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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1h

Ugh, I'm sorry. I finally got it for the first time last month and was unprepared for just how sick I'd be. Paxlovid didn't seem to help with symptoms but definitely shortened the course of the illness for me. Good luck.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

It’s going to be incredible how the first 25 years of the 21st century are going to be a black hole for future historians in terms of how much art, writing, and basic correspondence (emails!) they’re used to for other periods is just gone.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

I was pretty sure I had interviewed Marc Maron at some point. I could not have told you when it was or even what publication it was for never mind what we talked about. But the actual interview is nowhere to be found. So much of my past work is gone. So much of everything is gone.

No lessons learned

Come see me at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Saturday November 8 with Dave Wedge, Bill Shaner, Eoin Higgins, and Evan Greer; Wednesday November 12 at the Francis Kite Club in New York City with Spencer...

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 5h

No. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Headline from The Atlantic: Culture
Coffee Is in Trouble
Prices were up even before the tariffs. Can Americans live without it?

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 19h

Also: I’ve given this business my money. Now they’re asking for my time, and I don’t owe them that.

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 20h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 23h

No daytime crowd-surfing!

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 1d

"Funding it"? "Paid protesters"? I bought my own posterboard and markers, and have extra to share if anybody needs some.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Tim Weston @timweston.com · 2d

Any #Disney historians on Bluesky? I have a question re: 1990 Disney-MGM Studios that I’d love someone to be able to verify for me. #DisneyParks

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

Again, “a potential vote on something in the future” is *nothing*.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 2d

“May” support “a future vote” = absolutely nothing. How many times did Lucy offer Charlie Brown the football?

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 3d

The current governor of PR is a Republican, and she was their congressional delegate before that.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 3d

The people in charge genuinely believe that anyone who gets sick deserves it.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 3d

Who?

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 3d

Can you *imagine* the outrage if Michelle Obama or Jill Biden had announced backchannel communications with Putin?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 4d

When Stalin used to say that, he meant “Jews.”

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 4d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

People deciding they don't find you funny anymore isn't censorship. The first amendment doesn't guarantee you laughs or views on streaming or ticket sales. Be defensive or mad about it I guess, but that's not particularly funny either.

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 4d

What a wonderful reminder that the rest of the world doesn’t care what a demented old man wants.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant. Well, well done, Nobel Committee!

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 4d

I am thinking about this all the time — the last line of the Declaration of Independence is a mutual pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” They knew what that meant and they were sincere.

Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 4d

What is this “finally”? Who doesn’t think Johnny Cash is cool?

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