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I weigh in 😬

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A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Remembering trans man Albert Cashier for Pride, Union soldier during the civil war, was captured, marched a thousand miles without them figuring out his assigned sex at birth, escaped, and went right back to fighting them. Lived the rest of his life as a man. We have always been here.

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Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her

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This is an AMAZING resource. Can't encourage you enough to look up your state's supreme court. You'll discover that every state supreme court is designed with more checks than the federal judiciary

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Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.

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Happy Birthday to Amelia Bloomer! She would be 207 today, and appalled at how relevant her arguments still are for the legal and social rights of women, and all genders.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Grim. This is the second example of this. I'm also seeing increased interest in LLM "peer review." Doing these things is to give up on genuine scholarly production. LLMs can't think, reason, etc...Why would we outsource tasks that rely on those things to them? People have lost their minds.

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🧵with excellent advice to authors. The earlier version of this has been outsourcing to cheap inexperienced "editors" ...

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Radio Shack once sold everything from ham radios to the earliest personal computers - a technology empire that fueled innovation and captured the imagination of inventors and hobbyists. But how did such a seemingly ubiquitous company with such a legacy fall apart? #history

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My biography of Amelia Bloomer is featured in the New York Almanack this week! A great publication for state history, culture, and nature lovers, with regular new books news. @newyorkalmanack.bsky.social @beltpublishing.bsky.social

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A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote. The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE. We can stop this. We have to.

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

Leading Amelia Bloomer expert Sara Catterall penned a response to everyone running around this spring, calling frilly shorts bloomers. You don't want to miss it; here's "On Bloomers." @scatterall.bsky.social beltpublishing.com/pages/on-blo...

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2026 is going to be the year of Susan Glaspell. Who could resist this woman? And the novel that @beltpublishing.bsky.social (Fidelity) is reissuing is incredible.

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I absolutely LOVED @scatterall.bsky.social's biography of Amelia Bloomer. Devoured it and marked so many pages to return to for historical tidbits and other things of interest. Like, who knew Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to each other?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The sad thing about the Sun-Times offloading even easy-peasy listicles to AI is that its books coverage used to be top-shelf. Its longtime editor, Henry Kisor, was a Pulitzer finalist and an excellent book author in his own right. (And he was the 1st editor to encourage me in my book-crit "career.")

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Ok, wow. Would just like to reiterate that what Amelia Bloomer wore was not underwear. And it's something to see this trend get similar negative press to the original! Nobody owes you your personal taste in fashions or bodies.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

All day drive to Chicago from NY. Got off at Jackson Park in 90+ degrees, driving past crowded beaches. 20 minutes later it's hurricaning and hailing out of a yellow sky and the temps dropped 30 degrees. I love my Midwest weather drama.

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SUNDAY May 18 JOIN US in NYC for a spring Health Justice Potluck Picnic! RSVP: bit.ly/SpringPicnic2025 Meet future, current & retired health workers, organizers & advocates for universal single-payer healthcare, racial, economic, social & health justice. #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll

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This reflects the overwhelming response from students during their panel at the mini AI conference my community college recently held - students are paying and working hard to have a professor’s unique expertise and field experience, so it’s incredibly insulting to hand them ChatGPT garbage instead.

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New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: The Nowadays Girls in the Adirondacks by Gertrude Calvert Hall https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76084

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This Library of Congress Kluge Center alum is delighted that to have found the @altlofc.altgov.info account on the Bluniverse. 💙📚 🗃

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“This is a takeover of a major component of the legislative branch,” the expert tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no reason that they’re going to stop there.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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I saw Sinners yesterday, and I'll definitely be seeing it again! Here's what I can add to what I've read about it, since the Choctaw presence at the beginning made perfect sense to me.

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Seeing another round of "it's okay, we have the wayback machine/the Internet archive/etc" in response to the news about the Library of Congress. Yes we do, and what's online is not even 40 percent of what's there, and in state and public libraries.

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