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Tom Nissley

@tomnissley.bsky.social
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Owner of Phinney Books in Seattle, author of A Reader’s Book of Days and The Phinney by Post Book

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Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.social · 6h
Found this 1979 Rockford Files ad and now I need a poster version.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
White supremacy is, above all, an ideology of stolen valor bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Those Mondays!!
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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 05/10/2026
We've been working with Books to Prisoners Seattle to help get graphic novels into prisons for years and a generous donor has committed to matching all book donations this week in honor of banned book week!!! Go to shop.crowsnest.quest/a/listify/re... to get them some comics and double your impact.
red background, white text "books to prisoners donation match", angry black crow flying over the text as if descending to attack
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As someone who has been lucky enough to make a living _without_ scaling up, this hits home
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
HR Pufnstuf. Horrifying
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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do i love this so much??
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You're right, and I'm sorry. That never should have happened" will be the refrain of our next decade
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026
Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.
1. The "Explosive Growth" Slide ControversyIronically, the most direct and explicit example of this occurred during their very first "Calling Bullshit" lecture at the University of Washington.The Setup: Jevin West presented a slide to the class showing a graph that purported to show the "explosive, hockey-stick growth" of web traffic to their new Calling Bullshit website. The graph utilized standard marketing axes and compressed timeframes to make the project look like an unmitigated, runaway viral sensation.The "Bullshit": Carl Bergstrom actually had to step in and call "bullshit" on his own co-instructor's slide. When the data was displayed honestly without selective axis truncation or creative smoothing, it showed that while traffic was high initially, it heavily ebbed, flowed, and plateaued over time.The Criticism: While some praised this as a playful, planned pedagogical moment to show that "anyone can fall prey to bad data framing," critics viewed it as a perfect illustration of the double standard: when it serves a personal or professional promotional narrative (like proving your own course is a massive success), the temptation to use flawed, hype-driven metrics is incredibly high.
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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1968, Richard M. Nixon campaigned for the presidency in Seattle. historylink.org/File/3666
Richard M. Nixon at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, 1968
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026
Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.
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More momentum for XTEND. 🚀

Congrats to the team on another important U.S. defense milestone. Proud to be an investor and supplier. 🦅

$UMAC $XTND #Drones #DefenseTech
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@XTEND_XR
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XTEND has been awarded Phase III of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone (MKLD) program.

The award follows XTEND’s recent Gauntlet II top-performer selection under the Drone Dominance Program.

