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Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
@rob-sheridan.comReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comOur 4yo and his cousin made me a “graveyard of worms” cake for my birthday. 11/10, excellent, just one note: They got the numbers wrong. I’m here so I’m obviously 38.
@carlbergstrom.comReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comIn our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.
@mollybangles.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comFlight practice on the water tower 🦉🌃
It appears that two of the young have fledged, as we only observed three Barn Owl kids last night, and saw fewer food drop-offs from the parents, indicating they’re likely making deliveries elsewhere to the fledglings!
American Barn Owls, NYC, 10.10.2026
#birds
@rodger.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.compeople are saying the Kentucky Wildcats keep winning because they're the only SEC football team actively posting to Bluesky
@prisonculture.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comThis was a well-done report - www.npr.org/2026/10/11/n...
@bugmom.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.combuilding my army
@joshuajfriedman.comThat’s what everyone’s hair looked like in the nineties
@joshuajfriedman.comIt mostly comes up in requests for injunctions. The question is do we have to stop some action now before we even have the trial to decide who’s right. And the answer depends on whether the ongoing action can be compensated for at the end of the trial or if something is being destroyed irretrievably
@joshuajfriedman.comGolden cake with chocolate frosting is still unbeatable
@nsousanis.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comStudents made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
@disabilitystor1.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comI think that every mural unveiling should have a serious dog critic with a very serious underbite
@smosment.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comahab is shaking crying throwing up
@tcboyle.comReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comI’m down at the public library for the last day of Banned Books Week, which happens to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month. No quiero bailar hoy, pero quiero leer sin censura.
@sarcher.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comOh hi! I’m really proud of my essay “‘Ladybugs Will Save the World!’: Charley Harper and the Making of a Visual Identity for Nature in the Landscape of Postwar Design” in this lovely new exhibition catalog:
@joshuajfriedman.comGOURD FEED! 🍁 bsky.app/profile/did:...
@amybrown.xyzReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comlogged into facebook for the first time in probably a year and the first boy i ever held hands with is generating AI slop images of himself with a full head of hair
@rahawahaile.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comOutstanding article about the nonfiction book market. This is also the biggest shoutout Scratch has received, and I’m grateful for it. www.talkscratch.com
![Screenshot from the quote posted article:
Rahawa Haile, in the newsletter Scratch, picks up on this hesitation: "This is rarely the first point mentioned with regards to sagging nonfiction sales, [but] hardcover books grew too expensive in an economic environment where people of all stripes are barely getting by."
Not only that, she continues, but publishers aren't issuing paperback versions nearly as often as they used to.
In a standard royalty structure, the publisher recoups a higher percentage of the hardcover than on paperback; if the former doesn't hit big, the latter is less attractive. In this, publishers' and writers' interests are at odds. Cancelling the paperback ruins a second chance to reach readers through a fresh marketing push, a possible new cover, and-most crucially—a more affordable format.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mqgocqix73ii3okrzzduspjb/bafkreidp2dfrslldj675fl6az2stkhkomnq4ed5qofgfgnljniqogumonm@jpeg)
@nuala.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.com“a group of journalists left their legacy media outlets to build the Coyote Media Collective” says the SF Chronicle lol the legacy outlet was YOU 😂
@bettina.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comi wrote about how even some restaurant owners are recognizing that prices have gotten bonkers and changing course to adapt to our economic reality
www.eater.com/dining-out/9...
@attilabatorfy.bsky.socialReposted by @joshuajfriedman.comToday on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...
