“Who’s Going to Save Local Newspaper Archives? Archivists worry in particular about photographs that have never been digitized.” www.cjr.org/analysis/dig...

Younger dog ready for the work day. Older dog … not so much.

An update from the analysts at WoodMac: yes, as of 2025, solar PV remains the cheapest source of power in the world. And -- bonus! -- it is still getting cheaper with every passing day.

Blending Halo’s “Destroy the Flood” with ICE recruitment casts immigrants as parasitic threats and valorizes state violence as some heroic quest. #authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline

This is a horror story for Jamaica. Climate change is making storms like #HurricaneMelissa more intense. www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, immediate best-seller & enduring classic, published #OTD 1726; political satire which introduced words Lilliput, Brobdingnag & Yahoos to English Language; inspired Voltaire, Joyce, Orwell, and political satirists. Aquatint & etching by Gilray 1803, Met Museum

“Sora is a ghoulish puppet show, and exploring it feels like wandering around an empty funfair. Even when there is a semblance of genuine human interaction, it manages to be uncanny and disquieting.”

How did this whole thing never enter my world until 20 minutes ago??

#philately friends: Are “unchecked” lots on eBay ever 8really* unchecked? marketing, I assume. Could use a primer on how collections and old albums go from collectors/estates to dealers to auction sites these days. Who’s selling and who’s buying, especially for interesting but not high $ material?

Ugh.

Happy World Series from the man who won it seven times. #philately #worldseries #stampcollecting

Or, for those unschooled in constitutional law, it can can be summarized as “consistency, schmiminstecy.” “When ordinary legal principles fail to thwart disfavored programs,” Kagan wrote, “special canons like the ‘major questions doctrine’ magically appear.”

FYI: I have a framework of a concept of a plan at the ready. Just give the word.

Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid

Nice.

Should the president actually meet with North Korea’s dictator this week, maybe he’ll get some tips on staying in power while your citizens starve.

What I love about covers is unearthing the story behind ‘em. Today I learned about Chinese Christians during the revolution, all thanks to a 1939 letter sent from southwest China to a man studying in Ohio and working at an Ohio Episcopal church—one that’s still there. #philately

Saw this yesterday. I think it means all U.S. tariffs on philatelic material have been ended. The Boston 2026 folks were lobbying DHS in advance of the expo, and sounds like they’ve been lifted across the board. Waiting on a letter from DHS, they say. #philately #tariffs #stampcollecting

Sipping coffee and wondering what the letter inside this November, 1884 cover was about… e.g. “P.S. Be sure to save the envelope so some dude in 2025 can wonder what this letter said!” #philately #stampcollecting

I’m proud to announce that this year alone I have personally negotiated 862 international peace deals that ended 2 million different wars and saved the lives of 14.2 trillion people. You’re welcome!

I’m guessing the Internet Archive’s content filter has confused “philately” with, um, something else… SFX: Sound of teenagers giggling #philately #stampcollecting

Pre-gaming #caturday with this shot of the cat in my inbox, angled in the style of Batman-villain lairs on the old TV show.

“The Dogs: Friday Walk” didn’t win the Palm d’Or this year. Or last year. Maybe next year?

24 de Octubre, día Internacional de las Librerías #philately #filatelia #filatelia40 #timbres #sellos #postagestamp #francobolli #briefmarken #estampilla

Ah, 1970 priorities were so ... quaint. [LOOKS OUT WINDOW INTO MIDDLE DISTANCE, SHAKES HEAD SADLY, WIPES AWAY LONE TEAR SLIDING DOWN CHEEK...]

Good morning.

Alas, there’s a history of a certain kind of leader proposing and/or building outsized, preposterously massive structures where they can hold court and be lauded. (Didn’t end well for this guy and his plan…)

Cool find in a recently acquired unsorted lot: A 1941 presidential inaugural ticket and a V-E Day cover. It’s FDR Day at my desk… #philately #stampcollecting #FDR

In a long-form deep dive, sure, get into the story a bit before exploring the illegality. But in a straight news story, that needs to be in the headline. Every time.

These coincidences are frankly uncanny. “Binance struck a business deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up.”

“Oh God, they were carrying groceries and picking up their kids from school—from school,” said a still-shaken Ringgold, who recently returned home from Chicago, where his unit is still deployed.

“Government conduct of this sort might have received legal sanction a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” the ACLU wrote in its filing.

Just released: Advance preview of upcoming U.S. commemorative stamp. #philately #stampcollecting #democracy

As seen in the release notes of ChatGPT Atlas. Cool cool cool

Nuclear rush hour: Russia, US, NATO hold simultaneous exercises: Russian test-launched strategic missiles today iz.ru/1977107/alen... USSTRATCOM began Global Thunder strategic nuke ex yesterday www.stratcom.mil/Media/News/N... NATO is completing tac nuke ex x.com/nukestrat/st...

🧵Since Dems aren't educating people on what's really going on with the $40 billion bribe for Argentina, here are the facts: 1. This is not a gift. It is a Mafia-like policy used as leverage, both financially & politically.

Mood

The European Union gave its top human rights award to two journalists imprisoned in their native countries of Belarus and Georgia. “This house stands with them and with all those who continue to demand freedom," European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said.

This story about Brightline, a high-speed train in Florida that has killed more people (185 since 2017) than other train lines, is incredible, but this particular passage is *chef's kiss*. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

There is no grid problem that batteries don't solve. If we just put a 10MWh front-of-the-meter battery next to every substation in the country we would basically have ...

23 de octubre de 1915:Más de 33.000 mujeres se manifiestan en la Quinta Avenida, en Nueva York, para reclamar su derecho al voto. #philately #filatelia #filatelia40 #stamps #sellos #timbres #francobolli #briefmarken #women #vote #estampilla

There’s something jarring about clicking on a NYT video of some horrific or violent ICE action only to first have to watch a glitzy 15-second commercial for an $80,000 imported SUV, complete with jazzy soundtrack and smiling (usually white) models. America: Moving Product Since 1776!

Suggested hotkey journalists should program into Word to speed story production: "[INSERT NAME OF FEDERAL AGENCY/OFFICE] did not respond to a request for comment."

This was the book that came along with my first album and stamp packets ... *a few* years ago. Brings back memories. At the time--inspired by the book's cover--I also bought a red shirt and green tie to wear whenever I worked with my stamps. And I'm wearing it right now! #philately #stamps /s

Found this today in a recently acquired mix, from War Department postal stationery of the early 1870s, I believe. I wonder if the letter it conveyed said something like, “Won’t it be great when we can permanently rename ourselves as the Department of Defense?” #philately #stamps

How much is Soros paying these mosquitos to help advance the big climate hoax??

The words of John Adams, first president to live in the White House, clearly hoping for the best. Engraved in the WH state dining room. "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."

It’s too bad no country in the entire world has figured out how to provide universal coverage to all its citizens. 🤷‍♂️ “Now Georgians browsing the state website are seeing estimated monthly costs double or even triple, depending on their incomes, as lower subsidy thresholds resume.”