Matt Bogen

Okay Bluesky, it's clear to me that a lot of you are falling for scams so I've decided to crack out the slides I use to educate high school students on identifying and protecting themselves from scams

Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams

CNN article- Trump says he wasnt aware 'shylock' viewed as antisemitic after using it at rally

"Shakespeare, never heard of him. Now Kit Marlowe, there's a playwright. They treated Doctor Faustus very badly- Lucifer and Belzebub, they were very unfair to the doc, who did NOTHING WRONG"

Go, go, go!! Well done!

70% for me. I erred on the side of being more skeptical (I got all the fakes but called 3 real ones fake).

That’s why you’re still here.

‘You should be worried': Small town NH library has funds pulled by federal government A rollback in humanities funding is threatening years of progress to expand a small library in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.

"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates ACT II, SCENE II Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants. KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, gentlemen; our...

QUEEN GERTRUDE
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.

HALL
I can’t go for that.

OATES
No can do.

It is fine to feel melancholy every once in a while (I do it myself) but all of us have within ourselves the capacity to act out our beliefs and work, even in piecemeal, towards a different world

Book giveaway for Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025 Enter to win one of 12 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025. A masterpiece.—JM MiroEnter for a chance to win a copy of Writ...

The team at Ace Books in NY are now giving away 12 copies of Written on the Dark, the actual book, not an advance reading copy, ahead of publication date. It is on Goodreads — for American readers.

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States.

Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.

Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.

The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.

/1

Exit, pursued by infamy: The rise and decline of a ShakesBear I sat on a stool next to Growly McFurryPaws at the bar nearest his home. He frequents the bar, he said, because his depression has become too much to handle.

A tremendously funny "interview" with the bear who does the pursuing in “The Winter’s Tale,” Growly McFurryPaws.

How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
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Thank you for the compliment! It was an amazing story to help tell, and never have I seen audiences more rapt with what was before them. Humbling and gratifying!

Can’t wait to dive into the one. Allegra and two colleagues spoke at the talkback after my production of TERRA NOVA and they were amazingly knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Now that I am done with the show, I have brain space to take on more knowledge. :)

Historian here:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Smiling lady in glasses, with blonde hair. (Dr Isaacson)

Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.

Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.

If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1

My Wall deck from 30 years ago nods its head with respect.

The Upside Down: For Whom the Bell Tolls

John Mitchinson explores the strangely complex method behind the music of the bells

And in related news, my production of TERRA NOVA (about Scott’s doomed race to the Pole) opens tonight in New Canaan CT!

Tyrone Taylor found a mystery loaf of bread in his locker today. It looked delicious, but he had no idea where it came from.

Turns out, Ryne Stanek's wife, Jessica, likes to bake, so Ryne gives out bread to guys.

Pete Alonso got one. They embraced.

"I love you," Alonso said.

Memories of a little girl during the fascist occupation of France (1939-1941) | The Spaceshipper Get more from The Spaceshipper on Patreon

As a reminder, I recently translated and published my late lovely grandmother's memoirs of what it was like to live during the WWII fascist occupation of France.

The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943).

Part I:
www.patreon.com/posts/memori...

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

BREAKING: AOC has said there is insider trading in Congress.

"It's so crazy... we're supposed to act like money only corrupts Republicans? Give me a fucking break."

Some key bits of the article. He’s literally demanding an EU country, and NATO ally just cede land to him.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

WATCH: “@GovBillLee has tied his incredibly unpopular voucher scam to hurricane relief for East TN. Absolutely disgusting.”

WILSON COUNTY mom @lindseypatrickwright encourages folks to call their reps ahead of the special session.

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