Reposted by Chris Seggerman Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18hLater, he claimed Mamdani never commented about the recent stabbing of an NYPD detective. Mamdani talked about the stabbing several times, including the below statement where the mayor notes he visited the injured officer: 661376367
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...theintercept.comICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness SaysA member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it. 19991457
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Collins just starts killscreening into *ancient* talking points. "He's gonna start doubling your taxes! They wanna control your lives!" Petrified shit won't stick to a wall no matter how hard ya throw, Pally. 020
Reposted by Chris Seggerman molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Writers need to stand in solidarity with artists against these Must Read rights grabs, the same way we need to stand in solidarity with artists against AI in cover art etc etc. 0269
Reposted by Chris Seggerman John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/ 431142512
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Been on a sourdough journey for about 6 days now. Started feeding the starter twice a day yesterday. I'm still not sure what it's up to, and the only factor I see is the kitchen/dining g room being cold at night. 000
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI... 981537683
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858... 2323746391
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Free idea: Asian fusion breakfast place that's fantastic but you pay a terrible moral price: "The Ones Who Wok Away From Omelets." (It's free. Not *good.*) 040
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Elsa Lanchester was the daughter of a socialist firebrand and a posh woman who ran away with him to become a left-wing vegetarian who refused to marry on principle, and who also once worked as a secretary to Karl Marx’s daughter… 835063
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In today's @theguardian.com, an article about the #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been doing: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comA medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text 1018759
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Cover reveal 💅 Super job by the people @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social Out 27 April 2027. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 55512
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I already had a bulb for the sausage, fennel, and white bean soup which is easing my cold, but wished I'd gotten it at Dutton Farmstand outside Newfane, Vermont, where I got garlic. @adapalmer.bsky.social , this may be Enough Fennel to satisfy an anxious parent/spouse. 1171
Reposted by Chris Seggerman hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts 529975
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/semaphore.thd.orgTHE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily MillsJoin Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The 14530163
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards 465342950
Reposted by Chris Seggerman John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854126841
Reposted by Chris Seggerman s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/09/2026As long as everyone’s talking about sex stuff, a reminder that I’m fundraising for @scarleteen.com (link in the next post). Scarleteen has been at it with high quality, free, inclusive, joyful sex ed for almost 30 years. They’re one of the few online resources left standing. 2175101
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Reading the last Maisie Dobbs book by Jacqueline Winspear. They eat sausage, and for *whatever reason* my brain goes to some Jamie Oliver sausage and cherry tomato baked dish with I haven't had in *years*. Naturally at the start of fall when "lovely ripe tomatoes" are past their prime. 000
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Another hoard of Viking coins is found, this time in Finland: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #MedievalSkylivescience.comFinland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelryThe largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Finland was unearthed by a metal detectorist north of Helsinki. 113633
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable” 621292464951
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The first episode of my new podcast is out! BEFORECAST with weekly episodes on history and our present, starting with a Machiavelli deep dive! 57827
Reposted by Chris Seggerman billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont 553135804569
Reposted by Chris Seggerman BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026seeing this spread by well-meaning accounts. but I don't think this is actually happening and it also strikes me as extremely dangerous both for legal exposure (imitating officers is a fairly serious crime) and for physical safety. 951662222
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Incredibly honored to receive the Best Related Hugo, and so proud to be recognized by the Worldcon community that means so much to me! I've uploaded my acceptance speech video here, for those who weren't there to see it live!patreon.com2026 Hugo Acceptance Speech: Best Related Work for "Inventing the Renaissance" | Ada PalmerThe news broke in the wee hours of the morning Italy time, and late at night Los Angeles time, that Inventing the Renaissance has won the Hu 6368077
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you… 1564232820
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Go find the kid in you that used to read under the covers with a flashlight. I promise, they're still in there. 5476682
Reposted by Chris Seggerman unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:unraveledpress.comChicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to VirginiaA federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu... 6236831978
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I reposted Cleves's original post, and felt weirdly conflicted as I don't want anyone's research uncredited. I have read Walden's other work some years ago and had been looking forward to this due to the Vermont angle, then disappointed by Cleves's charges. *Well.* Needed citations cited, here. 020
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Someone told me "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths". 492316306
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Another of my favourite maps: Kentucky is the KFC in the Chef’s Frying Pan of the USA 016841
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second ComingIn 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen. 11636233
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 11/08/2026if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction. 2155291863
Reposted by Chris Seggerman nowhere 🏳️🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"As a joke, comedian and entrepreneur Madi Walser started a website to advertise New York City artists willing to stay in empty vacation homes as “charity to the 1%.” Then, she received eight inquiries from pied-à-terre owners interested in joining." 021
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist. 36666972061
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Found a random, probable first line in a notebook from my mid 20s: "In our war on madness, we have a less than perfected arsenal, but I don't tell my patients that." 110
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Why should I major in History?" 504054530
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane. 7146671268
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Youngest kid's *specific* staple breakfast is Nissin Top Ramen, Chicken. He gets upset when I throw the wrapper with (tasty?) crumbs. Him: "Where's the wrapper?" Me: "I threw it out." "Waaah! You're supposed to say 'Why are you crying?'" "I refuse to engage with your script." 130
Reposted by Chris Seggerman maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026starting a collection of quotes like this 8068531425
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If you live in Ohio, call one of Sen. Moreno's office to ask why he's furious about Anthony Fauci but doesn't care about his own family. www.moreno.senate.gov/contact/ 461426477
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A fun image processing distraction today -- how to clean up the noisy background of a photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript? Thread, in which I use Photoshop, but similar tools are available in GIMP and other image processing software. 216633
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Another morning with our cat yelling at me. She was hunting mice possibly in the wall at the floor right next to my side of the bed, at 3 a.m. "I have nothing to say to you. You have so many demons inside of you." 010
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Excellent thread, with a few more book history books to read. 000
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18static.klipy.comBrad Pitt in Se7enAlt: Brad Pitt in Se7en 000
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum under ash. In a villa, a library of papyrus scrolls was buried. For 2,000 years they’ve been unreadable. Researchers with the Vesuvius Challenge have read an entire scroll without opening it. buff.ly/WSjPmXf #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyAn entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first timePHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened. 29923
Chris Seggerman @chrisseggerman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Wing Commander. Drank vodka from a plastic water bottle throughout. It did not improve. 010
Reposted by Chris Seggerman Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press. 27088283148
Reposted by Chris Seggerman jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors 7455161319