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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 17h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23h

The Stevie Wonder vault songs are incredible, anyone else’s A-sides but prime Stevie’s cutting-room scraps.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

The thing i really don’t get about people who use FaceTime or speakerphone in public places is, don’t they care about privacy? I can’t even bear to talk on the phone w members of my immediate family in the same room. I couldn’t imagine.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

As a Calvino-ist I believe I was predestined to live in Venice

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 28/09/2026

Bring 👏🏻 shame 👏🏻 back 👏🏻

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lamp is gone, so I’m trying out a new lean

A turntable with a record playing; on the speaker is the LP jacket Tutti I Film di Fellini, a compilation of themes by Nino Rita

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wake up babe, solo acoustic soundboard tape of jim o'rourke performing the entire "halfway to a threeway" EP just dropped

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 27/09/2026

Lovers in Venice fête galante A Londoner finds the ring Beneath the trees. Shadowed pianos. If your ash drifts free, My future is revealed. Oh Musset! Oh George Sand! Oh Venice! Old guitar Full of music and water, A simple earthquake Will jumble your dominoes. Jean Cocteau, 1922

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

Adolescent fans of Cultural Capital are called Guillo-teens

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

The kid spends his Saturday mornings playing through the Monkey Island series. This gets the Dad Seal of Approval™️.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We've stolen a lot of young people's lives by telling them they have to be planning A Great Career when they're like 19

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. …And when you wager, use DraftKings, where $5 gets you $200 in bonuses.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

literally a mountain goats album title

The cover of Beautiful Rat Sunset by The Mountain Goats

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/09/2026

This is true and I note that it’s not only useful for practical reasons. If you don’t reclaim your attention then how will you ever keep alive the slow-burning, endlessly enriching pleasures, like reading a poem, canoeing a river, or sketching your partner nude?

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 25/09/2026

I love it when you’re catching up with old friends and you can tell they’re pulling out their best anecdotes to impress you, even though you both know it’s unnecessary. Hell yeah brother, impress me! I love that you still want to!

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 25/09/2026

I miss the cracked social backwardness of grad school at times. You get cornered at a house party talking with someone who can’t believe you haven’t heard all of Dar Williams’s albums or someone who’s never tried a hot dog before.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 25/09/2026

Coriander is such a lovely name. Nickname could be Cori or Andy.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

always "why are those eggs so long" never "thank you for crashing our potluck"

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 25/09/2026

I’m usually not a stickler for the century starting in 2001, wiggle room is fine, but Curb and Gilmore Girls both feel like such a 20th century thing that the inclusion is striking

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will never use an LLM, I write my own dumb crap nobody reads

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

[Flipping nervously through the song book at the karaoke bar] “hmm, a little light on German cabaret numbers, aren’t we?”

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

A Messier Creative Process leads to (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) a Stanley Cup

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Rangers Messier Lifts Stanley Cup

Alt: Rangers Messier Lifts Stanley Cup

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all these people sound like this:

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

In my US History class, we're doing a unit on colonial-era journalism, including broadsides and political cartoons. Students are always blown away at how nasty, petty, and violent the rhetoric was at the time. They're quick to connect it to meme culture in social media too.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

The city of Sofronia is made up of two half-cities. www.joelcalahan.com/translation-...

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

The city of Sofronia is made up of two half-cities. www.joelcalahan.com/translation-...

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 24/09/2026

Weather’s finally nice in San Diego. The local parks are once again full of the common slackliner (hipster balancius).

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Chris Monsen @chrismonsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

10 tracks for Coltrane's 100th. Not definitive, nor an attempt at a "best of" or very favorites list. But 10 of his pieces that have meant a great deal to me in my life spent with the man's music.

10 for Coltrane's 100th

"Well You Needen't" from Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk
"Naima" from Giant Steps
"Africa" from Africa/Brass
"Olé" from Olé Coltrane
"Chasin' the Trane" from Live at the Village Vanguard
"India" from Impressions
"Resolution" from A Love Supreme
"Love" from Meditations
"Sun Ship" from Sun Ship
"Saturn" from Interstellar Space

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MODERN ENGLISH: I’ll stop the world and melt with you

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23/09/2026

in related news, nirvanna the band the show the movie is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a decade

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23/09/2026

In the 90s, since people hadn’t heard or seen that many funny things, you could get a laugh out of nearly anything. Molly Shannon built a whole career out of wearing a Catholic school uniform and smelling her own armpits.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2026

Love that journey for him

Prince i wanna be your lover was written about patrice rushen

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23/09/2026

[listening to Bill Maher describing Proust to Tommy Lee] Club Random indeed

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 23/09/2026

When Fats Waller started the opening bars to “Pantin’ in the Panther Room” I bet everyone in the Panther Room lost their shit.

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robert p. baird @robertpbaird.com · 23/09/2026

I'm sorry, I know this is very serious and indicative of all kinds of other horrors, but this quote is hilarious. "I am the code," the degraded great-grandchild of "L'État, c'est moi," feels like the purest quintessence of his pusillanimous authoritarianism.

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 22/09/2026

Driver, Mattia Filice (a novel in verse by a French train driver) One Hundred Etudes, Ben Friedlander (sweet, surprising experiments in verse) Go find these!

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 22/09/2026

Not only that, but the most creative, talented, risk-taking researchers and writers are drawn to telling the untold stories. No surprise they’re the ones winning awards for their writing!

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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 21/09/2026

See, this is the thing about living in a corrupt patronage economy. Even those pushing back against it are not really about principled opposition and more about helping more people get in on the action. “Here’s some payouts for you too” is not the way.

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