Podcasts: mainly The Bulwark w/Tim Miller, Sara Longwell, Jonathan V. Last, and George Conway. Books: I'm bouncing back and forth between Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents and Stephen King's Fairy Tale.
Listening to The Bulwark with Tim Miller and We Can Do Hard Things, reading Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, and reading fiction by Japanese writers that include cats, books, and/or bookshops to keep me from the depths of despair. 😬
I listen to The Daily Beans every morning, The New Abnormal, a couple times a week, and the muckrake podcast with Jared Yates Sexton. Currently the book I’m listening to is the cider House rules.
Currently listening to “The Chronicles of St. Mary’s” by Jodi Taylor. Good fantasy stories involving time travel. But if looking for something shorter than a 15 book series, “Noir” by Christopher Moore is an excellent book/performance. Also the Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell. 8 books now. Great
I just finished “Demon Copperhead.” One of the best books I have ever read. I also listened to the Times’ Modern Love podcast, which always brings me joy. A recent one with Bridget Everett talking about friendship was one of the best this year.
Ripple (Podcast). I'm late to this one but its a wonderfully done and infuriating look back at the BP oil spill. It's all the douchebaggery you'd expect from big business but worth a listen
From 2023. It's good but definitely does get dragged down by some side excursions that seem unnecessary. I have not yet gotten to the story of Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, which is supposed to be best part of the book.
Listening to Fool by Michael Moore because I need a break from all this heaviness. Just finished Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman and WOW! It is a must read!!!!
(A fictional, but history inspired, story of the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, dubbed 'the apostate' because he fought Christian nationalists coming to take over his country and way of life.)
So few ever ask me what music I'm reading anymore.
Changing times.
Other subject areas of expertise: individual bipedal locomotion and our 20th Century educational system, U.S. currency, confections and a changing economy.
Reading the Winds of War....fiction be seemingly a good portrait of the rise of Hitler. The Harry Potter series. Don't like the authors LGBTQ+ rights position...but love the 'kids figure it out' and the adults ready to guide, but stepping back themes.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I've never watched the movie. So far, I'm enjoying reading the book's approach to reasoning and empiricism. It was originally written when empiricism was entering it's heyday - so it's interesting to see it's fictional application.
Morbid is my go to pod.
My latest reading project was a large tote of cookbooks from the 60s and 70s that came from my parents attic, which was a treasure trove of unseasoned jello molds and loaves of meat.
When The Clock Broke (John Ganz), The Unraveling (Bob Bauer, John Meacham), The Founding Myth (Andrew Seidel) — I’ve been working on my master’s thesis…
Less is more by @jasonhickel.bsky.social
I think every person should read it, especially now. It’s written in such an engaging way, and everything he talks about is super important! Made me realise the root of most major problems is the ideology of capitalism, or the inexplicable need for growth
Freakonomics
Search Engine
99% Invisible
Radiolab (sometimes. Show laid an egg when Robert and Jad quit)
WTF (also sometimes)
Omnibus (though I sense they are running out of ideas)
Also, for a really good 2 hour listen, Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These”. A very poignant reminder of what the word humanity means. Or, at least should mean. Also it’s set in 1980’s Ireland at Christmas and is read beautifully.
@staceyabrams.bsky.social and @thehometownholler.bsky.social for podcasts. Reading @emilyinyourphone.bsky.social Democracy in Retrograde over and over.
Listening to Fixing Famous People podcast to laugh between the news podcasts. Current audiobook is Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna. This is a raw feminist screed, so far. Reading Blue Sisters. I like my novels with melancholy.
I always love and recommend the "Straight White American Jesus" podcast. I've also been enjoying "Sunday School Dropouts" and "I Hate James Dobson" these last few months.
But I'm currently half way through the new Brandon Sanderson book--only 32 hours left.
OMG, let’s see: books- On Tyranny and On Freedom; podcasts—Meidas+, The Lincoln Project, Ultra, Impolitic, Sister In Law, History Hit, Fast Politics, Talking Feds, The Daily Beans, The Ezra Klein Show, Lawfare Daily;
Also lots of Substacks.
Mostly Swedish political podcasts, like the USA podcast, the Europe podcast. The Middle East podcast and so on and some culture podcasts. A twisted podcast about different cultural expressions
That book is still excellent! Published around 1906. We were assigned THE JUNGLE when I was in middle school during Richard Nixon’s administration and I went kind of vegetarian! Here we are again with the same conditions in meat processing plants!
neither can hold my attention long enough for me to follow what is going on. Podcasts feel like info-mercials, click-bait, or wannabe home shock-jocks.
I don't listen to books, I still prefer to read them. Currently I'm reading "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson. The next will be "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein. I haven't read that since high school.
Several Blusionals genuinely believe he was responsible for Kamala’s loss with his honest opinions on what the Democrats were doing wrong, but he’s not afraid to tackle the uncomfortable topics. Plus, he adds humor to make this upcoming shitshow more palatable.
I'm reading "Into the Magic Shop - A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and Secrets of the Heart" by James R Doty MD. It's fascinating!
Decoding the Gurus (possibly my favorite podcast ever)
Conspirituality
Countdown
Pardon the insurrection
Foreign office and Kremlin file are great but no new episodes rn
Mission implausible
Daily Beans
Amicus
Next comes what
You should read this. It is quite detailed and discusses plague as well. The incident (the 1854 epidemic and its aftermath) changed dramatically the science of epidemiology. Laid waste to “the miasma theory”.
