Bill Shein
@billshein.bsky.social
Writer. Journalist. Friend to animals. Graying rapidly. Founder: The RGM Dispatch (coming soon).
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Bill Shein
@billshein.bsky.social
· Sep 9
I thought this was poems by Vikings and was *very disappointed* to discover otherwise.
#Philately peeps: What makes these 19th century bank checks with revenue stamps interesting/valuable? Two lots like this of ~270 each went for $162 today.
Discuss and enlighten me about the life-changing magic of 1870s bank checks and revenue stamps (and also the life-changing magic of tidying up…)
Discuss and enlighten me about the life-changing magic of 1870s bank checks and revenue stamps (and also the life-changing magic of tidying up…)
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
#Philately peeps: What makes these 19th century bank checks with revenue stamps interesting/valuable? Two lots like this of ~270 each went for $162 today.
Discuss and enlighten me about the life-changing magic of 1870s bank checks and revenue stamps (and also the life-changing magic of tidying up…)
Discuss and enlighten me about the life-changing magic of 1870s bank checks and revenue stamps (and also the life-changing magic of tidying up…)
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Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
3/3
Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.
Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
From “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, written in 1909. (Or was it 2025?)
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
From “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, written in 1909. (Or was it 2025?)
Glad to be traveling over the RFK Bridge, and not the RFK Jr. Bridge, which would likely ignore all fundamentals of materials science and engineering and lead to certain disaster.
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Glad to be traveling over the RFK Bridge, and not the RFK Jr. Bridge, which would likely ignore all fundamentals of materials science and engineering and lead to certain disaster.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
Wars based on lies seem to be … a thing.
“Threats of the use of force, much less an actual attack on Venezuela, would violate the U.N. Charter,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in the laws of armed conflict.
“Threats of the use of force, much less an actual attack on Venezuela, would violate the U.N. Charter,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in the laws of armed conflict.
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wars based on lies seem to be … a thing.
“Threats of the use of force, much less an actual attack on Venezuela, would violate the U.N. Charter,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in the laws of armed conflict.
“Threats of the use of force, much less an actual attack on Venezuela, would violate the U.N. Charter,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in the laws of armed conflict.
Old Country Dog still fired up for her city time.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Old Country Dog still fired up for her city time.
Ladies and gentlemen, I offer for your consideration the “kitchen” in a $2,700-a-month studio apartment offered for rent on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I offer for your consideration the “kitchen” in a $2,700-a-month studio apartment offered for rent on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
To recap my experience at last night’s Brooklyn Nets game, my first pro game in 30 years:
My job, in sum, was—as much as possible—“to MAKE SOME NOISE!”
Frankly amazed at the constant loud music *during gameplay*. Back in the day, that was only during timeouts, etc.
PS: I am 125 years old.
My job, in sum, was—as much as possible—“to MAKE SOME NOISE!”
Frankly amazed at the constant loud music *during gameplay*. Back in the day, that was only during timeouts, etc.
PS: I am 125 years old.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
To recap my experience at last night’s Brooklyn Nets game, my first pro game in 30 years:
My job, in sum, was—as much as possible—“to MAKE SOME NOISE!”
Frankly amazed at the constant loud music *during gameplay*. Back in the day, that was only during timeouts, etc.
PS: I am 125 years old.
My job, in sum, was—as much as possible—“to MAKE SOME NOISE!”
Frankly amazed at the constant loud music *during gameplay*. Back in the day, that was only during timeouts, etc.
PS: I am 125 years old.
“Boss, great, let’s have that vigorous deb—oh, sorry, whoa, just read the second half of what you said.”
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Boss, great, let’s have that vigorous deb—oh, sorry, whoa, just read the second half of what you said.”
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
Sign of Advancing Years, Part #3856837573828:
While at tonight’s Brooklyn Nets game, every time the announcer says, “It’s time to make some NOISE!!!!!”, my response is, “No, please, how about a little quieter, maybe?”
