JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oregon is in the Big 10, so that should count as Midwest, yes? 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy birthday! I applied for a grant to commission a new work from a local composer on behalf of our community chorus, and we were fully funded! Government support for local art can happen! 🙂🙂🙂 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I'd subscribe to that. Cripes, I was reading mostly Preston and Childs thrillers before stumbling across you (via Dutchess Goldblatt) on Twitter. Good thing I haven't been using red yarn to trace your influence on my reading list, or there'd be none left for those Norwegian hats. 000
Reposted by JimWErika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026*psst* As someone who published when LA burned, when that guy took office, started cutting everything and unleashed all those EOs... If you publish this month, PLEASE TALK ABOUT IT. It's okay. We need books. Yes, yours. We need things that affirm humanity and art exist beyond this, okay? Okay. ❤️ 0122
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 04/12/2025This song came out when I was working for DEC in the 80s, and my least favorite brother-in-law returned from a work conference singing "We Built This City on IBM.". That's enough right there. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 13/11/2025"Saltcrop" by Yume Kitasei. About 80% through, so time to set down this damn phone. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Wait, the guy who stabbed Jesus is a saint? I think I'm beginning to understand Christian Nationalism a bit more. 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Ironically, I'm thrilled this book by @ambersparks.bsky.social is coming to my house today! 120
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I'm an old white guy from Wisconsin who grew up conservative. Now I'm out protesting. How did that happen if not through interacting with different sorts of people, often through books. Go out and sell it! Well, not to me. I've pre-ordered. 270
Reposted by JimWRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2025One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 467151984485
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I would have paid that to fix dollar-sign-on-wrong-side-of-number error. 110
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Pre-ordered. Meanwhile, found this on the Internet and it will have to hold me. 110
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Thinking that assigning an essay on Rosie Ruiz would be apt. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Precisely why I seek out writers to follow on Bluesky. Can't imagine reading a Swyler without a fuzzy rabbit somewhere in the background, for example. 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 18/05/2025So, the real reason I'm such a fan is that Her Grace calls you by name. And your writing. That's good too. 120
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I picked up my copy at Local Independent Bookstore yesterday! Does that count as a pre-order? 130
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I pay for my homeopathy with envelopes that used to have money in them. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Unexpected used book bonus. But is it really @mdbell79.bsky.social ? Do I have to change my name to o "Susan," at least while reading the book? 110
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Mi Famiglia in Oregon City. Their pizza easily compares to the more famous Portland pizzerias. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Today's earworm: Maundy Thursday Can't trust that day . . . Every year. 011
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Pleased to learn "Latus Rectum" had fallen from the curriculum as I started my career teaching math. "Asymptote" was mild in comparison. 000
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Life of Brian!media.tenor.coma group of people standing in the desert with the words blessed are the cheesemakersAlt: Scene from "The Life of Brian". People at the back of the crowd during the Beatitudes think they hear "Blessed are the cheesemakers." 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I would totally buy an album by The Mexican Sound. I'm a Boomer, so we buy music by the album, btw 110
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Amen! I leave only 5 star reviews for books I love, and keep the rest to myself. Who cares what a retired math teacher has to say about a book that didn't connect with him? 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Someone referred to their smart watch as a tamagotchi, except the being they were trying to keep alive was themselves. 010
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 26/03/2025youtu.be/aQUlA8Hcv4s?... Mr. Blue Sky, Electric Light Orchestrayoutu.beElectric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Official Video)YouTube video by ELOVEVO 030
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Do you have any exhibits that pair well with my mandatory blood-borne pathogens training? 100
JimW @jimw153.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Thinking about a story in which a frustrated cruciverbalist travels back in time to introduce John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 122
