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katecarp.bsky.social
Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing. https://draftingthepast.com/ http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/ Profile 📷 John Legg
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I watched Mickey 17 last night and really liked it, not least because it was not just different, but like something made by some imperfect, weirdo, fun people, exploring imperfect, weirdo fun ideas. That's really what I want most out of art.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Just a heads up, for those waiting with bated breath, that "this week's" episode will be out next week, because that's just how life is right now. Thank you for your patience!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever I research podcast production services, I think maybe I should just go into podcast production instead.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

At this point I might have to bust out the typewriter to finish my dissertation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Please tell me how you got past a dissertation wall and finished.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Please not a deluge of substacks about that book list.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps rereading everything I've written for my dissertation so far was not the best plan to inspire confidence to finish.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking again about starting up a venue for reviewing history books. Written by humans and everything!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Every @atrubek.bsky.social and @derekkrissoff.bsky.social newsletter makes me want to publish with a small press.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I tell the toddler that his dad can't come play because he's still working, he solemnly intones, "email." Indeed, buddy. 😂

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The number one piece of in depth journalism I want in Kansas City right now is where the KCPD budget goes. We've been forced by the state to spend more and more money, and yet all I hear is about how there's not enough policing to stop crime. What are they doing with the money?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I really enjoyed speaking with Kate Carpenter of @draftingthepast.bsky.social about my writing routine, engineering background, & latest book. I was honored to be interviewed since it is one my favorite podcast. @uncpress.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I get bonkers podcast pitches from PR people. In what way, exactly, will this "points and miles expert" "add a unique layer to the conversations [I'm] fostering" about writing history? Also, the names in your subject line and pitch are different people, neither relevant to my interests.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Happy first goldfinch sighting in my backyard day to all who celebrate (me)!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Having a crappy day, so I'm fantasizing about a career where I get to write ridiculous doorstop biographies about complicated women (and I guess men, if they're interesting enough).

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely triggering to me how much the (I assume) editor in this new show resembles my former editor at the Pocatello newspaper. tvline.com/news/the-pap...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Why are none of Mark Twain's biographers women?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Now a crow and a blue jay seem to having a fight, and a bunch of sparrows and robins are flying around egging them on (or yelling at them)? Who needs book reviews when you could be watching birds!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm supposed to be finishing this book review that just might be the end of me, but there's a northern flicker on the ground fewer than twenty feet away, and I can't be expected to concentrate under these conditions.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

New! A true pleasure to talk with @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social about his book Remembering Conquest and about his writing routine, the importance of exercise, and whether his engineering background translates to his writing (hint: a work log!). Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Chicago pope!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Got myself a gaming mouse with programmable buttons to try to speed up podcast editing, and this might be the nerdiest I've ever felt.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I hate copyediting in Google docs because the kerning is so off that I can never tell where there's an extra space.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Cleared $200 in monthly gross income for the podcast for the first time in April! This calls for extremely cheap champagne.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This is absurdly helpful advice from Matt Bell on writing reviews of fiction, which is also largely applicable to reviewing nonfiction, I think: open.substack.com/pub/mattbell...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

OK historians of tech and communication: if I wanted to get a sense of where and when phone lines spread across the U.S. in the 20th century, what's my best source?

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

OK historians of tech and communication: if I wanted to get a sense of where and when phone lines spread across the U.S. in the 20th century, what's my best source?

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking about including some updates on my dissertation progress in the podcast newsletter or at the end of episodes. Partly as accountability, partly for anyone curious about what it's like to slog through the end of the diss. Is that interesting, or just self-involved?

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Did I start this episode with a mini pep talk because I needed one myself? Yes, yes I did.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments