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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last year throughout November and December, The Book Bag Christmas List was viewed by a few thousand people. This year The Book Bag Christmas Gift Guide is looking to replicate and improve on last year. Submitting is easier this year. Take 5 and boost a press or poet today.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been deliberating! This is tough!

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I should try to sleep a bit before classes and THIS DICTIONARY DAZXLER of a workshop!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.easternshorewriters.org/event-685542... Psyched to offer this event with Eastern Shore Writers Association on October 1! October is NEXT WEEK already! Yikes!

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Eastern Shore Writers Association (ESWA) - Defining Our Terms with Courtney Bambrick

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Feels conspicuous that major outlets haven’t done a significant look back at “Network” this year, it’s 50th anniversary, considering it’s prescient fucking themes! (Maybe its because so many culture writers are no longer employed at major outlets 😩) Anyway I was glad to find this podcast episode

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Death of a Newsman | The History on Film Podcast

NETWORK (1976)

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is National Voter Registration Day — and we're less than 50 days from the midterms. The best time to check that your voter registration is up to date is right now. And remind your friends and family to do the same. This is absolutely vital. ⬇️ nationalvoterregistrationday.org

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National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't care if writing doesn't save me from anything else. It saves me from myself.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026

thinking about how many rent fundraisers and adopt-a-rents that Lilly Wachowski funded this year (our rent team would get a little fan girly) and wishing she had JK Rowling's entire fortune to redistribute. what an incredibly good human.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Women when they hear that right-wing men are going on a "Sex Strike for Patriarchy"

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Beyoncé's Surprised Reaction and Laugh

ALT: Beyoncé's Surprised Reaction and Laugh

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is it egocentric to listen to five versions of the song "Bam Bam" and wish it was my theme song?

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love Peter for a few reasons, but just now, he opted to keep driving to get gas when Ben Vaughn played a block of Bobbie Gentry. I love that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I cannot really explain to someone who hasn't been steeped in this stuff for awhile how sudden and total the "go to college and get a good job" edict has collapsed. It's a vaccuum. And we know how nature feels about those. All we are throwing in there at the moment is A.I.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just started Muppets Treasure Island. It came out when I was in college and still unsure about a post-Jim Henson Kermit. I'd been into pirates since being in a summer theater camp production of Peter Pan, too!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

posted in the lefty folk group chat

Karl Marks, the communist manifesto, Dolly Parton, 9-5

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of the imagination library. Full disclosure: I stole it from another poster who decided to caption the image with an alt text that said "sorry I'm not typing all that" which is an abuse of alt text

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family
and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!

This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have
to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public
library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.

I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have
a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember ...

I Will Always Love You,

Dolly

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 25/08/2026

RIP to a legend

rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I set my alarm just to see what it's like when I wake up tomorrow for classes. A practice test after a couple weeks of sleeping badly. 5:45am is quite dark.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I only watch a few Phillies games most years. The game was on at my mom's house during a family birthday party, and I lucked out and sat down for the end of today's 9th inning.

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#kenyon Allison Janney is very much channeling Harlene Marley's look in this HBO movie. More rings, maybe?

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Courtney Bambrick @courtneybamboo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The way a mosquito bite can ruin sleep...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…

MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the gizzard review why don’t you just stab me

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/08/2026

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and start while logged in to Submittable, you can get an extra 30 literary rejections.

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