Jay Hancock
@jayhancock.bsky.social
Former reporter pursuing the past. Writing book on language history. Substack on history, economics, stuff. 2020 Pulitzer finalist for investigative journalism. jayhancock.substack.com
Antiquaries like to potter around cool stuff left by people from the past! Long on observation and short on theory, they get looked down on by academic historians. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social gives them their due. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...
Antiquarianism
Joe Saunders Antiquarianism is the investigation of the past through its material remains. Antiquarians have served an important part in the study of history over the last few hundred years, and th…
how-to-history.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Antiquaries like to potter around cool stuff left by people from the past! Long on observation and short on theory, they get looked down on by academic historians. @joesaunders1.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social gives them their due. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...
"You were given the choice between endorsing the quack RFKjr and losing your seat. You chose the quack. And you will lose your seat."
Guess who got screwed over.
Bill Cassidy royally screwed up.
He reportedly endorsed RFK Jr because he was afraid of losing support.
Trump endorsed his GOP opponent yesterday.
🧪 The leopard eats all faces.
He’s got some explaining to do.
Bill Cassidy royally screwed up.
He reportedly endorsed RFK Jr because he was afraid of losing support.
Trump endorsed his GOP opponent yesterday.
🧪 The leopard eats all faces.
He’s got some explaining to do.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
"You were given the choice between endorsing the quack RFKjr and losing your seat. You chose the quack. And you will lose your seat."
Before insurance companies & government welfare, people set up "friendly societies" to assist each other when hard times hit. They kept careful records, @howtohistory.bsky.social & Joe Saunders write, which increasingly furnish data to historians. how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...
Friendly Societies
Joe Saunders Prior to the development of government and employer health insurance and financial services, friendly or ‘benevolent’ societies were an important part of many people’s lives. These soc…
how-to-history.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Before insurance companies & government welfare, people set up "friendly societies" to assist each other when hard times hit. They kept careful records, @howtohistory.bsky.social & Joe Saunders write, which increasingly furnish data to historians. how-to-history.com/2025/12/31/f...
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A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs
Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I want to know what @robin-f.bsky.social thinks about this! Seems sketchy -- certainly the Cambridge PR headline "Britain's economy boomed..." archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
News - Britain's Economy Remained Surprisingly Robust After Roman Collapse - Archaeology Magazine
ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island […]
archaeology.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I want to know what @robin-f.bsky.social thinks about this! Seems sketchy -- certainly the Cambridge PR headline "Britain's economy boomed..." archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
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If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Ben Affleck visits Butser Ancient Farm (Archive Clip)
YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm
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September 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you were hoping to see a teenage Ben Affleck* talking to Dr Peter Reynolds @butserancientfarm.co.uk before the weekend, then don't worry: we've got you covered. 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJj...
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
Corpse Roads
Britain
howtohistory.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Britain is crosshatched with lyke ways -- paths for transporting the newly dead toward burial & eternity. Famous, hikeable ones in Dartmoor and York Moors. @annacusack.bsky.social @howtohistory.bsky.social tell all about them. howtohistory.substack.com/p/corpse-roads
My piece in the @wirobooks.bsky.social. The new oral culture and the end of reading & writing.(!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/its...
It’s the End of the Word as We Know It | Washington Independent Review of Books
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August 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My piece in the @wirobooks.bsky.social. The new oral culture and the end of reading & writing.(!) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/its...
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Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Maddy Lauria (@maddylauria.bsky.social)
Freelance journalist based in Delaware covering courts, climate change and most everything in between. Lots of #limuluslove here. Check out my work at maddylauria.com.
maddylauria.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Newsmax to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting over 2020 election coverage
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
By @maddylauria.bsky.social
for NPR News
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Build your own newspaper/ magazine! Escape email newsletter hell! RSS has been a primary news source for me every day for 15 years. Now it's making a comeback & @molly.wiki tells you how to do it. Yay! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Build your own newspaper/ magazine! Escape email newsletter hell! RSS has been a primary news source for me every day for 15 years. Now it's making a comeback & @molly.wiki tells you how to do it. Yay! www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
July 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
July 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
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We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.
