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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026

My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know everybody on here is supposed to be anti-AI, but good goddam is the substrate of our society shifting around on us. It's just so deeply unsettling. ...and yes, in one sense, I do understand that it's a bit in the nature of things to change and unsettle us. Still...

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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 07/10/2026

werewolf transformation, but instead of being activated by a full moon you're activated by any guy taking a loud personal call at the coffee shop

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How do the rest of you just decide not to let yourself get distracted by a thing that insists on taking up focus and concentration?

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ursula growing huge at the end of Little Mermaid

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My theory of NY is that there’s so many people around they can support a specialist store for just about anything. I also love it.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the way (and yes, I realize the phrase has kind of been misappropriated, but it feels right, here)

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only problem with this is that it's October 2026 and so I read "Al" as "ai" like 4 times before I made this make sense to myself 😂

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read some really good books. Had another daughter, too!

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

way to fucking come in to pitch the 8th and give up back to back home runs without giving up an out...fuck...

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No US Amazon pre-order for the hardcover. Super weird. I can search elsewhere, of course, but I thought you might want to know.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Warming this braves fan’s heart, right here…

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moby Dicker (though that sounds like, um, not exactly a sequel...perhaps a different, more visually-oriented genre)

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The novella? No, but I read the MIT Press Anthology - Deep Dream, which he edited (and wrote a story for, I think) as well as some of his stuff he's published online. All of it really high quality.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m so glad you liked Devourers! That one was really great and, I think, not as widely read as it should be.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everybody wins? But also, good fucking grief. You want to have Thoughts & Opinions that you know aren’t welcome, you can’t tag in the person! My commiserations…

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Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lees Lane Pond 📷 Nikon FM3A - 28mm f2.8 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredible sunset in NYC before the Nor’easter rolls in

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Nina Gonzalez @ninagonzalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"... greeting even our dearest with abbreviations like 'Good morning' when the true thought in our breast is 'Every day you step into my life, you make it brighter, and if you left the world, something in me would starve for you forever..." 😭❤️ (From @adapalmer.bsky.social's Perhaps the Stars)

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Emerson “Blue Blood” Braithwaite, though I think he might be somebody’s ineffective agent

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G.B. Gordon 🍁 @gbgordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Timeline cleanse.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There has been discussion about the same article…sorry.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man...just one of those weeks, I guess, but I've just generally been out of sorts and unsettled. 2026-style Weltschmerz or something like that, I guess, mixed in with a regular daily life...

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Well, I’ve only tried one leg of this, so I’m not really up to the task of proper comparison:).

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t know…it’s getting expensive…

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How is that? I also have an unread copy floating around somewhere.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I remember moving apartments in 2009 and I had 40 beer cases worth of books. I came close to losing some friends that day. That was 17 years ago. I’ve had a lot of time and made some money in the interim… You have my congratulations on getting it all done!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m really fucking tired of all of these powerful people telling their generally powerless (on an individual level) constituents that only the constituents can fix this mess.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hear you, but do I read the book I was holding when I walked into the local bookstore or the one I bought on a whim? Difficult decisions, here…

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And in one sense...I'm sorry, I suppose. I don't know more about any of this than you and might have come off like a guy on the internet. But, like, your writing is so great and I've loved your novels (novel guy, here) and things like what you're describing seem like a lessening, a limiting...

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Or is your soul in very deed so tame, The blood of Grendel watered to a gruel, That you are well content With heart of flame Thus placidly to chew your cud of fuel allpoetry.com/The-Steam-Sh...

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The Steam Shovel by Eunice Tietjens

Read the full text of Eunice Tietjens's classic poem "The Steam Shovel." Explore poetic themes, analysis, and share your own critique with a community of fellow poets.

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Alternatively, one version looks like a human and merits attention and trust and consideration. The other looks like a machine. For the masses, you probably do want to go with option 2, I suppose, but still...

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meteor Over the Sage - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iHbGuN

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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@kentremendous.bsky.social and @joeposnanski.com - you guys have this Dodgers thing all wrong. It STARTED with investigation into the financial shenanigans. Those shenanigans coming into regulatory focus forced the sale of the Lakers.

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