@thisisstephenbetts.bsky.social
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Joined July 2008
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This is why the Nazi rally at Madison Garden in 1939 avoided comedians—Too edgy.
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Put the season in the books...but not before @HowieRose reflects on a wild ride.
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And if your reply to this is, "Why don't you focus on Trump?", here's the answer: The Democrats already have the votes of people who find Trump repellent.
The votes they need are from people who are open to voting for a Democrat, but who don't think Biden is up to the job. Those people exist. We can see them: teapawt.net/jonfavs/status/1812906…
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Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
ALT The moon with a rocket landed in its eye. The most iconic shot of 1902 sci-fi film Le Voyage Dans La Lune.
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Thousands of books have been banned in U.S. schools – & it’s getting worse. Join @PENamerica @UABookBans & @writersguildinitiative on Oct. 7 for the Banned Books Week Day of Action and share your favorite banned book with the hashtags #LetFreedomRead & #BannedBooksWeek.
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A ball is happening at the gas station where O’Shae Sibley was killed. – at Brooklyn, NY
4 of 5 stars to The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett goodreads.com/review/show/56…
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i think some people have been so wildly rewarded through black swan predictions that they get caught in revolutionary, big-shift thinking and forget that things such as social and political outcomes are more constrained by institutions
4 of 5 stars to The Maintenance of Headway by mills-magnus goodreads.com/review/show/55…
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.@NYCMayor hasn't called off all of the cuts to the city's 3 library systems -- he just called off April's "Program to Eliminate the Gap" (aka PEG)
Per @nypl spox, libraries still face budget cuts of $36.2M
nypl.org/press/nycs-three-pu…
Look at this top ten. The 80s truly were the best of times, they were truly the worst of times.
With thanks yet again to @grim_fandango, here's his Ceefax capture of the top 10 of the chart hosted this day in 1983 by @SimonBatesUK (who was deputising for Tommy Vance)
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Give Ohtani a billion dollars. Mythical unicorn god on the baseball field!
4 of 5 stars to Original Sin by P.D. James goodreads.com/review/show/53…
3 of 5 stars to A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles goodreads.com/review/show/53…