Stacy

My quarterly opportunity to once again say...

Eat shit, Target.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about @pastpunditry.bsky.social's comments last week about the further splintering and radicalization of the m@ga movement and what may be coming down the line. It's chilling but it's a clarity that I find helpful. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It was SUCH a fun, wild ride!

[Montananly] Citizens United was actually a case arising specifically from Montana's experience of and resistance to copper baron capture of the state's political system

I'm 14 months into lifting heavy and, let me tell you, it will continue to feel more and more incredible!

What Karen says!
Related, the day after the election, I hit a new deadlift PR. It wasn't a coincidence.

Black and white portrait of Benjamin Stone from the 1880s. A Black man with close-cut hair and a very full goatee or beard wears a heavily layered suit.

Ben Stone was a friend to all who knew him. This is a portrait taken by JP Ball around 1887-8.

YouTube video by Montana Historical Society Leadership Under Fire: A Black Montanan and the Nez Perce War of 1877

And, speaking of my research hobby... I recently gave a talk at the Montana History Conference about my favorite Montanan, Benjamin Stone. I wish everyone could know him. youtu.be/HzuxaYBJhkg?...

I research Black history in Montana and all I have to say is, YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

less punditry and much more organizing.

it's just a fact that hate makes you ugly. 🤷‍♀️

A sticker of an anthropomorphic potato lifting a barbell that is loaded with plates. The potato's smile is joy-filled.

This potato lives at my desk as my inspiration.

Absolute, complete, fucking dummies.

Imagine half your new hires being dropped bc they couldn't manage an open-book test.

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

A picture of Quintard Taylor.

Just got word from WHA that the great historian Quintard Taylor has passed away. His book, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West was such a huge inspiration in my own work on the region. Also first Black president of WHA. A legend who will be missed.

Welcome to the world of “inclusions,” an ecosystem known to archivists the world over in which they come across all sorts of things readers have purposefully or inadvertently left between a book’s pages. Recently at the Library, the objet du jour was... a snakeskin. 🐍 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/...

I think it was yesterday that a private jet's front landing gear failed... perhaps there's still some fallout from that?

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

The stuff of dreams: a LOC library card!

I'll also add too that I *think* you have to do it on your mobile app as well as desktop... when I just updated this setting a bit ago on desktop, and then later checked on my app, it hadn't transferred over.

No idea about their financial success (other than they're both still around with great podcasts) but @maximumfun.org and Radiotopia come to mind.

Collective action [aka: our grudge] is the gift that just keeps on giving. Once again, I say:

Eat Shit, Target.

Lads the HONK I just honked

Do you know of any good starter packs of scientists we could follow on this? Cc: @joshuajfriedman.com

Eddington is absolutely wild. A favorite of the year, so far. I think the folks who hate it do so because it's a little too close to the bone for them.

Chief Financial Officer The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) oversees the strategic development and maintenance of integrated budget, accounting, financial management, data ana...

Looks like CBP/ICE - that just received a $170 BILLION budget upgrade - is in the market for a new CFO.
www.usajobs.gov/job/840604600

And the stupidity. I'm constantly stunned by their willful stupidity.

Encountered my first AI-narrated book on @hoopladigital.bsky.social this morning. Immediately smashed the one-star button & as a possible tip off to others... the "narrator's" very generic name was Jason Smith. Every other public domain book attached to that name is suspect.

Who wants to do a #NICAR26 immigration data panel with me?

A page from Mary Shelley's draft of Frankenstein. There's a wide margin on the left dotted with editorial notes, from Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary's handwriting is an orderly italic. Paragraphs are crossed out, as are individual words and sentences. The page really feels like a glimpse over Shelley's shoulder at a work in progress. You can view the entire manuscript on Digital Bodleian. Search Shelfmark: Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Abinger c. 56.

Today is #NationalWritingDay and the theme is ‘Share Your Voice’. So, whether you’re an aspiring writer, a published author, or something in between: tell us what you're working on!

Pictured: Mary Shelley’s first draft of Frankenstein, which is safely stored at the Bodleian.