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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 11h

What with the Brooklyn Book Fest rained out, I figure I should call to your attention one of the few events that actually happened, this panel on BOOKS 'N' VIDEO GAMES I did with Ander Monson and Jeanne Thornton, Harold Goldberg moderating. It was a great talk, please listen in!

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2026 Virtual Festival: Call of Games, presented by NYU

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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 14h

Wendy Carlos should be on the 20 dollar bill. There should be a 50-foot-tall, solid-gold statue of her in Pawtucket. You should be able to buy all her albums in any format you want and a line of custom branded synths. She should be a household name along with Bob Moog.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 13h

This researcher has hit the last name jackpot. Nearly everyone cites her work.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 13h

Proud to be a designated spokesperson for the anti-AI humanist movement in this excellent @newyorker.com piece. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Paragraph from linked New Yorker article reads: This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 17h

Ok I am declaring this basically done for now…added some bracing here and there, and this place to lean guitars. Will caulk, fill, and sand over the next few weeks, and maybe add a little door to conceal the breaker box

Slotted built in guitar stand thing with a stratocaster parked in it

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 29/09/2026

Almost done with the basic framing here I think…special areas for records, cds, cassettes, and various musical instruments…hifi shelf lower middle…lower right will be a built-in stand for several guitars, I need to research the best way to do that. Next task is squirrelproofing…boring

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 06/07/2026

Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Made some new hats. MFA or NO MFA? thediagram.com/merch

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 24/09/2026

Today’s task was to get started on a bookcase, once I confirmed its supporting wall was squirrel-free. There will be many bespoke compartments for various items, and it is also intended as a sound diffuser. Gotta stop now but will resume after sukkot, the holiday where you construct an outbuilding!

Bookcase in progress featuring cubbyholes of various shapes and sizes

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 24/09/2026

This week I told students that remaning silent during the first round of workshop comments is like getting to attend your own funeral. I meant this as an enticement

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

wilco - a ghost is born, the only wilco album i like, might be controversial but i was never a big fan of them other than jesus etc and this album, which i think most fans hate

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 23/09/2026

I am converting a workshop, built in my barn by a previous owner, into a home office and music studio. I will post periodical updates here for motivational purposes. Here is what it looked like gutted last week

Empty plywood room with gross ceiling tiles and ugly lighting

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 23/09/2026

I actually went on a pilgrimmage there in 2006 with my ex…it’s in Wales…here I am pretending to be number 6 leaving his place

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 21/09/2026

Never thought about it before ofc, but sure, now I think the urinals are getting each other off when no one‘s looking

A sign posted above a urinal that reads, please flush. The toilets will not flush themselves or each other

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 21/09/2026

Only halfway through and Yom Kippur sucks! It's almost like those rabbis wanted me to suffer!!

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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

all my exes live in .exes

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jean Gorin, Counterpoint Number 31, 1948 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 20/09/2026

Wife said “can you imagine flying all the way to mexico?” and I was like…yes? Bring a book to read? Hardest part is driving to the airport? She then clarified that she was referring to monarch butterflies

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From my fanzine (early 1996), as part of a Guided By Voices interview: made-up track listing (by me) for one of their future LPs. Still kind of hurt they didn't use 'Sickening Couriers'.

A list of fictional songs by the band Guided By Voices, including the anthemic 'A Softer Seabird' and the once-heard, never-forgotten 'Sickening Couriers'.

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Be Gay Solve Crimes @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hard boiled egg (sam spade), softboy egg (philip marlowe), pickled egg (hank quinlan), century egg (Zhang), scrambled egg (Harry du Bois), tea stained egg (patrick jane), eggs benedict (guess), poached egg (Vidocq), scotch egg (rebus), omelette (maigret)

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m@thew @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

dr: lets do two truths and a lie me: i’d really rather no- dr: i can speak french me: *sighs* ok dr: you have more than a month to live me: what dr: i can play the trombone me: dr: me: can you? dr: oui

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 20/09/2026

Did some casual bird portraiture at the new york state fair

Swank pidge at the New York State Fair, September 2026. Pentax K-1ii with 31mm f/1.8.

Couple a bombshell doves at the New York State Fair, September 2026. Pentax K-1ii with 31mm f/1.8.

White boi high as shit at the New York State Fair, September 2026. Pentax K-1ii with 31mm f/1.8.

