Glenn Ford is not messing around! #TheBigHeat #FilmNoir #TCMParty

Just knocked off after a long day of sorting and organizing facts. Anything interesting happen today?

Sun Tzu: The wise warrior uses all of their missiles as quickly as possible

Man they've really got some Hemingway-ass tragic short stories on FB marketplace, don't they

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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nothing like Verizon asking me to enter my phone number in a field after I've already logged in to their website USING my phone number, a phone number that they provide me with and have for decades. what are we even doing here

Now Reading: Mom, Gijs. “Mobility-Orientalism: Road Safety and the Global Politics of Automobilism.” Technology and Culture 67, no. 3 (2026): 921–44. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Hello #filmsky. Do you have any thoughts on using the Columbia Film Language Glossary at the undergraduate level? I'm always looking for OER materials; anyone use this already? Pitfalls or benefits? filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/term/

Really excited to feature some great state advocacy groups in this upcoming @bikeleague.org webinar about e-bikes, e-motos, and how states are dealing with the popularity and proliferation of these devices bikeleague.org/calendar/e-b... Happening next week, August 11th at 3 pm ET

E-bikes, E-motos, Oh My: Navigating New Devices and Laws for E-Bikes | League of American Bicyclists

Until recently, every bicycle was powered the same way, with feet on pedals. Today, e-bikes, e-scooters, and other small electrically-powered devices are very popular. While the 3-class system for e-b...

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Greetings from the Latoya Jackson International Spaceport and Nail Emporium

ReBoot Revival: Dot Matrix & Guardian Bob CGI

Alt: ReBoot Revival: Dot Matrix & Guardian Bob CGI

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why are harbingers always of doom why can’t we have harbingers of cake?

The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...

New Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t Over

The Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their...

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Ah, the League of American Bicyclists has a new report out that summarizes how we got to where we're at with the Borealis and bikes. bikeleague.org/new-bicycle-...

New “Bicycle Friendly Trains” Report Grades All 46 Amtrak Lines | League of American Bicyclists

On behalf of the Amtrak Bike Task Force, the League is proud to release Bicycle Friendly Trains: a systematic, route-by-route benchmark of how well Amtrak accommodates cyclists and their bikes. …

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New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed

About to embark on a journey centered on my NEXT book (linen, landscapes, looms, Luddites, and water power) but @uchicagopress.bsky.social kindly just sent me some blurb excerpts for my forthcoming book, on hops in 19th century Wisconsin, and the tens of thousands of women who harvested them. 🍺👻📖

I've started writing an unreliable narrator novel Or have I

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

The difficulty for a US history survey text is deciding the right level of specificity versus the right level of generalization. To that difficulty, I would like to add a metric, which I call the "Locofoco Rule": if your textbook spends time explaining the name of the Locofocos, you're too specific.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

oh the "Ava" adobe read-aloud voice is not the right choice for history books and articles. the voice is just too breathless and excited, pronouncing "war" and "disease" at the end of sentences like they're new product rollouts. "Red Scare" like it's a top national brand. That's on me, my bad.

Easy 50 miles road with 3k feet of climbing in perfect conditions

Inspired by the summer film and Discourse, some freshman are going to show up to register for classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient History only to find that those courses and faculty no longer exist.

August 🤝 Sneaking Up On People

In our latest "postcard," border reporter @jlbuch.bsky.social explores the natural beauty ... and pervasive surveillance ... of the Texas border region on a unique two-wheeled journey.

Postcard: Cycling the Rio Grande as Trump's Wall Looms

“We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing to be worried about.”

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Computerized rooms, telework stations, and child-soothing technologies sold a seductive illusion that automation could solve the problems of maternal care.

The False Promise of the First ‘Smart’ Homes

Computerized rooms, telework stations, and child-soothing technologies sold a seductive illusion that automation could solve the problems of maternal care.

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hello fellow teachers and welcome to July 32nd

​Sinners, Saints and Screenplays: On Jim Thompson and Stanley Kubrick --an essay about the making of a nor classic by Michael A. Gonzales crimereads.com/kubrick-jim-...

this is a familiar genre for national media, i call it “who let these flyover rubes have culture?”

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · 5d ago

Iowa Writers Workshop has existed for 90 years. CNN just discovered it