DW Gibson
@dwgibson.bsky.social
I write & gab. Most recent: ONE WEEK TO CHANGE THE WORLD: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests (Simon & Schuster). I write the “Renters” column for the New York Times. dwgibson.net
Snap quiz that’s perfect for today: can anyone name the chancellor of Germany?
June 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Snap quiz that’s perfect for today: can anyone name the chancellor of Germany?
You will always be missed, Ngugi. Thanks for changing how I see the world.
May 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You will always be missed, Ngugi. Thanks for changing how I see the world.
Probably one of the fundamental structural flaws with current culture.
Anyone else born before 1999 notice that boredom is not a thing anymore
April 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Probably one of the fundamental structural flaws with current culture.
There is no debate in this conversation. Sugar is #1 and it’s not even close.
Bull Durham should be at number one and the original Bad News Bears (which is not on the list at all) should be at number ten but otherwise a perfectly cromulent list
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The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
With Carson Lund’s ‘Eephus’ — about the final game in an amateur league of aging players — hitting the big screen, a THR film critic ranks 10 other movies that took viewers out to the ballgame.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
There is no debate in this conversation. Sugar is #1 and it’s not even close.
I don’t like it when Duolingo threatens me late at night.
March 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I don’t like it when Duolingo threatens me late at night.
Definitely confused that Sam Walton’s book from generations ago is still in print. Definitely bothered that it’s next to Hansberry. Alphabetical order and respect for the human condition be damned.
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Definitely confused that Sam Walton’s book from generations ago is still in print. Definitely bothered that it’s next to Hansberry. Alphabetical order and respect for the human condition be damned.
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March 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Love that image
March 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Love that image
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Lunchtime timeline cleanse. I love any time @dwgibson.bsky.social writes about real estate for the NYT. This colorful apartment brought sunshine to my day. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/r...
She’s Raising Her Daughter in Her Own Childhood Apartment
It took a ruling from New York State’s highest court, and a critical renovation of the building, to make a dream come true.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Lunchtime timeline cleanse. I love any time @dwgibson.bsky.social writes about real estate for the NYT. This colorful apartment brought sunshine to my day. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/r...
Here, here.
We have less than three weeks. Free Leonard Peltier. A juror held anti Native American views, the prosecutor believes he should be free and that the case wasn’t made. A witness recanted. Even if you don’t agree w that, he is not well and in his 80’s. Let him live his final years with his family.
December 29, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Here, here.
Good news. Workers have power and need to flex it more like this.
Thousands of Amazon workers will walk off the job on Thursday at 6 a.m. ET, in the crucial final days of the holiday season, after union officials said the retailer failed to come to the bargaining table reut.rs/4fpKl6M
Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
Thousands of Amazon workers plan to walk off the job starting Thursday morning in the crucial final days before Christmas, after union officials said the retailer failed to come to the bargaining table.
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December 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Good news. Workers have power and need to flex it more like this.
