New Englanders are also good at boiling the flavor out of vegetables. (Source: Grandma born in Boston)

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.

End the project already, Dave.

You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.

Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

In honor of the day
#TheRising
#IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

My tax software keeps sending me emails promising me a "maximum refund," yet I never get one.

#NewYork #Genealogy #FamilyHistory Good news: FamilySearch volunteers are currently scanning genealogy books & documents at the New York State Library. Can't wait to see/search these on FamSearch later in 2026! More info: www.familysearch.org/en/newsroom/...

Someone I know might be interested! (It’s me, & probably @vermilionink.bsky.social)

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

omg, nailed

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

AI update: replication crisis — Jessica Kant Regardless of who actually prints a story, it is the merger of social media and machine learning which increasingly drives narratives in the immediate wake of a major event. The next time a catastroph...

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

CT man connects Black families with long-lost history. ‘The work he does is truly a blessing’ “We give people their history. Then we try to inject those stories and those people into the communities that they’re from,” the Bloomfield man said.

Just about everything I love about #genealogy can be found in this article. The world needs more people like John Mills!
www.courant.com/2026/02/10/c...

David Bowie “It’s Gonna Be Me (With Strings)

Feb 10 (V) – Chronicling America for Historical Research hosted by Library of Congress (Free) For details & registration, see www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
#genealogy #familyhistory

you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]

billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

One of my favorite tributes to Catherine O’Hara. I learned about SCTV from my cooler classmates in high school.

I had no idea they were so small. The sound is a little like a bass flute, and those are huge. Do it!

Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.

We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*

Black protest marchers proceed down Fifth Avenue in 1917, dressed in white, led by drummers.

A flag reading “Love” flies next to a golden statue of General Sherman

People chanted “Shame” when we got to the Trump abomination on Fifth Ave.

Colorful signs abounded, like this one that says, “We wanted Huddled Masses, not Hooded Assses"

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

I just discovered them this year!

@illogicalvulcan.bsky.social

Oh, one more thing: if you're reading this, and you have archives and family records dating from enslavement that you know Black Americans (and/or Black America as a whole) would benefit from having, you have a moral and ethical obligation to share them... and deep down, you know it.

Count Von Count as Nosferatu.

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

Like your local historical or genealogical society!

That's wonderful, but I can't believe that took a whole month!

Feast your eyes on these 10 cookbooks from 2025 Whether you're craving something sweet, savory, spicy — or all of the above in one flavorful meal — we've got you covered. Here are 10 favorite cookbooks from the past year.

www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...

Bluesky New York actors!

Do you want to participate in a reading on Monday, between Zohran Mamdani's new office and the Brooklyn Bridge, of scripts by some amazing, talented students?

Yeah you do.

It's Monday, 12-15, 5 pm. Contact me here, or jdanziger@pace.edu. Please spread the good word!