JBSolb
@jbsolb.bsky.social
Balancing hope and exasperation on the daily. Doodle Dispatches alter ego. Archives nerd. Writer.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
If we lose Dolly right after Jane Goodall a tiny bit of me will think maybe the Revelation just decided to start off one person at a time
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If we lose Dolly right after Jane Goodall a tiny bit of me will think maybe the Revelation just decided to start off one person at a time
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WGBH building in Boston today
July 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
WGBH building in Boston today
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Congress—all in government service who take that oath—should be leading the outcry on this. It’s a boundary test and they are failing us.
If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.
May 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Congress—all in government service who take that oath—should be leading the outcry on this. It’s a boundary test and they are failing us.
It’s been a minute, but I’ve got a new Doode Dispatches post up 🧡 .
https://open.substack.com/pub/d…
May 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s been a minute, but I’ve got a new Doode Dispatches post up 🧡 .
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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
I really love Tom Cox’s work and it’s encouraging to see him find a path through this horrible publishing maze. His essays are great too - try him! open.substack.com/pub/tomcox/p...
HURRAY! I Now Own My Books Again!
Why I took the rights back to my most recent seven books, and how you can get hold of them, without giving money to my (now ex) publishers
open.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I really love Tom Cox’s work and it’s encouraging to see him find a path through this horrible publishing maze. His essays are great too - try him! open.substack.com/pub/tomcox/p...
Seasonal swings are real in the U.S. northeast too! This is another fascinating example of how #archaeology supports and benefits from collabs with other fields. SO MUCH STILL TO DISCOVER 🤩
www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
Seasonal decline in Scottish vitamin D levels has persisted over hundreds of years
People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines over winter in their vitamin D levels despite the enormous changes in lifestyle and diet over the ...
www.abdn.ac.uk
February 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Seasonal swings are real in the U.S. northeast too! This is another fascinating example of how #archaeology supports and benefits from collabs with other fields. SO MUCH STILL TO DISCOVER 🤩
www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
Sharing a resource for federal employees who are concerned about job security (shared from an archives group✊)
February 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sharing a resource for federal employees who are concerned about job security (shared from an archives group✊)
Hey, here’s an encouraging thing: archivists have been backing up government web resources steadily for years in a #democracylibrary
archive.org/details/demo...
archive.org/details/demo...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Hey, here’s an encouraging thing: archivists have been backing up government web resources steadily for years in a #democracylibrary
archive.org/details/demo...
archive.org/details/demo...
I love this — science and history, coming together to show us sustainable ways forward www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest
Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I love this — science and history, coming together to show us sustainable ways forward www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
Made the move, grateful to extract from 🐦 to find some 🕊️. On the hunt to build a good archaeology/writer/art/humor/progressive action feed.
November 13, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Made the move, grateful to extract from 🐦 to find some 🕊️. On the hunt to build a good archaeology/writer/art/humor/progressive action feed.