#BREAKING U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros annoucnes that charges against the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" will be dismissed with prejudice.

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I'm noticing that authors are becoming increasingly insistent that long chapters aren't a problem, actually, or that caps shouldn't apply to them, personally, bc their case "requires" 18K words.

Shingrix is no joke. Will explain in 3 days when I wake up from a long long sleep

there's often a real will to have things be a book without doing the work of actually *turning them* into a book

Good morning, Philadelphia!

Will never stop saying this, in the face of AI, book publishing had (has) an amazing opportunity to double down on everything - taste & curation (acquisition), nurture writers, editorial rigour and integrity, quality production & copyright protection. If they lose any of this to AI, they’re fucked.

"this is the most French thing EVER," my wife excitedly says as she bursts into the room — apparently there is an entire documentary about people trying to read and make sense of the writings of the late Bruno Latour

I find myself once again recommending Julia Armfield's OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

the whole gang going crazy for mulberries

A bowl of fresh garden greens plus a tin of sardines is just the perfect lunch. No pix bc it's camera shy

I consider myself a fairly experienced publishing professional, but I just tentatively committed to something that turned out to be a pay-to-play publicity situation. They were relatively transparent; I just didn't understand bc that possibility would not have occurred to me. Be careful out there.

Log off for a couple of weeks and come back to find everybody's talking about beets?

Nice yard sale content

A fascist movement is ascendant in the United States, and some of my illustrious colleagues are publishing papers that say race doesn't matter. Please be serious.

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Is #weekendweaving a thing?

I once told a student they should write for the person who inspired them to do the work, not the objectionable person they were centring in their thought and hoping to defeat. It gave them such a clarity of purpose that was incredible to see. Let your purpose guide you, and this will come to pass.

if you only create to refute the enemy, you have decided they are your primary audience

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Not me trying to convince a friend to incorporate a missile site into her vacation. www.nps.gov/mimi/index.htm

the thing no one tells you about writing a book over many years is you will eventually forget that all that you learned is not in fact in everyone else’s head just because it’s in yours now, hence: you are writing a book

TIL it can snow at 51 degrees

I helped an 11 yo make her dream sewing project today and we were both delighted

Firestarter, at approximately the same age as Drew Barrymore

Someone who tells you there are no comp titles for a forthcoming book has not looked hard enough for comp titles.

Time to paint a chicken! You can behold the chickens here: chicken.pics I encourage you to send the link to anyone who just needs to stare at a wall of chickens for a while.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Constructive version! Most books published by US-based university presses feature chapters in the 8-12,000 word range, including all citation apparatus. The more crossover-y the book, the shorter the chapters. Readers really struggle with anything longer than 15K.

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to [email protected] 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

Replace every how-to-publish panel with one on the material realities of publishing. This is where I’m at.

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

Have been listening to a concentration/productivity audiobook bc apparently I hate myself, but the real news is that EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE is a terrible person. Woody Allen! Rowley! Feynman! SHOCKLEY!

Ok ok it's ok if you share THAT post, it's hilarious

for the international ideological movement.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

orBán Voyage

Gift link to the heat shield story (it's just as well you didn't read it until tonight, trust me) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm sure the harnessing process worked great when no one was watching, maybe if we all turn off the livestream they'll get it up?

Tbh I couldn't watch the livestream bc I saw the pictures of the previous pockmarked Orion capsule and couldn't bear the possibility of losing this crew. So glad they made it back, but they deserved better than a 95 percent chance of successful reentry.

Welcome home, Artemis crew!

Anyway I'm a better editor than a plagiarism machine, you heard it on the internet

We used to be a society share.inquirer.com/IGTP5e

Not really the point for this database, but drama in DuBois County! The sheriff's trip(s?) to Dubai must be the talk of the Schnitzelbank!

A true porque no los dos moment

I have decided, for my mental health, to not read that story about Orion's heat shield until after splashdown at approximately 8:07 pm EDT tomorrow.

Lots of people think that the right argument or evidence will win their rational opponents over. But lots of opponents are irrational and as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social said the other day, you just have to defeat those folks politically.

Avignon Papacy or Newhart Show finale, you tell me