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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Go to bed; tired is stupid.
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Fernando Gros @fernandogros.com · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard. The stars are falling out of the sky this year.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Daniel Sylvan Paige brings us complexity and humor in "12 Blown Tires", a moving portrait of the absurdity and tenderness that accompanies caring for someone in cognitive decline. www.major7mag.com/post/12-blow... @danielpaige.com
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“12 Blown Tires" • Tennis (by Daniel Sylvan Paige)
Not one soul dares to doubt her.
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 09/09/2026
This week's story is "Lost Girls" by @melostrom.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/lost...
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🚲 “Eat the Saddle Last” by Kirsti MacKenzie / @keersteemack.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“I got you.”
Grey and white kitty helps a skeleton who was falling.Same kitty and skeletonKitty and Skelly sitting together.
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Mary @anniemumary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s that time of year when ads try to convince me that I’m a vest person. 
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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think we need to bring back throwing tomatoes at performances
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the moral arc of the universe does indeed bend towards justice it’s doing it like a Sandy Koufax curve, and this is the part where the other guys start swinging
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pledge to stand with workers of the Hollywood Roosevelt until they are offered a fair contract! #1u vist.ly/5hcxr
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Stand with workers of the Hollywood Roosevelt
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Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com · 31/08/2026
press pound to decline complicity in the necessary evils
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My entire feed is Wendell Berry poems, and I think this is what social media was always meant to be.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Café. Putting my earphones in & the woman next to me said to her friend, “I feel like you’re not texting me back,” & her friend said, “Because I didn’t text you back. But I’m not not texting you back; I just didn’t text you back.” & the woman said, “I get that,” her friend was like, “Sorry, babe.” 🫶🏻
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"If a writer in our community is facing a challenge, whether it’s an economic or an emotional challenge or a challenge in navigating a particularly difficult career move, they need to be aware that the Fund is there for them." #Writtenby vist.ly/5gnau
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Entertainment Community Fund is Here to Help
WGAW writers continue to step up to support the fund that helps the industry.
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d a n i e l s y l v a n p a i g e @danielpaige.com · 27/08/2026
wait, how did I not know 🙌 means rollercoaster?
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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minkitypinkity ❤️ @minkitypinkity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
when we get to the end there’ll be a slot that takes 4 quarters to start the apocalypse
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Now that I can't eat salad I've never so desperately wanted to eat a salad.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WGAW Members: Join us on August 22 for our Free Work Clinic to learn about how writers can collectively fight back against free work. RSVP and check out more resources at the link in our bio! #NoFreeWork
Quote from Barry Eisler about WGA support with a small portrait.
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d a n i e l s y l v a n p a i g e @danielpaige.com · 28/07/2026
Thrilled to have a track on this remarkable mixtape — www.major7mag.com/post/12-blow...
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“12 Blown Tires" • Tennis (by Daniel Sylvan Paige)
Not one soul dares to doubt her.
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I hit my head on this. @ihitmyheadonthis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Door hinge (this one really hurt)
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Aurelie Thiele @aureliethiele.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New post on Substack! Check it out: aureliethiele.substack.com/p/bennington...
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Bennington, Granta, Stanford, Denver
On recent writing programs I've attended
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꯱ׁׅ֒ɑׁׅꭈׁׅɑׁׅhׁׅ @porcelainsiren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"we love your attention to detail" "thank you, it's mental illness"
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I’m thrilled to have a micro essay about watching my daughter sing in the car in the penultimate M7 mixtape, one of the coolest mags to ever do it
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big VERN (Shea Soc) @vernorsofficial.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Fitting that this is published today, the day after a particularly grueling gigging day. Probably just the universe (or Saturn, my ruling planet) reminding me of some things. Please check out my Major 7th’s Volume 28, where you can find my piece “Amor Eterno by Rocío Dúrcal.”
