Suburbs weren't always fashionable leafy neighborhoods for the well-off. @joesaunders1.bsky.social tells all, including the etymology of "extramural" @howtohistory.bsky.social how-to-history.com/2026/02/25/s...
lol @mchinn.bsky.social finds EJ Antonini & the Heritage Foundation creating excellent econometrics teaching material by making many stupid mistakes that beginners should avoid. econbrowser.com/archives/202...
Antiquaries like to potter around cool stuff left by people from the past! Long on observation and short on theory, they get looked down on by academic historians. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social gives them their due. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...
"You were given the choice between endorsing the quack RFKjr and losing your seat. You chose the quack. And you will lose your seat."
Before insurance companies & government welfare, people set up "friendly societies" to assist each other when hard times hit. They kept careful records, @howtohistory.bsky.social & Joe Saunders write, which increasingly furnish data to historians. how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...
A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
I want to know what @robin-f.bsky.social thinks about this! Seems sketchy -- certainly the Cambridge PR headline "Britain's economy boomed..." archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Horrible "journalism"
My piece in the @wirobooks.bsky.social. The new oral culture and the end of reading & writing.(!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/its...
Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Build your own newspaper/ magazine! Escape email newsletter hell! RSS has been a primary news source for me every day for 15 years. Now it's making a comeback & @molly.wiki tells you how to do it. Yay! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.
You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.
Selfie at Oscar's in Palm Springs (taken May 2024).
After taking a somewhat longer-than-expected hiatus from social media (motivated by divisive and mentally draining rhetoric on other platforms), I think it's about time to re-emerge.
To re-introduce myself - hi! I'm Ron, and I'm a gerontologist interested in elder and LGBTQIA+ equity and advocacy.
Scholars following facts regardless of ideology get bigger audiences. Good!
They "not only attract a new... audience for their recent work, this new audience also engages with... the author's previous... papers, thereby helping to break down echo chambers." www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
Humans: the same everywhere. "Most participants tolerated inequality when it benefited them but were intolerant of inequality when it benefited others." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Hexadecapussy
A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
It's @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social & Tyler Cowen on plague, social mobility, European growth.
"It’s quite good to be a foreigner here [UK] because if you behave in an eccentric way, they think it’s just because you’re foreign. They don’t blame you for it."
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...
That's bullshit -- the ACA expansion is a separate pool of federal money that bolsters hospitals and state economies as well as population health. But defend it! Identify Rs' chief target -- low income adults.
Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"
Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.
I am going to get Hillkirk to coordinate an alumni houir
yes! (I asked ChatGPT for more info): "Canada has not had a reality star, pro wrestler, or an overtly clownish figure hold high political office (such as Prime Minister, Premier, or Lieutenant Governor), unlike the U.S. with figures like Donald Trump or Jesse Ventura."