July 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.
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You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.
June 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.
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After taking a somewhat longer-than-expected hiatus from social media (motivated by divisive and mentally draining rhetoric on other platforms), I think it's about time to re-emerge.
To re-introduce myself - hi! I'm Ron, and I'm a gerontologist interested in elder and LGBTQIA+ equity and advocacy.
To re-introduce myself - hi! I'm Ron, and I'm a gerontologist interested in elder and LGBTQIA+ equity and advocacy.
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
After taking a somewhat longer-than-expected hiatus from social media (motivated by divisive and mentally draining rhetoric on other platforms), I think it's about time to re-emerge.
To re-introduce myself - hi! I'm Ron, and I'm a gerontologist interested in elder and LGBTQIA+ equity and advocacy.
To re-introduce myself - hi! I'm Ron, and I'm a gerontologist interested in elder and LGBTQIA+ equity and advocacy.
Scholars following facts regardless of ideology get bigger audiences. Good!
They "not only attract a new... audience for their recent work, this new audience also engages with... the author's previous... papers, thereby helping to break down echo chambers." www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
They "not only attract a new... audience for their recent work, this new audience also engages with... the author's previous... papers, thereby helping to break down echo chambers." www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
www.anderson.ucla.edu
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Scholars following facts regardless of ideology get bigger audiences. Good!
They "not only attract a new... audience for their recent work, this new audience also engages with... the author's previous... papers, thereby helping to break down echo chambers." www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
They "not only attract a new... audience for their recent work, this new audience also engages with... the author's previous... papers, thereby helping to break down echo chambers." www.anderson.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
Humans: the same everywhere. "Most participants tolerated inequality when it benefited them but were intolerant of inequality when it benefited others." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The 'I' in Egalitarianism: Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Averse to Inequality Primarily when Personally Unfavourable
Many anthropologists and economists contend that humans are characterized by strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary root
papers.ssrn.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Humans: the same everywhere. "Most participants tolerated inequality when it benefited them but were intolerant of inequality when it benefited others." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
Trade Tokens
England
howtohistory.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A few years ago Baltimore, Md., merchants launched Bnotes -- currency for buying from local shops and restaurants. @howtohistory.bsky.social @annacusack.bsky.social show how local trade tokens have substituted for sovereign currency for a long time. howtohistory.substack.com/p/trade-tokens
It's @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social & Tyler Cowen on plague, social mobility, European growth.
"It’s quite good to be a foreigner here [UK] because if you behave in an eccentric way, they think it’s just because you’re foreign. They don’t blame you for it."
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...
"It’s quite good to be a foreigner here [UK] because if you behave in an eccentric way, they think it’s just because you’re foreign. They don’t blame you for it."
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...
Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions (Ep. 237)
What 700 years of pandemic responses reveal about institutional effectiveness
conversationswithtyler.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It's @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social & Tyler Cowen on plague, social mobility, European growth.
"It’s quite good to be a foreigner here [UK] because if you behave in an eccentric way, they think it’s just because you’re foreign. They don’t blame you for it."
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...
"It’s quite good to be a foreigner here [UK] because if you behave in an eccentric way, they think it’s just because you’re foreign. They don’t blame you for it."
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...
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That's bullshit -- the ACA expansion is a separate pool of federal money that bolsters hospitals and state economies as well as population health. But defend it! Identify Rs' chief target -- low income adults.
March 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
That's bullshit -- the ACA expansion is a separate pool of federal money that bolsters hospitals and state economies as well as population health. But defend it! Identify Rs' chief target -- low income adults.
Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"
March 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"
Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.
Incredibly stupid and tragic. Alawite Syrians (Assad loyalists) have everything to lose by provoking and resisting the new (seemingly, relatively) moderate regime. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
At Least 70 Killed as Syria’s Security Forces Clash With Assad Loyalists
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Incredibly stupid and tragic. Alawite Syrians (Assad loyalists) have everything to lose by provoking and resisting the new (seemingly, relatively) moderate regime. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...