Read more: xtend.me/xtend-secures-…
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The predictive truth of this photograph endures forever
Then-mayor of San Francisco (and current California governor) Gavin Newsom poses sprawlingly with his then-wife (and current fascist valkyrie) Kimberly Guilfoyle on an rug in front of a balcony overlooking San Francisco Bay for a 2004 Harper's Bazaar profile
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
100%. It's taken me decades to flush the toxin of the Hello video from my system, but c'mon: Sail On _and_ Brick House?!?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Followed by the vast expanse of years once you are older than Norman Fell
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Robin Gibb is so far beyond, say, Phil Collins in the "This Person Was a Giant Rock Star?!?" Invitational that he laps him twice
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really hard to overstate just how central AI video slop is to the broader authoritarian project. It allows people to visualize fantasies without having to pay the social costs of such actions, while desensitizing people about the act itself. It's 4chan on steroids w a veneer of respectability.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/09/2025
Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...
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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Homoeroticism, ill-advised adventure with the boys, charismatic leader, hard lessons about messing with wild animals... hi, I'm Herman Melville, welcome to Jackass.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ballpoint pen on paper. A man in his PJs is tucked into his bed. He's upset because the bed has been lifted off the ground by a pack of small, mischievous creatures. We can only see 9 of them in the image but there are likely many more since they're all working together to lift the heavy bed frame. As the creatures run with the bed they chant, "hup hup hup hup hup hup hup hup hup." The man in the bed wants no part of this. "Put me down. No more hups," he says. It's unclear where they are going or what is happening. There is no punchline. There is little to no context. You're either with the hup team or you're out. Thank you for reading these.
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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Announcing Hub City Shorts, our new series that goes state by state, pairing archival materials from writers whose work defined the state's literary legacy with new stories from the writers defining it now. SC & MS out May 2027!
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was talking last week with a colleague from Hungary involved in academic restoration. He said he was exhausted and overwhelmed by all the choices they had to make, trade offs and interests to weigh, ambiguity about who decided. Authoritarian compliance is easier that the hard work of democracy.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Shaw Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate
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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Look at them now,” an old man beside me kept saying. “Just look at them now.” —Philip Hamburger, reporting from the execution of Mussolini and his lieutenants, New Yorker, May 19, 1945
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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
someday, not today but someday, a student will shout “get his ass” during the discussion of grant and ackerman vs the first klan
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Heidi MacDonald @ NYCC @comixace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Why was Dolly able to do all these things? Because BMI (and ASCAP) protect songwriter’s rights and songwriters are paid royalties for everything. Dolly never sold her immense catalog of songs and it made her a 9-figure fortune.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Summer 1926: A Finnish immigrant stowaway at Ellis Islsnd, photographed by Lewis Hine. “The desire to come to America must have been very strong for this young man to face all sorts of uncertainties,” the photojournalist writes.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/08/2026
Oh my gosh today is George Herriman's birthday!
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Obviously
The cover of the Housemartins debut LP, London 0, Hull 4
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
UK transit nerds are next level.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Man, Scottie Scheffler plays a lot of golf
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chrishawn @chrishawn.net · 20/08/2026
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Could watch this on a loop all day long. Every fidget tells a story. Every second of self-hating discomfort is fully earned, and is what I hope awaits them in the afterlife.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mrs Dalloway threw me off the hay truck about noon.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am, needless to say, delighted that Ian Frazier in fact got himself a new Toyota Camry hybrid: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/s...
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In 1990, a Writer Had a Funny Idea. Now It’s a Movie. (Gift Article)
With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Three bands, etc. 1. Velvet Underground 2. Curtis Mayfield 3. Queen
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My whole life I've been adjacent to this world, employing some of the best people I've known and bringing the most credit and value to our country, and it is absolutely being crushed. On purpose. By the worst people.
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This should be the final word on the Walden-Cleves debacle. Incredibly bad faith from Cleves all the way through, and a level of sourcing and crediting from Walden that is beyond anything I have ever encountered. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
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Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope Cleves
In early July, a dispute began between two writers; Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Charity and Sylvia; A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, (2014), and...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
These people’s barbers and hairstylists are trying their damndest to tell us who they are. This is a coded message.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When fascism comes to America it will be run by weirdos who were introduced to America by Oprah.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Operation Dessert Shield
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Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 10/08/2026
Last week, I did an onstage interview with a graphic memoirist that was so fascinating, it made me want to go home and immediately re-read the book. The story behind the Nightingales is just as interesting as the book itself.
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A Masterful Graphic Memoir By Someone Who Was Never Interested in Comics
When I was reading Emil Wilson’s debut graphic memoir, The Nightingales, I kept wondering about Wilson’s experience as a cartoonist. I ultimately finished the book with two assumptions, either of w…
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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Honestly, I had to scroll way too far through the replies to see a Wolfowitz clip. We need to study _history_ in this country.
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Imagine being Ben Lerner! Imagine how Ben Lernery ALL your experiences are going to be! From sunup to sundown. 24/7. Weekends and bank holidays. All the f-ing time! I don't know how he copes...
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Manuscript page for Anita Brookner’s 1988 novel Latecomers, as featured in Hermione Lee’s forthcoming biography.
Two pages of tight, neat but hard to read handwriting in a spiral bound book. No changes or edits are visible. Cover of the book, showing a photo of Brookner alongside a vase of slightly drooping tulips
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