Fuck this guy, was a thirty carat asshole at the New York State Fair, September 2026. Pentax K-1ii with 31mm f/1.8.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One week from today! Sign up at jaimegreen.net/classes

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 18/09/2026

I am trying to get through another celebrated new crime novel that would be great if the protagonist weren’t perpetually explaining the plot and themes to themselves in their head. Why are editors allowing this? Prestige crime fiction is now AAA Mario

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AAA Mario - Extended Cut (2026)

YouTube video by RyanStewartVO

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 18/09/2026

Also, you can snail-mail us anytime but keep in mind our editors' reading periods are Feb-Mar and Sept-Oct. If you submit in April or November you might not hear for a long time, unless our EIC gets some free time to clear the decks. (If he likes it, he'll save it for the next reading period)

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 18/09/2026

Hello, a couple of notes about submissions! First, we are getting a lot of snail-mail subs without SASE included, and also a lot of emails asking why we haven't responded to subs sent last year. These are correlated! We really need the SASE or a stamped postcard if you want a response.

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 18/09/2026

Something you may not know, all our issues since volume 54 are available as high-quality PDFs to read on your tablet or e-ink device, for just a few bucks. If you want to support us, this is a great way...these are terrific magazines at an unbeatable price, and you get them immediately

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not bad, but this one is my favorite:

@prettyliltakemachine

Welcome new students. My name is Charles Xavier. The world around you will judge people like us for our differences, but at this school we seek to teach you to harness - who thought that. I do not look like Mr. Clean's gay brother. Who thought that."

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 17/09/2026

Hardware clerk: Can I interest you in a sawznone? A sawzalittle? How about this sawzsome we just got in Me: hell no buddy

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 16/09/2026

I give up…it’s over. comprised just means composed now

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 16/09/2026

Hello? Sorry, what's that? Is my refrigerator ru… oh no. Oh I'm so sorry to have to tell you like this. My refrigerator died. Yeah, about two months ago. No, yeah, it was pretty sudden. Were you two... how did you know each other? Oh. I see. I never knew he had a… I mean, I wondered… I'm so sorry

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

From the never-produced Mr. Show movie HOORAY FOR AMERICA! Late ‘90s.

MOMENTS LATER -
CUT
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It's very simple. This is my last campaign stop. In the next month, my opponents will spend an estimated combined total of 178 million dollars campaigning for your vote. I, too, will spend 178 million dollars. On you. If elected, I will send each and every registered voter a check for 4,072 dollars and 65 cents.
David holds up a GIANT CHECK to "Joe Public."

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today I thought, "I wonder what Kyoto shrine it was that Scarlett Johansen's character visits in Lost in Translation," so I took out my phone and looked it up and turns out I was already there, right that moment, standing in the very place I was looking up

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 12/09/2026

My aunt died this week and, for her funeral, my cousins spread out a pile of curios and keepsakes from her life, including this…it’s a dance card, as in, my dance card is full. Hers was! I knew these existed but had never seen one

Dance card reading
Christmas Ball
Presented by
THE CLASS OF '54
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1953
DANCING: 9:00 P.M. UNTIL MIDNIGHT

Inside, a list of people who are gonna dance

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Kvetch & Release 🎣 @kvetchrelease.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think everyone, Jewish or not, is ready for a new year. Here's hoping yours is happy, healthy, and sweet.

Image: Children dancing next to some roses and a pair of birds

Text: Happy New Year (in Hebrew, English, & French)

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Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2026 #94 I was came across this, the first novel from @jrobertlennon.com a few days ago in a second-hand bookshop and found myself reading it next day. This story of how an airline crash affects a varied group; witnesses, survivor, relatives of the dead; is a most assured debut. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky

The Light of Falling Stars, by J. Robert Lennon.

A plane falls from the sky as a couple argue in their backyard; the whine of its engines drowning out there voices, part of the aircraft shearing through the roof of their house. A few miles away in the airport a young man anxiously awaits the arrival of his girlfriend, while in a long-empty house an old woman nervously anticipates the reappearance of a husband who left her many years before.
Two days later, a stranger appears at the home of the couple who watched the plane go down, saying only that he has come from Italy to begin a new life. He is the sole survivor of the disaster, although he mysteriously chooses not to reveal this, or anything of his past. He witnesses the disintegration of the couples marriage - the recent tragedy hastening its end - and befriends the husband who is increasingly adrift in the wake of his wife's decision to leave.
The author depicts the lives of those affected by the crash as they struggle to re-establish themselves and imagine a changed future, each undergoing a transformation - some for the better, others for the worse. A fine debut.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.

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