Blue shadow

Looking for an Atlantic World map that uses the Winkel projection or another alternative projection that doesn't inflate the north like the Mercator projection. Anyone ever seen or have one in their possession?

Completing a reader report and for the first time there is a question from the publisher about whether I have any reason to suspect the author used AI in the preparation of the manuscript (I don't suspect that). I expect more such questions in the future.

Has NPR coverage gotten less mealy mouthed since the end of public funding? Reporting this morning on the president’s “racist tirade,” quote unquote. No “racial overtones” or whatever BS of yore.

Best editor/title nominative determinism I’ve ever encountered

worth reading to the final paragraph

My Discover Weekly on spotify begins with Olivia Dean and continues to Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat. Is there a Venn diagram of people who like both Olivia Dean and Harry Belafonte? And why does Spotify think I'm in it?????

Listening to the new Lily Allen album makes me *never* want to get married again. Crone life for me.

when reading the newspaper used to be fun

very tempting ... I stopped sucking my thumb for the Fonz. My older brother @aramsinn.bsky.social told me that the Fonz wouldn't dance with me if I sucked my thumb (ca 1979)

young Jay Gould was pretty hot (on the right). I'd buy railroad shares from him

in conversation with a German friend, learned that the German version of "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," is "a sparrow in the hand is worth a dove on the roof." what do you do with the sparrow in your hand, though?

The U.S. Mint hired two women in 1795 as adjusters. Were these the first female employees of the federal government? www.usmint.gov/learn/histor...

Professional thieves, members of the Killers gang in Philadelphia, 1848. Curious about the hand gesture-- antebellum gang sign?

[South Philadelphian Kool-Aids into the room shouting "Got your Moyamensing Balls --"] But seriously anyone able to help Rachel out?

Any Philadelphia historians out there who can point me to good sources for understanding Philadelphia highlife culture in the immediate post-Civil War era? late 1860s and early 1870s? I'm particularly interested in any info on the Moyamensing Balls

Check out the CHA’s latest Teaching | Learning Blog post! Do you have other suggestions for works that could be included on this list? Let us know using the hashtag #CHATeachingResourcesChat. #NDTR #cdnhist #skystorians @jomac-613.bsky.social

It's so hard to resist rabbit holes when reading old newspapers!

life imitating art

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

This is a sweet silly book that I hope will make readers laugh and feel the feels. It provided some much needed respite in the writing, as I hope it will in the reading.

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Sure, the world is in chaos, but @rachelcleves.bsky.social and I just sent our new manuscript, a fantasy novel, off to our agent @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social, so I’m gonna celebrate. 🎉📚

THE WATER OUTLAWS by @slhuang.com LADY EVE'S LAST CON by @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social SNOWBLOODED by @emmasternerradley.bsky.social A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY @aramsinn.bsky.social @rachelcleves.bsky.social METAL FROM HEAVEN by @sapphomancer.bsky.social REDSIGHT by @meredithmooring.bsky.social 3/3

Fancy some #FridayFun? Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all! Ft authors below👇 1/3

Is there anyone who would buy this dish soap because it promises “50% less scrubbing”? Genuine question of a compulsive reader who can’t stop reading even while washing dishes. (Confession: the bf bought this dish soap for me at the dollar store, based, I think, on price and its upside-down design)

is no one going to mention that his signature is clearly meant to represent pubes?

Historians know not to make predictions for the future. AI boosters could learn something from us. wapo.st/4mX1QQ1

I might have to go back to work next week, but at least I live in vacation land. View from my walk home last night (this view is 3 minutes by foot from my front door). #yyj

are ten dollar words still worth ten dollars? at the current rate of inflation, I think we should be talking about hundred dollar words

afternoon's reading material, from 1888 heroic nihilists! deadly bombs! beautiful demi-mondaines! dashing newspaper owners!

take my husband, please!

instead of posting #breakingnews, I prefer posting #oldnewspapertattooideas

One of the strangest things about writing near future #scifi is that stuff you invented keeps actually happening. This latest one was a throwaway joke in @rachelcleves.bsky.social's & my book A Second Chance for Yesterday. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Seco...

oysters will do that to you

grandfather apparently reads the Chicago Daily News on the toilet

Reading a 1997 novel and surprised by this reference to “the Silicon Valley.” When did we drop the the? I can’t remember. I moved to the Bay Area in 1998. Was it still the then?

too bad I'm not collecting quotes for a second edition of Lustful Appetites!

now I'm disappointed I don't know more deviants!

Poll for those of you who sleep solo in queen+ sized beds: do you sleep on one side or in the middle? There’s no freaking poll function here so I think ❤️=side and repost=middle. (I’m assuming all answers will be ❤️ because only a deviant would sleep in the middle)

a blind item from 1875 warning a politician against sitting in people's laps. might be metaphorical, but it reminds me of the claims that Stephen Douglas, Lincoln's opponent, had a habit of sitting in fellow politicians' laps in order to make deals

what happens when the Defense Department asks Grok what to do about the Jewish problem?

this clipping is timeless, on the other hand

1923 What a great 20s gangster name. Kid Sheeler. I found his picture. He was a former prize fighter who later committed suicide by jumping to the bottom of an 850-foot mine shaft!

everything about this news item screams the decade it was published. want to take a guess?

#1 enemy on Canada's Moist Wanted List.

definitely make-believe

What I’m doing with my summer vacation

What I’m doing with my summer vacation