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Still not accepting M7 is rounding the curve & headed to the finish line. Readers + contributors love what you've made @keersteemack.bsky.social. The Last Waltz, This Is the End, Closing Time... whatever appears in that final issue, M7 has made an indelible mark. Until then, read & thank Kirsti
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
thank you Daniel Miller, Christie Chapman, @edgwareviabank.bsky.social, @vernorsofficial.bsky.social, @johannah.bsky.social, @danielpaige.com, @justinkarcher.bsky.social, @dehm000.bsky.social for your excellent work Their songs are up on the M7 master playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3kU...
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M7 Master Playlist
Playlist · keerstee.mack · 179 items · 61 saves
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
volume 28 is live, folks. happy sunday ♥️ next volume is our last, get in my inbox! major7mag@gmail.com www.major7mag.com
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Major 7th Magazine | literary mixtape
Major 7th Magazine: Your literary mixtape. Curated weekly.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Jane Maye @janemaye.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
At first glance: ivy. At second glance: a sculpture made by time. Twisted. Knotted. Interwoven. What I’d dismissed as “just ivy” became something else entirely. The world becomes richer when attention deepens.
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 18/06/2026
It's always may cause "drowsiness" what about whimsy
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d a n i e l s y l v a n p a i g e @danielpaige.com · 16/06/2026
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
People who say they’re not hungry and then eat your fries have a level of confidence I’ll never know.
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CynicalTherapist @cynicaltherapist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I like it when food is in a rectangular bowl. I can eat like I'm highlighting text in a book.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Artemis II crew returning to Earth.
Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 07/04/2026
It's live más not bomb más
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/02/2026
"This machine-slop will lead to the death of my craft, all so we can reflexively consume mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why Luddites are pissed, and if these tapestries weren’t so funny, I’d be right there with them, bashing those machines to bits."
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Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....
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ditchpony @ditchpony.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
if you are not in Minnesota I need you to know it is BAD. my friends in the cities are afraid to walk their dogs because of the pepper spray. there are empty cars of the abducted left sideways on the street. a kids arm was broken on school property. we are terrified.
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Michelle @cloverjag.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Toy photo of a stormtrooper at his bathroom sink looking back at his kitty, that is sitting on the bathtub.
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crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
When I can’t remember someone’s name, I imagine Don Pardo announcing them, and so far, not helpful.
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
THE BULB REGION is now online! 🚀🚀🚀 Make sure to read our four inaugural pieces at: www.bulbregion.com —
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The Beatles Photos @thebeatlespix.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
John Lennon October 9 1940-December 8 1980 the #Beatles
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d a n i e l s y l v a n p a i g e @danielpaige.com · 25/11/2025
“Rather than ask who your ideal reader is, since I have met your ideal reader and he hurt me physically…” open.substack.com/pub/believer...
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An Interview with George Saunders
Excerpted from a conversation with Ben Marcus in Issue 11 of The Believer
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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
It's that time of year
The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now:
Guy - a wide-eyed cat
Girlfriend - a cat tree
Red dress woman - a Christmas tree
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Catch up on what happened this week with these Venn diagrams.
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This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
With our “What was Literary Twitter?” bracket (don’t forget to vote!) and the National Book Awards happening all in the same week, I’ve been very sleepy lately. Please send …
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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HAD @havehashad.com · 22/11/2025
what a piece today, from Molly Akin!! "One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed." www.havehashad.com/mf5jn
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Evolution
Molly Akin

One time I lost words. They slipped out and were buried under sand, finely ground, collected, disbursed. I waited. One time I lost sorrow; it slipped out and was buried under sand. Finely ground shells and bits of fur. One time my ancestors came walking out of the sea. They collected the bits of rock and bone and feather and fur and fashioned me.

Now I fly with open mouth, trailing words and shouting meaning: “Look at what I lost.” Another swoop, closer to the ground now: “Look at what I found.” Now tusks curl from my mouth. I charge at memory, tossing aside its fragile weight that once pined me hollow. Now I am the one who will turn and return, slipping gently into water.
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𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨 @phosphorglow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
what was this guy’s fucking problem
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
RIP Walt Whitman you would have loved a scandal involving sexually explicit poetry and a grass metaphor
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