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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who will hire Tony Romo and can it be right away?

Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Penalties in football games are awesome. I think we can all agree that we love to watch referees call penalties on Monday Night Football. #MNF

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The number one overall best thing about getting older is not having to ever know anything about what is a Druski for the rest of my whole life.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Honestly Zay Flowers and Derrick Henry what else do you want to see?

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just going to tweet about football on here all day. Tampa is having a nightmare.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lanterns seems good so far but looks like shit. It's too glossy.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The best part about the fascist pancakes is that we got to turn them into capitalist stickers. So happy people are making money.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Forest have always needed to burn. The indigenous people of the Americas have understood this for millennia, creating small controlled fires to clear away the underbrush. Colonizers banned these practices and called it conservation. Wildfires are what happen when necessary fires are banned.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I DID NOT KNOW BIEBER WAS A SINGER???

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

People thought France was the best team?

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bluesky is good because there is less Hate, but we need more haters - does that make sense?

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Oscars are missing a big opportunity by not having brand new movie trailers and teasers happening during the broadcast like Super Bowl commercials.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tao Lin is back? Wow Bluesky is wild!

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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Busy making magazines! Issue 19 is finally here! www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/issue-19

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Does anyone else have the "Instacart let's you choose your bananas" song stuck in their heads?

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Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Since it's Monday, here is a poem about good work (even though some people are off today). You can also hear it on @radio.wpsu.org.web.brid.gy's The Poetry Moment, read and expounded upon here: radio.wpsu.org/2024-10-21/p... Thanks for perhaps reading or listening. @funfunfunicular.bsky.social

Work / Life
by Jessica Whipple

A man coaxes a dresser to stand up
from a schematic on his workbench.

A woman snips peonies.
She rights their heavy heads
in a jar on her dining room table.
What makes them beautiful
is too much for them to bear.

And possibly the most direct route to upright
is the miracle of corn and soybeans
standing in ripples on this Pennsylvania land.
Three draft horses move as one to wake the earth,
hitching gear jangling as if to say,
“Get up, take up your mat, and walk.”

Cover of the literary magazine. green with a graphical funicular illustration.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Train your whole life to go to the Olympics competing against the best athletes in the world in one of the most beautiful countries and all you end up doing is posting reviews of the cafeteria food.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Being an adult is never having to know who or what Druski is.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I hate that they start the Olympics before the Olympics start.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

An "Everybody Hates Chris" style sitcom about Goldberg from the Mighty Ducks at a younger age and how he developed the knuckle puck as a response to being made the goalie just because he was fat. Kenan will play Goldberg's dad and also narrate the show. Coming next winter on Disney+.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

You could put 15 cookies into a jar of anything and it'll taste good because it's got 15 cookies in it!

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

2016 is becoming the year we all realized that 2016 was 10 years ago. Holy we are dumb as fuck.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I own this game on three platforms. I've played well over 1000 hours of this game. I love the look and feel of this game and I have never hated wolves more in my entire life. Long live The Long Dark!

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Late to the party but leaving Sinners off your best movies of 2025 list, what are you smoking?

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Next up: witnessing // the passing // of a whale - originally published by @funfunfunicular.bsky.social ! Also available in my upcoming chapbook, Aurora Comes Online👾 Read here: www.funicularmagazine.com/read/whalel-... Nominate: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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Funicular Magazine | witnessing // the passing // of a whale

Haley Bossé We watched it as it dripped away: the whale. We watched from the lip of the precipice as it flowed

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I regret to inform you that Kevin O'Leary is actually bad in Marty Supreme and the movie is awesome but everyone saying Kevin is good is wrong. Kevin O'Leary can go to hell. Thanks for your time.

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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Featuring new writing from Sam Aureli, Vic Brooks, Carlee Calver, Harper-Hugo Darling, EC Dorgan, Dagne Forrest, Eva Haas, Tyler Hein, Jeffrey Hermann, Stefanie Kirby, S.A. Leger, Mandir Pattnaik, Trinity Richardson, Annabelle Taghinia, Rogrigo Toscano, Brooke Ward.

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Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My weird little #microfiction has a home on the side of a beer can! Cool stuff! Thanks to Blindman Brewing and @bellyofawhale.bsky.social for curating another round of Session Stories ❤️ If you're in #AB, head to your local beer & wine store to check out the 20 other fantastic poems and stories!

The photo shows the close-up text of a story in white print on a dark background. Next to the can is the front of another can that reads Nitro Coffee Stout.

The text of the story:

Grit

She shoved her hand into the pot. The soil around the snake plant was moist and clung to her fingers. She felt it cake under her nails. She scooped it up and pushed it into her mouth, emitting a barely audible mmm as she chewed. She swallowed, then ran her tongue over her teeth, collecting errant bits of grime.
“Hon?” she heard Don call.
She crammed in another small handful, then said, “Yeah?”
“My mom texted. Pasta salad ok for the Baby-Q?” It’s what he named the pre-baby party after she said she didn’t like the term “shower.”
“Yep!” She took a swig from her water bottle, wiped her lips with the sleeve of her cardigan, and hurried to the kitchen to wash her hands.
Geophagia, that’s what the doctor called the dirt-eating. It wasn’t that rare, but it also wasn’t good. Potential parasites. Toxins. Really no benefits, the doc said, much less judgmentally than she expected. But you should stop.
Don didn’t know what she was doing. He’d think it was gross. He wouldn’t understand that it’s what the baby craved. It’s what their special, almost-didn’t-happen, but thriving nonetheless baby needed to survive this bonkers world. Grit.

- Kim Mannix

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Just found out Harlan Coben is American?

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Does anyone else get pissed off when they see the geese just blatantly flying in a direction other than south? Like, you're just adding hours to your journey guys!

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hey remember when we all thought the dress was a different color and remember when we watched that episode of Game of Thrones that was too dark and remember when fake sign language interpreters were a thing?

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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The internet rumors are true. We open for submissions at midnight local time. Tell your friends! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The mountain dog is Bernese and the python is Burmese.

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

What's worse? 1. The affair 2. Job title of Chief People Officer 3. Being at a Coldplay concert

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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

She's here. Funicular 17 is ready. www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/funicul...

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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Dog Day Afternoon is 50 years old? Holy shit!

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Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"A woman snips peonies. She rights their heavy heads in a jar on her dining room table." --from "Work/Life" which ran in @funfunfunicular.bsky.social in 2023. Sharing since my peonies are in bloom...