I continue my never ending quest to get people into the mail by leaving my house (rare).

Here are some things that made me laugh or I found interesting in my journey writing this video essay on the Shakers: youtu.be/3i8Zqysl_gI

This one's about the Shakers. Intentional community and chair builder extraordinaires. I thought I knew about the Shakers, but it turns out like most things I was merely looking at the surface and the depths of knowledge are unlimited. As are the baskets.

This show is really good and making this video gave me an excuse to just think about it for a couple weeks.

Now you all will know how annoying it is to watch a movie next to me.

Made a little gift guide for YouTube. It's a little collection of things I love, things I want, and things I need to tell someone else about.

My first YouTube video featuring an interview! Talked to the creator of Bring Back Doors. A website that catalogs hotels that do and don't have bathroom privacy.

Happy Halloween! A little quote from Dracula about using teamwork, science, free will to fight a strong murderous enemy!

I had read about the Saltair years ago while on a wikipedia rabbit hole. But last year when I saw the 1962 film Carnival of Souls I realized that it was the same building (sort of). I love when a video is years in the making!

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

I love making youtube videos!

Miss being a bad twitter comedian… have a real gross joke about my period and I feel like bluesky is too classy for it

If you're missing HBO's The Gilded Age you can relive it from the eyes of the ever critical interior decorator, Edith Wharton. Thank you to @queline.bsky.social for editing this video for me! If it seems well done... that's why!

Last year YouTube introduced A/B tests for thumbnails and I don't know if I like them. I've used them consistently since then, but I don't love that everyone experiences the video a little differently. So here are all the thumbnails and if YT makes a choice you can be like... ugh they are so wrong.

The New Yorker put out an article in May on 'notable New Yorkers' living rooms. Then I compiled all the photos into a spreadsheet so I could say "89% of 'notable New Yorkers' have white walls."

The woke left wants a man to be super… we must stop them.

Blue Prince floor plan is my mind palace (derogatory)

My podcast, Someone Lived Here, had its annual episode come out today! It takes you inside the home of writer Sarah Orne Jewett. She wrote beautifully about Maine and was the inspiration for writers like Willa Cather.

Now that it’s 11pm the night before release i finally feel confident to say theres a new episode of Someone Lived Here coming out tomorrow. Will be on podcast apps and YouTube (first time releasing like this). I’m very excited!!

every time i write "epitome" i spell it "opitme" and by the time i figure out how to properly spell it i have deleted the whole sentence cause clearly i am out of my depths.

Just checking back in to see where we stand on this @bostonglobe.com fake front page from pre-election 2016

outside me there are two wolves

While looking for details on the photography studio of these photos I found the blog, Cabinet Card Curiosities. Sent him an email to let him know about these photos and they both have been added to the fantastic collection he has created online! cabinetcardphotographers.blogspot.com/2018/08/gilb...

I only know of one photo of Harriet Jacobs. It was taken at Gilbert Studios in Philadelphia in 1894. I was curious about the studio and ended up finding this photo of Helen Keller and actor, Joseph Jefferson, sitting on an identical chair in 1902.

Latest video combines: Blue Prince, floor plan books from the 1840s, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, and the story of Harriet Jacobs. Had such a good time making this one!

Went on Pinterest for a screenshot in an upcoming video and am shocked by all the AI. I heard it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was so so unusable.

It might be Nathan For You, but it’s not Nathan For Me

A FedEx board member will now be running the USPS. That’s going to entirely predictable places.

I have been a lifelong stamp enthusiast and USPS lover. Last month I made a 30 minute video on the history of the postal service in the United States to try and figure out why it’s in such danger now. Here is what I learned 1/17

I went through my entire stamp collection on my Patreon! It was fun, but a good reminder that I need to use more of my stamps. www.patreon.com/posts/my-ent...

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New video!

"[...]any attack on the Postal Service is part of the ongoing oligarchs’ coup against the vital public services our members and other public servants provide the country. We know that privatized postal services will lead to higher postage prices, and lower service quality to the public." Link below

Good morning, taxes do not fund the USPS.

The freshwater fishing lure stamps are some of the silliest to come out this year!

The super cute Appalachian Trail stamps came out last week. There is a photo for each of the 14 states the AT passes through from Maine and Georgia. They are forever stamps and come in a sheet of 15.

Picked these stamps up at the post office last week. Keith Haring Love stamps and Year of the Snake Lunar New Year stamps!

Congrats "WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND" by @queline.bsky.social! (50s clip ⬇️) First Place winner of the Internet Archive's 2025 Public Domain Day Film Remix Contest. The short blends movies, images, music & text into a meditation on time’s passage. Full film & more ➡️ archive.org/details/2025...

Tomorrow! I'm so excited! A bunch of other creator friends will be joining voicechat as well

The new Global stamp was drawn by a 10 year old. If still alive she would be 241 years old. It was a sketch in the geography book of Lucia Wadsworth.

If you've ever wondered where the Backrooms is and why it's famous I hope this video covers it. My goal was to make this "internet thing" understandable to everyone. youtu.be/o3cTIn2Z_Ck

I got a press release from USPS about two new stamps, Goodnight Moon and Spongebob. Out sometime in 2025, no release dates yet. I will be putting that little bowl of mush on every piece of mail.