I once borrowed a quarter off Dennis Hopper to use the payphone at the old Austin airport.

Absolutely not, ever. My three audiobooks are read by a beautiful human who took a lot of time to get the voices and the tone just right. It was worth every penny. AI will never be an option for me as an author or as a listener. Nope.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

If you want to take a break, beat inflation, and listen to some stories about the good guys beating the Nazis, my #audiobooks are a Chirp deal today until Monday! Only $1.98 for all three! #WWII #Historical #fiction www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/t...

Listen up, self.

Like everything worth doing, in writing it's the action that's important. I need this reminder at least twice a week.

Most of us have used Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation & we can thank Gladys West for creating the foundation for GPS. She used her mathematical & programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth. She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame.

Fantastic.

Refreshing www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

So, that halftime show made it clear, yet? REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS NEED ART It's the air and the fuel and the light and the map

This was honestly such an inspiring and fortifying way to spend my morning. I love that the super bowl halftime show of all things was a powerful work of subversive art in this moment.

This is America, 2025 In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation

I first thought this during the FL re-counts in 2000. Every night we would tune in to see what happened today like it was a soap opera. There was little talk or analysis about what shifts were being set in motion for future elections. People treated it like, well, the Super Bowl. And so here we are.

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

My first illustration is of Diahann Carroll in the tv show Julia (1968-1971). She was the first Black actress to star in her own TV series where she didn't play a domestic worker. She was a young widow raising a 5 year old son in a nice apartment while working as a nurse. #bhm #blackhistorymonth

Sculptor Augusta Savage in her studio in 1937. She was the first African-American woman to open her own art gallery in the U.S.

Oh hey, it's the first day of Black History Month! Which hero should we highlight today? How about Guion Bluford, the first black astronaut! Happy Black History Month! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #blackhistorymonth

Grabbing a friend and going to buy some books today!

Here are two pages from Let This Radicalize You that you may need tonight. Peace to all.

Help me identify this WWII soldier for a story I'm writing. My deadline is Feb. 14. The portrait was made between 1943 & 1945 in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He has a rifle medal on his chest, Service Forces patch & a Corps of Engineers insignia on his hat. Please repost & help me ID him. 🗃️

I help architects develop and craft AIA Fellowship applications for a living. This portrayal is so old and tired and doesn't actually reflect the thoughtful, imaginative and collaborative work so many architects (many of whom are not white men!) do in their communities every day.

Please follow the official Auschwitz account. They post a daily picture of someone who was murdered there, with a very brief bio. Lives cut way too short. Innocent babies and children are especially hard to see. We need to remember them. We should send the daily posts to our representatives.

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

I spent my 4:30 am writing time researching how slave labor at Nazi death camps was administered and how industrialists benefited and then realized it's Holocaust Remembrance Day and here we are. Again.

I hate AI so much. All I asked was when does the Australian Open men's final air on TV and I got this. No answer on air time but it did tell me who won the match that will be played tomorrow night. And that's wrong too because Zverev will win (or maybe already won?)

Remember that art is resistance. To create something true and earnest in a world that values neither sincerity nor conviction is rebellion. If that’s all you can manage, so be it. Fill your notebooks with revolt, your document files with illicit beauty. Hope is a Molotov cocktail.

OK. I signed up and am publicly committing to this. And I'm in central time. 😬 Anyone else? @roanna.bsky.social ?

so far, seems like the first few victims are black folks who've lived in altadena for several generations and were trying so hard to hold onto their homes that they were willing to fight off the flames by themselves. man, they are so familiar to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

Anthony and Justin Mitchell died Wednesday inside their home in Altadena. Anthony was a retired salesman and amputee who used a wheelchair and was the primary caretaker for his son Justin, who had cerebral palsy. They couldn't get out in time. More about them, less about celebrity mansions, please.

Have spent the entire day doing end-of-year business tax stuff like some kind of grown up. Please clap.

people tell you the best thing about having written a book is getting to call yourself a published author or sharing your vision with the world but really the best thing about having written a book is that you don't have to write it anymore

The future is not yet written. I'm not giving up.

I love this movie and I love 1940s Christmas trees.

I know no one wants to do this, but please wear an N95 in planes, trains, buses, & airports/stations this holiday. You don’t want to pick up illness on the way to vacation or to grandma. These masks work. I have not had a virus of any kind in over a year & I have been on many planes & trains. 😘

PSA: Our family Christmas is getting derailed by Covid. We'll adapt and make the best of it, but be careful out there, friends; it's still very much with us. Mask up and test, please. And get boosted while you still can.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories but I do actually believe that David Bowie was holding the world together. (Photo credit Gavin Evans)

Every time I get asked "how are you?", I write my "real" answer on a piece of paper & stick it in a jar. Now I've brought these together in a fractured essay. Hope it informs / comforts / reflects. Would love it if you'd give it a read. #ChronicIllness www.mattkendrick.co.uk/fifty-five-r...

Show me the women who raised you.

"Winter whiteness was pouring through the windows in soft waves, and the vast open space of the Plateau was insistently pushing its way inside." #SundaySentence

sarah's gonzo journalism during a coup is probably some of the best content this site has ever produced imho

Ouch.

So happy to help celebrate BookSpring's 50th birthday party last night. Loved the party favors: pick a wrapped book to take home based on a blurb. Such a fun way to find a new book. Anyone read this one? Also: don't mess with Texas women. more about BookSpring here: bookspring.org/en/

This is the truth.