From the essay JD Vance published in @TheAtlantic.com ten July 4ths ago—a tough-minded, clear-eyed analysis of the tragic, dangerous fantasies Donald Trump was selling to the people Vance grew up with. Astonishing artifact of the demonic quisling before he turned to the dark side.

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.

Reminds me that a circle is rounder than a square.

1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ That's one million pages digitized and counting. The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley marks this major milestone in its LoCAL Digitization Project. An archive of California local government history searchable online. Learn more: igs.berkeley.edu/news/one-mil... 🧵 1/5

@legroff.bsky.social Best mail delivery of the year.

I learned more about negotiations involving Iran from the first season of The Diplomat.

@oliharris.bsky.social I have so enjoyed the first two Elliot Kane novels. Will The Shame Archive audiobook be available in the US soon? And…Ascension Island! Who knew. What a fascinating setting.

This made me weepy

@backlisted.bsky.social Of course. (Today’s New York Times)

#caturday Tinker.

@duckpondsreview.bsky.social we’re just back from enjoying three weeks of quiet corners in Australia.

@iammilliam.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social

Mark your calendars. And bring tissues.

Brad Craft@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 9mo ago

December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Upcoming monograph on Charles Dickens and the Classics.

Christian Lehmann (he, him, his)@buffyantiqua.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There it is! Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception will publish my book "Charles Dickens and the Classics" next year. Lots of it is about classics at the street level and how Dickens uses the classics to think about gender, sex, race, and class. +90 images www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/bl...

@backlisted.bsky.social www.evesobits.com/post/associa...

Associated Press book reviews

One of the inevitable things about getting old is that everything I love disappears: department stores, bookstores, subway tokens, Campbell’s Green Pea soup, my being a size 4 . . . Now, the AP has an...

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Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump. It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

@iammilliam.bsky.social I know you have already heard this from me, but #backlisted has impacted my life in innumerable ways and I will ALWAYS be grateful beyond words.

#blueskyartshow #lines #newyorkcity

#blueskyartshow #lines #baybridge #moonrise

#blueskyartshow #lines At a traffic stop near Salesforce Park, San Francisco.

I will never understand people who come in swinging to defend the indefensible actions of large corporations. They don’t care about you. Anyway, Happy Independent Bookstore day! Show your local indie some love—or find one to love on @bookshop.org or @libro.fm Mine is @thelynxbooks.bsky.social

Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say

Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say

Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves

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There’s something about an emotional support chicken…

@ktvufox2.bsky.social Just received this notice. Would love for you to cover this story. We are not happy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b... So saddened. I wrote a few reviews for #headbutler back in the day. He was funny and supportive. His memory will be a blessing.

Jesse Kornbluth, Magazine Writer Who Covered Everything, Dies at 79

He reported on the highs and lows of culture in the pages of Vanity Fair and elsewhere. He also wrote seven books of nonfiction and two novels.

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