Feral BOO!macker 🦇
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Certified Genealogist, children's television writer, and owner of We Go Way Back®. Love the Cubs, native plants/gardening, and books.
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My top #genealogy gift-giving tip this holiday season:
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DNA TESTS AS PRESENTS.
Here's why. 🧵
PLEASE DO NOT GIVE DNA TESTS AS PRESENTS.
Here's why. 🧵
Stop what you're doing and watch this adorable, hilarious, this-one-goes-out-to-all-the-theatre-kids video
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff & Lindsay Mendez Talk Onstage Mishaps During Merrily We Roll Along
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Stop what you're doing and watch this adorable, hilarious, this-one-goes-out-to-all-the-theatre-kids video
The COVID wastewater levels near me were higher this month than at any point during the holiday season last year, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
On top of that, the current flu vaccine does not protect against the new K variant, which caused a record flu season overseas.
Mask up!
On top of that, the current flu vaccine does not protect against the new K variant, which caused a record flu season overseas.
Mask up!
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The COVID wastewater levels near me were higher this month than at any point during the holiday season last year, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.
On top of that, the current flu vaccine does not protect against the new K variant, which caused a record flu season overseas.
Mask up!
On top of that, the current flu vaccine does not protect against the new K variant, which caused a record flu season overseas.
Mask up!
“All across this country [people] have sacrificed and fought and died for their rights in the workplace. The times and the characters may change, but that story never ends. It’s only picked up by the next writer... Take our pen and hold power to account.” 🔥🔥🔥
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
“All across this country [people] have sacrificed and fought and died for their rights in the workplace. The times and the characters may change, but that story never ends. It’s only picked up by the next writer... Take our pen and hold power to account.” 🔥🔥🔥
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I really try to avoid Substack (and never give money anymore) but this interview is one of the most thoughtful, validating, clear-eyed conversations about the current state of publishing that I've read to date.
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Galley Brag #22
Author and critic Kristen Martin on the Publishers Marketplace deal flow, the fallacy of "most anticipated" lists, and the dearth of book criticism as a fascism indicator.
galleybrag.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I really try to avoid Substack (and never give money anymore) but this interview is one of the most thoughtful, validating, clear-eyed conversations about the current state of publishing that I've read to date.
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
I've had a BN subscription for most of this year and it's been totally worth it. No ads, plus I get to support my favorite sports writers + podcast. Will be renewing next year, no question.
HEADS UP for any of you considering a premium sub at BN: we're doing the Black Friday week thing, and you get FIFTY PERCENT off if you use the code BN50. Enjoy: www.bleachernation.com/premium-plan/
Premium plan - Bleacher Nation
Access Exclusive BN Discord | Go Ad Free | Support Bleacher Nation
www.bleachernation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I've had a BN subscription for most of this year and it's been totally worth it. No ads, plus I get to support my favorite sports writers + podcast. Will be renewing next year, no question.
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Delete your Twitter account. That platform is built for right wing propaganda and harassment and that's it.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Delete your Twitter account. That platform is built for right wing propaganda and harassment and that's it.
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You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.
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Libraries pay for books. There are 17k public libraries in the US. 90k school libraries. If even a small percent of those each buy a book, that helps out considerably financially.
In Canada, libraries pay the author PER BORROW.
A lot of books on internet archives were stolen to begin with...
In Canada, libraries pay the author PER BORROW.
A lot of books on internet archives were stolen to begin with...
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Libraries pay for books. There are 17k public libraries in the US. 90k school libraries. If even a small percent of those each buy a book, that helps out considerably financially.
In Canada, libraries pay the author PER BORROW.
A lot of books on internet archives were stolen to begin with...
In Canada, libraries pay the author PER BORROW.
A lot of books on internet archives were stolen to begin with...
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Terumaru is always getting stuck 😭
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Terumaru is always getting stuck 😭
Quick reminder that anarchist bookstores are among the only third spaces that reliably take COVID precautions, require masks, etc., to make themselves safe for disabled and immunocompromised patrons.
Support your local anarchist bookstore 🖤
Support your local anarchist bookstore 🖤
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Quick reminder that anarchist bookstores are among the only third spaces that reliably take COVID precautions, require masks, etc., to make themselves safe for disabled and immunocompromised patrons.
Support your local anarchist bookstore 🖤
Support your local anarchist bookstore 🖤
I really try to avoid Substack (and never give money anymore) but this interview is one of the most thoughtful, validating, clear-eyed conversations about the current state of publishing that I've read to date.
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Galley Brag #22
Author and critic Kristen Martin on the Publishers Marketplace deal flow, the fallacy of "most anticipated" lists, and the dearth of book criticism as a fascism indicator.
galleybrag.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I really try to avoid Substack (and never give money anymore) but this interview is one of the most thoughtful, validating, clear-eyed conversations about the current state of publishing that I've read to date.
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
Come for the romantasy hot takes, stay for the cultural value of literary criticism. 💙📚
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ME: fumbling around in my closet in the dark
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
ME: fumbling around in my closet in the dark
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
Fun fact: there were multiple originals of that FDR portrait made by the artist. One of them can be found a bit closer to Mamdani--at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in Manhattan.
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Fun fact: there were multiple originals of that FDR portrait made by the artist. One of them can be found a bit closer to Mamdani--at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in Manhattan.
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I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
ME: fumbling around in my closet in the dark
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
ME: fumbling around in my closet in the dark
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
MOTION-SENSOR LIGHT: Lalalalala I can't hear youuuuu
ME: gives up and closes the door
LIGHT: immediately turns on
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made this for your sharing convenience
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
made this for your sharing convenience
Excellent alternatives to ULINE for your holiday shipping needs:
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
The problem has been, there hasn’t been an elsewhere (which is why uline is so rich). Has this changed recently? Bc every article I’ve ever read in 30 years about how bad Uline is has not been able to suggest a worthwhile alternative
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Excellent alternatives to ULINE for your holiday shipping needs:
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
- Chicago Box Company
- EcoEnclose
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Just watched a dog find and proceed to drag home a ten-foot-long stick(!) on his evening walk. Went across the crosswalk and down the street and everything.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just watched a dog find and proceed to drag home a ten-foot-long stick(!) on his evening walk. Went across the crosswalk and down the street and everything.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
Well done, doggo. Well done.
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.
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The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
Everyone please look upon and admire Darcie's dog.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Everyone please look upon and admire Darcie's dog.
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny