David Bowden
@davidbowden.bsky.social
Polisci PhD now doing the alt-ac thing. Views are my own.
A long exposure of the Boston sky
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A long exposure of the Boston sky
My wife and I just welcomed our first child, and since the beginning of the pregnancy people have been remarking "wow, David's really taking an interest." At first I found that baffling - how could anyone not? But I'm realizing that historically many dads really, really did not.
“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.
October 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My wife and I just welcomed our first child, and since the beginning of the pregnancy people have been remarking "wow, David's really taking an interest." At first I found that baffling - how could anyone not? But I'm realizing that historically many dads really, really did not.
October 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I can’t remember my coworkers’ names half the time but I sure do know a lot of guys from 110 loss Royals teams.
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I can’t remember my coworkers’ names half the time but I sure do know a lot of guys from 110 loss Royals teams.
I've been listening to lots of albums from best of 2024 lists lately. I don't know how the entire music industry agreed to make every record exactly 35 minutes, but I'm not sad about it.
December 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
I've been listening to lots of albums from best of 2024 lists lately. I don't know how the entire music industry agreed to make every record exactly 35 minutes, but I'm not sad about it.
Mine is underwhelming. In terms of notoriety, probably Tiger Woods' dad. In terms of accomplishments, Nobel prize winning economist Michael Kremer or Second City founder Del Close?
who wants to play the “most famous person from your high school” game? bc mine is vanna white.
Saw an ad for Wheel of Fortune hosted by Ryan Seacrest and was almost like “not my Sajak” but then was like who gives a shit. Honestly a clever chimp could host that show
September 11, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Mine is underwhelming. In terms of notoriety, probably Tiger Woods' dad. In terms of accomplishments, Nobel prize winning economist Michael Kremer or Second City founder Del Close?
A sign of how badly Google is fumbling the bag: got a new work laptop and left Bing as the default search engine.
May 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
A sign of how badly Google is fumbling the bag: got a new work laptop and left Bing as the default search engine.
Reposted by David Bowden
Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
April 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
