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The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com · 29/09/2026

OUT NOW: 21 Video Essays About Video Essays! youtu.be/qNjiS_FHD4I For The Essay Library Anthology Vol. 10, video essayists were invited to create video essays about video essays. Video essays? Video essays!

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21 Video Essays About Video Essays

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Abdul said. Every word.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.

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Maple 🥞✨️ @mapleburr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're certainly getting more creative

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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 27/09/2026

It seems so implausible to me that the balaclava, the balalaika, and baklava all come from distinct cultures and none of them were invented by Bob Balaban.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

The best art I ever made started in a DM with Sam where I said "I have this weird idea and I think it's probably impossible." And she said "That sounds amazing, but yes probably impossible." This video started the same way, with the roles reversed. It's probably the best art she's ever made. Watch.

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FilmOtter @filmotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well damn, I fear the video essay as an artform was made so this could exist. 🫡

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my voice is in this, reading a poem by Jamaal May it was a tough read, having had some violent shit happen to me, to my friends, and to my hometown thanks for letting me participate, Sam

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James Woodall @jameswoodall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw an early draft of this and it moved me to tears.

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Questing Refuge @questingrefuge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not sure I have the words to capture how beautiful this video is as a work of art. Just go watch it!

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

ok so i felt like this beetle deserved better than mission impossible youtu.be/NY5B3dRorBU

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this beetle can rob me any time

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 24/09/2026

So, question for the bsky team, is it the position of this website that bugs actually owns a piranha pool? Or is it that their audience of piranha pool owners might take this as a serious suggestion. Like for this to be a legitimate rules violation *there must be a piranha pool in play* #freethebugs

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 23/09/2026

read back in the thread and follow along with harry, who is about to be Having A Time

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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Brian Moritz @bmoritz99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Both @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/09/2026

…yeah, okay, that’s pretty much it.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 12/09/2026

*Stellar* start to a my man thread from Kruse today

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 11/09/2026

A lot of Americans (including me!) *did* experience 9/11 as a unifying event in the aftermath. But what we were united in was abject racism, and *many* Americans were excluded from and victimized by that “unity.” Those who still laud that unity either haven’t realized that or still endorse it.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 08/09/2026

🥁🥁🥁 JUST MAKE MAKES 🥁🥁🥁

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merritt @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 08/09/2026

One of those passages that has lived in my head for decades now. “It’s expensive to be poor” feels unintuitive if you’ve always been comfortable, but Pratchett explains it in two short paragraphs.

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 06/09/2026

I truly thought this was Alex Jones in a Trump wig, which is somehow insulting to both of them

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Stu West @stuwest.com · 04/09/2026

Why did the director of Reservoir Dogs not release a camping-themed movie during the pandemic under the name Tentin Quarantino

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

hey, I was born in the 80s or 90s and I'm looking for a morally acceptable way to continue to like Harry Potter?? you see, I have this special condition where I just... stopped. somewhere along the way, i let the growth inside me die and i gnawed a hole in the past, and there i sit, and there i rot

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Juniper Blume @used-books.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i made a video about Kind Words, lofi live chats and why your psychology textbook is lying to you! i promise that makes more sense in the video youtu.be/Kp1OtzEcnhg

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[a lofi essay to reveal/validate kindness]

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 31/08/2026

Listen I understand and am glad that @tkingfisher.com likes to write books about sentient full-brained* entities but truly I would read a trilogy where she was just explaining the stories of domesticated animals. *including her academics, whose brains are too full of facts to have room for thoughts

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megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I read this in the spring and was enchanted. Been working my way through her other books since. She‘s wonderful, and this book is fantastic. Go read it!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

of all the Discworld books to bring to life I’m not sure Jingo was the best choice

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Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com · 29/08/2026

I keep thinking about the effortless way Dolly Parton could switch between speaking and singing, so I wrote a little about it:

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When Dolly Spoke, She Sang

and we couldn't help but listen

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