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Adam Higginbotham

@adamhigginbotham.bsky.social
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Writer. Author of New York Times bestsellers Midnight in Chernobyl and Challenger. www.adamhigginbotham.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My God. This is the center of Kyiv. A civilian building, a historic one, built in the 1850s. Russian terror knows no bounds. They are attacking and killing Ukrainian civilians just because they can. If Russia is not stopped, it will expand its terror and violence.
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bookshop of The Day: Armchair Books, West Port, Edinburgh. Pic: Murray Orr
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/07/2026
Yes, all of this. Use your library! It's an unmitigated good in the world!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yeah he's such a difficulty character. He insists on liberating his country from Russian imperialism. What a bore.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So it turns out you just need to take England to a stadium 7,000 ft above sea level and fill it with an incredibly hostile crowd to make them play well.
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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Jun 29th 1945 - "Eleven hundred men went into the water, 316 men came out and the sharks took the rest". Quint says The USS Indianapolis sank on this day, it actually sank a month later on July 30th 📽️📅 Jaws (1975)
1 Screenshot from the movie "Jaws" (1975): First, a weathered man with a serious expression sits in a dimly lit room, recounting a grim story. The subtitle reads, "So, 1,100 men went into the water, 316 men came out. The sharks took the rest. June the 29th, 1945." conveying a haunting tone.
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Deborah Vass @deborahvass.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A forgotten name on a Penguin book cover led me to a cache of Burberry illustrations rescued from a skip, a Vogue profile of a "spy writer's wife" and a story of how easily women's creative lives can disappear. open.substack.com/pub/stillske... #illustration #womensart #midcentury
Burberry illustrations by Shirley Thompson
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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SirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/05/2026
‘He loved horses, machines, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “short cuts” which took twice as long as the main roads, the adjectives “smashing”, “tremendous”, “marvellous”, “sophisticated”.’ Alex Cocotas remembers producer, cinematographer and screenwriter Harrison Starr. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Alex Cocotas · Diary: Memories of Harrison Starr
Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in the...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
thank you to everyone who sent this to me
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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy 40 Years of Chernobyl, everyone… My old colleague @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social fills me in on the untold side of the world’s worst-ever accident. ☢️
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Orin 🚀🦏 @orinoxide.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚
Screenshot of a Twitter exchange in which user @kimerrikin notes that the city of Lynchburg VA declared April 7 2008 to be Leland Melvin Day, and Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) thanking them for reminding him.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
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Lunar Flyby - NASA
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
When the spaceship is performing even better than planned 💅🏼
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Pokin @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Garrett had me from the 1st sentence: “I didn’t begin this week thinking I would be writing about the Iran War, Chuck Norris, and Kid Rock, but one of the “joys” of living through the Trump era is that every week seems like the worst game of Mad Libs you’ve ever played.”
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Headline writers crossing all their fingers that whatever Scott Mills did it was dark and satanic
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is such sad news. I only met Glen Baxter once, at a literary festival in Montpellier. (He was hugely popular in France.) I can only say he was one of the funniest, warmest, most charming geniuses I've ever met.
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Glen Baxter obituary: absurdist illustrator
Yorkshire-born artist and writer known for his quirky and original cartoons of cowboys, gangsters, schoolchildren and explorers dies aged 82
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 26/03/2026
I have physics-related questions.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
‘Le Carré, driven by personal demons kept writing into his late 80s; Frederick Forsyth maintained his lucrative franchise. Deighton simply walked away into hobbies: fountain pen engineering, unpublished histories of aero engines, flying planes & cooking and living well.’ ❤️ www.ft.com/content/32e4...
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Len Deighton, writer, 1929-2026
He reframed the spy novel genre with gritty cold-war thrillers but possessed an extraordinary range of talents, from graphic designer to historian
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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
RIP Len Deighton: “When I started writing I had rules. One was that violence must not solve the problem, and I cannot have the hero overcome violence with a counterweight of violence.” He also worked as an illustrator for six years, including a Penguin Iris Murdoch & a Deutsch Jack Kerouac
Man with French horn and rocking horse balanced on his shoulder as front of Under the Net by Iris MurdochTwo men by a tree and policeman looks on as cover of first edition of On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/03/2026
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 25/02/2026
Another year, another plea for help from someone whose work is the basis for a $200m blockbuster movie.
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Kate Erbland @katerbland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/02/2026
‘The destruction of thermal power plants, as well as substations and the distribution network, which has taken place throughout this winter has now coincided with the coldest weather Ukraine has had in years, with temperatures dropping below -20ºC.’ Jen Stout in Kyiv. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jen Stout · Short Cuts: Winter in Kyiv
The 9 January attack, which left six thousand Kyiv housing blocks without heating, was far from the first Russian...
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.com · 04/02/2026
Is this what the advice"dress for the job you want" gets you when the job you want is paramilitary death squad? 😬
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The nominal subject of this painting by Albrecht Altdorfer is the tiny St George and the Dragon in the foreground, but the real hero is the dense, restless forest where every leaf seems charged with energy (1510, Pinakothek, Munich)
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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Regan @mighty580am.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The book “Challenger” by Adam Higginbotham lays it out spectacularly. NASA management dealing with severe funding cuts & fearing more pushed the program & its people beyond limits to the point that safety questions that once were deal breakers were considered acceptable. A needless tragedy.
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Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
40 years ago today: on 28 January 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51-L) exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all six astronauts and teacher Christa McAuliffe. I was 7 at the time. I highly recommend the 2024 book Challenger by @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When i leave the bedroom, the first piece of art I see is this, and it sets me up for the rest of the day-
A panel of pieces of art by the great David Shrigley.
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Jonathan Hoefler @jonathanhoefler.com · 15/01/2026
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/01/2026
Finally. Expert yacht-buying advice.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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