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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of my all time favorite history maps! Pigeon postal communication routes in the defense system of Moscow in 1941. Source: buff.ly/2pSCTeK

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Mayor of Casterbridge. I recommend it to people all the time.

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As a kid all my favorite female book characters were described as “striking, not beautiful” so to live up to that legacy I’m going to start slapping people.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 28/07/2026

paradox para = beyond, outside of dokein = to think oxymoron oxys = sharp, keen mōros = foolish Happy Birthday, John Ashbery!

PARADOXES AND OXYMORONS
This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level. Look at it talking to you. You look out a window
Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don't have it. You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. What's a plain level? It is that and other things, Bringing a system of them into play. Play? Well, actually, yes, but I consider play to be
A deeper outside thing, a dreamed role-pattern, As in the division of grace these long August days Without proof. Open-ended. And before you know it It gets lost in the steam and chatter of typewriters.
It has been played once more. I think you exist only To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren't there Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yeah, it’s the same thing with the National Endowment for the Humanities. We used to repeatedly explain that to people back when I worked there. But DOGE came in and canceled all the grants and fired everyone who worked there because it was “efficient.”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk. It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow. The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A random thing I learned today is that friends called Tennessee Williams “Tenn” for short. And if you were especially close to him, he’d sign his letters to you with the number “10.”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ve had this open as a tab for a while; our int’l touring earlier this year seems to have permanently wrecked my sleep so this morning at five I began exploring this open tab, clicking around. A remarkable, meticulous work: of art, of literature, what to say…give this your time.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There are many layers to this poem. It is a metaphor for grief & how the dead remain part of our lives. That grief walks behind us, follows us wherever we go, but cannot speak. The poem builds to that brilliant final line - ‘They are victims of love, many of them’ #poetry #poemoftheday

Poem - 'On Walking Backwards' by Anne Carson

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 13/07/2026

turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here’s something: if blue whales emitted their song out of the water, the effect would be so loud, it would cause immediate hearing loss in humans. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for Orion’s issue THE DEEP DIVE, writes on voices (both human and whale), listening, and frequency.

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Blue Whale Radio

What was I really reaching for—a sound, or a feeling?

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’d completely forgotten about this book and am bummed to be reminded of its existence

Library copies of Olivia Nuzzi’s terrible book

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Reading Krasznahorkai and I refuse to let the long-ass sentences defeat me

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Getting ready to hunker down inside this weekend and avoid the fireworks show from hell.

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Hey, cool, this tree of heaven is for sale on Etsy for $32 and you get the spotted lanternfly infestation included with it at no extra charge

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 16/05/2026

I gotta stop leaving myself book notes I don’t understand. It’s like I’ve got a stalker who creeps into my house to leave cryptic and slightly threatening communications. “It’s the heuristics.” “Do that later” “See?” “That’s why. That. Is. Why.”

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It’s spring and the dog is covered in mulberry stains

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 07/05/2026

Seems like it's time to break this out again

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wayne Thiebaud. Estate. 1969

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Emily Corwin @emilycorwinwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"I read beyond my years, deep into the years ahead. I am unreachable in my book. I am alone and in company." -Sonya Walger, Lion #readsky #booksky

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 16/04/2026

this week's column is entirely the project of how badly I needed a break from the prologue discourse, the imported Threads drama, the phrase "performative reading," and ... just so many other things

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The Book News Isn't All Bad - Reactor

Some bookish headlines can be dire — but it’s important to note the good stuff, too.

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Climate.us @climate.us · 16/04/2026

Anticipating our June launch, Climate.us is updating our climate dashboard, including Incoming Sunlight. These images show the solar maximum and solar minimum. #ClimateForUs

Filtered visible light image of Sun at Solar maximum, Aug-10-2024 with sunspots and faculae. Image by Climate.us, data from NASA SDO

Filtered visible light image of Sun at Solar minimum, Feb-18-2020. Image by Climate.us, data from NASA SDO

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A couple of weeks ago I passed by a middle school and a bunch of kids were doing a walkout in the middle of the day, chanting and waving anti-ICE signs. Sure looked like a protest to me, but maybe I missed something.

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Jessica Francis Kane @jfkane.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Don’t know where this came from. It’s been on the kitchen chalkboard since the pandemic. Still endlessly useful.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

New plan: get 100k folks to sign up for the newsthingy, bring back Show Me Your Shelves, start publishing book reviews of new and old stuff (books don’t have an expiration date) no venue will take. Let’s go. Anyway, I encourage you to write today. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/i-encourag...

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I encourage you to write today

I do.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 03/04/2026

A glimpse of the aerobiome

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

In which @elizkolbert.bsky.social witnesses the birth of a sperm whale and notes the reaction of sober-minded scientists to this wild wonder: "Everyone raced to the front of the boat to get a better view. “Oh, my God,” one of the scientists said, clutching his head. “Oh, my God, oh, my God.”

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.

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The New Scratch

How is anyone who writes making any money right now?

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The sentence that begins: “Our company is committed to the security and privacy of our customers’ personal data…” somehow never ends with “…therefore we took appropriate precautions and stopped the hackers before they accessed our system and stole all your information.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2026

Uncovered Georgia O’Keeffe Letters Confirm Paintings Were Veiled Depictions Of Basset Hounds theonion.com/uncovered-georgia-okee…

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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's time. Colin, the comrade running the shelter-in-place food program I'm working at, told me that this week he's had to turn down asks from schools to supply food directly to their sheltering families. The reason? There's not enough money coming in for that amount of food. Let's change that.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Painting featuring a desert at dawn or dusk in blueish light with tall cacti in silhouette against a gold and mottled purple cloudy sky

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Expansion of Thought

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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Had a discussion with the 10-year-old tonight about musician Nick Cave vs. artist Nick Cave…which led to a conversation about whether the two Nick Caves have ever met each other…which led us to discover that they have. And that kind of brightened up this otherwise meh day.

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Nick Cave Meets Nick Cave—An Awesome, Inevitable Encounter

The Chicago artist ran into the Bad Seeds singer, and Kriston Capps of Architect Magazine got it on camera.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

CAPTCHAs are getting scary these days. You think you got all the motorcycles? Ha. They replenish like a hydra. You keep clicking, clicking. Suddenly you hear your grandkids calling: "grandma come play with us." You realize you’ve been trying to buy tickets for a concert that happened 65 years ago.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a book full of friendship and love…and creatures from beyond the reef, santería, and vengeance. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...