While at tonight’s Brooklyn Nets game, every time the announcer says, “It’s time to make some NOISE!!!!!”, my response is, “No, please, how about a little quieter, maybe?”
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Sign of Advancing Years, Part #3856837573828:
While at tonight’s Brooklyn Nets game, every time the announcer says, “It’s time to make some NOISE!!!!!”, my response is, “No, please, how about a little quieter, maybe?”
While at tonight’s Brooklyn Nets game, every time the announcer says, “It’s time to make some NOISE!!!!!”, my response is, “No, please, how about a little quieter, maybe?”
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Trump is describing millions of immigrants and even naturalized citizens as “invaders,” “non-compatible with Western Civilization,” and candidates for “reverse migration”—a blueprint for total authoritarian population control.
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Trump is describing millions of immigrants and even naturalized citizens as “invaders,” “non-compatible with Western Civilization,” and candidates for “reverse migration”—a blueprint for total authoritarian population control.
Great image.
#OTD 28 November 1983, with the launch of Shuttle Columbia STS-9, @esa.int made its debut in human spaceflight.
👨🚀 ESA's first astronaut in space, Ulf Merbold 🇩🇪
🛰️ first European scientific lab in orbit, #Spacelab-1
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... @dlr-de.bsky.social @exploration.esa.int #SpaceHistory
👨🚀 ESA's first astronaut in space, Ulf Merbold 🇩🇪
🛰️ first European scientific lab in orbit, #Spacelab-1
🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA... @dlr-de.bsky.social @exploration.esa.int #SpaceHistory
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great image.
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Why should any sane individual pay £500 for a scrap of paper an inch square, gum on one side and a smudge on the other? Yet the stamp-collecting mania produces examples of lunacy of exactly this degree.” — The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, October 2, 1897 #philately #stampcollecting
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Why should any sane individual pay £500 for a scrap of paper an inch square, gum on one side and a smudge on the other? Yet the stamp-collecting mania produces examples of lunacy of exactly this degree.” — The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, October 2, 1897 #philately #stampcollecting
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Perfected “I’m Ready for Thanksgiving Leftovers, LFG!” expression. 💯
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Perfected “I’m Ready for Thanksgiving Leftovers, LFG!” expression. 💯
Post-Thanksgiving Friday vibe.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Post-Thanksgiving Friday vibe.
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.” — M.K. Gandhi, April 5, 1936
Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.” — M.K. Gandhi, April 5, 1936
URGENT ICYMI (Black Friday Edition)
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
URGENT ICYMI (Black Friday Edition)
I’m hearing that there are … sales today? LMK. Thx.
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’m hearing that there are … sales today? LMK. Thx.
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Black Friday
Saver Safari Saturday
Damn Son, These Deals Are Sick AF Sunday
Cyber Monday
If You Want Savings to Scream About, Shit Gets Real Serious Tuesday
Wall-to-Wall Wanton Bargain Carnage Wednesday
Saver Safari Saturday
Damn Son, These Deals Are Sick AF Sunday
Cyber Monday
If You Want Savings to Scream About, Shit Gets Real Serious Tuesday
Wall-to-Wall Wanton Bargain Carnage Wednesday
Black Friday Forever: Our Post-Thanksgiving Sales Events
Black Friday Saver Safari Saturday Damn Son, These Deals Are Sick AF Sunday Cyber Monday If You Want Savings to Scream About, Shit Gets Real Seriou...
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Black Friday
Saver Safari Saturday
Damn Son, These Deals Are Sick AF Sunday
Cyber Monday
If You Want Savings to Scream About, Shit Gets Real Serious Tuesday
Wall-to-Wall Wanton Bargain Carnage Wednesday
Saver Safari Saturday
Damn Son, These Deals Are Sick AF Sunday
Cyber Monday
If You Want Savings to Scream About, Shit Gets Real Serious Tuesday
Wall-to-Wall Wanton Bargain Carnage Wednesday
Old Country Dog(TM) loving her city time.
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Old Country Dog(TM) loving her city time.