Whoa.

If you only read one piece memorializing Alice Wong, it should be this one.

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is some of the best reporting I have read all year. This article has it all (Canadian-style): the good guy just trying to make a living, shady government, the brilliant researcher, Big Lobster pretending to "do it for conservation," the Lobster mafioso-turned-whistleblower...

"Put your shoes back on, or God help me .."

Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.

Me: avoids people, avoids public places, lives as a hermit, takes the vitamins, wears the masks. Mark: hey I got a head cold at the convention, gonna bring it home for ya

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Pope will do anything to get the money he's owed

gift - wapo.st/49KbUJ1

It is a great ethos and makes this place fun, interesting (you get answers to questions), and sometimes moving. Nothing like a reader getting to geek-out over engaging with a favorite author.

I am an artist as well as an author. I haven’t hired out in ages, but I’ve illustrated, done portraits, etc. times be lean between book revenue / advance payments. If you are keen, lemme know.

I make art. And book trailers. And video content. I don’t use AI to generate it. I write books, too. I even use a fountain pen to draft them. Please support people who give the finger to AI and create their own work. But our stuff. Hire us to make your book trailers, videos, and etc. Read our #books

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Here's some engagement for you- son is working away on his history project and very much appreciating the book!

There is a feed called Quiet Posters that I find very useful.

When I swallow, my ear (or jaw?) makes a noise like a creaking door. I hope this is not permanent. Though it does give B&W horror film.

today's semi-random theater photo triptych! birthday girl Lilia Skala, Jane Darwell, and Brenda Forbes in Suds in Your Eye (1944)

I know a lot of weird facts. I am myself delightfully peculiar, but as a result, I do not realize my facts are weird (possibly unsettling). Until we have a holiday dinner.

Amazing story. There was a real blue wave all across NY State in November.

By the way! Though I was lauding engagement today on here, I definitely do NOT mean we should engage with bad actors / trolls. Block. Block them all.

What is it with US and UK and fake news? Ffs

No, I am not paying you for your posts. They are not "labor." They are "unfiltered neural turds."

Who amongst us can say we have not at least once cried for beer?

It’s my final day of a month-long writing retreat in France and I’m especially going to miss this treehouse, where I’ve spent many happy afternoons reading…

I should get up and roll up But the bed

Meanwhile, in other news: Anticipating many people easing out of their food coma today, have done some new photos for one of @peter.petermorwood.com's favorite soups, the legendary Irish "Strong Farmer's Soup". His recipe will go up at the #MindPalate site later today. 😋

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1720, Mary Read and Anne Bonny are found guilty of piracy and sentenced to be hanged. Both executions were paused, as both women claimed to be pregnant. Read died in prison, Bonny was released. More: carvehername.org.uk/...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

I see Azeen Ghorayshi isn’t in a rush to cover this story

I have never and will never do follow for follow and I actually block accounts that follow me whose counts reflect that because it gives spammy. We can fix the way we interact with online spaces individually and, more importantly, together. All that to say, I agree 👇🏻

Thank you, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com, for encouraging engagement👍👍 I have appreciated your replies to questions, your sharing, and support I do also recognize that some people are truly too busy to engage. To those people I ask that they share with others useful & interesting Bluesky posts

Engagement is one of the things I like best about Bluesky, and I followed a lot of folks in the early days here because they were just plain fun and interesting to talk to.

FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not. I run the political science DDRIG.

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

I've forgotten who said it first, but one of the grossest points of our currently landscape is the expectation that we should received clearly disorted and self-serving statements and actions from those in power in good faith and go along with their absurdities

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

I feel certain Miller absolutely recognizes that. He thinks about those people, and what he feels is a pang of jealousy at how freely they got to hurt others. He wants to hurt others the same way, so he gets that little electric surge of pleasure. It’s his turn

Black Friday sale! I've found one last box of GHOST DAYS, my Appalachian historical folklore/horror illustrated by @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social, hiding at my parents' house. That means there's just 35 books left before the print run sells out completely (!!) and this weekend they're $10 each!

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Release the MRI results

Police worked with the state to include some and not others. My book shows the police “helped” assimilate white immigrants through violence. They say directly that used clubs to “teach people to be American.” In Black, Chinese other communities their violence was more obviously just exclusionary.

Especially for non-white and non-Christian groups, their inclusion rested on the pendulum of American racism—always one incident away from people revoking their acceptance whether it be Pearl Harbor, 9/11, the rise of Soros—bigots search for reasons to justify bigotory.

Take it form a historian whose first book is specifically about the relationship between crime, policing, & immigration—while white immigrants always had an easier time entering U.S. society, there is practically no group who wasn’t told their culture was incompatible with assimilation.

If you can't prosecute this you're either corrupt or... well, that's really the only answer.

Sources: --Guardian article I published 7 years ago on the subject: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018... --my 2016 book on offshore and the culture of the super-rich, "Capital without Borders" (excerpts and reviews at link) brookeharrington.com/books/capita...

This is also my way of saying—if you would like me to follow back, please talk to me! I can’t keep up with follow counts, but I do check my alerts and mentions