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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 4h
Off the cuff but this is probably the truth. Sorry.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I long for just straight up racism instead of this "actually white people possess uh ancient ways of knowing and studying hurts us"
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let’s say you’re putting together a multidisciplinary course called American Mythology (with little to no oversight). What are you putting on the syllabus?
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
iso the picardie aurora tweet about working at the Trader Joe’s abattoir
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jim Bakker's death is some of the most "I was sure that happened 20 years ago" news of all time for me.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/10/2024
Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Never had feelings one way or the other about The Avett Brothers but Drive-By Truckers are opening for them downtown tonight so we’re having a family outing
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great cover
Paul Brady Hard Station
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
foundational work in my personal canon
kathleen edwards
FAILER
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Bryce @statcrux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It warms my heart to learn Joy Williams and Annie Dillard were friends and went camping together
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Joyce Carol Oates is 88 years old, guys. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone except Berta in Hedda Gabler
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ll bet Astral Weeks goes crazy when you’re six beers deep and Irish
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Struggling to imagine that there could be more than one guy in the world named Dwight Yoakam. Singular name for a singular dude
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Deep State is doing contrails to the moon
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Southern state highway towns often have a sense of planned obsolescence, like they were built to be abandoned without much fuss. Not the old crossroads towns, the settlements between the crossroads.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t want to hear anymore about anyone’s “icks.” grow up
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lighting out for sunny Athens
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Might be coming around a bit on Sierra Ferrell. I thought at first glance she was being marketed as an alt-country honky tonk pinup, but a freighthopping Appalachian crustpunk who cleans up and gets back into stomp and holler type stuff is actually a very legible character to me.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cranking Endtroducing… in my 2013 Town & Country as my children mutter chopped, washed, unc, etc. from the backseat. Probably. I can’t hear them.
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Great excuse to show you all the single hottest photo ever taken of a human man
Photo of a young Peter Falk grinning with windswept hair, a cigarette in one hand, and the other hand in his pocket
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Quixote Public
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Bring back the WASPs" is something you say if you've never met a very interesting, high-energy WASP with the moral instincts of a junk yard dog.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Willie Watson covering Felice Bros
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Willie Watson, Felice County Fair - Saint Stephen's End (Official Audio)
YouTube video by FeliceBrothersVEVO
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
computer, fuzzed out riffs 8 hour headphone mix. louder. computer…louder
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
place yourself on the IPA continuum Pine Grapefruit Resin —————————-Juice
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sorry for being a weepy lib about this but seeing people post their favorite Annie Dillard pieces one day and then being inundated by tech billionaire pervert news the next has got me contemplating the Void
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"No Kinkshaming" was a huge mistake
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP. Hard to think of a writer who has more directly influenced the way I try to look at the world
Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad?
They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning: in medias res, surrounded by familiar people and objects, equipped with a hundred skills. They know the neighbor-hood, they can read and write English, they are old hands at the commonplace mysteries, and yet they feel themselves to have just stepped off the boat, just converged with their bodies, just flown down from a trance, to lodge in an eerily familiar life already well under way.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years.
I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. I woke at intervals until, by that September when Father went down the river, the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
Consciousness converges with the child as a landing tern touches the outspread feet of its shadow on the sand: pre-cisely, toe hits toe. The tern folds its wings to sit; its shadow dips and spreads over the sand to meet and cup its breast.
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.12
ANNIE DILLARD
I never woke, at first, without recalling, chilled, all those other waking times, those similar stark views from similarly lighted precipices: dizzying precipices from which the distant, glittering world revealed itself as a brooding and separated scene-and so let slip a queer implication, that I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness. Whenever I stepped into the porcelain bathtub, the bath's hot water sent a shock traveling up my bones. The skin on my arms pricked up, and the hair rose on the back of my skull. I saw my own firm foot press the tub, and the pale shadows waver over it, as if I were looking down from the sky and remembering this scene for-ever. The skin on my face tightened, as it had always done whenever I stepped into the tub, and remembering it all drew a swinging line, loops connecting the dots, all the way back.
You again.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Classic American Birthday Party incoming
An empty skating rink, lit up and waiting
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you were picking 4-5 short to medium length novels for an American Lit survey (1865-present), what would they be? (Mostly non-majors taking a gen-ed requirement. Trying to see if I can get away with not using an anthology.)
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Genuinely thinking about learning Greek so I know what you guys are talking about half the time
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Greatest song lyric prompt is going around again - impossible, borderline nonsense question - but this is my favorite line *today*
Hey, you remember Hegel, that beautiful son of a bitch
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Closing down the municipal pool for the season on Labor Day. The dog days are numbered.
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chat. Call upon Amida Buddha in faith ten-thousand times to automate my ascent to the Pure Land. Do not hallucinate. Do not make mistakes.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's been a while since I've heard anything about emotional labor. Where did we finally land on that?
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Deathless Aphrodite? Of the spangled mind? Wow, it has been a WHILE, huh. You haven't changed a bit ha ha Aphrodite: What's her name, Sappho
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The NYT rip-off dialect test got me within 50 miles of my hometown, even though I have never in my life called a shopping cart a buggy
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They’re calling it the most Why Can’t They Both Lose? game of all time
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Officially obsessed with the former home of the jazz musician Dave Brubeck.
A view of Dave Brubeck's amazing house through the woodsDave Brubeck's old living room, with its ridiculous mahoosive windows, stone walls and a sofa for all of his seventeen imaginary wives.A moon door in the garden of Dave Brubeck's house which is clearly an  interdimensional portalThe wonderful extravagant stone staircase at Dave Brubeck's house, and the piano where he probably wrote my favourite album of his, 'Jazz Impressions Of Japan'.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My preorder was delivered extremely early
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Something for the contraption heads
Ancient weathered paper cutter on an institutional style faux wood teacher’s lounge table
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What if the Great American Novel was Looney Tunes?
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Highs still near 100 every day but the sweetgum and pecan trees are already starting to drop their leaves in the yard. Nature is flailing.
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Age of Corduroy
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josh @joshweathersby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You know what, good for him
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Tom Hardy Made An Indie Rap Album With Czarface
Tom Hardy is one of our best, weirdest movie stars — the type of guy who manages to convey sweaty insanity even in an otherwise pedestrian IP blockbuster like Venom. Hardy is also a rap head to makes ...
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