Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"started his own investigation" is so perfect 091
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Best part of large holiday gatherings is when the men start summarizing the latest nonfiction books they're reading. 020
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman." 9474316012247
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Just awful. The cuts at the Washington Post will include the elimination of the Books section--one of the nation's premier outlets for thoughtful book reviews. 040
Reposted by Bruce Holsingerashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator 331628210
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit. 509207056983
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026It's not happening, people. Not anytime soon. 010
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 29/12/2025"Visual culture has changed form. It has become detached from human eyes and has become largely invisible. . . The overwhelming majority of images are now made my machines for other machines, with humans rarely in the loop." -Trevor Paglen 010
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerMelissa A @eema2emma.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I recommend Culpability by @bruceholsinger.bsky.social, as it is thought-provoking and absorbing! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...goodreads.comMelissa's review of Culpability5/5: I received Culpability a few months ago and hadn't heard of it until it arrived in the mail. However, it sounded interesting along the lines of Wally Lamb and I added it to my TBR. Once I started... 101
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Luis Suárez will be presenting the FIFA Peace Prize. 020
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025"that new book is so bad here's our second review, 4th profile, and third podcast about it" 536846
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerFrancesca Rheannon @writersvoice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Bruce Holsinger on Culpability — a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices. Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause — an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV 011
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here. 040
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 28/10/2025He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee. 000
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 15/10/2025My universitymedia.tenor.comhomer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field . 030
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2025White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data. 833631981
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.” 733229846759
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerBoulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com 031
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerBlair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! “Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Contentreuters.comRapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists sayThe study gathered data from observations, ice cores, and ship logbooks to chart long-term changes in the area of sea ice. 817675
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating. 24066891619
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party 481526210
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol. 230108312206
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"We took a quick peek into your file" is an excellent subject line for a Democratic fundraising e-mail. Hit it out of the park. My wallet is open. 020
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerLinda Blackford @lblackford.bsky.social · 08/07/2025So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable! www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...oprahdaily.comOprah Announces <i> Culpability,</i> by Bruce Holsinger, as Her July Book Club PickOprah hails her 116th Book Club pick as the “tale of our times”—a gripping, emotionally charged story that explores the explosive rise of AI, self-driving cars, and drones, all seen through the intima... 074
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...cavalierdaily.comA dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donationsHere is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns. 17453149
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerBisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 05/07/2025Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread. 17446352
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/06/2025People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...bu.eduTracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding CutsBrooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total... 751275415
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Today Charlottesville #NoKings was four deep and we're 1/20 of DC's population. 030
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I think this is what American brownshirt activity will look like. Not a literal paramilitary force, but a heavily armed constituency that's been emboldened to kill. 49834
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct. 1154353498022
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approvedbenefit.me 32246783022790
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Don't kill me but this was weirdly cathartic. 010
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Truly one of the greatest pieces of research in book history you will ever read. I call Vnouček the "parchment whisperer." 012
Reposted by Bruce HolsingerMatthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)! This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 17631
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I'd feel a lot better about everything if Chuck Schumer held another "We will win!" rally right about now. 000
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Can't you just fire the people in charge of announcing unemployment numbers so this isn't a problem? 110
Bruce Holsinger @bruceholsinger.bsky.social · 17/02/202520,000,000 orders for Ketel One just dropped. 020
