Easy. Like my dad and his dad before him, Steamfitters Local 420, Philadelphia www.lu420.com

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

what needs -- other than hunger for profit and hubris -- does AI promise to meet?

@dael.bsky.social It's not a state; it's just the three lower counties.

250 Years Ago News@250yearsagonews.bsky.social · last wk.

July 27, 1776: In the wake of the Declaration of Independence, Delaware becomes the latest state to plan a new constitution. The Assembly, "not thinking themselves authorized by their constituents to execute, this important work," recommends Delaware's 3 counties elect deputies to write the charter.

They were totally mocking you.

Whenever I get a royalty check, I feel like Steve Martin in the Jerk when the phone book arrives. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3344/ www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3917/

Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West - UVA Press

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "

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The View They Don't Want You to See #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

The View They Don't Want You to See

The Reflecting Pool is hidden behind fencing. The stories we tell this week won't be.

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Thomas Paine quote from the last letter of his life, addressed to Thomas Jefferson. See more at thomaspaine.org

On this day: July 13, 1987. The Descendents show happened at First Avenue that would become the “Liveage” LP on SST Records.

"America is not built for the beautiful game." ... As Emma and the USWNT are gearing up for their fifth star.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

From @theathletic.com: It’s time to admit the uncomfortable truth: The U.S. may never win a men’s World Cup. "This sport belongs to the world. We borrow it every few years," our columnist writes. "America is not built for the beautiful game."

What's the Islamic Republic of Japan's FIFA ranking?

All these things can be true: 1) The U.S. gov (esp. Trump) intervening is and looks bad. 2) FIFA has a history of corruption and selectively applying rules. 3) Lack of transparency makes FIFA look worse. 4) Balogun’s red was given due to the ref misapplying VAR rules and should have been overturned.

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Wish I could share an example of an AI-generated paper we receive all the time because they are *weird*. Mechanical manucripts that tick the boxes as academic content but really contribute nothing to knowledge. If AI has benefits for research, we're not seeing it. Just seeing shoddy autoscholarship.

Look who's at the game tonight! Our 48th President @kamalaharris.com & first First Gentleman @douglasemhoff.bsky.social!

@steelarmy.bsky.social 3 players who played at Highmark are starting for USMNT.

I admit, I loled at “leak in the back”

Trump’s New Leak in the Back Reflecting Pool Legend

You’re no doubt seeing the now endless run of stories about the...

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My post of this column on X, urging others to join me, is going to be my last post before deleting my account after 17 or so years I can't have that association with the world's highest-profile hatemonger. I hope everyone who's left on X will join me in saying no to hate, and no to trillionaires

While everyone is celebrating NYC and the Knicks, just a reminder that USMNT & NYCFC GK Matt Friese is a Philly boy and Union academy product

A drunk South Philly guy would've shimmied up there and crowbarred it off in like 10 minutes

Liberate the tarp, good people. Liberate it!

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is the apparent white tarp that it has been speculated will be put up to block viewing.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

The Pope called it soccer, game set match.

What's happening in middle America, 1720 - 1820? LIsten to this to find out, and then get a substantial discount on the book from the @pennpress.bsky.social shsmo.org/our-missouri...

What's happening in middle America, 1720 - 1820? LIsten to this to find out, and then get a substantial discount on the book from the @pennpress.bsky.social shsmo.org/our-missouri...

Article on anti- and pro-slavery politics on the 1810s and 1820s submitted today. Podcast on enslavement and empire in the 1700s and 1800s, out now, shsmo.org/our-missouri... @pennpress.bsky.social

Article on anti- and pro-slavery politics on the 1810s and 1820s submitted today. Podcast on enslavement and empire in the 1700s and 1800s, out now, shsmo.org/our-missouri... @pennpress.bsky.social