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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Elon Musk, guilty of fraud? A defrauder? Fraudulent? A fraudster? Fraudacious? Fraudelightful, fraudelicious, fraudelovely? Who ever would have guessed? I mean, really? Who?? Seriously, you could’ve knocked me over with a feather. A feather from a little blue Twitter bird.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Think of it like this. Amazon is the evil Empire. Independent bookstores are the rebel bases. Go out, buy books from your local indie bookseller, and support the rebellion today! #IndependentBookstoreDay #BrooklynBookstoreCrawl

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I wish liberals would lose the word “moron.” It’s literally the language of eugenics; it was made an English word as part of a classification system used to justify sterilizing-or worse-hundreds of thousands of intellectually disabled ppl. Keep criticizing MAGA, RFK Jr, etc. Just use a better word.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Paul Weiss? For shame. First rule: Do Not Obey in Advance.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

For Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas. May their memories be a blessing, forever. Am Yisrael chai.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Tesla Cybertruck - possibly the ugliest production car ever made - is a commercial disaster. Nobody wants these dumpsters. So Elon foists $400 million of them on the US military. Talk about Government Excess. Corruption has always existed. But never has it been this obvious.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A terrible beast is on the rampage, wreaking havoc and mindlessly destroying everything in his path. Also, there’s this cool Godzilla model in Tokyo. #Gogira #Godzilla #Tokyo #whostherealmonster

A black and white image of Godzilla, a dinosaur-like monster with wreckage at his feet and fiery destruction behind him.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Fight the power, Los Angeles. You gotta fight the powers that be.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Yes everything is terrible right now but OTOH I just finished reading @emilymandel.bsky.social’s 2nd novel, THE SINGER’S GUN. A near-pristine 1st edition I found on eBay, no less. I love going back & reading the earlier works of terrific writers I discovered mid-career. You will too. #booksky

A book jacket with the title THE SINGER’S GUN superimposed over a scene of a green-blue ocean under a yellow sky. A single small figure stands in the ocean near the beach’s edge. At the left, the image of the sky and ocean bears stamps like those entered by passport control into a passport. At the bottom is the author’s name, EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Reports here that Google caved seem to be greatly exaggerated—at least based on my phone. When I just searched for “Gulf of Mexico,” I got, yes, the Gulf of Mexico. When (solely to test the hypothesis) I searched for “Gulf of America,” I got … the Gulf of Mexico. Remain calm y’all.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just a partial (I have books in at least 3 different places), but a pretty good sampling, I think. #booksky

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Only a partial; I have books in (at least) three different places. But a pretty good sampling here. #booksky

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Welcome home Emily, Romi, and Doron. May all of the hostages be returned, alive and safe, speedily in our time. And may the impetus toward peace and healing take hold and prevail. For Israelis, for Palestinians, for all of us. #AmYisraelChai

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I don’t think Mr. Trump has really thought this weather thing all the way through. If they stayed outside, at least he could blame the small size on shrinkage from the cold.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Apparently I am not in Hawai’i.

In silver-toned black-and-white, a large fountain in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. Water sprays from the sides of the fountain. Long icicles hang down from the sides of the fountain’s large upper basin.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Notable novels I read in 2024. Of these 18, 11 are by women. That’s no accident. (Way back in 1981 I completed the nascent Women’s Studies program @ @brandeispress.bsky.social.) Someday I’ll full-on rant about how much men lose by not reading women writers. For today, just a few highlights. #booksky

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I’m 100% in favor of trashing Elon Musk & others of his ilk. But let’s please avoid the word “moron”—which is literally the language of eugenics, having been brought into English as part of a classification system used to justify sterilization (& worse) of countless ppl w/intellectual disabilities.

A Bluesky post extolling an exchange on Twitter between Elon Musk and a person who stated that he has only ever observed Musk to behave like, quote, a fucking moron, unquote.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At risk of this becoming yet another stan account for my amazing daughter, let me introduce #RachelHandlin. 1st person w/#Downsyndrome to earn a masters degree. CalArts BFA. Pratt Institute MFA. 2X Twitter phenom. Now profiled in @nytimes.com for her solo show @ White Columns gallery NYC til Dec 21.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In almost a month here I haven’t introduced myself. So, here’s a bookshelf pic. I have books in several different locations bc life is complicated, but these are most current & my fave. 3/4=fiction. Shelving alphabetically/ignoring genre was liberating. Bottom right=research for a WIP. #booksky

Bookshelves containing about eighty volumes, mostly hardcover, with multicolor bindings. Most of the books are novels, although one shelf has several books about artists and cultural figures from the 20th century. Among the novels, there are multiple books by Michael Chabon, Michael Connelly, Lauren Groff, Emily Mandel, and Colson Whitehead.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A single manuscript page from the first draft of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” just sold at Doyle Auctioneers for $25,000 (plus the 25% buyer’s premium, sales tax, etc.) For one scrap from Ayn frickin’ Rand. Make it make sense.

A framed page of handwritten text mounted next to a smaller black-and-white photograph of a woman.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Here’s a radical idea: if you can possibly avoid it, DON’T shop Amazon today. Patronize small businesses instead. For example, I just ordered @wdavidmarx’s AMETORA from my local indie bookstore, Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. Your purchases mean much more to small businesses & their communities.

A book cover titled AMETORA: How Japan Saved American Style, by W. David Marx, with a multicolored men’s button down shirt and a pair of dark blue denim jeans.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

TFW your Black Friday Deal is on Binax Covid tests in the handy economy size.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I recently read, and highly recommend, Danzy Senna’s colored television. Lots of folks call this book satire. But from my decade+ in & around the entertainment industry, it is (as they say) on the nose. Real Q: is it satire to accurately depict something that is absurdly outrageous in real life?

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today I pre-ordered @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, HOME OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUS, from my local indie bookstore, Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. This is the sort of thing that makes me very happy.

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Jay Handlin @jayhandlin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This queen turned 29 today. La Boheme @ the Met. Dinner @ Locanda Verde. Best bday ever. I’m new here, so meet #RachelHandlin. BFA CalArts (2020). MFA Photography, Pratt (2024). Solo exhibition now @ White Columns thru 12/21, 91 Horatio St NYC. Also Rachel has #Downsyndrome. PS She’s my daughter.

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