Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 26mSICILY early 1900s www.zolotarevarchives.com/sicilyzolotarevarchives.comSicily in the 1900s | Zolotarev Historical Photos CollectionMessina, Palermo, Agrigento, Syracuse, Pompeii, and other sights in Southern Italy and Sicily in the early 1900s. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 1hHaiku 637 mist wets our faces trees on the slope among clouds ferns tap at our knees 010
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 19hSpring, when the almond trees are in blossom and the rivers are full, and the wheatfields are a tender green, was long past. The island, as viewed from the air or the sea, was parched to a dusty brown. Most of the water courses had dried up. The wheat and barley had been harvested by hand 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 20h"Hitler has positively never read Clausewitz." General der Panzertruppe Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin to Italian General Faldella 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 20hThe Sicilians, though by reputation the best of Italian fighters, had never been good Fascists; they disliked the war and hated Germans, and felt they were being sacrificed to an alien power. Sicily, Salerno, Anzio SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 22hHaiku 636 breeze in the branches the grass had the spring grass smell we alone know this 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 23hMr. Churchill’s estimate (Closing the Ring p- 26) that 80 per cent of Allied naval forces in Operation Husky were British must be based on some method of computation unknown to me. Sicily, Salerno Anzio SAMUEL ELIOT MORRISON 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 04/10/2026CAN (stylized in all caps) were a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass, tape editing), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums). 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Knife In The Water" 1962 ROMAN POLANSKI's first feature, and arguably his BEST. Cinematography by Jerzy Lipman 001
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“The Tyrant’s Foe, the People’s Friend.” Popular woodcut illustration that appeared in numerous US newspapers from the early 1800s, reproduced from a trade card for Edgar W. Davies, circa 1826. American Antiquarian Society 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For many printers, the lure of steady revenue and government support made setting up a newspaper a viable business proposition. Thanks to the postal system, the number of newspapers sent through the mail soared over the coming decades—from 1.9 million a year in 1800 to 16 million by 1830. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Although Alexander Hamilton and his fellow Federalists viewed a bill of rights as unnecessary, Thomas Jefferson and his allies argued that any government founded on the consent of the governed 100
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 20/09/2026JD Vance #jdvance 2624571
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I deleted a post in which I misattributed a line from the Terminator to Linda Hamilton instead of Michael Biehn. I will now crawl into a hole for the rest of the day. 554398
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As promised, I wrote about what really bothers me about Tuesday's unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for the resumption of third-country removals with minimal (if any) process. Turns out, it's a lot: www.stevevladeck.com/p/254-four-t...stevevladeck.com254. Four Things That (Really) Bother Me About “D.V.D. III”“Third-country removals” raise a host of difficult procedural and substantive questions. The Supreme Court should have answered those questions *before* greenlighting deportations to torture. 18502194
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm thrilled to share that my new book about #SCOTUS, "The Court We Need: What's Really Wrong With the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It," is now available for pre-orders: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812983... The book is set to be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on May 4, 2027.penguinrandomhouse.comThe Court We Need by Stephen Vladeck: 9798217061815 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned... 341103281
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026bro are you five 81610196
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 02/10/2026WHY I DON'T FOLLOW THE NEWS. People br trippim'. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comPeople Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-AllUrine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee. 000
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The mind that boggles at this phenomenon—the inevitable result of putting violent xenophobic assholes in power and letting them run amok—is probably reeling at all sorts of basic cause and effect situations. 311092174
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Early autumn on the outskirts of Kyoto 🌾 Red spider lilies (higanbana) line the roadsides, the edges of the rice fields and even a quiet temple's moss garden. They bloom for only about a week around the autumn equinox, right when the rice turns golden. #autumn #flower #japan #nature #snenery 0283
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Hey Japan! @hey-japan.com · 01/10/2026Kyoto Night Market holds a Halloween edition on 3 and 4 October, spread across the plaza in front of Kyoto City Hall and the Zest Oike underground mall below. On 4 October, a yokai parade of Japanese folklore spirits and monsters moves between the two venues. 0195
