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@dorsalstream.bsky.social
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You know, for kids. Lapsed philosopher; higher ed guy. I think things and write stuff. (I do have a (creative nonfiction) newsletter at buttondown.com/dorsalstream thanks for asking.) www.roblinmeeks.com

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 1h
My wife and I were talking with our daughter last night, who goes to Smith College and has friends at Cornell. She said that she has sometimes wondered whether an all-women's college was the right choice, but now she loves that Smith has given her so much space to be indifferent to men.
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Kendra Alvey @kendragarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The nurse told me I had good veins so I said, "Thanks, they're haunted."
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't believe that I have to work and deal with all the Nonsense while also having a body that gets hungry and tired and insists upon all sorts of regular maintenance.
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Liam @rampantpiracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The timing is perfect, pants season is almost here!
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[standing out in my corduroy field] Beautiful, she’s almost ready for harvest
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[loudly within earshot of a minotaur] labyrinths can high key catch a fade. i hate labyrinths
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OKC is proud to report that Holmgren’s status for the upcoming season has been upgraded from “Wispy” to “Ichabod Crane”.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look, he can’t do this. Why do outlets just post this kind of thing as fact?
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such an important point. The AI press is designed to re-write the sense of self according to the blueprint of a select few that includes only an anemic view of self agency and determination.
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problem goose @mammothfactory.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
rejecting New Atheism (Dawkins etc) and embracing Old Atheism (a nameless ape in a forest who believes only in the power of earth and stone)
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s odd to have a category of products for “sensitive skin.” Skin’s key job is to be sensitive.
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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me: *skips a rock perfectly across a pond* Fred Flintstone: OH NO MY CELL PHONE
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Fuck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sheesh. Why so combative, warlike even?
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Might fuck around and do unto others as I would have them do unto me
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had such a disturbing dream last night. I dreamt that I had a normal day except that I had a cold — coughing, sneezing, tired but still had to do all my stuff. Why would my brain conjure something so depressing?
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An ICE surge in Southwest Kansas is terrorizing and debilitating one of the areas of the state that has seen population and economic growth over the past several decades. It’s a tragedy that Kansas as a whole has so strongly supported the current Administration, who does not care about them at all.
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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026
It's really comin down out there (civilization)
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Humans must be the only creatures who get mad when the weather isn’t as bad as expected.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey Siri what is Satan’s net worth
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So curious how SCOTUS can only see how the Trump Administration could possibly suffer irreparable harm if they don't always get to do what they want.
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Melayna @melaynalokosky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LibraryTok never disappoints.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[squatting down and examining fresh tracks] A Friday has come this way
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I feel like we moved on too quickly from the discovery that our brains actually consist of 2 different organs.
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
she can eat her moon as a treat
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A truly great city is one in which everyone can thrive, and to thrive is to be aesthetically moved.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars
Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do we follow them because they’re rules, or are they rules because we follow them.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dear Gen Z: The lol at the end of my sentence is actually my service dog, lol
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trying to live more for the moment. Problem is, the moment is unfriendly to living.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me every Thursday to my profession:
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Dominic Caruso @dominiccaruso1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the fig newtons in the box is a trick newton—a lever that activates a trapdoor which deposits the unsuspecting victim into gloomy pit (that is lined with many more fig newtons).
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This photo is pure cinema.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Climate Week is here in New York City, and our work has deep roots. 18,261 trees planted this year. The most in a decade.
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blink-sun8tzu @suntzufuntzu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
rowed nineteen hours through fog and stormy seas to reach Monster Island, only to discover it's just a rock someone glued googly eyes to
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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s Melville’s worst nightmare in fabric form: the wide wale
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Hear that? That’s the sound of corduroy slouching toward us to be born.
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Tom Coombe @calmtomb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Solely for language: "Oh fuck! It's Godzilla!" "Oh, god-fucking-dammit, not Godzilla again." Things like that.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm going all out for autumn this year. I bought some cinnamon teas and hand soap, got a bunch of autumnal books from the library, and I'm saving so much energy by no longer producing chlorophyll, the absence of which will soon reveal my red, yellow, and orange pigments.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was just struck by the thought that maybe predators focus on the young and old in the herd because they’re the most delicious.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Just more grist for the mill!" I say cheerily, knowing what neither grist nor mills are.
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
archive.org/details/bing...
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Bing Crosby's Christmas Specials (1970s, etc)
Bing Crosby's Christmas Specials (1970s, etc)From the 1940s to the 1970s, singer and actor Harry Lillis Bing Crosby Jr. was perhaps the most famous voice of Christmas in America. Consider his signatur...
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm an educated, moderately successful adult, yet I was still just forced to watch something called a "Bing video."
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ugh, can't believe it's the Autumnal Equinox, and I just discovered that I'm out of henge cleaner.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WHAT: Prada (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: undead secretarying or breaking up with your childhood sweetheart via text (“I hope you can forgive me; a new life calls to me!”) at Galleria Borghese in Rome IF IT WERE A SCENT: slightly scorched pizzelles EMOTIONAL RANGE: heated/flighty #MJMfashionGuide
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
singing “anything you can do i can do better” as i roll off a cliff
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