I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

NEW TGS EPISODE: Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social and I dig up some dirt on James II and remind everybody that our modern monarchs have inherited a lot more than goodwill.

universalize this please

Cover reveals are the best!! Check out the important new book coming soon from @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!!

Out today on THIS GUY SUCKED pod! @thisguysucked.com @ceaubin.com

THE CROWN’S SILENCE is available for pre-order on Audible and narrated by the fabulously talented Allyson Johnson!! It will be released on Jan 20th, a week before the hardback. 🥳 Happy New Year, and cheers to all the great books 📚 coming out in 2026!!

My NYE 🥳 cocktail 🍸 plans. What are yours? BITTER FRENCH 1 oz gin ¼ oz Campari ½ oz lemon juice ½ oz simple syrup 1–2 oz bubbly to top + grapefruit twist OLD CUBAN 1½ oz aged rum ¾ oz lime juice ½ oz simple syrup 2 dashes Angostura bitters 6–8 mint leaves 1–2 oz bubbly to top + mint

I made Greek lemon roasted chicken and potatoes. It smells amazing.

The UK-edition of THE CROWN’S SILENCE is currently 40% off—and the sale ends tomorrow!! Code: BOXINGDAY40 Available via the publisher’s website 👇 harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

Barnes & Noble has a pre-order sale for rewards members, from now 12/30 until Thursday 1/1. My book THE CROWN’S SILENCE is currently 25% off with code: PREORDER25. Please spread the word! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-crowns...

Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

Barnes & Noble has a pre-order sale for rewards members, from now 12/30 until Thursday 1/1. My book THE CROWN’S SILENCE is currently 25% off with code: PREORDER25. Please spread the word! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-crowns...

Enjoying a 🍸 SPICY DEAD LADY 🌶️ ¾ oz. mezcal ¾ oz. Aperol ¾ oz. falernum ¾ oz. fresh lime juice 2 dashes habanero shrub (I used Bittermens Hellfire) METHOD add all ingredients to shaker/ shake with ice until chilled / fine strain into coupe / garnish with a lime wheel or lime twist

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social and I talk monarchy, slavery, and why some people still get free passes more than three hundred years later. Now accepting guesses on the Guy!

Please join me in spring 2026 at one of the following in-person or remote events for THE CROWN'S SILENCE. I'll be in London, Washington D.C., Richmond, VA, San Marino, CA, and online. *Additional details & hyperlinks are listed on the events page of my website: www.brookennewman.com

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

Please join me in spring 2026 at one of the following in-person or remote events for THE CROWN'S SILENCE. I'll be in London, Washington D.C., Richmond, VA, San Marino, CA, and online. *Additional details & hyperlinks are listed on the events page of my website: www.brookennewman.com

Hoping my book THE CROWN’s SILENCE—out in one month (!!!)—directly aids the reparations campaign: it’s well past time to see substantive movement on this issue in 2026. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Christmas 🎄 Corpse Reviver #2.

I made two holiday drinks 🍸 tonight for the fam: a riff on a Paper Plane with spiced cranberry syrup and a mocktail mule made with spiced cranberry syrup, lime, ginger kombucha, club, and simple syrup. Cheers! 🎄

Today I made spiced cranberry syrup for our X-mas Eve cocktail/mocktail. @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Making drinks now!

@unlawfulentries.bsky.social What are you making this year? I need your holiday food/drink content!! I’m baking a fancy fresh fruit cake.

Probably that time the Windsor archive was closed for renovation and @brookenewman.bsky.social and I got shunted into the royal family’s personal library to work next to old chunks of the Victory, various coronation books, and George III’s favorite malfunctioning clock.

Spouse and I agreed to no gifts this holiday (spent $ on kids + family/friends). But then I saw that one of our mutual favs is coming to Richmond next spring and immediately bought tickets. Awesome stocking stuffer if I do say so myself!

Wait for it!

A friend’s cat. This should totally be a 2025 holiday card.

Starting the holidays with a French 75 🍸.

Total cutie.

We ran into these issues during the MOOC days and ended up just sort of giving up on enforcement because of this boondoggle. I sincerely hope that every professor sues their outgoing institutions on these very grounds. May the legal morass bog us down for a generation.

That perfect holiday gift might not exist. Scammers are using AI to create convincing fake products and stores. Bellingcat's @koltai.bsky.social reveals 10 real examples found online — plus quick, practical checks to help you spot what’s real before it’s too late. www.youtube.com/watch?v=txcN...

Q: Did the Royal African Company brand enslaved people with hot irons, searing their flesh w/the initials of the Duke of York (James II)? A: Yes. The RAC ordered its employees to brand so-called “castle slaves" with "DY" & "RACE." *Get the full story in THE CROWN’S SILENCE—Out 1/27; preorder now.

Happy holidays and happy book new year! Here is the #Slaveryarchive Most Anticipated Books 2026 list. Enjoy, and see you all in 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...

I’m thrilled to see THE CROWN’s SILENCE included in Slavery Archive’s list of the Most Anticipated Books of 2026—can’t wait to read all of these fantastic titles! #slaveryarchive 📚 www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...

Q: Did the Royal African Company brand enslaved people with hot irons, searing their flesh w/the initials of the Duke of York (James II)? A: Yes. The RAC ordered its employees to brand so-called “castle slaves" with "DY" & "RACE." *Get the full story in THE CROWN’S SILENCE—Out 1/27; preorder now.

$18 well spent to support a publication standing up to the Trump WH and showing—not telling—the public why the current administration both underestimates and deeply fears the arts and humanities (hint: it’s not because they’re “useless”). @vanityfair.com

LMAO

vanity fair knew exactly what it was doing

@vanityfair.com deserves all the subscriptions!! This mirror held up to the Trump WH is genius.

Preorder THE CROWN’S SILENCE for the full story of royal involvement in slavery across four centuries—and, better yet, place an order with the independent Black-owned Reparations Club bookstore in L.A. rep.club/products/cro...

You are Elon Musk. You are the world’s richest man. You have wealth the emperors of the old worlds never dreamed of. Every good, every experience the world has to offers is open to you. You spend your days of limitless access reading and sharing the thoughts of a man named cumlasagna1.

London-area friends: I’m looking forward to launching the UK edition of my book THE CROWN’S SILENCE at Waterstones @ Gower St on Jan 30th with Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Please help spread the word! www.waterstones.com/events/the-c... www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...

Zeke is channeling how I feel after grading all day.

London-area friends: I’m looking forward to launching the UK edition of my book THE CROWN’S SILENCE at Waterstones @ Gower St on Jan 30th with Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Please help spread the word! www.waterstones.com/events/the-c... www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...

“A work of historical reclamation—one that refuses to let the British monarchy remain peripheral in the story of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is a long-overdue & unflinching history of the Crown’s complicity & active participation in the slave trade.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

Went to bed heartsick over the Brown shooting and woke up to the Sydney mass shooting news. 😢 Thinking of everyone in these communities today—especially the loved ones of the victims—and trying not to despair over the state of the world.

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND - There will be a press conference on the Brown University mass shooting at approximately 6:15 pm ET, BNO News reports.

Oh no.