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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm in this tweet and I don't like it.

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Sandeha Lynch @sandehalynch.com · 14/09/2026

@willpooley.bsky.social braided hotdog 🌭

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's my other brain, but we no longer talk.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve not seen this before and it’s probably going to give me writer’s block for weeks.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A lot of my editors have repeatedly tried to *make me* do this, and I have thus far refused to buckle.

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Oh 😬

radiobeartime.com @radiobeartime.com · 14/09/2026

The curse of American feature writers

Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s like the corollary to the “everyone is twelve” post might well be “all media is podcasts”

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skeet dreams (of you) @judenonesuch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If this was part of the training data for Chat GDP it explains a lot.

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Very wise

Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/09/2026

I’m taking this attack personally 🤣

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 14/09/2026

Marie I'm doing edits on my narrative nonfic book HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No YOU’RE hurriedly emailing an editor to see if it’s too late to add “just a few tiny changes”.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Needed this giggle 🤭 for today

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Although, if you wanna season that hot dog with some contemporaneous social events, I'm all ears. I guess I never stopped wanting to know if it was the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 14/09/2026

Oh my god the formula has fallen into the wrong hands.

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cooperlund.online @cooperlund.online · 14/09/2026

i refuse to be intimidated into not including unnecessary historical detail. they're trapped in the piece with me

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

Isn't this just a variation on the New Yorker Eurostep?

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oh god it's just direct hit after direct hit bsky.app/profile/coop...

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angus mcdrangus @hamdangus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Preston @lazyknightspublish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

all respect to my man Steve Hotdog

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I only do it for facts I made up, and then it's "world building."

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The policy wonk equivalent of this is Democracy is in crisis globally. The far right is on the march as citizens reject centrist compromises. 'Democracy' itself is a word we inherited from the ancient Greeks. 'Demos' for people and 'kratos' for power. The etymology is revealing...

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Jamie : ジェイミー : dʒeɪmiː @jspieve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

as a reader, though, this is Extremely My Shit like, yes, john mcphee, i would very much like you to just please tell me the history of everything for two paragraphs, then get back to your shaggy dog story, because that is why i got in line to ride this ride

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Is this like those sermons (and BBC R4's "Thought for the Day") that start off talking about some current event and then [pause] "And after all, isn't Jesus like a game of football ..."

Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 14/09/2026

Consider the Hotdog.

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Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay”

Hot dog thing is actually fine it just needs condiments

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Bob Wehädababeitsaboy @jokingguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

whipmawhopma.bsky.social @whipmawhopma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Scrolling too fast. For a moment there I was worried I was about die on a hill for one of my favourite reads of 2023.

cover for Raw Dog, by Jamie Loftus. red background with 'Raw Dog' spelled out in mustard.

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Seems like one of those things where there was a time (possibly 1693?) when it was novel and cool just to do it, and now it's known to be a thing you can do and the question is whether you're doing it well.

Steven @gupdoo3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

James Robinson @horacegoesskiing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dare I say Defunctland

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i am trying to make hot-dogs knives a thing, like fish knives, only more linux/nerdy.. can you write a crime novel involving hamburg hotdog knives versus maltese hotdog knives..different steel and handle shapes..

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olly-buckle.bsky.social @olly-buckle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hate you. (To be clear that is in jest. But also. Dammit).

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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An American relative gave me one once, I think I was a teenager. I have avoided them in the 60+ years since.

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*war flashbacks to researching the history of windows*

CJ @noburdenbutjoy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is not desirable? Is there some socially obvious reason I don't know?

ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Katherine Montalto @katherinemontalto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here is a sausage (dog) in a "hot dog thing"

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Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I would like to read this hot dog essay

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Ross Dothot @newenglandrevs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's an efficient way of writing. That's why it's so popular.

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Internet: "AI has a bad and repetitive writing style" This type of tweet: Umm yes, but have you read human writing much?

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See if the info on hotdogs is interesting or love this

jlin @jlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Darrel Plant @darrelplant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have conflicted feelings about this.

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Tom Lynch @tomlynch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Herman Melville in a hot dog suit meme

By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.* Hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology. Now, then, come the grand divisions of the entire whale host.
*I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all, both small and large.

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Major Kong to Ground Control @bigstape.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That’s funny. Kinda.

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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

Steven Hotdog

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ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ploy keane @ttiimmmmaarrcciinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's really fine to make use of formulae the issue isn't form or formula, it's whether they're deployed in a way that engages the reader. the formula in the tweet is recognized by readers, but that doesn't mean it's bankrupt, just that you gotta come at it with style

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Brian Hill @brianhill53703.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

....i honestly don't mind the hot dog thing! i think it kinda works!

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donaldé @donalde.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sidebars breaking containment.

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Susan McCallum Smith @susanmccallum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hotdog, a compound word comprising hot from the proto I do European ‘kei’ and dog a more recent and mysterious Middle English arrival. The define the word trope is the one I’m always wary of.

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Did you have to post this? I got PTSD from the first time around....

Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Confession: I’m history’s greatest monster who, when seeing the first section break in a non-fiction piece, immediately goes “okay; time to skip forward without reading this entire next passage until I see the next section break”.

unraveled5.bsky.social @unraveled5.bsky.social · 15/09/2026