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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈

@tinmanic.bsky.social

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NYC gay guy, legal editor, history buff, crossword nerd, Disney geek, ex-lawyer. There's almost always a book I'm reading. Married to https://bsky.app/profile/hitormiss.org. tinmanic.com

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · Nov 12

I left Twitter two years ago and have been using Bluesky as my main social media account since summer 2023

I also saw Hamilton at the Public

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 4m

Blogging in the early 2000s was so great. It created my NYC gay social life and led me to other great folks. It indirectly led to me meeting my husband. And I miss the writing habits it instilled in me. To think that I used to regularly type up several paragraphs of text for other people to read!

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

What Made Blogging Different? by Elizabeth Spiers talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

What Made Blogging Different?

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 10m

That's one way to get out of a conversation.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

LOL this headline! Welcome to the resistance...People magazine?!

Mitch McConnell, 83, Falls to Ground in Senate Building as Woman Asks His Feelings About ICE

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1h

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 6h

I would stare at the phone cord until my depth perception went bonkers and my eyes crossed

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 1d

From the people who brought you, “Hey, we just invented the bus!” comes “Hey, we just invented PR!”

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 8h

Never thought I'd miss Dr. Fill.

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1d

I'm almost finished reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddharta Mukherjee. It's excellent. And it turns out a new edition is coming out next month with four new chapters.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Em...

The Emperor of All Maladies

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME ...

www.simonandschuster.com

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1d

Funny, he doesn't look blu-ish

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1d

This is so great. 😄

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Diane Keaton's Charmingly Chaotic Interview On "The Colbert Report"

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1d

Their project, essentially a homebrewed version of Christian Marclay's The Clock, is live now, and you can watch 10 minutes of it for free.

www.aclock.live

a Clock

a Clock is a 24 hour montage of clocks in movies across film history, watch it streaming at aClock.live

www.aclock.live

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 1d

L to R: Dead Chimney Sweep, Dead Hulk, Dead Davey Crockett, Schmoo, Dead Devo Member, Dead Dalmatian, Pagan Gourd Cult Acolyte, Pagan Gourd Cult Leader.

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Offerman co-created tomorrow’s NYT crossword with veteran constructor Christina Iverson and it’s delightful, as are their constructor notes. (Spoilers inside)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Sign of Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

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Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

A new volume of the Oxford History of the United States finally comes out next spring: Contested Content, by Peter C. Mancall, covering the origins of America from c. 1000 - 1680. This volume was announced years ago.

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cover of Peter C. Mancall, Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. In the newest volume in the series, Peter C. Mancall recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans.

The first volume of the Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent is also the most ambitiously far-ranging history of North America concentrating on the period from c. 1000 to 1680, from the arrival of Norse explorers to an explosion of revolts that underlined the stubborn struggle to master the continent some two centuries after Columbus's landfall. This history spans the continent from the North Atlantic to the West Indies and includes the entire Atlantic basin. Mancall emphasizes the experiences of diverse peoples while, at the same time, telling a new story about the origins of major aspects of American culture. He illuminates the rise of a booming trans-Atlantic economy based on the extraction of abundant American natural resources; the central role that European migrants and their descendants played in the enslavement of Africans and the displacement of Indigenous peoples; and the spread of self-governing polities where many enjoyed religious freedom. None of these developments was inevitable. Conflicts broke out frequently as different peoples battled over precious resources. Europeans' appetites for material gain and expanding Christendom brought horrific consequences for those brutalized, enslaved, and vulnerable to infectious diseases.

This is a sweeping history of developments crucial to the eventual founding of the United States. Contested Continent underscores the titanic struggles between the peoples who had populated the Americas for centuries and the migrants from the Old World who initiated changes that created …

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

Burnett still possesses, as she proudly put it, “all my original parts”—no refurbished hips, no designer kneecaps. Every day, she walks for twenty-five minutes on a treadmill. She reads both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times in print and then does an hour or so of puzzles (“The mind is a muscle,” she said). She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron. Burnett doesn’t use a regular starting word, as many players do, but plucks a new guess each day “from the universe,” and often wins in only two tries out of six, a pattern that has led friends to suspect that she cheats. (“I would never!” she said.) Janney told me, of seeing the daily text pop up on her phone, “Sometimes I get so frustrated, and I think, Ugh, I hate this game. But I have to keep doing it, because I don’t want to lose touch with Carol. Carol freaking Burnett!”

Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

Really enjoyed this profile of Carol Burnett.

"She has developed a habit of texting her daily Wordle score to a selection of friends, including Allison Janney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Charlize Theron."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Carol Burnett Plays On

The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.

www.newyorker.com

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

I consider myself one too. I grew up with it, it makes mistakes, I get mad at it sometimes. But it’s easy to notice when it get things wrong and to take it for granted when it gets things right.

Also: its mistakes get shared on social media. The normal day-to-day competence does not.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3d

I am often told I should not read or pay for the New York Times. Just now, for example. @skyfog.bsky.social‬ said, "You shouldn’t be paying for that rag."

I consider myself a Times loyalist, and I explain what I mean by that here. pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-...

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Matt Kingston 🎯 @hitormiss.org · 3d

Oh, no! I missed the news that TiVo has gotten out of the DVR business. We're still using our TiVo Roamio, so I wonder how long we'll continue to get program data. We tried Yahoo TV a while back while I was repairing our TiVo and it was terrible :(

www.pcmag.com/news/times-u...

Time's Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs

The company that saw its name become a verb has shifted its focus to connected TVs.

www.pcmag.com

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Jeff 🏳️‍🌈 @tinmanic.bsky.social · 2d

It helped that you usually didn’t need to remember area codes, so it was just seven digits you were remembering.

And all the phone numbers in my town had one of three prefixes (the first 3 digits of the 7-digit number), so that also helped.

Anyway I still remember some friends’ childhood numbers.