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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Joyce Carol Oates defended furries" is now a fact of literary history, much like "Salman Rushdie really liked Super Mario World" is a fact of literary history.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know that Heavy Dew is just Mountain Dew but with deuterium instead of hydrogen?

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tomatoes are No longer available on the sandwich. They’re now exclusively available on the taco.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey, I found a lost marked up copy of the chapter of the novel I’m rewriting (which I apparently assumed I hadn’t marked up and did it again from scratch). Now I’ve got two sets of notes to myself to work from.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have literally had this conversation at a car rental counter.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why yes, lady, I AM counting your clearly more than 10 items in the 10 items or less line.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The bar on my towel rack fell down this morning when I got out of the shower. Since I didn’t have my hearing aids and my right ear is effectively non-functional without a hearing aid (and barely works with it), my brain thought the noise came from the opposite side of the bathroom that it did.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One thing I’ve been occasionally spending time on is updating my ancient personal website (whose origins go back to the early 90s) which focused mostly on my musical life (which is why it was on a subdomain of my old band’s website even though the band itself is long defunct.

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a helpful guide to “disrupters” I made for the New Yorker

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At the printers row lit fest and I passed “go free books” which is run by an Islamic organization and thought it would be kind of funny if they were next to some conservative Christian group. Then I turned the corner.

A tent at the printers row lit fear. On the right is go free books (an Islamic organization) on the left is Chicago Bible Students.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/09/2026

"I am an unstoppable teaching machine, while my students are a different kind of machine that just happens to do a little teaching inadvertently. Like a laptop that you can cook eggs on because it gets so overheated or something." buff.ly/qnxCBIl

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Actually, I’m Teaching These Kids Way More Than They’re Teaching Me

“When I became a first-grade teacher, I knew that it wouldn’t be an easy job. But I never imagined these kids would end up teaching me more than I could ever...

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looking at a list of lit mags, I misread Temz Review as Temu Review and then I had an idea for a lit mag named The Temu Yorker which would probably get shut down by Conde Nast in a week and a half, but would be fun while it lasted.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last night’s mystery movie at the local movieplex was The Weight. I think maybe I saw a trailer for the movie and it hadn’t registered as something I’d want to watch, but actually seeing it, I enjoyed it. After a brutal prologue and first act, it settles into a harrowing adventure story that’s

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@bigscorelit.bsky.social In case my email was filtered out by the post-deadline filter, I was hoping for an update on my 24 June submission which has been going unresponded longer than previously.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

9. I say this all to say....that despite this "ancient history..." Both Elizabeth Eckford and Dorothy Counts are alive to this day . They're both 84 years old. Remember Little Rock. Remember Charlotte. end/

Elizabeth Eckford as an older woman sitting on a bench with her name on it posing for the camera

Dorothy Counts as an older woman holding an issue of the Queen City Nerve, with a drawing of herself as the 15 year old girl on the front cover

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Claudia Wair @cwtellstales.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

BLACK WRITERS! I'm writing an article on "Writing while Black." Would you complete a survey about the topic? I'm looking for writers of all genres: Sci-Fi to Mystery to Nonfiction. From poetry to flash fiction to novels. Please share! #blacksky #bvm #WritingCommunity forms.gle/NaPNNebL54qF...

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So the UN just passed a resolution endorsing the wider use of equal-area projections such as Equal Earth, which more accurately show the true relative size of countries and continents, particularly Africa. One country voted no—🇺🇸 Because of course we did.

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lisa♡ @risacake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been—

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wow, the HAD call hit its submission cap in 1 minute and 33 seconds.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My compliance training at work on bribery now has a pop up message saying that trump says bribery is fine but the British and the Swiss are stepping up enforcement so 🤷‍♂️

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@mnisinson.bsky.social Finally digging deep into my contributor copy of Hanging Loose 118 & I really enjoyed your approaches to Catullus 85 (this poem was kind of the soundtrack to my life in 1989–90).

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Would you rather be liked or produce milk? What would be better? 110 likes or 34 piping hot glasses of whole milk

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Would you rather be respected or liked?
Imagine if we didn't have "Like" buttons, but instead, we had "Respect" buttons. Would you rather have 110 Likes or 34 Respects?

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An actual news site has an opening line that talks about “the morale [sic] of the story” and at least it probably wasn’t AI that wrote that.

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D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just noticed that the turnaround time for New Yorker poetry submissions on Submission Grinder is 937 days. I guess my 815-day submission isn’t ripe enough yet. (There’s a part of me waiting to see if the last three poems in the packet get accepted before they get around to reading it.)

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_Mark 🏳️‍🌈 @marxgbaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Funniest possible example to choose

As a result, Armstrong has no plans to start a charity or a foundation.

"So far, I've just been like 'I'm not going to do that.' My fear is that it just gets captured by some ideology and I lose control over it," he said. "If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to."

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026

i hope all who celebrated had an eventful Happy Skynet Self-awareness Day yesterday.

screenshot of arnold schwarzenegger as the human-appearing terminator machine saying "skybet begins to learn at a geometric rate. it becomes self-aware at 2'14 a.m. eastern time, august 29."

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Imagine being so horrible that we don't even have to say who it's about

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Consumerism as activism” can be a questionable tactic… but it’s worth noting: if you all see COYOTE VS ACME this weekend and make it a giant hit… you will specifically humiliate David Zaslov and make him miserable… while also seeing an entertaining and heartfelt movie. The definition of win/win.

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Wile E. Coyote Bored

Alt: Wile E. Coyote files his fingernails.

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