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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I asked my mother and she said hers is based on a passage in a John Berger novel (Here Is Where We Meet), which is very cool but not helpful

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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

does anyone have a favourite recipe for potato sorrel soup

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 08/10/2026

I hate Gay Halloween what do you mean you're Anne Carson surprised in her kitchen in Iceland on the Nobel Prize Instagram account

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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 · 26/09/2026

I had roughly this discussion with the boyfriend yesterday about Lady Eboshi from Princess Mononoke, whom I referred to, offhandedly, as evil. (But how can she be evil if she repents?, he asked. How indeed!)

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

Oh, also, the cat caught and ate a spotted lantern fly that got inside and I will be petitioning Mayor Brandon Scott to give her the keys to the city. (She is a calico, so already the state cat of Maryland). I think that's all.

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

—oh!? said I, after all, when I was a lad of eight or ten, I would leave kale outside for the mice in our yard. Why shouldn't Reb Mizl-Mayzl want chard? —well, he said, of course a child in Boulder would leave kale out for the mice. fin.

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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

One of us has much younger siblings so we're learning the Youths' slang (I thought 'chopped' meant handsome, but it's the opposite)

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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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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones @erceldoune.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A travel bidet comes in clutch while backpacking, let me tell you

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

Ohh this is a good point! Maybe I have more of a Great Lakes accent (via my mother) but Western US vocab...

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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

Someone correct if I'm wrong, but I have a caught/cot distinction and my understanding is that a) that's one of the starkest dialect boundaries in the US and b) Cali is on the other side? I'm suspicious of their methodology, is all

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

from three months ago, but I think about it every day: bsky.app/profile/miri...

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

I mean, I'm genuinely very glad that there's been a surge of interest in the history of Jewish revolutionary thinking and action—I just reserve the right to be irritated about some of the forms it's taken, haha

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

Yes! And of course there are living Bundists around the world (like Irena Klepfisz) whom I admire deeply and don't want to write off. (It's just that, well, most of us are not Irena Klepfisz).

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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

I wish great joy and success upon them, but I do not think the DMV has a chapter of the General Jewish Labour Bund of Poland, Russia, and Lithuania! Not really! I think you are doing something different, which is okay

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

Anyway this entire thread is a subtweet of the gentleperson who tried to recruit me to the "DMV Bund" at a JVP event

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

Taking Bundist theory seriously does not, by contrast, necessarily mean pretending to a Jewish revolutionary subjectivity that mostly does not exist anymore, or becoming a Yiddishist (which everyone should because Yiddish is great, just not revolutionary on its own terms!)

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

My own feeling is that taking Bundist theory seriously would point Anglosphere Jews to solidarity with revolutionary diasporic movements from our position as mostly assimilated liberal subjects. See, e.g., Adam Hinden in Der Spekter: www.derspekter.org/doikaytn-in-...

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Doikaytn in Oceania

To what extent is being “here” dependent on the decision of the diasporic guests themselves?

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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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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @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

The wave of academic unionisation is a product both of our own efforts AND of a concerted effort by national unions, particularly UE and UAW, to expand into the university sector. I say this because I think ignoring this discounts the strategic skill and political agency of organised labour!

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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

May your postdocs unionise, may they win union shop, may they restore shared university governance, may the grievance process be always in your postdocs' favour, speedily and in our lifetimes, v'imru, amen ❤️

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

"The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror." okay!!!

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

Oh, they come to Baltimore sometimes! And every time they've come, I've had a conflict I couldn't get out of, but I hope to see them soon!

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

[With the correct link this time] The Klezmatics and Sofia Rei recently did a trilingual (English-Yiddish-Spanish) version that felt perhaps too much like dance music for me, but I liked hearing them and Nora Guthrie(!) talk about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF2g...

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The Klezmatics feat Sofia Rei - Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) - About the song

YouTube video by The Klezmatics

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

Oh, me too, and I didn't know she covered it 💚

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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 tried getting around this by favouring sellers in Maryland, but of course the magic of supply chains is such that the books get sent from Baltimore to Denver and back to Baltimore

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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

I say this because if people left-of-center sincerely disagree with the DSA and would like to see our gains diminish, you will have to organise your people. I think this would be a net good and germinate a much healthier political culture! Anyway that's my take, erceldoune out

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

That said, one important thing that is getting lost in all the media coverage is that the DSA is not primarily an electoral organisation, even though we do electoral work. IMO, any electoral successes we have are a result of our more-than-electoral organising

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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

Damn I have definitely been wondering why specifically all of the canned things I buy seem more expensive than I remember, and I really cannot believe that I didn't put together it's because of steel tariffs

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