Stephen L Cooley
@slcool.bsky.social
As the world goes mad, I keep myself sane by reading, hiking and doing the best I can.
I respect science, journalism, and the pursuit of knowledge, truth and justice.
Born in NY🗽🇺🇸
Live & work in HK 🧧🇭🇰
Happily married 💕
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No DMs unless you know me 🙏🏼
I respect science, journalism, and the pursuit of knowledge, truth and justice.
Born in NY🗽🇺🇸
Live & work in HK 🧧🇭🇰
Happily married 💕
💙💙💙
No DMs unless you know me 🙏🏼
Reading “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here” by Jonathan Blitzer.
Great reporting on the crisis at the US-Mexican border bringing together Central Americans fleeing political violence with American activists, government officials and politicians.
Sheds light on decades of misguided policy.
#BookSky
Great reporting on the crisis at the US-Mexican border bringing together Central Americans fleeing political violence with American activists, government officials and politicians.
Sheds light on decades of misguided policy.
#BookSky
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reading “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here” by Jonathan Blitzer.
Great reporting on the crisis at the US-Mexican border bringing together Central Americans fleeing political violence with American activists, government officials and politicians.
Sheds light on decades of misguided policy.
#BookSky
Great reporting on the crisis at the US-Mexican border bringing together Central Americans fleeing political violence with American activists, government officials and politicians.
Sheds light on decades of misguided policy.
#BookSky
Nothing like a light read to take the mind off current affairs.
Grab a coffee and suspend disbelief.
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi explores our desire to revisit the past.
We cannot change the past, but we can choose to accept it, and this will alter our future.
#BookSky 📚
Grab a coffee and suspend disbelief.
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi explores our desire to revisit the past.
We cannot change the past, but we can choose to accept it, and this will alter our future.
#BookSky 📚
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nothing like a light read to take the mind off current affairs.
Grab a coffee and suspend disbelief.
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi explores our desire to revisit the past.
We cannot change the past, but we can choose to accept it, and this will alter our future.
#BookSky 📚
Grab a coffee and suspend disbelief.
“Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi explores our desire to revisit the past.
We cannot change the past, but we can choose to accept it, and this will alter our future.
#BookSky 📚
That’s more like it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That’s more like it.
Read The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa between episodes of the Netflix adaptation.
Highly recommend both.
Sicily, 1860. The unification of Italy has begun. A time of major political and social change.
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” 🇮🇹
#BookSky 📚
Highly recommend both.
Sicily, 1860. The unification of Italy has begun. A time of major political and social change.
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” 🇮🇹
#BookSky 📚
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Read The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa between episodes of the Netflix adaptation.
Highly recommend both.
Sicily, 1860. The unification of Italy has begun. A time of major political and social change.
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” 🇮🇹
#BookSky 📚
Highly recommend both.
Sicily, 1860. The unification of Italy has begun. A time of major political and social change.
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” 🇮🇹
#BookSky 📚
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Interesting. The headline has been rewritten since the article was first published.
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Interesting. The headline has been rewritten since the article was first published.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What’s wild about You Dreamed of Empires is how Enrigue inserts himself and the reader into the narrative through the hallucinations of Moctezuma and Cortes, speculating on a counterfactual history of Mexico City starting with their consequential meeting at Tenochtitlan in 1519.
🌵 🍄 🐴
#BookSky 📚
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#BookSky 📚
September 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
What’s wild about You Dreamed of Empires is how Enrigue inserts himself and the reader into the narrative through the hallucinations of Moctezuma and Cortes, speculating on a counterfactual history of Mexico City starting with their consequential meeting at Tenochtitlan in 1519.
🌵 🍄 🐴
#BookSky 📚
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#BookSky 📚
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Look forward to reading Randi Weingarten’s Why Fascists Fear Teachers
#BookSky 📚
Look forward to reading Randi Weingarten’s Why Fascists Fear Teachers
#BookSky 📚
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
Look forward to reading Randi Weingarten’s Why Fascists Fear Teachers
#BookSky 📚
Look forward to reading Randi Weingarten’s Why Fascists Fear Teachers
#BookSky 📚
Finished reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Published in 2012 and set 300 years in the future, human “spacers” have harnessed technology and colonized the solar system, terraforming planets, moons and asteroids, while leaving an overpopulated, climate-ravaged Earth behind. Far out! 🚀
#BookSky
#BookSky
September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Finished reading 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Published in 2012 and set 300 years in the future, human “spacers” have harnessed technology and colonized the solar system, terraforming planets, moons and asteroids, while leaving an overpopulated, climate-ravaged Earth behind. Far out! 🚀
#BookSky
#BookSky
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney is a great story for teachers. It’s set in the west of Ireland and features Jamie O’Neill, a boy with ASD who dreams of inventing a Perpetual Motion Machine. Jamie meets two teachers who help him navigate through his first year of secondary school. 🚣
#BookSky
#BookSky
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney is a great story for teachers. It’s set in the west of Ireland and features Jamie O’Neill, a boy with ASD who dreams of inventing a Perpetual Motion Machine. Jamie meets two teachers who help him navigate through his first year of secondary school. 🚣
#BookSky
#BookSky
Finished reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
Appreciated the descriptions of 17th century Amsterdam and the depiction of what life was like for its inhabitants.
