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Ken Booth

@KenBooth

Publisher and merchant. Co-owner of Shorpy, Inc., a purveyor of fine things at http://t.co/bpcPuBbu and http://t.co/4VerItNV.

 Madison, Alabama
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Joined March 2007
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RooHamm@RooHamm9 Jun 2022
For reference, can definitely see how Roo will be scaled down this year. 2022 Map 2019 Map – at Edina, MN
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Found a tank trap at a roadblock in Kyiv today with a plaque indicating that it's a WW2 antique brought out from a museum exhibit.
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Shorpy@Shorpy28 Jan 2022
Visit 1901 Bar Harbor, Maine, in this Shorpy short video created from a panorama stitched together from two 8x10 glass negatives. youtube.com/watch?v=xelbP8gs…
Bar Harbor, Maine, 1901

Bar Harbor, Maine, 1901

This video was created from a panorama that we stitched together fr...

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Shorpy@Shorpy27 Jan 2022
"Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were 'killed'." publicdomainreview.org/essay…
The Kept and the Killed

The Kept and the Killed

Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this...

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I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": clivethompson.medium.com/a-s…
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There was an earthquake in Alabama: M 3.1 - 9 km SE of Maplesville, Alabama DYFI? - V Time 2021-12-22 06:20:50 UTC 2021-12-22 06:20:50 UTC at epicenter Location 32.737°N 86.794°W Depth 8.78 km (5.46 mi) More from USGS: zpr.io/kbRBCaTB3xL3
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Why were there so many bad predictions about what would happen with Covid in September? Because a pandemic isn’t a simple morality play. 🧵 nytimes.com/2021/10/08/brief…
The Covid Fable (Published 2021)

The Covid Fable (Published 2021)

When we treat Covid as a simple morality play, we can end up making bad predictions.

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Sears built the tallest building in the world less than 50 years ago. Think about that next time you're tempted to say a company has a permanent hold on power.
Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) profile pictureScot Bertram
@ScotBertram16 Sep 2021
Sears is closing its last store in Illinois which both is weird and inevitable. chicago.suntimes.com/busines…
Sears closing its Woodfield Mall store

Sears closing its Woodfield Mall store

The Schaumburg store is the company’s last location in Illinois.

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I think about these two and a half pages from Norm Macdonald’s book constantly. When I reviewed it, I wrote that they would “make for a fine eulogy”—and I swear I didn’t mean anything by it. But they do.
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A lot of my followers have been saying there's no proof that masking works. This is a pretty nice study, larger N than previous studies which suggested masking worked, much higher quality than cross-national observational eyeballing that suggested to conservatives it doesn't.
Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) profile pictureNicholas A. Christakis
@NAChristakis1 Sep 2021
An incredible study (and thread) by my colleagues @yale and elsewhere randomly assigning mask wearing (including cloth vs surgical masks) and documenting a population-level impact on COVID-19. Wow.
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⁦@JasonIsbell⁩ & The 400 Unit were simply amazing tonight. So good to see them live again. Closed with a blistering “Gimme Shelter” in honor of the late Charlie Watts. Opener Brittney Spencer filling the role of Merry Clayton - So great!!!! – at Grand Rapids, MI
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My wife, daughter, and I have just walked the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrimage across Spain lasting from a few days to several months. Ours was a week, from the Portuguese border to Santiago de Compostela. Here, a brief reflection (with photos) on our journey. (1/17)
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Please take care of each other. Please get the shot. I do far have been lucky. I was down to a 30% chance to make it. I thought about my family, my friends & @bonnaroo. Bonnaroo helped save my life. I'll see everyone on the farm. God bless you all – at Henderson, KY
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I am old enough to remember when the FDA and CDC immediately wrote a letter rebuking Pfizer for even applying for a booster shot. Oh, that was July. cnn.com/2021/07/08/health/pf…
Catherine Rampell (@crampell) profile pictureCatherine Rampell
@crampell17 Aug 2021
NYT reports Biden administration has decided that most Americans should get a coronavirus booster shot eight months after they completed their initial vaccination, and could begin offering the extra shots as early as mid-September nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/va…
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More @LiveNation events continue falling in line with one another — @SeaHearNow will require proof of #COVID vaccination or a negative test to attend in 2021.
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Another domino falls. Please follow suit and put health and safety first, @LiveNation and @Bonnaroo. ❤️
Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) profile pictureFestive Owl
@TheFestiveOwl4 Aug 2021
.@RiotFest has quietly updated its #COVID requirements to include proof of vaccination or a negative test for attendance in 2021.
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Are you vaccinated? Vaccination prevents Covid-19. Derived from a WPA Art Project poster for smallpox vaccination, this custom poster encourages vaccination to fight Covid-19. Original WPA poster, circa 1941. vintagraph.com/products/are-…
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This thread will make your head explode
Radley Balko (@radleybalko) profile pictureRadley Balko
@radleybalko29 Jul 2021
Lamar Johnson is innocent. The man who committed the crime for which Johnson was has pleaded guilty. After she was elected, the office of St. Louis DA Kim Gardner found and disclosed the evidence of Johnson's innocence that her predecessors had suppressed.
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"Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day .. could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine." apnews.com/article/coronavir…
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It's not that central planners hate small business owners, it's that small business owners are too inconvenient and politically powerless to accommodate.
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