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Bill Shein

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Writer. Journalist. Friend to animals. Founder/Editor berkshireargus.com.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · Sep 9

I thought this was poems by Vikings and was *very disappointed* to discover otherwise.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 11h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 6h

Cmon, @nytimes.com: The Hatch Act mention—and the illegality—should not be *in the 12th graf*.

Put lawbreaking where it belongs: In the headline and lede. @bsky.app

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 11h

#extremephilately at #nokings rally.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 16h

Photobombing #caturday

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 16h

This was an interesting find this morning, deep in an old stock book: Unofficial stamps issued by the Czech Boy Scouts and used for 10 days in 1918 following collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Way to step up to deliver the mail, Scouts! Many forgeries, trying to determine… #philately #stamps

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 17h

Inadequate language in a @nytimes.com news story, Part 9375829672758382858.

“…unorthodox budgetary maneuvers that some have called illegal.”

The Shutdown is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Even the dog screams at the news these days.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Nice try, AARP membership sales division!

Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak

Perhaps it’s time we stopped treating midlife as a countdown and started recognising it as a peak.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Is it possible to run out of red flags? These times require an endless supply, it seems.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Haha, exactly. Though not in the same room.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Among the (many) things I’m interested in learning more about is how newcomers to the hobby proceed today e.g. acquiring stamps inexpensively to get started. Do newcomers just look on eBay for an old WW album with a mess of hinged stamps and go from there? Are there clubs left?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Legend. RIP.

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

www.npr.org

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a journalist … it’s hard to give me too much information :)

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

I mentioned eBay but am also interested in exploring the other stamp-specific online auctions and sites, though all pretty new to me at the moment. Grateful for any suggestions.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Faxed over from the Russian embassy?

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

That’s great. And it’s been nothing but hovercrafts ever since!

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

So I’ve been diving into the world of stamps on eBay recently, both for my own (recently renewed) interest and also for some upcoming reporting/writing.

And times have *changed* since my youthful days of stamps-on-approval and buying albums and supplies at Gimbels department store … #philately

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Not just any "pro-Hitler sentiment," but "extremist pro-Hitler sentiment."

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

Here's what probably half of all American households are doing every night after dinner, yes? Hello? Hey, where'd everyone go?

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 2d

And here it is: open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

To recognize the powerful statement made yesterday by (essentially) the entire Pentagon press corps—walking out of the building in unison rather than agree to only parrot official statements—today’s stamp is the 1958 “Freedom of the Press” U.S. commemorative. #philately #democracy #pressfreedom

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

No surprise endings, no plot twist, no AI, no politics, no swelling music. Just a couple of happy dogs (4 and almost 14) on their morning walk.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 2d

What, pray tell, could *possibly* go wrong?

“Yet microreactors bring significant advantages if built at scale. Although they produce a fraction of what full-size power plants generate, a nuclear reactor that fits on the back of a flatbed truck could be transported wherever it’s needed most.”

Opinion | The military’s big gamble on small nuclear reactors

The U.S. Army’s plan to deploy microreactors could be crucial after attacks on the electric grid.

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