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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

This is unbelievably bad.

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Brookston @brookston.bsky.social · 20h

GABF 2005 Flashback: Sharing 20-year old photos from GABF, today's shot is Garret Oliver (Brooklyn Brewery) and Vinnie Cilurzo (Russian River) at the Wynkoop Brewpub for the Brewers' Reception.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

We often talk about the 'pioneers' who set up early commercial hop farms and integrated markets, etc etc. And they are historically significant.

And so is the fact that they watched the Sound nervously every year for flotillas of native canoes to arrive, otherwise they'd be fucked.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 3d

Reading Kurt Vonnegut was one of the better decisions I made when I was seventeen

Photo of a page in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. My thumb is visible on the left. It says:

The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to show off their useless education, which consisted of the study of hocus-pocus from ancient times. They were bum poets as well.

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the
United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it
with pride and joy:

1492

The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the
year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

For Indigenous Peoples' Day, a reminder that the PNW hops that beer lovers love to love owe much of their existence to the thousands of Native Americans who migrated around the Puget Sound region each year to pick them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

Franz Hofer just put out a primer on Vienna's great (and accessible) wine culture.

"If you’re in Vienna during the autumn months, Sturm is a must."

Yes, yes it is.

tempestinatankard.com/2025/10/13/b... @tempestinatankard.bsky.social

Beyond Beer: The Viennese Heuriger (Wine Garden) • A Tempest in a Tankard

Much like the first beer gardens, the Viennese Heuriger was an open-air tavern where people could bring food to enjoy with their wine.

tempestinatankard.com

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Footnoting History @footnotinghistory.bsky.social · 3d

Out now! Lucy explores the roots of Renaissance Faires in the US, and how communes, folk music, particolored tights, and a reimagined past turn out to be more closely linked than you might imagine.

www.footnotinghistory.com/home/ren-fai...

YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCG...

Ren Faire History: From Folk Music to Fried Food. Lucy. Image: Photograph of Lucy in Ren Faire clothing, smelling a flower

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 3d

Congratulations! Can't wait to read it.

The back cover has me thinking about the gluttonous barbecues used for campaign events in the early republic era.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 3d

It was a fun thought while it lasted.

Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 15d

Right now there's a non-zero chance of a Cubs-Mariners World Series.

Yes, I know the absurdity of that sentence. I'm enjoying the feeling, let me dream.

a man is standing next to a robot that says never tell me the odds

ALT: a man is standing next to a robot that says never tell me the odds

media.tenor.com

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 9d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 4d

Today is the 154th anniversary of the end of the Great Chicago Fire, and the beginning of Chicago’s “Regeneration,” the title of this sculpture by Henry Hering on SE Du Sable Bridge bridgehouse at Michigan & Wacker. The I Will Maiden personified Chicago’s energy. We will need that energy again soon.

Bas relief sculpture showing the I Will Maiden, a Greek Goddess of sorts, in armor, a cape, and flowing skirt; in one hand she holds rolled up blueprints for, presumably, new buildings; other hand wields a carpenter’s square. She has a tiara on as well; she treads on an unhappy dragon (the Fire?) beneath her sandals. She is flanked on each side by muscular tradesmen rebuilding the city.

See first picture alt text. Closeup of the I Will Maiden.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 6d

In 1958 you could book a 10 day travel package to Bavaria & Austria, including airfare, hotels, most meals, 2-days at Oktoberfest, and a bunch of other sightseeing...

...for $646.80

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 6d

Depending how you adjust for inflation, that comes to between $7,250 and $9,625 today.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 6d

In 1958 you could book a 10 day travel package to Bavaria & Austria, including airfare, hotels, most meals, 2-days at Oktoberfest, and a bunch of other sightseeing...

...for $646.80

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 8d

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

Thanks! I would *love* to read what you've found about Irish pickers.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

Thank you!

Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 9d

Thank you!

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 9d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

vinepair.com

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The Don of Beer @thedonofbeer.bsky.social · 9d

Here is my latest for @forbes.com , a fun look at the 2025 Oktoberfest statistics.

www.forbes.com/sites/dontse...

The Beer Flowed During The 2025 Oktoberfest, And So Did The Chicken

An estimated 6.5 million people attended the world’s most famous beer festival and an estimated 6.5 million liters (1.7 million gallons) of beer was served

www.forbes.com

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taber @kvetch.gay · 11d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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