Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Deaths Associated with Pneumonic Plague, 1946–2017PDF | The death rate for persons with treated pneumonic plague is often reported as 50%, but firm evidence for this figure is minimal. We conducted a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need... 021
Reposted by Tom BrintonRyan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight. 5761661679
Reposted by Tom BrintonDel Wasso @banksyfella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Before he died, George Romero outlined what he said was going to be his very last zombie movie, Twilight of the Dead. Filming just wrapped up, with horror queens Kate Beckinsale and Mila Jovovich in the cast, and The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero doing the makeup. I’m stoked. 57310
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Are you getting ready for winter hibernation?" "No, why do you ask?" 010
Reposted by Tom BrintonThe Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Joyce Carol Oates: you know Oates: i have a take Barker: oh shit Barker: oh shit this is gonna be good Poe: how do you figure? Barker: edgar Barker: it's a joyce carol oates take Barker: they're always good Poe: i don't know about that Barker: they're good to me, edgar 946990
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Subaru, did you steal the butter? No, why do you ask? 030
Reposted by Tom BrintonLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/10/2026I asked ChatGPT how I could live a fully examined life 2235
Reposted by Tom BrintonMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration 3433411063
Reposted by Tom BrintonMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene 38729
Reposted by Tom BrintonBad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few years ago, this post of mine went viral (millions and millions of views) and it continues to circulate every few months. It seems to be making the rounds again. Posting it again here in case anyone needs this today. - Doug Murano, Founder & CEO, Bad Hand Books 1133583
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why is this type of man always ... like that, physically? 020
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even better when the state trooper flashes his lights and bloops his siren and you see them pulled over just up ahead. 010
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026President-elect of PFLAG Niceville, by unanimous assent. 031
Reposted by Tom Brintonjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 322916483
Reposted by Tom BrintonWalt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side. 082
Reposted by Tom BrintonJason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's a bunch of movies coming up tied to history. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/spooky-sea...jasonherbert.substack.comSpooky Season Movie NewsSeptember 28, 2026 0263
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just finished Lou Sullivan's bio of Jack Bee Garland. Not academic history but an absolutely heroic piece of work nonetheless. 010
Reposted by Tom Brintonthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134321138
Reposted by Tom BrintonSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hey Sunday afternoon crowd, I’m teaching a course, starting coming up soon! Like next weekend … More info here … www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...theshipmanagency.comCraft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a... 166
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok we're masculinizing band names now The Dixie D-- well, never mind. 062
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The forces of morality long for an excuse to rape and murder. 140
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Local drag brunch had to be canceled due to credible threats. 120
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Imagine if AI had been making decisions, instead of this man. 040
Reposted by Tom BrintonMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just found out that there’s a new, and final, installment of ITV’s groundbreaking 7up documentary series. Original creator/director Michael Apted died a few yrs ago so they got Asif Kapadia (dir. of Senna) to do it. Can’t wait to watch & have an existential crisis. 919232
Reposted by Tom BrintonAAUP @aaup.org · 25/09/2026Join us on Monday, 9/28 to learn why billionaires like Marc Rowan want to destroy academic freedom & how faculty, campus workers, & students can fight back to defend the freedom to teach, learn, research & speak out without government censorship. RSVP 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 22421
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How does he not know things that a 5yo knows? Does he also think his mother's name is Mommy and the teachers sleep at the school? 000
Reposted by Tom BrintonHugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Welcome to the Purge (queer history edition) dentonrc.com/education/hi...dentonrc.comUNT removes LGBTQ+ archive page after social media post by Texas representativeThe University of North Texas took down the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive, a collaborative project documenting queer culture and history, following a post on X by state Rep. Brian 11414
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A grad school friend and I had a shouting match over who would be more electable, a Black man or a woman. I was in the former camp. Then 2008 happened, and 2012 ... and 2016 ... and 2024. In 2016 he DMed me to say he still rememered that conversation, lol. 072
Reposted by Tom BrintonLaura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man. 1537175
Reposted by Tom BrintonOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026every new fact I learn about Thomas Jefferson forces me to radically recontextualize all of the other ones and frankly I'm tired 1858853
Reposted by Tom BrintonPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 20/09/2026I’ve been trying to read more local news from not-for-profit newsrooms (also LGBTQIA+ and black-owned newsrooms) so I’ve been vibing away at a site that aggregates them. Just sharing it out idly in case folks want anything like this. givemesomegood.newsgivemesomegood.newsGive Me Some Good News 712230
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Has there been any serious scholarly work done on Jack Bee Garland? 011
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Without downloading new pics, describe your gender. 030
Reposted by Tom BrintonRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death. 1214156
Reposted by Tom BrintonJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681410
Tom Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I got into grad school, earned a PhD, traveled the world, resolved my gender bs, and have a job, a house, and a dog. That angsty little twerp is impressed. 080
