Mark Simpson-Vos

You know, AI no longer makes errors like those distortions to the right of the shoes.

Spurs are so going down.

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Love to see the role of religion in the war get this level of attention. Still understudied I’d say.

Congratulations to historian Richard Carwardine on winning the 2026 Lincoln Prize for his book *Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union.* 🗃️ www.gilderlehrman.org/about/press-...

As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.

Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”

My bad 😭

This post was like reading a William Carlos Williams poem. It deserves a literary prize.

He just saw the gas prices.

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, but gas prices are His way of teaching Americans that wars cost them, too.

Think of all the art that is “clunky” by this definition. My god.

Ugh. Why must this franchise be terrible?

Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably)

I took the NYT AI quiz thingy and picked all the human writers. Which is not a surprise because four of the five books I had read and most I love, and Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” is one of my all time favorite poems and I have fought people over how great Blood Meridian is.

Suck it Claude.

Is Trump a senator now?

Airport Libraries Take Off | American Libraries Magazine Airport libraries, where travelers can pick up books before they board their flights. are becoming regular fixtures in US airports.

Airport Libraries Take Off:
In these spaces, travelers pick up books before they board

#booksky #libraries #outreach #books #travel #GoodIdea 📚 #Airport

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

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This is what ecocide looks like.

The US Administration has embarked on a large, unprecedented program of excluding lawful, highly-skilled workers and students from the United States.

I talked with the brilliant @gracesegers.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com about the broad economic ripple effects.

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Happy International Women’s Day! As the youngest woman to ever serve on the NC Supreme Court (and only 10th woman ever), I honor the women who came before me and commit to ensuring there are many more after me. #persist #iwd2026

I usually just share @americanstudier.bsky.social's weekly threads without comment, but I do want to say how much I appreciate the effort it takes to keep this up week after week. Thank you.

Whoa

From Ulysses S. Grant to Donald Trump: How “Unconditional Surrender” Became Unconditional Bluster President Trump is channeling his inner Ulysses S.

From Ulysses S. Grant to Donald Trump: How “Unconditional Surrender” Became Unconditional Bluster #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

You can order Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era along with many other fabulous titles using the UNC Press 30% off discount.

One True Church In the summer of 1872, a white doctor and a formerly enslaved African American farmer walked through a field near Newton Grove, North Carolina, and mapped ou...

Can’t wait to read this new book on Catholicism and race in the South!

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Dean Smith taught me always to point to the passer - give credit to the creator before the basket gets scored. Debbie should get that point on this book because she championed it so well

How ‘Thy Will Be Done’ by John Garrison Marks Got Made An inside look at the publication process for the historian and author’s latest book.

Every editor learns that when a book is published, the story is always the author. If anyone notes the press on the spine, that points to a team of dozens of pros not any one individual.

But here I must shout out @dgershenowitz.bsky.social who had the vision to sign this book and shepherd it

Great night for the Spuds!

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...