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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meeting a dear old friend in midtown to watch our dear old Yankees. Fall rules.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been watching this in chunks and finished tonight. Broke it up to avoid the pressure in my feeble brain building up too much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLq0...

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Jim Holt and Sean Carroll

YouTube video by ALOUDla

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a fix for the MLB playoff system, but it involves severely punishing wild card teams and ensuring all other rounds are best of 7, things the league probably doesn’t want to do because those things are good and smart and baseball-centric.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

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The Free and Unfree Press

Journalism, and its adversaries.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh are you mad I've never heard or heard of Choosing Texas? That's cool, I was too busy watching a Rilo Kiley concert in a cemetery under a full moon because I'm 40

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow, can't believe they printed this

The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st century ARE:

1 - 99: The 2009 episide of "One Tree Hill" where a guy dropped his heart transplant heart on the floor and then a dog ate it

100: "Battlestar Galactica" or something

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I made room for two more here by leaving off The Wire and 30 Rock, which transcend the exercise; those are my two best, easily. Wasn't shocked but still sad to see RECTIFY not only miss the list but, as far as I can tell, not be named on a single ballot. For shame!

Succession, Fleabag, Rectify, The Office (UK), Friday Night Lights, Happy Valley, Girls, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Curb Your Enthusiasm

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I liked “Tony.” For many reasons, but definitely in part because I would so badly like to be coming of age during a summer in the 1970s right now instead of … this age and all this.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Time to play Moby Dick or Morrissey lyric?

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a walk this morning, my kid and I watched from the sidewalk as an unmarked car cut off a driver, another unmarked car behind, three masked ICE agents got out, removed the driver from his car and put him in theirs, left his car on the side of the road. As if nothing had happened in five minutes.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love this so much. "Here's my thing with Clifford: He's 25 feet fall. ... I have concerns about the processing. He's gonna make dumb fouls. He's gonna turn the ball over. But look, the guy is 25 feet tall and he's only 2years old, he's gonna figure it out." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBfn...

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Fictional Dog Basketball Draft

YouTube video by Max JR Miller

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On a Russian reading kick at the moment, which feels like it could get infinite-ish pretty quickly.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I tried to steal this card from a friend of mine when I was 8 or so. I’m not proud. But Murph belongs in the Hall.

Dale Murphy’s rookie card, on which he’s featured with three other players, including Rick Cerone, who was actually more important to this Yankees fan back then.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm talking to the second person I've known in my life who earnestly believes that the time should be the same everywhere on Earth. It is both an interesting and hilarious position.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard, John Updike, and Larry McMurtry at a public Q&A session in 1983. Dillard and Wendell Berry leaving us so close together is as good a reminder as any to get outside, which I’m going to do now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vX7...

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John Updike, Annie Dillard, and Larry McMurtry at the University of Richmond, 1983

YouTube video by UR Digital Engagement

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

at the moment: "unputdownable," followed by "penned" and "dubbed."

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of my favorite moments in Iceland was when a tour guide pointed out the van window, to what looked like an elementary school, and said, “That’s our prison.” I followed up to make sure the singular wasn’t a mistake, and he said it wasn’t.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m not a Jets or Giants fan, but listening to sports radio in the car in dead of winter is so repetitively depressing when they’re awful. Here’s to at least “interesting” for both this season.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I needed something totally delightful pretty badly, and luckily I saw Coyote vs. Acme today.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My collection of media from back then. The more time passes, the stranger it seems to have been in the city that day. I hadn’t looked at these since, and flipping through, I remembered the general tone pretty well. 25 years is a stretch of time, but I do think our moment’s roots are still there.

Newspapers and magazines from the days and weeks after 9/11.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reorganizing my library a bit and opening this one again has stopped my progress cold.

“The Adversary” by Emmanuel Carrere. I read it probably a decade ago or so, and now will reread it seems.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Does occur to me that my preferences here are somewhat arbitrary and based on duration of experience. As with so many things, I guess.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Absolute epidemic of people backing into parking spaces. Widespread psycho behavior.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New leader in the spam headline least likely to fool me sweepstakes.

Your Foxons Fishing Tackle account has been created

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I have a pretty remarkable number of dreams that find me browsing in a British bookstore.

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Gabriel Roth @gabrielroth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s probably impossible to explain this to anyone who wasn’t around at the time but I still get chills from looking at this, what an absolutely heroic cultural achievement

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Any nerds have a favorite translation of Gogol's stories?

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bleary (feat. Akon) @bleary.off-the-records.com · 02/09/2026

Share a film that came out the year you were old enough to envision the future, yet still young enough not to fully appreciate that death is inevitable and time will grind your successes and failures into the same coarse dust.

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dostoevsky pulling up with UNDRGRND

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why does government make it so damn hard to get the help you’re entitled to? This week’s newsletter starts with Annie Lowrey’s "The Time Tax" about the maddening bureaucracy that wastes billions of hours of Americans’ lives. roncharles.substack.com/p/stop-wasti...

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Stop Wasting My Time

Annie Lowrey explains why government makes getting help so damn complicated

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John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just remembered and dug out this poster I bought in Nashville nine years ago. Good job, 2017 self.

Reprint of vintage poster advertising a concert by Dolly Parton and her Family Traveling Band.

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