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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Me: I swear, it was just a fling. I was experimenting. It didn’t mean anything. Spotify: All 70s Brazilian guitars

Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

One of the funniest moments in my college career was when a poetry professor, a very sweet old man, told me, wrt meter, “I don’t understand. You get it conceptually and are clearly trying very hard, but you still can’t do it at all.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

i think the thing people don't really understand is that it's not search which has gone to shit, not entirely. it's the internet.

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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Pope Leo’s first miracle

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Those mushroom haircuts are gonna create some hilarious results when gen z men start to lose their hair

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

How can we ask our children to grow up in a cruel world like this, a world where evil triumphs and the Mavericks wind up with Cooper Flagg?

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Brendan Stiles @thebstiles.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

That tiebreaker cost the Bulls the No. 1 pick.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

[adam silver stuffing gold bars in his jacket pocket] "wow crazy."

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’m super excited for the Chicago Sky’s (pre)season starting tomorrow. Yet, as always, I have no idea how I can watch the games

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It’s more art than science. Unlike art, which will be done by a computer

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Really enjoyed Babel by @rfkuang.bsky.social. It was my first time reading her work, and I was initially skeptical of the setting, but she does such a great job drawing you in with characters in the 1st half and then going to levels I never would have expected in the 2nd half

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I did know about Paul Newman as a child but primarily because of the pasta sauce

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Always baffles me when someone said “I didn’t hear about that when I was a kid.” Of course you didn’t. You were a child. You hadn’t heard of most things. I didn’t know who Paul Newman was when I was a kid, that doesn’t mean he didn’t exist.

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hiring Patton was the most positive thing the Bulls had done in the last several years. So, this is awful. Also, good to know they only have one analytics guy now too 🫠

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 21/04/2025

when you're the first guy to get laid in star wars

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Julia Poe @juliapoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"Sell the team" chants starting at the United Center as fans head toward the exit. Bulls trail 109-86 with 1:23 remaining.

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

So… are they just doing away with the dagger and Shadar Logoth? Cause some important things happen there #wheeloftime

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/04/2025

Time to check in on social media for my little hit of dopamine.... what??? All cortisol???? Again??!?!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The Trump administration is comfortable disappearing people to foreign gulags partially because the Trumpis Justices on the Roberts Court have enabled him at every turn, rewriting the Constitution when necessary to accommodate Trump's lawlessness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

this lawlessness is happening precisely because the nation’s highest court condoned it in advance. The right-wing justices on the Roberts Court have repeatedly rewritten the Constitution to Donald Trump’s benefit, first by nullifying the anti-insurrection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, and then by inventing an imperial presidential immunity that is nowhere in the text of the document. It is no surprise that Trump is now acting as though he is above the law. After all, the Roberts Court all but granted him permission.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 05/04/2025

a little organizing wisdom from my choir sheet music

musical score with the instruction STAGGER THE BREATHING SO THE SOUND NEVER STOPS

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards "it's one banana, michael. would could it cost, $10?"

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

crank-ish opinion I hold: most forewords should be afterwords. Forewords/introductions should give context but analysis should be in afterwords for the simple reason that when I'm reading a foreword I haven't read the book yet. Don't tell me about stuff that happens the book! I'm not there yet!

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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Supergiant’s best game IMO. I mean I like Hades a lot, but Hades is a game in which even when you lose, you win. Pyre is a game in which even when you win, you lose, and that’s more interesting to me.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reposting the pitch for my novella, Pieces of the Last Summer. Thanks to everyone who’s boosted it so far! If you’re an agent or an editor and this sounds interesting, please reach out! You can also find info about my other completed novella and my current work on my profile #2025Pit

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Querying 2 completed novella manuscripts (pitches below!)—“Pieces of the Last Summer,” a speculative-literary piece, and “What Comes After,” a speculative thriller. Both are set in a far future society of hunter-gatherers. Also in progress on a novel, “A Sunburst Bond,” a sci-fi political thriller.

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A predator out of myth kills again. A young father pursues, leaving the valley that’s sheltered the Last People for generations. But as a startlingly intelligent beast picks off his crew, Ayabeh must reckon w/obsession or risk his family’s lives. #2025Pit #A #SPF #T Comp: Jaws + Dawn(Lilith’s Brood)

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Only 2 communities—the Last People—remain. When sexual assault shatters Neru’s life, she finds refuge w/ her home’s matriarchal counterpart. But as a tyrant seizes power, she must choose b/w extinction & survival at any cost. Comp: Things Fall Apart+Black Swan Green+Fifth Season #2025Pit #A #SPF #LF

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Sarah Podz 🌸 @sarahpodz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Doom scrolling is great right now because The Doom is always fresh. It used to be The Doom would get stale after a day or 2 but now the horrors are unending 😊

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

See also: The City & the City

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Understanding the scam here requires knowing Bally’s made a deal with Chicago to have 25% minority ownership in the casino they’re building. Instead of real equity, they’re signing up paper owners who will never see a dime of return in any conceivable scenario—and charging them $250 or more for it.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST added to Nintendo Music share.m.nintendo.com/en-US/US/off...

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I don’t think that coming up with lists of “good” authors helps anyone. on a very basic level: you have no way of knowing if that’s true about anyone.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just learned about this wild 19th century Wilhelm Trübner painting titled “Caesar at the Rubicon”

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

@playbalatro.com @localthunk.bsky.social just wondering, if I just switched from Android to iPhone, is there a way to transfer over my save data?

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geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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Brendan @freshhegemony.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The fact that "hard checks" damage your credit score is the most deranged bullshit that we're all just forced to accept

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

LORD ABELARD: your little PROJECT is becoming quite the nuisance. THE VAMPIRE WHO IS FALLING IN LOVE WITH ME: my interest is only in obtaining the amulet LORD ABELARD: as long as you rem- ME: *walking in drinking soup from a mug* babe is this your dad? sir it's an honor

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