Earlier this week I ended a 15-year connection with Facebook and shut down my Threads and Instagram accounts along with it. ZuckerKapo's tongue-lavage trip to M-a-L finally did it for me. Since then, I've read two books by Jon Krakauer. Headed to library site to see about some Lamott and Kingsolver.
Indirectly, that's a shameful comment on what social media has done to my literary consumption. I hadn't read that much since a UMass degree completion program 2021-23 with almost nothing for years before that. For some reason, Bluesky doesn't "inspire" the same time-waste doom scrolling.
Listening to The Harvard Plan - I think a lot about how the left divides itself and lacks a cohesive vision, and how the Right has managed to hold on to the Big Tent. The way that the impact of campus protests played out is extremely relevant. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/harvard-plan
Lately, I've been listening to @invisiblehistorian.bsky.social read me Frankenstein on Booksquirm. A great place to listen to creepy stories. And also my city's Police Dept. Podcast.
I'm reading _Love You A Latke_ . first romance novel I've ever read. & for book club, _Tell No One_ .
Very interesting book. In the UK, we are currently trying to get @waspicampaign.bsky.social their full pensions paid to them. Government is denying 1950s-born women had a contribution to the economy and are trying to convince the public they are a financial burden!!! Help if you can. #WASPI
Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. Hill is a profiler, and so there are twisted and gruesome serial killings throughout. I thought it was going to be too horrific to stick with, but then came the election and this feels like the perfect fictional escape from the real terrors of life.
I just finished An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I learned so much about 60s politics, JFK, and LBJ. But even better I learned so much about people intensely navigating politics because they deeply care about democracy and their country.
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Also, reading The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
ON Kara Swisher
Kate Bowler Everything Happens
Wiser than Me Julia Louis Dreyfus
Is this thing on? I don't hear anything.
Unsubscribe ( Eli, AngryCops and Fat Electrician)
My wife and I have become super fans over the last few years!
The author literally writes multiple books at a time, regularly keeps his fans up to date on what percentage he's done with them
Trust of the emerald Sea was a book he wrote for his wife! And he was never going to publish it!!
Luckily his wife told him that she thought it was important that other women got to read Tress too
Plus, there's several spooky ones and a couple Sherlock Holmes mysteries as well.
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Reading
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
enjoying both!
Audiobook: The Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
2.) majority report
3.) humanist report
4.) rational national
#In_our_Time_with_Melvyn_Bragg
#Aujourd'hui_l'histoire
#Software_Engineering_Radio
#Les_geeks_ont_raison
#Sproochmates
#Der_KI-Podcast
#Slowakei_hautnah
#Буде_тобі_наука
#Ö1_Digital.Leben
#Ö1_Betrifft:_Geschichte
#ORF_Hrvati_Podcast
#Al_Rawiya_|_The_Podcast
#Акустика_Тіней
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/podcasts/modern-love-bridget-everett-somebody-somewhere.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=ctr&pvid=1C863754-3029-412F-979E-282932B7F1FF
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth
(new episodes coming 2025)
https://linktr.ee/EaSPodcast
The Chauncey DeVega Show (libsyn)
https://thechaunceydevegashow.libsyn.com/
The Chauncey DeVega Podcast (youtube)
https://youtube.com/@thechaunceydevega
Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal
(A fictional, but history inspired, story of the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, dubbed 'the apostate' because he fought Christian nationalists coming to take over his country and way of life.)
https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/julian-by-gore-vidal
Changing times.
Other subject areas of expertise: individual bipedal locomotion and our 20th Century educational system, U.S. currency, confections and a changing economy.
Kara Swisher anything but Pivot
My latest reading project was a large tote of cookbooks from the 60s and 70s that came from my parents attic, which was a treasure trove of unseasoned jello molds and loaves of meat.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/111-false-confessions-part-6-scars-and-solutions/id1494368441?i=1000680823430
Being Henry. Both are great biographies.
https://ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/
It's a podcast including a husband and wife duo where one of them does research and the other listens and learns and comments on the topic.
Educational, entertaining, and class conscious.
Also, Philly based.
I think every person should read it, especially now. It’s written in such an engaging way, and everything he talks about is super important! Made me realise the root of most major problems is the ideology of capitalism, or the inexplicable need for growth
P: Ball of Thread (the massive fuckery that led to the Biden-Burisma stuff)
P: Up and Vanished (two missing, presumed murdered, folks in Nome, AK)
B: Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
B: Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
Audiobook: What I Ate in One Year
https://www.cultivatingplace.com/blog-1
Search Engine
99% Invisible
Radiolab (sometimes. Show laid an egg when Robert and Jad quit)
WTF (also sometimes)
Omnibus (though I sense they are running out of ideas)
10 hours and I couldn’t close my ears.
But I'm currently half way through the new Brandon Sanderson book--only 32 hours left.
Also lots of Substacks.
Book: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All - Laird Barron
Sentimental Garbage - a podcast for all the sentimental culture that sometimes women are made to feel bad for liking like Taylor Swift.
To Be Magnetic: Expanded Podcast about how to manifest your dream life.
Money Stuff
Hauraki Big Show
Conspirituality
Countdown
Pardon the insurrection
Foreign office and Kremlin file are great but no new episodes rn
Mission implausible
Daily Beans
Amicus
Next comes what
all podcasts all very good
https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/relief-project-5-annie-kelly
as well as American History podcast "Back Story"
The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
By
King David Kalakaua
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapo
https://youtu.be/2sRpPX-mwXU?si=7q1OAvy15a1xJIUk
I'm reading _Love You A Latke_ . first romance novel I've ever read. & for book club, _Tell No One_ .