Dave Alff

@S_Insley_H this is amazing/what have you done

I hate straight Halloween. What do you mean no one understood my costume (if the mom in Pink Pony Club had been supportive and encouraging)??

@pjmaciak oh wow

The take economy is struggling.

@S_Insley_H no, not a thing. go phils.

@LangeAlexandra it is staggering to live here amongst so many unassuming treasures. & we also have moribund malls galore ;)

I got to go here, it was amazing and Buffalo has so much amazing architecture it doesn't always get mentioned

@RColesworthy not to brag, but i just got off the equally-scenic buffalo subway

@AlffDave iykyk!!

Taking the train to NYC today for my last (!) MLA EC mtg ever. Perfect fall foliage for a ride along the Hudson? ✅

@RColesworthy always sit on the right side!

Paging @AlffDave 🚉🍁

@brianros1 same. spent ten minutes yesterday trying to infer if the pictures were of middletown, trevose, feasterville, or ?

Matt was in, but I wonder if we'd see the inverse in some of the formerly rock ribbed Democratic areas? Realistically, if Harris grows Biden's +4 in Bucks, she'll be in pretty good shape (pollsters, please poll Bucks County).

Without raining on anyone's parade, this is certainly encouraging given that Bucks was only +4 for Biden. But Bucks is a place where the more ancestrally R places are flipping to Democrats & the more ancestrally Democratic ones are moving the opposite way. I don't know what town

@katiebakes but awesome to be back playing like actual matches! I haven’t played a set in decades. (ps: really love & appreciate your writing, esp. the pieces on our weird, sad, beautiful buffalo sports world)

@AlffDave and you’re right to do so

UPDATE: I WON A MATCH I WON A MATCH. I am an ATHLETE. TENNIS. AMERICA! I shan’t be answering any questions about whether or not my opponents were roughly a quarter century older, it’s not germane

@jsench looking ok this afternoon

@jsench headed there right now! classic brut neglect.

In their moment (and when you encounter one now that has been well-kept and not retrofitted/filled w junk) these International Style buildings were so inspiring: open, airy, bright. I think bc they weren’t maintained we think of them today as bleak, cold, badly designed. A shame.

@CanellaMom literally this morning got to the part in *ordinary people* where marianne wipes her nose & it’s bloody (which made me wonder if all the other wiping was foreshadow)

Am reading INTERMEZZO and wanted to ask: am I the only one who noticed that Rooney's characters are always "wiping at their noses" with their "fingers"? are there no kleenex in Dublin?

@joguldi congrats, Jo!!

Delighted to report that I signed a book contract 📖 (with my esteemed coauthor Stephanie Buongiorno github.com/stephbuon) for Text Mining for Historical Analysis. Our book is a soup-to-nuts textbook to teach coding in R 👩🏼‍💻 to those with large collections of text 📚 they want to understand over time ⏰. The audience is those with or without a background in code and quant methods, with a healthy balance of LLM integration and skepticism as part of the curriculum. Hooray for @cambUP_History for taking this brave new step into the world of code! Hooray for the brilliant reviewers who offered such generous and helpful feedback! Hooray for the new subfield of digital history and everyone who dabbles therein. @ianmilligan1 @nolauren @wgthomas3 @louishyman @AHAhistorians @kalanicraig @jmjafrx @LukeBlaxill @wattenberg @arthur_spirling @Zoe_LeBlanc @javiercha @RuthAhnert @khetiwe24 @pimhuijnen @LaraPutnam @MelvinWevers @ihr_history and apologies to everyone whose Twitter handle I’m not remembering at the moment Expect TMHA in bookstores in late 2025.

@jsench i put it on to feel asleep in a hotel when the announcer said “and that’s oregons first touchdown in big 10 play” and my brain melted

Just settling in for a Big Ten classic, Oregon at UCLA at 11:30pm eastern time.

@pjmaciak & it’s not even *the* primantis. dude needs to throw in the towel & go straight chipotle till November

Primanti’s refusing to allow JD Vance into the restaurant and threatening to call the cops on him is giving me some real hometown pride right now.

@ZacharyLesser that’s just the bonhomie that pervades s philly after you clinch the division

@graceelavery @R_Banner1 @chrisjudetaylor @SarahMDowling1 @pjmaciak was it *common people*??

@R_Banner1 @AlffDave @chrisjudetaylor @SarahMDowling1 @pjmaciak the power and the guts and the glory

@R_Banner1 @TheRuddick @chrisjudetaylor @pjmaciak down one bended knee!

@mmicir @R_Banner1 @SarahMDowling1 @chrisjudetaylor @graceelavery @pjmaciak 😂 are you *sure* it was not the better than ezra hit?

@AlffDave @R_Banner1 @SarahMDowling1 @chrisjudetaylor @graceelavery @pjmaciak Dude. ROSALITA. Are you trolling me??

@R_Banner1 @SarahMDowling1 @chrisjudetaylor @graceelavery @pjmaciak A time b4 mortgages on homes