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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh what the hell, I will go ahead and tout my own 2016 essay on THE HAUNTING and the way it interprets Shirley Jackson: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
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Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting - Library of America
By Farran Smith Nehme In this 1963 adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, atmosphere, understatement, and masterful off-kilter camerawork combine to preserve the “elusive mastery” of Shirley Jackso...
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Dry Spells - The Golden Vanity #musicsky #nowplaying One album from 2009, and it's hard to google.
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The Golden Vanity
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would... ...Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Yeah, so happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day?
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache And repose is taboo’d by anxiety I conceive you may use Any language you choose To indulge in, without impropriety; For your brain is on fire The bedclothes conspire Of usual slumber to plunder you: First your counterpane goes
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)
A closeup of a rainbow with the Moon in it.  The Moon is not full, it is gibbous.   This photo was taken by Mark Ham.   In this photo you can work out exactly where the sun is—behind him over his left shoulder—from both the position of the rainbow and from the phase of the moon.
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Cécile McLorin Salvant's - Take this stone (feat. June McDoom & Kate Davis) #musicsky
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Cécile McLorin Salvant's - Take this stone (feat. June McDoom & Kate Davis (Official Audio)
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/06/2026
We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Hi hi hey ho hi hi hey hi Hey ho hey ho
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Hi Ho
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines
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Programme 4 @programme4.tv · 06/05/2026
Programme 4 is a groovy, feature-length "broadcast" from The Botany 500 Age of Television: Fake shows, local ads, interstitials, musical guests & more—starring a dazzling array of talent! See it in the analog world along with special guest stars & performances. Tickets: Programme4.tv/makethescene
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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
James McMurtry’s scorching live version of “Choctaw Bingo” from his amazing album “Live In Aught-Three”. “I’ll start this next set with a song about the North Texas/Southern Oklahoma crystal methamphetamine industry.” youtu.be/EBBvXcpMzhk?...
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Choctaw Bingo
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kro... #musicsky #nowplaying
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The Kropotkins - Truckstop Girls (2000)
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 20/04/2026
Did I just argue with a joke?

Part of a Bluesky educational series
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Joni Mitchell and the ultimate fusion backup band. youtube.com/watch?v=PNI7...
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Joni Mitchell / Pat Metheny / Jaco Pastorius
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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Jackson C. Frank, “Blues Run The Game”. Just the best, that’s all. youtube.com/watch?v=RyI7...
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Blues Run the Game (2001 - Remaster)
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
George Saunders' tribute to Michael Silverblatt. KCRW's Bookworm podcast archive: georgesaunders.substack.com/p/on-taking-...
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On Taking Ownership
And a tribute to the great Michael Silverblatt
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Mountain Goats covering World Party is not something I knew I needed or ever expected to exist, but by God, it's good... themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th...
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Put the Message in the Box / Migrations, by Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats
2 track album
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
A yellow wildflower.
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 19/11/2025
We are late to this piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social. It is brilliant, and sobering. We have a fight on our hands, booksellers… jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21/02/2026
Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 07/02/2026
Watching the Winter Olympics…
So this is a comic version of the post it’s quoting: 

The Winter Olympics Sports progression:

Turn on TV:

1. Never heard of this sport 

2. Quite like this sport 

3. I think I’d be quite good at this…

4. Yeah this guy is making some classic mistakes on this run…

5. I am now pretty much an expert at this sport. 

Time elapsed: 6 minutes.
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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It is a good discography.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning and will therefore remain in Omelas for another year
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/01/2026
If I had to pick one scene from one movie, I'd pick this one.
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Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It finally happened. My 3yo asked me “why does the sun shine?” and I responded by conversationally reciting the entire lyrics of the TMBG song
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
car wheels on a gravel road is a christmas album
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17/12/2025
Well, look, look. Here's the full video of the other night's Shirley Jackson evening!
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An Evening of Shirley Jackson Readings With Benjamin Dreyer, Annabeth Gish and Kerry O’Malley
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I have an essay about how Netflix destroyed the movies in the new issue of @nplusonemag.com. Read it online and in print! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits.
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, and Gary Cooper in the back seat of a car in the film Design For Living.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
penguin classics cover of the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson, but the cover image is a photo of the US house of representatives chamber empty and in disarray after jan 6
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/12/2025
OK, Los Angeles and Los Angeles–adjacent: A week from Monday—that is to say the 15th—there's going to be a great Shirley Jackson–oriented evening featuring @kerryomalley.bsky.social, Annabeth Gish, and even me. Details linked below. Also: two en dashes in one post.
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/10/2025
an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with  a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings".

The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“I wear the chain I forged in life! I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What's your favorite song about the rain?
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Simon & Garfunkel - Kathy's Song
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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 12/11/2025
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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Nightmare Lamp @nightmare-fueler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only
Elliot Gould smoking a cigarette as he watches someone in Robert Altman's film The Long Goodbye.
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#musicsky Now Playing: Big Thief - Shark Smile youtu.be/R75eJCTXVEM?...
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Big Thief - Shark Smile [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Big Thief
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity
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The Rise & Fall of Silver Apples: The 1960s Electronic Band That Built Their Own Synthesizer, Produced Two Pioneering Albums, and Then Faded into Obscurity
In the late 70s and early 80s, a handful of musical duos emerged who would have tremendous impact on post-punk, alternative, new wave, and experimental electronic music. Bands like Suicide, NEU!, and ...
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
#MusicSky Now Playing: youtu.be/Rz3yd1NPsRI?...
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WomanChild
YouTube video by Cécile McLorin Salvant - Topic
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Poltergeist Avoider @gregbposting.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: They Might Be Average Height
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/08/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/h...
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