Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@jonbois.bsky.social watching/reading tweets about football 001
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Here's how I would fix Major League Baseball (I'm aware no one follows me here, that's what makes it an ideal place to shout this into the void): Screw salary floors and ceilings. Every major-leaguer makes the same base salary All MLB profits go into a profit pool which is used for bonuses... 100
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Happy for Jake Rogers, who is about to hit 28 home runs down the stretch for a playoff team. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026SHE WOULDN'T STOP FOR HIM SO HE STOPPED HIS CARRIAGE FOR HER HER NAME WAS EMILY. HIS NAME WAS DEATH THE SUMMER'S HOTTEST ROM-COM (I do actually want this to be a movie now) 111
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is literally why I briefly became an insurance agent when I was 19 020
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Veggies and outside are both bad for you, incredible time to be my 12 year old 110
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hey @jasonbeck.bsky.social can you find out who had hand foot and mouth? 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I'm not saying I would go out of my way to hang out with Dalton Rushing, but I do think he's become a handy scapegoat for everyone's Dodger hate, since all their superstars are so inconveniently likable 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Now that a very important literary review follows me here, you can expect the quality of my tweets to skyrocket 030
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, @tacobellquarterly.org?? I don't even use substack 230
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber 241156912870
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Deeply sighing as I backspace my "happy father's day to Chicago's dad, Keider Montero" tweet 100
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This except the opposite. Make it so short it's like a single vivid hallucination 110
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Taking a break from my full-time job (trying to get freelance work) and my full-time job (writing a novel) to focus on my full-time job (summer parenting) and my full-time job (trying to buy a used car) 010
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026What if we encountered aliens and found out they also played baseball? How do you think existing baseball infrastructure would deal with the possibility of interplanetary games? What do you think it would say about the evolution of life that it invented baseball twice? ( @jomboymedia.bsky.social ) 110
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026This is true and it sucks BUT it's also heartbreaking to me that the message we've decided will make Americans anti-war is that it's costing them money, not that it's murder 010
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy 434480872
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 22/05/202610 bands seen live: Buncha dudes (gender neutral) jammin bluegrass Coupla guys singin outlaw country Mom and dad's gospel quartet Some fake-irish drunks Dulcimer festival Buskers by Grant's tomb Passin the guitar around the campfire Verve Pipe covers at the open mic My wife in The Planets Weezer lol 021
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Whiskey drink, vodka drink, lager drink, cider drink, songs that remind him of the good times, songs that remind him of the better times 122
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026If the Tigers don't get good again soon I'm going to be forced to think about how my writing career is going 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We talking about practice (someone in the world would get this joke but I don't know if it's one of the 4 people who follow me) 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I'm reading books in public as often as I can and looking as cool as I can doing it, dunno if it's moving the needle 010
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Mamdani: I go into the Final Boss's lair GM: We're in our first session, you want to just go ahead and... Mamdani: I cast Charm Person 010
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellPen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Honestly, this is what people in favor of genAI do not get! The work is tough. The work is daunting. The work is humbling. But the work is freeing, heart pounding, soul-mending, and character-building, too. 312635
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 15/02/2026I wanted to be a Literary Writer when I grew up. Do you know how fucked that is 2528
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025With all respect to Marx, this opiate is hitting so good 010
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025So glad the kids are back in school so I can get back to my actual job: checking Class Dojo notifications from their school 000
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Any two people will do many things differently (slice sandwiches, read stories, arrange pillows) When you have children together, the children will have preferences. If they prefer your way, you will hear "Can you do it dad's way?" This means you win, and is the primary goal of parenting 010
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Is this a good time to share my playlist: "Music that sounds like Ethel Cain's aesthetic looks like she should sound like" 100
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025What makes the best Billy Joel songs great is they're Beatles songs: bloated franken-songs combining bitter longing with weird bouncy circus shit. But there's no John and Paul, there's only Billy, letting his inner John/Paul wolves at each other's throats 030
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The farther you get into reading a book that feels perfect, the more it feels like watching a no-hitter in baseball. The tension builds. Can it continue like this? Is there anything I can do to avoid jinxing it? The unbroken thread feels too tenuous to continue to the end, but you hold your breath 010
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellErik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 08/07/2025my ancestors had to kill to eat and survive. they endured subzero winters near the Arctic Circle. no, I am not "enrolled in your rewards program" 1281
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/07/2025As I send out queries during this of all weeks, I flip-flop wildly between "it's so frivolous and selfish to ask for attention for my silly book right now" and "if this work has ever mattered, it matters now." 120
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025So I was roasting this article this morning, but it got me thinking: what if un-siloing the humanities is the real cure for male loneliness? 020
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Other writers: My partner isn't a very helpful critique partner because they're just so darn encouraging and not critical enough My partner: 250
Reposted by Daniel SouthwellCraig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own. 107100062890
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Give your kids a disposable film camera and tell them to go nuts 030
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Recalled out of the blue today how, in 2010 or 2011, I outlined (but never wrote) a short story set in a world where all art was made by robots and a human tried to experience reality like a robot in order to make art 120
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I finished draft 18 of a novel today, and it feels like it might finally be getting somewhere. 010
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Nothing like starting the day ready for creative flow, only to remember that your seven-year-old spewed a mouthful of hot chocolate on your laptop yesterday, and it still needs to be cleaned before you can write anything 020
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