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Ben Loory

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Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day benloory.com

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Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social · 31m
Manhattan of yesteryear, also today.
An old factory building, beautifully detailed (Beaux Art?) with a tall smokestack rising against a blue sky, flanked by contemporary glass buildings,one sharp rectangles, the other pyramidal.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 30m
Lol wtf We’re so fucking cooked
A black and white photo of the Hudson Yards schwarmaIf you zoom in on the lower right corner of the photo, it says “NEW YORM CITY 1995.” The Schwarma was built in 2019. There’s a Sephora in the background, but Sephora’s first NYC store opened in 1998, and it sure as shit wasn’t in Hudson Yards, construction of which began in 2012.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 29m
I'll be straight with y'all, I don't think Government By Sentient Truck Stop Boner Pills is working out that great
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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers
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Mary G. Thompson @marygthompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also a short story critique from me is one of the rewards!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 59m
Saul Steinberg, Self Portrait, 1949
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Born in Norilsk, Siberia, Russia, conceptual performance artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century. 

Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. Her debut museum exhibition RAGE, opened at OK Linz, Linz, Austria in June 2024, and the eponymous performance piece performed at the Neue Nationalgalerie on July 4. 

Tolokonnikova's work is in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, American Folk Art Museum, Taschen and Beth Rudin DeWoody, and RIT, among others.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 13h
Abolition now 💥
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Mary @anniemumary.bsky.social · 15h
My coworker announced her pregnancy with some cookies from a local bakery. Today she announced the baby’s gender with some cookies from a local bakery. I am wondering what else we can find out about this baby because this is going well. 
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SpatialKimtamine @kimmalien.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Science cannot explain what just went down in my sink, defying the laws of physics
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Jenny Doesn’t Know @jennydoesntknow.bsky.social · 20h
Prescription strength cheesecake
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 15h
love a movie that asks one of the most important questions of the ages: what if the devil … was liquid
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 15h
Rhonda Fleming for Paramount Pictures (1953)
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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The Littlest Death 🔪🐇🩸 @mswisp.bsky.social · 17h
it's always "what you doing tonight" and never
a Grindr message that says "why you doing tonight"
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 16h
Something Ossoff did that more Dems need to do: Call bigotry bigotry. Not "values." Not "culture wars." The animating principle of the GOP is bigotry and we should say so loud and clear.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 18h
at Ripley’s Believe It or Not believing everything
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Fiona Applebees 🍎🐝 @fionaapplebs.bsky.social · 19h
I will continue to repost my own post until every single one of you bastards have liked it
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20h
Illustration from Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, c. 1760
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Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social · 20h
I admit I thought of you!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20h
The Ascension of Christ by Salvador Dali, 1958
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Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social · 20h
Huh! Could be! But how and why?? V mysterious
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Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social · 20h
I’m now getting emails from Vogue about their shopping picks?? I can’t help but feel there’s been a tremendous miscalculation
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Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social · 20h
Good one!
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Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social · 20h
From one weird frog-person to another
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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Go bog witch or go crone
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 20h
I do not want my government to be in the business of making snuff films.
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 20h
scumbag country
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 23h
One thing I know for sure, sans any evidence but the deepest of gut feelings, is that when Pete Hegseth’s time comes, however it does, he will go into it crying and begging.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Blackberrying.' (1917) Harold Harvey used the theme of fruit picking throughout his career; the women and girls in the work of this period are absorbed in their own thoughts, something which reflects the preoccupations of the time with the ongoing war across the water in France
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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 23h
Honored to appear in @altajournal.bsky.social. Big thanks to David L. Ulin, who has written a thoughtful and generous piece about the Otherppl show—its origins, its evolution, and what 15 years of conversations with writers have come to mean. Read it here: www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
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The Accidental Hit
After 15 years and 1,000 episodes, Brad Listi’s Otherppl podcast still delivers illuminating conversations with prolific authors.
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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
coin collectors should be called coinnoisseurs
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 22h
they do this shit nonstop
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 23h
Jack Gaughan’s 1970 cover art for "A Promising Planet," by Jeremy Strike
Three green figures run up to a yellow astronaut who's under a spherical red alien tree or structure.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gradually moving the bed away from the wall so the cat can stay in the sun. The cat is working up her theory on this mysterious continental drift.
A bed with a cat on it, already a foot and a half from the wall. The cat remains content in a sunbeam.
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(spoo)key @lefttwix.com · 08/10/2026
getting my kicks at home because gas is too expensive to be driving the 2,448 miles of route 66
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ve been joking forever about wanting the satisfying sounds of a typewriter so my husband just surprised me with this. even though it means he’ll be listening to me click clack in the office during his meetings. that’s love ♥️
a typewriter keyboard
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lisabug @lisabug.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I had the best time at a party last night until a local told me that bar burned down thirty years ago.
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David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I always joke that the show got its name because I put as little thought as you could into what to call it. It was as literal as it gets. That was the beginning. And I haven’t stopped for 15 years.” www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
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The Accidental Hit
After 15 years and 1,000 episodes, Brad Listi’s Otherppl podcast still delivers illuminating conversations with prolific authors.
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was rather maddening to hear all the things about upholding the Constitution and everyone is equal under the law etc at jury selection today when very obviously the people at the top are not held accountable for anything
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“‘Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,’ Guilfoyle responded. ‘It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal.’ …A U.S. ambassador lecturing her briber on bribing best practices.” www.thebulwark.com/p/our-big-fa...
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Our Big Fat Greek Bribery Scandal
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Locktober Rust @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
SO WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SEEING ISN'T AN "EVIL" DEGENDERED HOBO BEHIND THE DINER BUT RATHER A FIGURE WITH WHOM WE'RE CHALLENGED TO EMPATHIZE. A DREAM THAT ALREADY DIED & EXISTS IN THE TIMELOGIC ESTABLISHED IN PARALLEL AS WE WITNESS THAT DREAM DYING AT VARIOUS PARTS OF THE MOBIUS S
Meme photo of a guy explaining something up close to a bored woman at a club
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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno about where you live, but in this particular suburb of buffalo egg nog is already in the grocery stores and at the moment I desire no other beverage
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