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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 09/08/2026

LAST WORDS FOR JERRY GARCIA By Robert Hunter Not the same thing as the more widely published Elegy, which is magnificent and worth your time to look up if you haven't seen it. From a privately published collection of Hunter's elegies and funeral poems for friends and family

Go naked in the world,
Wind for your cloak and coverlet.
Whom the Gods love best
they reward with early death,
gather them into the sun,
reflect them in moonlight,
crown them with comets,
anoint them with shooting stars

Go naked to the Throne of Stars,
go as the stars go,
arrayed in their own
incandescent light.

Go and our hearts go with you.
Return to the sourceof the soul
by way of the Sacred River,
royal road to the sea
where all shall be music
and dreams shall be dreams
no more, but visions
of the World's foundation
scattered among the stars.

Dust shall be dust
and the voice of dust
shall be music,
pleasing to God
who sent it forth
in search of melody
to crown His silence
with eternal song

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A guiding principle for my life has been "become the role model I wish I had when I was younger" and a person cannot really do that while compromising morals and ethics. Maybe I would have more money, but I have also seen how rich people are not necessarily happier with it either.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Scalzi? Those Dungeon Crawler Carl books? They do numbes, but I can't think of many more examples past that. There should be more!

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I think the stakes are different? Trump is making liberal Christians' lives worse in many measurable ways, and so people who support him are indirectly causing harm. If I'm a Christian associating with a heathen, THEY will be the one going to hell, they're not causing ME to go to hell.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I teach Creative Writing at the high school level, and it's always very obvious to me when the kids try to use AI, not due to the quality of the writing, it's just that the stories kids write are usually very WEIRD in ways that I adore and that AI seems to have no use for.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Learned a great French verb today: s'ambiancer. (the s' makes it reflexive). It's like a verb form of ambiance, and I guess you'd have to translate it as something like "get in the mood of things" or maybe just "vibe" because as far as I know, no form of English allows you to ambiance as a verb.

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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 01/03/2026

having a Tough Time with my creative projects so i'm going back to an old fanfic and ya boi has still got it.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Would love a set for Lit Circles. Not sure how many constitutes a box.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Bleh. Authorial intent. Many of the authors I met in grad school, if you asked them about theme in their books, their response was usually, "Sure! Why not? That sounds good, let's say I meant that. Makes me seem smart, and not like a little kid playing with action figures."

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is the fault of English teachers. The way we engage in lit is to search for meaning, or theme, and we always talk about authority intent. But if you actually talk to authors, their intent is not usually thematic, but more like "this seemed like it would be interesting/fun to write."

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I don't think these two things are mutually exclusive. For literary analysis, its hard not to read the text as "morally problematic" or whatever, but its also undeniably well-crafted. I keep a copy of it in my classroom explicitly to argue with my students about it, and it's always fun to do so.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/01/2026

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Anyone looking to support Minnesotan families from out of state, here's a worthy place for your dollars. Many families can't work due to the ongoing federal occupation, this is to help them make rent.

gofundme.com

Donate to Rent Support for Bancroft Families, organized by Emily Butler

As neighbors, friends, caregivers, and community, we cannot sit by and watch neighbors… Emily Butler needs your support for Rent Support for Bancroft Families

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Well worth a watch. Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Np, thanks for spreading the word. Fuck ICE.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The true secret to my long career: As a midlist writer hanging on to my career one book at a time, I can only control the work I do, not outcomes. So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

One of the great magic tricks of that comic (which is chalk full of them) is how the parents are simultaneously antagonists for the young readers and INCREDIBLY RELATABLE for the older readers.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Went to a old childhood park. A golf course that had been there is now a nature preserve, which was pretty cool. The bridge I used to cross to get to my GF'S house in high school has been torn down. Also, I found this neat thing. Places age along with people, it turns out.

A toppled tree with a sign screwed on to it.

The sign reads, "The raft of memory floats directionless on the ocean of mind." Attrubuted to H.G.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/07/2025

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

But God damn it. It was really nice. And I think that I do probably feel like that more often than I think I do. The big bad things are big and bad, and should be resisted and oh god now I'm talking about the NOW... Point is, joy sneaks in. Don't ignore it when it does. Enjoy stupid little joy.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

2. It's INCREDIBLY stupid. Every part of that story was dumb as rocks, but especially the surge of pleasure my brain treated me to by being unexectedly mildly competent. What has become of me? Is this all it takes, brain? Any port in a storm?

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Two important things about this story. 1: It's a little thing, and we have a lot more of those happen to us than the big things. And big things are fine! Nothing against them. But if someone gives me the choice to pet a horse or a MINIATURE horse, I'm going with the little guy.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

So I grabbed the lids, got a mint and a chamomile, and brought it upstairs to drink with my wife! I felt incredible, finding those lids! Like goddam Macguyver. If he just... looked a little and found the stuff he needed instead of inventing it.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I do not. But failure is not an option. So I start rummaging through the cabinets below the zone; cabinets that I think should be locked, but it only made sense that a place that probably had to restock daily wouldn't actually lock it. And they didn't!

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Again, no one to ask where to find them, though I'm not convinced I would ask if there were because it was late at night and I was wearing a tank top that said "butts," but this means I have a dilemma. Do I really want to carry hot tea to the thrid floor of the hotel with no lids?

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I get to the tea-coffee zone (this is an awkward description, but I don't currently have the language to name or describe where you get tea and coffee from in a hotel lobby accurately), and am thinking about pouring myself a cup, but DISASTER, there are no lids for the disposable cups.

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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I'm traveling with my family, staying at a hotel, and my wonderful wife asks me to run downstairs and grab her some tea from dining hall. I do, because I'm considerate and handsome and she has a scratchy throat. It's late, and there's no one around.

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