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Alex Shephard

@alexshephard.bsky.social
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senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4h
incredibly funny thing for this particular account to post
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 9h
can’t watch this sport anymore
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
definitely a bit awkward as a long time “Jordan Henderson is extremely technically gifted but is goofy looking/played out of position/in tactical systems that emphasize his other qualities” guy to watch this absolute masterclass for… Chelsea
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As good a time as ever to do a new pinned post which tells everybody that @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social is now on YouTube. If soccer nerd stuff with little charts is your jam (and even if it isn’t) you should head on over and subscribe tell your friends to do the same. youtube.com/@doublepivot...
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Double Pivot Podcast
The world's most agreeable soccer analytics podcast with Michael Goodman and Michael Caley since 2016. Find all of us at Patreon.com/DoublePivot
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it sucks... all i can do is scroll and post but i'm too stupid to read or write coherently
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oh whoops... this cold may have hit me harder than i thought
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/10/2026
I wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
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The Death and Afterlife of an American Con Man
Jim Bakker’s vision of the future came to pass. Just not in the way the disgraced televangelist imagined.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the puckish spirit of Alex's Nobel writing continues to delight
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
didn't get to make fun of the forum people in this year's column unfortunately, though i did riff on them in a draft
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
checked the nobel prize forum for the first time in ages and they are arguing over which women on the committee are "mother"
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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...
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From ‘MILF Island’ to ‘The Rural Juror’: Inside the Fake World of ‘30 Rock’
Nothing explains the greatness of the NBC sitcom—which premiered 20 years ago—like its TV, movie, and song parodies. “They were a treat to write,” says Tina Fey.
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Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And the award for best and most prolific use of parentheticals goes to Mark Krotov & @alexshephard.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2164...
"They broke the mold when they made her. (Shattered Fragments of the Mold is currently on backorder. Each fragment comes packaged with a sliver of the other kind of mold, harvested from the fjords of Iceland. Cannot be moved across state lines.)"
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
need to make a version of Curb set in the 17th century about my guy Sam and his tribulations
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wkcr doing a 24 hour monk birthday broadcast tomorrow and then a 24 hour pharaoh sanders birthday broadcast on tuesday
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LeBron James and John Wall in Intense Game
ALT: LeBron James and John Wall in Intense Game
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have been waiting for The Athletic to profile this guy for months
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"More than it’s ever been, the Nobel Prize is targeted to graduate students and booksellers, which is to say the unemployed and the underemployed, but also the broodily bespectacled." newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think authoritarianism is a serious issue but the idea that Democrats have shied away from it in their politics is just completely absurd. Trump being an authoritarian is the one consistent thing they’ve run on for ten years!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
people have been misreading this exact poll response for a decade because it’s so broad it captures *both* people who think Trump is a threat to democracy and people who think “voter fraud” as defined by Trump is a threat to democracy. talk about unserious!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
checks out lmao
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the future, the only thing people will still remember about this literary era will be the @alexshephard.bsky.social and Mark Krotov Nobel columns (we need a collected volume)
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hilarious @alexshephard.bsky.social column on the Nobel as always. On Anne Carson, who's bad but in an interesting way, making her the perfect laureate newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Both the lovers and the haters can agree that Anne Carson is an original, a macro one, even as the Nobel Prize in Literature itself has become increasingly predictable." newrepublic.com/article/2164...
newrepublic.com
Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“(According to unconfirmed reports, Carson is currently in discussion with New Directions about the feasibility of packaging a new prose poem in a wooden box that will contain authentic wind from Hvannadalshnúkur.)”
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The nonexistence of rich and rewarding friendships with women in Murakami’s work or its suffocating sterility may even be points in his favor." newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(You should actually read the piece... you'll hate it but for reasons that are different than you think!)
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OK this is exactly what I was hoping to draw out... thank you (genuinely!)
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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"More than it’s ever been, the Nobel Prize is targeted to graduate students and booksellers, which is to say the unemployed and the underemployed, but also the broodily bespectacled." lmao
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
where’s the hyperbole bob
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what's your beef bob
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Anne Carson and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2164...
newrepublic.com
Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cyrus Trask in East of Eden:
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for his masterpiece "2,000 words of deranged talking points for Jorge Jesus"
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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the first interview with Anne Carson, by RÚV, the Icelandic state broadcaster. Click the video, it’s in English.
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Tilfinningin er klikkuð, segir nýi Nóbelsverðlaunahafinn - RÚV.is
Anne Carson hlýtur Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum í ár. Anne er íslenskur ríkisborgari og búsett á Íslandi.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Reached by phone, Carson told the Swedish Academy she was currently in Iceland 'listening to the wind,' and that she was taken by surprise but very happy." she's stealing my bit www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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Canada’s Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her bold and inventive oeuvre’
The 76-year-old modernist poet, translator, classics scholar and Member of the Order of Canada is the third Canadian to be awarded the prize given to a living writer
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
jesus christ
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
on a somewhat more serious note, the number of people who called this/the fact that the betting markets got it right (lol) is a feature not a bug. the Nobel Prize in Literature is... fairly predictable now!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Nobel Prize citation for Anne Carson
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's going to be so funny when she pulls some shit like this at the ceremony
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what can i say i have whatever the opposite of a gift is
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
even when i only make two silly, wildly overconfident predictions... still wrong
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
from 2022
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Murakami not getting it is like the only thing I'm certain of
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
whoops lol
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CRG probably? which feels both like a safe bet and one i am not at all confident in
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i am wildly gesticulating at a tiny cat shaped post-it note on a bill evans record. it reads in tiny, perfect, all caps letters "IT WILL NEVER BE MURAKAMI TIME"
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
neither of them are going to win fwiw
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