Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

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Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Movement. Edited a memoir about Eagle Pass, coming in October 2024. Alte kaker in training.

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So far there doesn't appear to be a Texas connection, which is kind of weirding me out.

Open carry means the police can't do anything until someone's already dead.

just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

I just saw a quote and was thinking, "Wow, that's a great quote" only to realize it was a quote from one of my novels. 😬

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There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.

My book-buying budget is not what it once was, which is precisely why I’m using the library more. It also gives me the opportunity to read books that I’m not sure I want to add to the home library (not that there’s a lot of room to do that anyway).

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ProfWho

My strategy is to draft only kickers.

That's been my full-time job for twenty-five years, so I guess I won something?

New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!

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Microplastics Sommelier

Also all the various versions of Andy Kaufman.

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Katy Telling

That's marvelous of you. Thanks! ❤️

Hurricane Beryl caused major damage to K'nesseth Israel, the 94-year-old synagogue in Baytown, Texas. Baytown's small Jewish community recently completed extensive repairs on the historic building following Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Story: jhvonline.com/beryl-damage...

Before Beryl:

The governor of Texas has no business taking taxpayer-funded junkets around the world when there's a crisis happening at home or, for that matter, when there isn't.

Power companies in Texas don't serve the needs of customers because they don't have to.

Centerpoint is the electric company currently failing Houstonians on a massive scale.

He'll be laid to rest in a family plot in Oklahoma overlooking the ocean.

James M. Inhofe, Senator Who Denied Climate Change, Dies at 89www.nytimes.com An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming.

Also reminded of that time when Andy Warhol's diary was published posthumously, and the index was published separately because it was such a riveting read all by itself.

As I begin work on my fourth book index, I'm reminded what a gem this little thing is. A mere 28 pages (including index!), published in 1953 (it recommends using a typewriter and note cards!), it's a concise, elegantly written, and indispensable resource for indexing a book.

1. Fascism 2. Climate change 3. Genocide 4. Pandemic 5. Entangled Netflix accounts

Combining online profiles comes with costs. A shared Netflix password won’t protect your relationship from disaster, and detangling your accounts after a breakup can be time consuming and sometimes dangerous. Here are some risks to password sharing:

Your partner wants your online passwords. Say no.wapo.st Whether to combine financial, social media and streaming accounts is a struggle in modern relationships. Here are some rules to live by.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

Available for free borrowing here:

Indexing your book ; a practical guide for authors : University of Wisconsin Press : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org ix, 28 p. ; 24 cm

Thank you!

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Rebecca Shapiro

Wise choice.

From the foreword by Thompson Webb: "How many times is an otherwise impressive work of scholarship marred, even incapacitated, by an inadequate index?"

"The reader, trying to recapture an elusive idea which has later become important to him, turns to the index only to find merely a listing of the proper names mentioned by the author. . . . Or [a] name followed by several hundred page numbers."

"The index can cause the finest book in the world to be useless, in a practical sense, if it does not provide a ready, efficient means by which a reader can turn directly to the specific passages which he wants to find."

A college financial officer once advised me in a faculty salary negotiation that what we were asking him for wasn't actually what we should be asking him for.

Having been on a bargaining committee, all I can say that I have never been more condescended to in my life than I have by my company's lawyers.

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May I interest you in @texasobserver.org and/or Texas Tribune?

At the risk of posting something stupefyingly obvious: If you're among those canceling a New York Times or Washington Post subscription, I guarantee you have a great nonprofit media outlet or local paper in your area that could use some revenue. And that coverage is absolutely vital right now.

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't. www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

This state is introducing digital driver's licenses. Here's what you need to knowwww.zdnet.com Your physical wallet is being replaced piece by piece. Here's what you need to know about using digital IDs.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

Outstanding viewpoint from Tressie McMillan Cottom. "What a nation like Greece shows is that Jan. 6 is an anomaly only once before it becomes routine." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/o...

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

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ramza saddiq

They died under Netanyahu. Trump will continue to sell Israel weapons and will give Netanyahu carte blanche to commit all the atrocities he wants. Biden deserves plenty of pressure and criticism, but ultimately he's persuadable, Trump is not. Make your choice.

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jiminnh.bsky.social

There's also a sensible calculation that supporting Israel is and has always been in America's strategic interest. Supporting Netanyahu may not be, and Biden's certainly drifting away from him.

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If leadership of your org is more concerned with accelerationism than preventing fascism, then you’re not leftist or progressive in any meaningful sense. You’re a wrecker who wants to see a lot of people die unnecessarily.

The view that Trump is bad but Biden is worse is not liberalism, progressivism, leftism, or socialism. It's insanity or corruption, probably both.