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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

was in a car with three Italians who, when we passed a giant skeleton in someone's yard, all exclaimed "Ai, look! Ai, Madonna, ché bellissimo!! It is so beautiful!" take that Joyce Carol Oates

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

guys guys I know things are scary but don't worry, Johns Hopkins University is going to "build institutions that deliver impact", just like that asteroid delivered impact to the Yucatán

screenshot from the website of JHU's School of Government and Policy, with text reading "Governing institutions are struggling to keep pace with a world transforming around them. Johns Hopkins isn’t just lamenting the problem—we’re building a school to help solve it.

A curriculum designed for impact. Hands-on learning inside the institutions that govern public life. Rigorous research that leads to real reform. A new generation of leaders ready to diagnose what’s broken, design what’s needed, and build institutions that deliver impact."

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We have another mouse. I have named him Reb Mizl-Mayzl (after Eliezer Steinberg's masholim) We are keeping the surfaces exceptionally clean. I got some swiss chard stuck under the grille on the stove yesterday and the boyfriend was like —well, Reb Mizl-Mayzl probably doesn't want greens

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Put otherwise (a collaborative effort between myself and everyone else in our Zhuangzi class last semester): be chopped or get chopped

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done." - Paul Hawken

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I will not show you my dialect quiz because I said I am Californian.

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Mr. Miso Paste, Rockall Irredentist @meatraffle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To be truly authentic there needs to be "the Jewish revolutionary worker's union I go to, and the one I don't"

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every day I wake up to a post that’s like “well, who would’ve thought?? Count Chocula, welcome to the resistance. And Trix Rabbit go fuck yourself, bootlicker” and I just have to assimilate that into what I know about what’s out there

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excellent review that draws out many of the questions I have about the contemporary Bundist revival

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This feels like a historic moment. While 'aid' is being destroyed by the far-right in Europe and North America, a new paradigm to go beyond aid is already emerging in the global south.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not to offend everyone, but I dreamed that Messi was: -Brazilian -blond -vegetarian -taking out commercials for the Icelandic supermarket chain Krónan

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Herbert Bayer, Isometric Drawing of Walter Gropius’s Study, Bauhaus, 1923

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm interested in the "aren't burger flippers" line, which seems to imply that academic workers pretend to a working class status we don't have. There's lots wrong with this, but one important thing it misses is that the relationship between academic workers and organised labour is *mutual*

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

doing some Intellectual Diversity In The Academy by reading Edmund Burke and he is just...very bad? I was prepared to be impressed and devise some clever arguments against him but his thought is not impressive!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am just now seeing the news about Dolly Parton, and it is incredibly sad, and I hope that her memory may always be for a blessing. It also explains why, earlier today, a gay man at the event I was at disappeared mid-event and reappeared in head-to-toe Dolly Parton regalia; I had been wondering

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I often order 10-15 books from Alibris at a time, and they have a truly magical ability to ship very last the one I need most urgently

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In case anyone is still confused about the DSA: (meme by blagojevism on twitter many years ago)

Meme entitled "A Definitive Guide to DSA Caucuses and Paramilitary Organizations" ranked from "Alternative Country" to "County Pop"

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

אַלצדינג װאָס מע מוז װיסן שטײט שוין געשריבן: אורסולאַ לע גוּיִן אויף ״גוגל גאָגלעס״ אין 2012, גלײַך װי אויף ״מעטאַ סמאַרטגלײסעס״ הײַנט www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/45-goog...

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 45. Google Goggles

One weird thing about being very old is never being sure whether it’s you or the other people who are weird. It’s pretty safe to assume that it’s you. After all, people who walked along shouting at p...

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Since we are apparently still doing DSA discourse:

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim on a breg, ikh vil aykh epes fregn, entfert ale af mayn shayle—Gentlefolk, wise ones without end, I want to ask something, everybody answer my question: How do you prune your personal book collections? Do you have a method or is it just vibes?

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

they should make a woke pope but for judaïsm

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

איך קוק ארויס צו דעם! נתן טאַנקוס און אײשע בײַריך זענען צװײ פֿון מײַנע באַליבסטע שרײַבערס אויף דער אינטערנעץ, און איך בין זיכער אַז דאָס פּראָיעקט װעט פֿאַרשטאַרקען דעם שמועס װעגן דעם בונד :)

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not to be like "I am better than these people", but!, however!, I am currently reading Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate"—a sprawling Russian novel with 20 main characters who each have three nicknames—in French, and it's not always easy but THAT IS HOW I BECOME A BETTER READER

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is also one of the reasons I found AOC so electrifying in 2018—she is the first politician I remember speaking to the public as if we are basically intelligent

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My quarrel with Anthropeum is that physical distance is not always a great proxy for regional accuracy. Like if you guess the wrong part of Polynesia it's -4000 points, but guess Spain instead of Sweden and it's only -500 (or so)

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Knowing everything else I know about Frederick the Great, this is somehow deeply unsurprising

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My great-great grandparents immigrated to Schoolcraft County in the Upper Peninsula for some reason, so my horse in this race is whether Schoolcraft County votes for El-Sayed and makes its (great-great grand)children proud

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have resolved to make Nigella's clementine cake (damp) for an Event. Pray the Event goes well (it is not riding on the cake).

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You know, I agree with the people of Kansas City that tenant organising builds power, with the people of Michigan that we should hold our elected officials to support Palestinian freedom, and with the people of Minneapolis that ICE must be abolished and driven into deepest reaches of hell, so...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My mother has adopted a kitten from the Humane Society, what should she name him

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Rapidly melting St. Marys Glacier now 🌿

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

George Eliot sits at her desk, scratching out LEFTMARCH. she writes RIGHTMARCH. weeping, again she scratches.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh hey I remember the fire in that photo I could see it from my house 🙃 Anyway yay Boulder for doing something good in the world

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

HE will be "reintroducing Americans to cooking"? Julia Child died for nothing

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hello good morning it's a Thursday morning (or afternoon I guess). Fatima is a friend of a friend of a colleague and if you have any extra dollars to help with her legal fees as she tries to get out of ICE detention, it will deeply appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

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Donate to Help Bring Fatima Home, organized by Sarah F

Fatima Ameaka is our friend and co-worker at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She i… Sarah F needs your support for Help Bring Fatima Home

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I also recommend Ice by Anna Kavan! It'll haunt you right up

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#BOTD Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844. A railway wall in Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montreal, 2012.

Blue sky, winter tree above a concrete wall. In white paint: 'The world is charged with the Grandeur of God'.
In blue:
'It will flame out, like shining from shook foil
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod'

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Emily Wilson DESTROYS Zoomer culture with one cutting remark

Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the cat brought us a LIVE MOUSE to our bedroom and I captured it and set it free in the alley because I am BRAVE and PERFORM WELL UNDER STRESS please clap

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Saying, then living, "we are not afraid" (despite fear!) is world-changing. Sometimes the scale of change is tiny. But sometimes, as with the students in India now and the freedom rider in the US who gave us that verse, it is not small at all

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

by the way, my plan for "regaining public trust in academia", not that anyone asked, is organising to make higher education free for everyone. the great thing is that free higher education is a good in itself, questions of public trust aside!

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