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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good reminder that the culture war waged by national populists isn't just against gay people and immigrants. These people want to roll back the enlightenment

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who said you can't go to the museum to meet girls? They've got some stone cold baddies

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's my Esoteric Ebb playthrough

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Change it to past tense and you have a pretty decent gravestone inscription

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)

Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reading a book about the Habsburg dynasty and enjoying learning about the outsized influence of angry Swiss peasants on European history

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Line from Oedipus at Colonous, and understatement of the epoch

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Monica Wang @monicawang.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I usually don't crosspost but a critic described my chapbook as a promising debut & one of "the year's best" in the Times Literary Supplement, THE TLS damn it 👯‍♀️

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As part of what I've dubbed #hothellenistsummer I'm currently reading Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Excellent play, truly the king of dramatic irony and all that, but this passage raises some questions.

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Read Terrestrial by @suzyeynon.bsky.social, finally, and wow she's good at making you feel for a character without laying it on too thick with the pathos

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just finished OCUMO: A LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL, and with the disclaimer that I know the author I have some quick thoughts

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Good quarter for books by author friends. Very excited to finally recive my copy of Terrestrial by @suzyeynon.bsky.social. Alas I'm currently re-reading The Odyssey in preparation for the Nolan adaptation, so on the pile they both go.

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's turning out to be a good year for books by writer friends. Here we have a sociological story about a place told through the pov of a multitude of characters. Very interesting to read. I'm also eagerly awaiting Terrestial, which should be arriving any day now.

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

When you listen to as many history podcasts as I do, you learn to recognize certain phrases as markers of a good bit coming up. A favourite of mine is: 'Sources disagree about what happened next'

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What in the Jean-Jacques Rousseau is this nonsense?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 01/06/2026

Tilly Norwood’s most recent Instagram post, which is 2 weeks old, has 280 likes and 30 shares. No one other than reporters has any particular feeling one way or the other about Tilly Norwood.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Losing (completely shitty) coal jobs to technologically progress toward green energy? Politically unacceptable. Losing (actually pretty decent) office/creative jobs to move toward AI? Politically acceptable, for some reason.

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

BIG NEWS: Now that the Opium War series is over (& never to be repeated), I've decided that it's time to take a long-deserved sabbatical from chronological national history. To that end, I am pleased to announce a new chapter for the podcast going forward! Hello, and welcome to...

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

''To follow the history of deterioration in government from the decline of the Hojo is to gain a strong impression of gradual and inevitable decline, a tragic sequence that had to run its course, because a military society is bound to seek military solutions of its problems. That is its curse.''

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/02/2026

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Hearing Marco Rubio speak at Munich and sound like (let's call a spade a spade here) a nazi, only to get standing ovations because he praised Mozart or something is deeply, deeply embarassing

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

your vote has weight outside of election day. regardless of how you end up voting, until then you can bargain with it. the lesser evils are watching you, if you promise your vote for nothing you'll get nothing. say you wont vote for bad candidates. say you'll only vote for policies you like

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 11/02/2026

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

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How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI

The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today at writing meetup I said something that started a heated discussion about the use of form as a storytelling device/making a story harder to understand on purpose vs the virtues of simplicity etc. I walked away with this raging, feeling like the action star slow walking from an explosion

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Understand that we’re not for everyone and not everyone can buy books and especially that no one can buy every book—but, we have a lot of expenses coming up rapidly and every bit of support, from big to small, helps: malarkeybooks.com/support

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Support — Malarkey

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/01/2026

Appears this is also true for fascism.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Can't believe they didn't give the peace prize to the guy who says, "If I don't get a peace prize, than I'm going to start a bunch of wars!"

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Protestors are placing doughnuts under cages only to spring their devious traps by pulling a piece of string when our brave men and women in uniform attempt secure the treat. disgusting

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Felix Bartel @felixbartel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My dad called, asked if he could come over. When he did he pulled this out of his pocket, handed it to me, then just left

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

So excited to share a cover reveal for Terrestrial, out May 2026! I've admired Angelo's book covers for other Malarkey books and I'm thrilled it was my turn to need one. I love what he designed for it.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 04/01/2026

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do

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