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Adam Conner-Sax

@adamcs.bsky.social
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He/Him Using data-science to empower progressives and make things better, especially by making them more blue. blueripplepolitics.org

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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Post an album you’ve listened to 100 times.
Image of the R.E.M album “Life’s Rich Pageant”
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
(By Paula Bohince)
Milk Music

After The Compleat Housewife by Eliza Smith, 1727

Take of white tansy (Is this tansy?) and drop into the eyes
now and then, for a palliative. Dedicate a day to making medicine.
To make a confection, use the day’s imagination. To make
amber jam, meringue, lozenges, bear the terrible cauldron.
To make dull wine taste complex, try this experiment. Use liquorice
to fend off lice and illness. Ignore mild offence or violence.
To make bride pie, to make pasties to fry, olio or little
cracknels, work. Use salt to preserve the bird.
To make a dense syrup, lemon cordial, fever water, spirits
from green walnut or fig, forage. To stop a fit? Make a dropsy.
To make ink from, to prevent its ruin, mind. To cure a child
of its instincts, make regular the derangements.
To make of nebulous iron, draw forth. Let lull and syntax
of Wife preside. Procure an ounce of silver. Do not
frighten or overwhelm her. Be enthusiastic in all endeavour.
To make restorative jelly, ask no favour. The noise of leaning back
in delight? For that, I apologise. The business to make and keep gentle
is of a mother and father. Become a sort of lilac person,
soft-spoken, disappointed. Propulse if you wish. Make of music
a cloak, affirmed by muscles of surreal spring wood.
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
From a hauntingly beautiful Anne Carson piece in the LRB, this ridiculous and gorgeous imagined dialogue flew into my morning and won’t leave.
John D. Pepper: Death.
Catullus: Death made me grow up.
John D. Pepper (henceforth Pepper): Love.
Catullus: Love made me endure.
Pepper: Malady.
Catullus: Malady does not rest.
Pepper: Passion.
Catullus: Passion bewildered me.
Pepper: Parsnips.
Catullus: Parsnips taste like violets.
Pepper: Violets.
Catullus: Violets smell like parsnips.
Pepper: Gods.
Catullus: Gods cause me to be silent.
Pepper: Bureaucrats.
Catullus: Bureaucrats make me melancholy.
Pepper: Tears.
Catullus: Tears are my sisters.
Pepper: Laughter.
Catullus: I wish I had a splendid laugh.
Pepper: Warfare.
Catullus: Ah, warfare.
Pepper: Humankind.
Catullus: Humankind is glass.
Pepper: Roses.
Catullus: I hate roses.
Pepper: The line.
Catullus: A line is just a lure.
Pepper: Why not take the shorter way home.
Catullus: There was no shorter way home.
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Two menorahs with all 8 (+ shamash) candles burning.
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@jamellebouie.net (At NY Historical Society) Saw this right after reading your piece today. I’ll read the lecture you linked…
Photo of NY historical society exhibit about Frederick Douglass
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Umm, what?
Photo of NYT article text arguing that Trump’s electoral victory somehow makes him innocent of state charges against him.
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Brooklyn Bridge Park at sunset
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Adam Conner-Sax @adamcs.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL I’LL BE GONE WHEN THE MORNING COMES
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