The story itself was often disappointing though. Too many implausible events.
It might work better as a miniseries. 🤔
#booksky
Appreciated the descriptions of 17th century Amsterdam and the depiction of what life was like for its inhabitants.
The story itself was often disappointing though. Too many implausible events.
It might work better as a miniseries. 🤔
#booksky
June 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Finished reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
Appreciated the descriptions of 17th century Amsterdam and the depiction of what life was like for its inhabitants.
The story itself was often disappointing though. Too many implausible events.
It might work better as a miniseries. 🤔
#booksky
Appreciated the descriptions of 17th century Amsterdam and the depiction of what life was like for its inhabitants.
The story itself was often disappointing though. Too many implausible events.
It might work better as a miniseries. 🤔
#booksky
I’ve read a number of Australian authors, including Richard Flanagan, Tim Winton and Kate Grenville.
Just discovered Gregory Day.
Set in 20th Century post-federation Australia, “The Bell of the World” explores nature and the connections between creativity, identity and place.
#Booksky
#books 📚
Just discovered Gregory Day.
Set in 20th Century post-federation Australia, “The Bell of the World” explores nature and the connections between creativity, identity and place.
#Booksky
#books 📚
May 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
May 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Finished reading Trust by Hernan Diaz, a compelling novel with Capitalism at its heart. Contains four competing narratives — a popular novel, an unfinished autobiography, a memoir and a diary — each uncovering the deceptions of the last and engaging the reader in a quest for the truth. 💵
#Booksky 📚
#Booksky 📚
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Finished reading Trust by Hernan Diaz, a compelling novel with Capitalism at its heart. Contains four competing narratives — a popular novel, an unfinished autobiography, a memoir and a diary — each uncovering the deceptions of the last and engaging the reader in a quest for the truth. 💵
#Booksky 📚
#Booksky 📚
April 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Finally finished Juice by Tim Winton amidst constant distractions in the news.
Framed as a story within a story, it presents a bleak vision of our planet in the distant future: ruled by oligarchs, ravaged by climate change, and imperiled by AI tech.
And yet there is hope.
#Booksky
#books 📚
Framed as a story within a story, it presents a bleak vision of our planet in the distant future: ruled by oligarchs, ravaged by climate change, and imperiled by AI tech.
And yet there is hope.
#Booksky
#books 📚
April 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ching Ming Festival: A special day when local families sweep their ancestors’ tombs and pay their respects.
It also marks the beginning of warm Spring weather.
We went hiking on the MacLehose Trail, Stage 7, featuring the Shing Mun Reservoir, Needle Hill and Grassy Hill.
#hiking 🥾
#hongkong
It also marks the beginning of warm Spring weather.
We went hiking on the MacLehose Trail, Stage 7, featuring the Shing Mun Reservoir, Needle Hill and Grassy Hill.
#hiking 🥾
#hongkong
April 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
March 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Just started Juice by Tim Winton
March 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Just started Juice by Tim Winton
Orbital by Samantha Harvey:
One day (16 orbits) in the lives of six astronauts working at the International Space Station 250 miles above Earth. Meditations on life, death, art, science, religion, politics, progress, our fragile Earth, and what it means to be human. Loved it! 🌍
#books
#booksky 📚
One day (16 orbits) in the lives of six astronauts working at the International Space Station 250 miles above Earth. Meditations on life, death, art, science, religion, politics, progress, our fragile Earth, and what it means to be human. Loved it! 🌍
#books
#booksky 📚
March 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Finished reading Playground by Richard Powers.
Playground is to oceanography and the mysteries of the deep as Overstory was to forestry and the secret life of trees.
Powers is a masterful storyteller of the climate crisis, endangered ecosystems, and the uncertain future of AI.
#booksky
#books 📚
Playground is to oceanography and the mysteries of the deep as Overstory was to forestry and the secret life of trees.
Powers is a masterful storyteller of the climate crisis, endangered ecosystems, and the uncertain future of AI.
#booksky
#books 📚
March 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books 📚
Round 3: Nonfiction
Day 20
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books 📚
Round 3: Nonfiction
Day 20
February 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books 📚
Round 3: Nonfiction
Day 20
#Booksky
#BookChallenge
#Books 📚
Round 3: Nonfiction
Day 20