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j west @jwestbennett.com · 29/09/2026

35,000 words cut from my draft 🥲 and Sisyphus's rock slides back down the mountain

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 26/09/2026

I said GENTLE, damn it

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

forget an HD-2D remake, we need a film adaptation of Final Fantasy 6 where every role is played by Chappell Roan

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[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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every waking hour I’m losing my precision

“tropical depression” is also how I refer to my high school years

back in my day, “split the G” meant sprinting to the middle of the platform at Bedford-Nostrand

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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The PM of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu says that “America deserved 9/11” at the UN General Assembly

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 24/09/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net explains it well in his latest book: the point is not any return on the investments themselves—it’s to have a plausible story to tell investors about potential FUTURE profits, so that your current stock gets overvalued & you can use it as collateral smoke and mirrors!

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 22/09/2026

hey Siri, set alarm for when September ends

j west @jwestbennett.com · 20/09/2026

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it’s like that poem: “First they came for the trans athletes, and I said nothing, because I was not a trans athlete. Then they stopped! whew, thank goodness.”

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I refuse to make this any less complicated

A draft post as follows:

*Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack London doing competing elevator pitches as I punch the door button repeatedly*
Mark: what if a boy had a raft
Scott: what if a man had a party
Jack: what if a dog had a job
Mark: what if the boy is a rascal
Scott: what is the man is a fraud
Jack: what if the dog can commune with fire

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 20/09/2026

rube against the machine

what is this? a hub for gits??

just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you 🫵 👁️👁️

gutted to learn that “tummy time” doesn’t refer to “eat-till-your-tummy-hurts time”

the amount of willful ignorance it takes to maintain this level of free market zealotry is really hard to fathom

Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Universal basic income? Green new deal? PIE IN THE SKY!!! We need to have a realistic future where billionaires control all the wealth but it doesn’t matter because everything is abundant and the machines make all our decisions for us. That’s the future for SERIOUS people

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 15/09/2026

sometimes you just need to be held by your train’s dispatcher

Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 12/09/2026

must be nice to go around with the unshakable belief that you alone are intelligent enough to come up with something like this, that the thought simply never occurred to anyone else

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 12/09/2026

men, what is stopping you from living in a tiny closet for months tormenting yourself with the question of whether you are a Napoleon or a louse?

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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finding myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway has been lost

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Fuck 12 @la-tron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if I ever get a vasectomy this is how I’ll announce it

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They make dommed anime?!

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twenty five years ago I was playing Tribes 2 capture the flag before going to school and my teammates kept saying “we’re under attack” and I was in our base being like “no? what r u talking about?”

USER WAS STABBED FOR THIS POST: “what’re you gonna do, stab me?”

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no no, he’s not a “cofounder,” he’s a “confounder”

just realized that Einstein canonically exists in the Starfox universe I’m not sure what to do with that information

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truly, we are all fish to somebody else’s SpongeBob

“But doctor,” the man said, “I was phone”

you never realize just how wrinkled a shirt is until you iron it

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Hawaii’s already had like three hurricanes, this is not good

I sent you 27 mid IG reels in a row, please respond

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if you thought “Woke 1” was crazy wait’ll you hear about what America was like after 9/11

Gen X’s “fuck the system” creed was a lot more endearing when they were angsty teens than it is now that they count multibillionaires among their ranks