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"I did it myyyyyyy waaaaay (my way or the highway)"

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it'll be for the best ... eventually ...

do we think Fred Durst was a Sinatra fan?

the kegger of amontillado

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

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

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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 · 27/09/2026

no thoughts. just possum.

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“looks like beets’re back on the menu, boys”

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 27/09/2026

I always confuse them with Fatboy Slim personally

j west @jwestbennett.com · 26/09/2026

cry room and let slip the dogs of war!

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j west @jwestbennett.com · 26/09/2026

the more out-of-touch they become, the more irrelevant. which is fine — I don’t think anyone’s expecting relief from our current situation to come from institutions like the NYT

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

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

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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

damn girl sounds like you got some Great Expectations

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The answer may surprise you!

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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

baby, it would’ve blown his mind

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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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not the 1900s newspaper boy! not mr. “extra extra read all about it”!!

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turns out the “logic of the market” is still just as subject to the illogic of greed and credulity as it always has been. oops

as soon as they stop “innovating,” investors will stop focusing on the left hand that’s doing the “future profits” song-and-dance and they’ll notice the right hand of “actual historic revenue,” and the whole act will fall apart

@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!

j west @jwestbennett.com · 22/09/2026

in the funhouse mirror world of Capitol Hill, it seems somehow to be considered *punching up* to pick on marginalized people — because, as we know, they and their Woke Tribunals are the ones with the REAL power, not the poor civil servants who only get to, uh, make laws

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hey Siri, set alarm for when September ends

j west @jwestbennett.com · 21/09/2026

the Dancing Queen is a papist puppet!!

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

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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j west @jwestbennett.com · 20/09/2026

rube against the machine

“moretini” is an excellent name for a double martini

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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