Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Half of the poetry long listed for the National Book Award are not held in the entire Minneapolis / Hennepin County library system. Which I suppose is the state of the art form 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026East of Eden just is about unadulterated evil. You can think that's a bloodless premise that exacerbates Steinbeck's worst tendencies to ham-fisted sappiness, wooden dialogue, and rambling didactics, but changing Cathy just leaves all Steinbeck's exposed flaws and none of the thought experiment 000 0
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Goodreads just added quarter-star rating increments, and after all these years of wishing for it I don't know what to do with this power now that I have it 2100 10
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Insane to pull Sonny Gray that early. You're telling me Boston has 5 relievers better than the bulldog at 75 pitches? 100 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Recently finished an 8 day wilderness canoe trip beyond radio and was disappointed to find on my return that nothing Cool happened 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Realizing that I underrated New Threats from the Soul by putting at #2 on my 2026 album of the year list 011 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I love when someone relaunches their personality with a totally new set of social media accounts. Gotta be a top ten mannerism of the personal branding era 030 3
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"ai slowdown" talk is obviously preparatory ass cover for when their tech still sucks at the end of 2027, by which time we were assured everything would be rendered obsolete by "artificial super duper human intelligence+ (einstein tier): plasma edition z" 130 3
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bus driver doing the newspaper crossword puzzle at red lights and I salute him 030 3
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Sign seen on an all-electric parking ground for oversize RVs with a pool and motorboat launch: "you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" 020 2
Reposted by Frère J'Accusekarl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The centrists’ desire for ideological purity on transgender rights and Israel is understandable, but the fact is you can’t win elections if you’re going to run on hating transgender people and sending aid money to Israel. The left is just more electable. 3252 25
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In a grog before an early morning meeting, I had a vision: the Whey Man, who delivers weekly whey protein rations in little glass jars for subsequent pickup 020 2
Reposted by Frère J'Accuseryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts 202161581 2.2K
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Flashback, 2012, relitigating the Derrida v Searle debate with one of the latter's students. Glad to have been repeatedly vindicated on that one, as usual 110 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026alright, I'll say it: I'm tired of emily wilson share.google/WONrlHBG0hwV...share.googleEmily Wilson's 'Odyssey' became a cultural flashpoint. Now, she's retranslating the whole thingEmily Wilson's 2017 translation of “The Odyssey” is a million-seller. It's also not the end of the story. 130 3
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's crazy that we all had to go back to offices just to give boomer bosses a captive audience for their inappropriate jokes and odious political claims 030 3
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bro shut the fuck up, don't you have a new middle eastern war to advertise? 000 0
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Recent jeffries interview: "We'll fight high healthcare costs. Not with Medicare for all. But we'll fight. Not by mandating lower drug costs. But we'll fight. Not by requiring market presence. But we'll fight. Not by removing exemptions. But we'll fight. Not by limiting profits. But we'll 051 5
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Love that they made agamemnon a gigachad in that new odyssey movie 110 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The boy mayor @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social - who pranced about saying the Mean Word on every TV channel he could find when ICE invaded, is campaigning for @angiecraigmn.bsky.social - the senate candidate who vote to exponentially expand ICE funding and give them a special award 100 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Another day, another Twins starting pitcher to the IL 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Tragic that I'm finally learning French now that there is no longer a francophone-based MLB team 100 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Sephiroth was so real when he said business trips suck 030 3
Reposted by Frère J'AccuseGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"I introduce myself as a Catholic nun, I tell them I went to Mass this morning for you, and I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process, I'm here to accompany you, to go in with you if that's OK," said Sister Kuhn. "Most days I go, there are unaccompanied minors.” 151186429 1.2K
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The people pissing about Canadians "mismanagment" can't imagine forests as anything other than their local suburban park 100 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Reading Stendhal in honor of Bastille day 🇫🇷 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026There is no "center": there are the forces of good and the forces of evil 000 0
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Can't wait for @amyklobuchar.com's inevitable post "deeply saddened to hear my dear friend donald trump passed away" 140 4
Reposted by Frère J'AccuseScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Important statement from the New York Times 1062112264707 11.2K
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Very concerning, but this is an inevitable outcome of the ascendance of new technologies of language. Mass reading began because printed text was where the info was; it isn't anymore 100 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Love the phrase "time to hit the showers" and have decided to use it in non-sport contexts 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Yup we're back to reading sleeper turgenev novellas 010 1
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Nodding to the two other white boyfriends at the latina party 090 9
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Oh yeah? Well Minnesota wants to never win the cup anyway 030 3
Reposted by Frère J'AccuseThe French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 11/06/2026Today is Quartidi the 24th of Prairial in the year 234. Prairial is the month of meadows. Today we celebrate bedstraw. #JacobinDay See today's page 18515 85
Reposted by Frère J'AccuseMinnesota Twins @twinsbaseball.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Look What You Made Austin Do 0181 18
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Trying to think of a single instance of a novel I've read that could be called "daring," the word publishers use for 400-500 books per year 000 0
Reposted by Frère J'Accusejosh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 19/05/2026All my homies are haunted by waters 163 6
Frère J'Accuse @frere-jaccuse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The online criticism of the nolan odyssey - 'dad' instead of 'father,' skin color, rendering of supernaturals - is almost too stupid to bear. If you want to trace lines go buy a coloring book 2151 15