I pet. 1.24,25. Afternoon, Silas Andrews pr. Isa. Evening, Rev. J.B. Ervin of Hartsville pr. Lu. 9.23. #wrightposting

"I would do a Star Trek work that says that all of the characters we've been watching so far have been wrong" but why

Milton Wright April 11, 1857 Rev. George Muth, P.E. pr. at 11 :00, Ps. 103. There were few at Quarterly Conference, in the afternoon. In the evening B.F. Morgan pr. Acts 10.34,35, I lodged at J. Morgan's. #wrightposting

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Garage sale today, come to my house if you’re not a coward. And already know where I live.

I believe in amending positions when they are wrong - I would have said until recently that CA Dems should consolidate behind Swalwell because he was the obvious front-runner, but that was the wrong position because he seems to be a bad man.

some of these probably actually exist!

years and years ago I was talking to an anti-HAMILTON man of the Left who asked sarcastically if anybody would want to watch Zero Mostel's HITLER and the answer was yes, obviously, that sounds like a really interesting play.

Milton Wright April 10, 1857 No record of to-day. #wrightposting

Milton Wright April 9, 1857 I went to Andersonville; wrote to cousin Samuel Wright; bought a huge bowl & Brittania ladle for B. Frank Morgan whose bowl I had broken; and went to Rob't. Monroe's, & preached. Lodged there. #wrightposting

if I had to pick an alternative to Johnson to be a different sort of problem, I'd pick his political handler and ally (who was discussed as a possible VP) Preston King (1806-1865) of NY. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston... Given that King died by stress-induced suicide in December of 186 anyway...

watching my son play Far Cry 5, pretty sure it's just an extended anti-drug PSA. "look how irritating people are when they're tripping. all it does is pull you off-course and drag you into things you don't want, and then a terrible ending."

I saw a post a while back imagining a ROAD TO WELLVILE-style movie (or equivalent for the era) made in 2100 about all the wacky cults the early machine learning CEOs believed in.

there's only one religious schism for me and it's the 1889 schism in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ at their conference in York, Pennsylvania. #wrightposting

a fact historians are aware of but most people aren't - A war between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 wouldn't have ended the human species, life on earth, etc. it probably would not have ended the United States. no I would not care to live through it. something can be bad and survivable.

the other day I watched THE OUTER LIMITS episode "Soldier" (the one w/Michael Ansara as the accidental time traveler) and it got me thinking:

Looking for a nice distraction from current events? Why not watch an old movie that is actually about a previous generation's grappling with the anxieties caused by the same underlying causes as current events, LOL, tricked you.

Milton Wright April 8, 1857 I preached at Crowels (probably at night) and lodged at Henry Crowel's. #wrightposting

@wleisner.bsky.social’s MLK-referencing Leonard McCoy (from an isolationist Earth AU) is one of my favorite Trek touches, both to see McCoy representing the other Georgia and because I like the idea that he’s a cranky social critic of whatever society he happens to call home.

read theory - archive.org/details/coll...

one of my late mother's siblings died this week; a retired high school history teacher who had outlived both his only son and one of his two grandchildren. he'll be laid to rest this week at the Waldensian Presbyterian Church in Valdese, NC. life goes on. sometimes it doesn't.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o... an interesting book. (it was reprinted recently for obvious reasons) I keep thinking how Knebel's President Hollenbach has to keep his crazy schemes to himself because obviously the public would rebel, and how ultimately he resigns when faced with exposure.

occasionally history is unfilmable - my favorite (relating it back to Nazi Germany) is Heinz Drossel (1916-2008) whose story would be hard to play straight in a modern film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_D...

Milton Wright April 7, 1857 I went home. #wrightposting

ageofrevolutions.com/2026/04/06/f... woo-hoo!

still reading Stapledon. like good science fiction, you find yourself thinking "sure this specific thing won't happen but this general thing? yes, that's going to happen, and in fact is happening now."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempt... new to me! probably for the best that didn't work out.

watching this tonight

Milton Wright April 6, 1857 I went to John Cook's and remained till evening, when I went to A. Miller's and lodged. Mrs. Archie Miller was of the Barber family. Mrs. John Cook was Peter Miller's daughter. #wrightposting

Europeans keep saying “Americans are weird for not using electric kettles to make their tea” and okay, I’ll bite, what’s tea?

Milton Wright April 5, 1857 I went to Andersonville through the rain and preached, 2 Cor. 5.11 . I dined at Archie Miller's, and had a class-meeting at the Corners. Lodged at Father Pete Miller's. #wrightposting

All the cities I have lived in were nice.