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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 19h

Pssst...our first book reviews drop two weeks from today. Are you subscribed yet? www.draftingthepast.com

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Drafting the Past

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I swear When times get tough, Great British Baking Show helps Predictable yet unpredictable. People are kind. You can stop watching for 10 mins and know where you are. A happy uncomplicated space w/a great “we’re all in this together” vibe Eternally grateful for getting me thru the pandemic & DJT

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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026

How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I may be behind in listening to recent episodes of @draftingthepast.bsky.social, but I've been listening all along pretty much since it started. The show accompanied me this summer when I drove about 600 miles between home & a visit to the parents. So I just put my money where my ears have been.

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s what we have been wanting them to do for years! Finally!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they've notified Trump administration they're filing a lawsuit over denied White House access.

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So it’s an arch but also a military installation? What are we gonna call it, the DJT Insecurity Complex?

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 13/09/2026

🍂 Cold front arrives overnight, lowering humidity for a beautiful start to the week. Tonight: Isolated shower/storm before 11 p.m., then clearing. Lows mid-60s–70. Monday: Sunny, breezy, mid-70s–80°, dew points in the 50s. 😎 🍁 Fall foliage and first freeze timing — more @ capitalweather.com.

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 12/09/2026

Weekend weather is a mixed bag. ☁️ Mostly cloudy and muggy Saturday 🌧️ Showers and storms likely tonight, some with heavy rain 🌤️ Gradual improvement Sunday 😎 Lower humidity and very pleasant Monday and Tuesday Full forecast at capitalweather.com Photo by Brian Paeth

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 04/09/2026

8:55p Thu: NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for DC region until 2am. Storms aiming to come through area from NW to SE after 10 or 11pm, some with potential for damaging wind gusts. More details at CapitalWeather.com and our mobile app.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/09/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and dusty disks around nearby stars. #NASARoman 🔭

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NASA Roman's Planet Imager Has Powered On - NASA Science

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission's Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, considering whose administration he’s in, I am also not shocked. The amount of posts I saw on the previous site or screenshots from his site that substitute DJT in for Christ—I don’t know if it’s correct theology but I can call a spade a spade and an antichrist an antichrist when I see it

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Around this time in 1897, Thomas Edison was likely celebrating receiving a patent for the Kinetograph, his early motion picture camera. The first films ever copyrighted were made with it, including this one from 1894, which the Library has preserved. It's colloquially known as "Fred Ott's Sneeze."

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 01/09/2026

Meteorological fall has arrived. The weather did not get the memo. 🥵 🔥 Mid- to upper 90s today 🌡️ Heat indexes around 100-105 ⛈️ Late-day storm chance More heat follows Wednesday and Thursday before a much more comfortable weekend. Forecast at CapitalWeather.com Photo by Jeanne Stuart McVey

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I went here this year as part of my friend’s bachelorette weekend and it certainly is a house museum deserving support.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 31/08/2026

This is what happens when a director conflates a parable with real-world nuance. No, we don't need to "both sides" this tale because Dickens wrote the story as it was meant to be understood. Scrooge made mistakes and needed a wakeup call. That's it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is correct, but also another reason why Democrats have to lean into accountability and oversight as hard as possible when they retake Congress. It's not just about punishing criminals. It's about making it clear to the country the depth of the damage done to ready them for the repairs.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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I Live And Breathe @i-live-and-breathe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose,” Parton was famous for saying. “Don’t ever sacrifice who you are, your principles and your morals and your values to just try to get ahead in business. It ain’t worth it.”

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 26/08/2026

Seems like we have a standard Thursday severe storm chance lately. ⚡️ Here we go again tomorrow. Currently looks to favor evening. Isolated damaging winds, large hail, and flash flooding are the main threats. Details: www.capitalweather.com/strong-to-se...

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We interrupt this Dolly Parton grief playlist you made to let you know that Tim Curry is, unfortunately, also dead

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, along with the rest of the Narnia books. The Giver. Brian’s Winter. Encyclopedia Brown stories. The original Boxcar Children!! The Great Gilly Hopkins. Bridge to Terabithia.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

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iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"raised the prospect" or *threatened*? do these renovations even need to be done?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This feels like a Mr Rogers level loss.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026

everybody is (rightfully) remembering her incredible charity work, the 300 million books and counting for kids, the moderna vaccine, all of it she also wrote 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Jolene' on the same dang day. absolutely peerless

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

✅ Fifteen- to twenty-year-old electronics recycled at a local office supplies store ✅ Art supplies purchased because it's birthday month (it was less than $100) ✅ Lunch eaten ✅ Old and new art supplies re-organized ☑️ Sorting commences of the things that were with the art supplies but shouldn't be

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#OnThisDay in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, securing the number of states needed to add it to the US Constitution. The struggle for voting rights was far from over, as restrictions continued to disenfranchise Black women & other women of color for decades.

A 1915 suffrage poster in black, gold, and cream showing a woman dressed as a messenger running with a horn and satchel. Above her, text reads, “Vote Yes for Woman Suffrage,” beside a ballot box marked with an X.

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Off the top of my head, a nice, smooth-writing black ink pen, logo stickers (or pins, or patches). Magnets. Memo pads. If the end phrase is still “friends don’t let friends write boring history” (I’m behind on episodes again), then like an artsy poster with that in cool script with Athena.

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Ashlee @cluesandcontext.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oooh this makes me very excited!!

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 07/08/2026

1:35pm Friday: NWS has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for most of the DC region (except far southern areas) today until 9pm, flagging potential for a few storms to produce damaging wind gusts up to 65 mph and hail up to 1 inch in diameter. More details: www.capitalweather.com/thursdays-st...

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