Jay Hancock
@jayhancock.bsky.social
Former reporter pursuing the past. Writing book on language history. Substack on history, economics, stuff. 2020 Pulitzer finalist for investigative journalism. jayhancock.substack.com
Horrible "journalism"
August 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Horrible "journalism"
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
July 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Like @lucyanne.bsky.social I am posting my ancestors' smallpox vaccination credentials. Why aren't the rest of you?
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
July 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
One hundred years ago today my great-grandparents, Irene & Eb, got vaccinated, helping to wipe smallpox from the planet. Thank you for your service!
Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"
March 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Some moviegoers appreciate the cinematography and acting. I log the modernistic howlers in the script. From The Brutalist: "significant others," "in the interest transparency" (really!?), "tropical depression," "he reached out to me" (for business), "hassling women & children," "I've done the math"
Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Pretty slick @proton.me. Don't automatically empty trash baskets for non-premium users. Let the trash pile up (12k msgs in mine). Then tell customers their storage is full & they need to upgrade.
Really rich. Nobody fights harder against safe, reliable & affordable energy for Marylanders than the Sierra Club. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
January 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Really rich. Nobody fights harder against safe, reliable & affordable energy for Marylanders than the Sierra Club. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
How did it take me this long to discover @jonrauch.bsky.social? Just ordered *The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth*
January 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
How did it take me this long to discover @jonrauch.bsky.social? Just ordered *The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth*
Netflix is dumbing down its shows even more with MORE expositional dialogue. Yuk. https//www.cbr.com...
January 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Netflix is dumbing down its shows even more with MORE expositional dialogue. Yuk. https//www.cbr.com...
Some people post beach pix when they travel. You guys get get 1850s Mississippi steamboat litigation from the Missouri State Archives in St. Louis.
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Some people post beach pix when they travel. You guys get get 1850s Mississippi steamboat litigation from the Missouri State Archives in St. Louis.
Best @petridishes.bsky.social column ever. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 15, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Best @petridishes.bsky.social column ever. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,995,294!
September 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,995,294!
Here's a Tertulian from 1729, printed in Venice.
June 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Here's a Tertulian from 1729, printed in Venice.
The people we stayed with in Sicily said the house and farm had been in their family since the 1600s. They had the library to prove it!
June 27, 2024 at 12:39 PM
The people we stayed with in Sicily said the house and farm had been in their family since the 1600s. They had the library to prove it!
Why is this so hard to understand? Criticizing the ideas of others is not "shutting down the debate." Retorts to academic or political assertions are PART OF THE DEBATE, not free-speech crimes. (Plus Shakespeare authorship deniers really are tinfoil-hatters.) www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...
April 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Why is this so hard to understand? Criticizing the ideas of others is not "shutting down the debate." Retorts to academic or political assertions are PART OF THE DEBATE, not free-speech crimes. (Plus Shakespeare authorship deniers really are tinfoil-hatters.) www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...
This guy says he's the one who returned it.
February 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
This guy says he's the one who returned it.