#Writing: "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." – Charles Spurgeon
30.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
"I felt I was late."
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30.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The strange #history."
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30.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "People are fascinated by the rich: #Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars." - Dominick Dunne, born 100 years ago on today's date
29.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal
Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home
"A strong bond."
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29.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"A national obsession."
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29.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "A #map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams." – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, born 150 years ago on today's date
28.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ICE Protest Frogs Have a Long History of ‘Tactical Frivolity’ Behind Them
“That willingness to make yourself ridiculous can be very disarming,” said a professor who has studied — and engaged in — absurd protest methods.
"Very disarming."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to Christie Thompson & @themarshallproject.org!
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www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/22/t...
28.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We are evacuating."
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28.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up." - Rex Stout, who died 50 years ago on today's date
27.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
"Bookish maledictions."
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27.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "If you have good memories, there's no need to bring them up." – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, born 150 years ago on today's date
25.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame." – G.K. Chesterton
24.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Some of the Greatest American Music You’ve Never Heard Of
"Smashed his #violin to pieces."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
24.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." — Alejandro Jodorowsky
23.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The complex history of the world’s oldest trees."
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23.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." – William Butler Yeats
22.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The destroyer of worlds."
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22.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "People selling useless services to authors are as common as mushrooms around
rotting tree trunks." – Josh Bernoff
21.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Russia through the history of its women."
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21.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#Writing: "The best things in life aren't things." – Art Buchwald, born 100 years ago on today's date
20.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Murder That Made Me a True Crime Writer
The legendary Skip Hollandsworth revisits the case that launched his lifelong obsession. An exclusive excerpt from his new book, ‘She Kills.’
"Found dead."
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20.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watch the official trailer of James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg, inspired by extraordinary true events.
Nuremberg, inspired by Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, brings to life the true story…
Nuremberg | Official Trailer | UK Cinemas Nov 14
To my friends in the UK: This is Sky's trailer for Nuremberg, based on my book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. The movie opens in the UK on November 14. (November 7 in the US and some other countries.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2V...
20.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Told through humanity’s most universal object"
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20.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent. Author of Firestorm (2026) and Separated (2020). Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris. jacobsoboroff.com
📖Writing and teaching on Middle English literature in Oxford
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I write stories and host the Morning Lineup podcast for MLB. I went to Fordham. BBWAA. Bad news, rap dudes, I'm back fools.
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Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
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Gamer, writer, runner, dad. Currently writing for the Wonder Woman video game, forthcoming from Monolith.
Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
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History prof at Rutgers-Newark. Author of Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire and Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle.
Anti-ICE activist in NJ. Diehard sewist.