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 02/10/2026AIRCRAFT ENGINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (for deaf dinosaurs) www.enginehistory.orgenginehistory.orgAEHS Home 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Haiku 635 dawn the bees yawning crickets line up for coffee no one likes a grouch 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For many colonists, Goddard’s broadside marked their first encounter with the country’s founding document. Appearing at the bottom of the document are the names of its fifty-five signers, including congressional President John Hancock. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 30/09/2026earls4justice.comearls4justice.comRe-Elect Justice Anita EarlsJustice Anita Earls is an Associate Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and a proven fighter for the rights of ALL North Carolinians. Join the campaign to re-elect Justice Earls to the NC Supr... 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Haiku 634 invasive species opportunist usurpers fell spawn of europe 010
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 30/09/2026OKINAWA Love Day plus one I was back again at the kind of life I had known so long. It was the old familiar pattern, unchanged by distance or time from war on the other side of the world—a pattern so embedded in my soul that, coming back to it again, 110
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 30/09/2026War to an individual is hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him. Last Chapter ERNIE PYLE 1946 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A squat Hawaiian woman, in blue slacks and with a red bandanna around her head, watered the lawn over and over and over again, very slowly. Last Chapter ERNIE PYLE August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945 000
Reposted by Neil C. Leach, Jr.Alex Wright @alexwright.com · 14/09/2026Had a fun conversation with Sam Stall at Quill about hyper-partisan journalism, fake news, and the legacy of the 19th-century “able editor”: the jacks-of-all-trades who wrote, edited, and published many early newspapers—and who were, I'd argue, the spiritual ancestors of today’s digital influencer.quillmag.comBookshelf: Alex Wright’s ‘Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper’Quill, a magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists 022
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Haiku 633 to walk out one's door may require a new skin suit a fresh pair of eyes 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Over years of working among both journalists and technologists, I have noticed a shared tendency: Neither camp is especially interested in its own history. We live in a culture that prizes innovation yet is often dismissive toward the past, as technology historian David Edgerton has argued. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Whereas the weak definition of sustainable development was to satisfy fundamental human needs today without compromising the possibility of future generations to satisfy theirs, the goal of sustainable design was to develop restorative systems that are beneficial for humans and other species. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The sheer magnitude of this growth was extraordinary. Between the Revolutionary War and 1900, the number of US newspapers rose from thirty-seven to more than twenty thousand. By the century’s end, a nation with just 5 percent of the world’s population was producing more than half its newspapers. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In their hands, a nation forged in print—its foundations resting on documents set by hand and pulled from corkscrew presses—came to see this medium as the lifeblood of its civic culture, a distributed public sphere made up of countless human voices, carried by mail and telegraph wire, 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which. —James Matthew Barrie, “The Printed Word,” 1893 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He also made a point of renaming the Sabre IV the Sabre II(E) for psychological reasons: the Sabre was getting a bad name in the R.A.F. and he was afraid that its reputation would be finally ruined if another failure were offered under the guise of an advanced type.’ AIR COMMODORE F.R. BANKS 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is the falsification, trivialization, or distortion of the historical record. This is distinct from historical revisionism, a broader term encompassing academic reinterpretations of history driven by new evidence or reasoning. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mercury House, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, London Designed by W.D. Caröe in 1904 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There was, however, a large, multi-row, engine with, if I remember correctly, four rows each of seven cylinders. These cylinders were of forged light alloy with inserted steel liners, and I was rather disturbed when I saw the single cylinder unit then being prepared for its first run. 100
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haiku 632 deep ocean above battleships of cumulus cirrus breakers glide 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haiku 631 power line dirt road pollywogs in a puddle blue sky reflecting 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky. CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON illustrated by John Tenniel 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Haiku 630 like a flying queen above service or honor the great blue heron 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 26/09/2026FLASH TRAFFIC: A geodesic globe made as origami. 000
Neil C. Leach, Jr. @tonup800t.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.austinmemories.com/styled-78/in...austinmemories.comAustin Racers 000
