Matt Bogen
@bogen.bsky.social
Ardent Stratfordian, lapsed change ringer, devoted bookman, occasional gamer, joyful theatrician, frequent fixer of technology, grateful father.
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Someone in Seoul has to be thinking: "we spent billions building a plant so our customers could get a tax credit that no longer exists just to be treated like _this_?"
September 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Someone in Seoul has to be thinking: "we spent billions building a plant so our customers could get a tax credit that no longer exists just to be treated like _this_?"
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this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
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August 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Okay Bluesky, it's clear to me that a lot of you are falling for scams so I've decided to crack out the slides I use to educate high school students on identifying and protecting themselves from scams
Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams
Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams
August 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Okay Bluesky, it's clear to me that a lot of you are falling for scams so I've decided to crack out the slides I use to educate high school students on identifying and protecting themselves from scams
Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams
Take a few moments as we go over a few types, methods, and how to express CAUTION towards scams
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"Shakespeare, never heard of him. Now Kit Marlowe, there's a playwright. They treated Doctor Faustus very badly- Lucifer and Belzebub, they were very unfair to the doc, who did NOTHING WRONG"
July 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Shakespeare, never heard of him. Now Kit Marlowe, there's a playwright. They treated Doctor Faustus very badly- Lucifer and Belzebub, they were very unfair to the doc, who did NOTHING WRONG"
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That’s why you’re still here.
May 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
That’s why you’re still here.
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"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."
‘You should be worried': Small town NH library has funds pulled by federal government
A rollback in humanities funding is threatening years of progress to expand a small library in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire.
www.nbcboston.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."
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QUEEN GERTRUDE
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.
HALL
I can’t go for that.
OATES
No can do.
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.
HALL
I can’t go for that.
OATES
No can do.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates
ACT II, SCENE II Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants. KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, gentlemen; our...
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April 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
QUEEN GERTRUDE
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.
HALL
I can’t go for that.
OATES
No can do.
(places her hand on HALL’s chest)
Stay, you lion-maned pair, tell me
Of your distant City of Brotherly Love,
That we may, as they say, get to know
The heft and measure of each other’s thoughts.
HALL
I can’t go for that.
OATES
No can do.
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It is fine to feel melancholy every once in a while (I do it myself) but all of us have within ourselves the capacity to act out our beliefs and work, even in piecemeal, towards a different world
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It is fine to feel melancholy every once in a while (I do it myself) but all of us have within ourselves the capacity to act out our beliefs and work, even in piecemeal, towards a different world
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The team at Ace Books in NY are now giving away 12 copies of Written on the Dark, the actual book, not an advance reading copy, ahead of publication date. It is on Goodreads — for American readers.
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Book giveaway for Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025
Enter to win one of 12 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 01-Apr 30, 2025. A masterpiece.—JM MiroEnter for a chance to win a copy of Writ...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The team at Ace Books in NY are now giving away 12 copies of Written on the Dark, the actual book, not an advance reading copy, ahead of publication date. It is on Goodreads — for American readers.
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States.
Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.
Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.
Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States.
Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.
Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks.
Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
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The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.
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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.
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A tremendously funny "interview" with the bear who does the pursuing in “The Winter’s Tale,” Growly McFurryPaws.
Exit, pursued by infamy: The rise and decline of a ShakesBear
I sat on a stool next to Growly McFurryPaws at the bar nearest his home. He frequents the bar, he said, because his depression has become too much to handle.
www.tcdailyplanet.net
March 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A tremendously funny "interview" with the bear who does the pursuing in “The Winter’s Tale,” Growly McFurryPaws.
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How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Can’t wait to dive into the one. Allegra and two colleagues spoke at the talkback after my production of TERRA NOVA and they were amazingly knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Now that I am done with the show, I have brain space to take on more knowledge. :)
Two years ago, I discovered a love story hidden within Scott’s last Antarctic expedition—between two of his officers, Pennell and Atkinson. They survived the tragedy which took Scott’s life and shocked the world, but further dangers still lay ahead for them.
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The Love Story Hiding in a Legendary Tragedy
Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to Antarctica captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.
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March 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Can’t wait to dive into the one. Allegra and two colleagues spoke at the talkback after my production of TERRA NOVA and they were amazingly knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Now that I am done with the show, I have brain space to take on more knowledge. :)
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Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
March 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Historian here:
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.
If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
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John Mitchinson explores the strangely complex method behind the music of the bells
The Upside Down: For Whom the Bell Tolls
bylinetimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
John Mitchinson explores the strangely complex method behind the music of the bells
And in related news, my production of TERRA NOVA (about Scott’s doomed race to the Pole) opens tonight in New Canaan CT!
There’s a massive Antarctic exploration vehicle lost somewhere at the bottom of the world. It was built in 1939 & had a 20-ft wheelbase & a total length of ~56 ft. It was last seen in 1958 getpocket.com/explore/item...
There’s a Massive Antarctic Exploration Vehicle Lost Somewhere at the Bottom of the World
Last seen in 1958, it was designed to travel 5000 miles and self-sustain for an entire year.
getpocket.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
And in related news, my production of TERRA NOVA (about Scott’s doomed race to the Pole) opens tonight in New Canaan CT!
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Tyrone Taylor found a mystery loaf of bread in his locker today. It looked delicious, but he had no idea where it came from.
Turns out, Ryne Stanek's wife, Jessica, likes to bake, so Ryne gives out bread to guys.
Pete Alonso got one. They embraced.
"I love you," Alonso said.
Turns out, Ryne Stanek's wife, Jessica, likes to bake, so Ryne gives out bread to guys.
Pete Alonso got one. They embraced.
"I love you," Alonso said.
February 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Tyrone Taylor found a mystery loaf of bread in his locker today. It looked delicious, but he had no idea where it came from.
Turns out, Ryne Stanek's wife, Jessica, likes to bake, so Ryne gives out bread to guys.
Pete Alonso got one. They embraced.
"I love you," Alonso said.
Turns out, Ryne Stanek's wife, Jessica, likes to bake, so Ryne gives out bread to guys.
Pete Alonso got one. They embraced.
"I love you," Alonso said.
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As a reminder, I recently translated and published my late lovely grandmother's memoirs of what it was like to live during the WWII fascist occupation of France.
The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943).
Part I:
www.patreon.com/posts/memori...
The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943).
Part I:
www.patreon.com/posts/memori...
Memories of a little girl during the fascist occupation of France (1939-1941) | The Spaceshipper
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January 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
As a reminder, I recently translated and published my late lovely grandmother's memoirs of what it was like to live during the WWII fascist occupation of France.
The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943).
Part I:
www.patreon.com/posts/memori...
The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943).
Part I:
www.patreon.com/posts/memori...
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Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract