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David K. Gibson

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Writer, mostly. Work in Wigleaf, McSweeney's, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere.

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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 27/09/2026
The carriage museum nearby is also worth a visit.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 25/09/2026
Nice!
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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
poets.org/poem/little-...
"A Little Tooth"
by Thomas Lux, 1946 – 2017.

Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone.  It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail.  And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing.  You did, you loved, your feet
are sore.  It's dusk.  Your daughter's tall.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
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Pjörk 🐷 @nicoleconlan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Really encourage everyone to set up a small recurring donation to Wikipedia, one of the only good things left online (can literally be like $2!) donate.wikimedia.org
donate.wikimedia.org
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Damian Chadwick @damianchadwick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mine is like $3/month. Also, you can set up a home screen widget on your phone that takes you to a random article, like this one about “psychic archaeology”
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Ryan Fonseca @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Back with some writing about what the media coverage and discourse over teens on street-illegal electric motorcycles gets wrong, including often lumping them in with street-legal e-bikes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Are teens on ebikes the ‘new Hells Angels’? Not so fast, boomers
Experts say better regulation is needed but that bad press about ‘motorized menaces’ puts the ebike revolution at risk
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 31/07/2026
But how did Polyphemus milk the sheep?
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Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com · 25/07/2026
A little Mary Oliver in case you are in the mood to be cheered down. #grief
Text of a poem by Mary Oliver:

The First Time Percy Came Back


The first time Percy came back he was not sailing on a cloud.
He was loping along the sand as though he had come a great way.
"Percy," I cried out, and reached to him— those white curls-
but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can't touch it.
"Yes, it's all different," he said.
"You're going to be very surprised."
But I wasn't thinking of that. I only wanted to hold him. "Listen," he said,
"I miss that too.
And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won't be true, but they'll be real."
And then, as he used to, he said, "Let's go!" And we walked down the beach together.
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 21/06/2026
B’gosh!
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 15/06/2026
I will always mist up a bit when I hear an ambulamps.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 04/06/2026
tonx is good beans.
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tonx @tonx.coffee · 04/06/2026
My weekly attempt at convincing somebody, anybody—perhaps even YOU—to try my delicious coffee beans. www.yesplz.coffee ✨☕️✨
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 28/05/2026
If you’re curious about what goes on at 35th college reunions, it’s mostly people sitting around connecting on Strava.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 19/05/2026
“Effective 19th May 2026, our standard payment terms will change from current terms 30 days to new terms 45 days. This adjustment is part of our efforts to streamline our financial processes.” Oh, sure! Are there any other ways my family could help you streamline your financial processes?
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 06/05/2026
Gonna go eat a buffalo in remembrance.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 06/05/2026
Klimty.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 25/04/2026
Baby limpkins! #birds
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 24/04/2026
Tonight, the chef’s choice is not to choose.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 09/03/2026
I performed a Beastie Boys-style rendition just last weekend!
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Nap Time Keeps on Ticking
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
White guys who studied liberal arts...we're so fucking back.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 08/04/2025
Cardinals here, in the lady palms.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 16/02/2024
Take some inspiration from the shrike. Be an adorable little guy with a flawless haircut who will impale his enemies on a spike to display to others as an example.
A shrike. A grey/white bird with a black stripe across his face and a tiny hooked beak. So cute. And also they impale mice, lizards, and other prey on thorns.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/03/2025
It turns out my writing process is very much tied into typing; literally my brain has over the years tuned itself to compose at about the same speed as I can type. If I try to dictate a story it fucks up my process and I get frustrated. If one day I can't type, I may switch, but for now, no.
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Kate @armyofmeat.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s like drinking a smoothie made from a nice restaurant’s garbage
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My top five favorite 🍁 drug movies: 1) The Québécois French Connection 2) New Jacques City 3) Pinecone Express 4) Drugstore Cowboy Junkies 5) Rush
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.
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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025
There’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure. And cycling on this infrastructural masterpiece, on top of a primary school, never bores!
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/02/2025
so is Harper’s gonna write a letter saying people should be allowed to say the truth out loud without losing their job or being persecuted by the government? when are they all gonna sign that one
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 24/02/2025
I long for the days when nostalgia didn’t suck.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/02/2025
drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/02/2025
This is interesting because the question is less what they will do as *legislators* and more what they will do as *politicians*. AOC is a member of the House minority, but she’s doing a lot of politics about all of this anyway.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A good long read on the history of religion and pork archaeology.org/issues/march...
archaeology.org
Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025
Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 14/02/2025
Taking a shot of gin to get the incriminating odor of peanut butter cups off my breath.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 13/02/2025
Happy Guillotinesday, to all who celebrate.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 12/02/2025
Yesterday, looking over a survey, I realized that I will not be turning 55 this year. I'll be turning 55+. Do not like.
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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Quite sure Elon wouldn’t pass the civics test I used to give 7th graders on checks and balances
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 11/02/2025
Has he ever taken a US civics class? Seen a single episode of Schoolhouse Rock? Gotten off the crank long enough to read more than 280 characters?
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 11/02/2025
Hear me out: Orlando, Ontario
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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 08/02/2025
I would like to point out to the finance bros out there, all your tech stocks, pharma stocks, biotechnology, they are about to tank. You defund the NIH, the universities, the research infrastructure, who do you think is buying the 10x genomics plarforms? The novel monoclonals? The NMEs?
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 04/02/2025
Maybe if we just sat the guy down and made him watch some Schoolhouse Rock.
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David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com · 04/02/2025
I wonder how many US Civics classes Musk took growing up.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025
#BlackHistoryMonth Rare photo of the US Supreme Court building support staff posing while setting up for the SCOTUS group photo. January 1976. The photographer is unknown.
Black and white photo of six Black men sitting in the chairs of where the supreme courts official portraits are taken. They all look Regal
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