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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 14h

Helen Garner. It’s going to be Helen Garner.

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Gregory Wolfe @gregorywolfe.bsky.social · 17h

I kinda like this guy.

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 21h

make of will what you this

"The nine books I'll never forget" grid; the books are:
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner
The Stammering Century by Gilbert Seldes
The Call and the Response by Jean-Louis Chrétien
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was a boy, we had proper TV seasons—22 episodes! At least! None of this waiting three years for the next one. BAM—every fall, a new season in the lineup! Cover of TV Guide and everything!

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah I’m going to need to check this out. Just know him from that big Elif Batuman essay back in the day.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 01/10/2026

This is the least annoying text from a Democratic politician that I've received in at least eight years

A text reading:

Fitzpatrick is paying a turtle trafficker to lie about me. Seriously.
Read more: bh4pa.org/turtle?
t=ayP4wG
-Bob Harvie
Text STOP to quit

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Fuck yeah." -- The Pope, right now

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Liz Tamny @etamny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sox are up POPE

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This reminds me of Fred Pfeil’s concept “industrial fiction”.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dan is the Man in the Van.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in the way that triggered the comic book nerd part of my brain. Had to stifle a laugh about it in the middle of class. 2/2

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've read Schumpeter Capitalism Socialism & Democracy cover to cover at least half a dozen times and it's only in the middle of class last week that I noticed the ~2pp devoted to the proposition "with no power comes no responsibility"— sometimes in almost verbatim that language— 1/

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My initial thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones essay discourse:

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NB: these are not necessarily my thoughts about the essay itself.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My initial thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones essay discourse:

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hah! I believe that what I may have thought intuitively. Indeed, had I gone with a Bibical figure as a “hero” I would have been more inclined to have gone with someone like (the all too human) Moses.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Far as I know, her political career flamed out pretty quickly.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Back in the day on the UWI campus I met this girl who asked me who was my hero. Apparently, the only acceptable answer was (Our Lord and Savior) Jesus Christ but I genuinely answered Optimus Prime. #tilallareone

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Read @philipchristman.bsky.social's beautiful sendoff to the truly great Annie Dillard, "a Transcendentalist to whom the 20th century had happened." sojo.net/articles/opi...

sojo.net

The Pilgrimage of Annie Dillard

The celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a beautiful tribute to Annie Dillard by Bobby Baird.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dan Rather Reports on the Detroit Public School System (2012) youtu.be/4xypiZ-hqdY?...

youtu.be

Dan Rather Reports - A National Disgrace

YouTube video by theratherreports

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So Hannah Arendt wuz right? 🤔

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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes I think I should delete my Bluesky account, because what’s the point of listening to one hand clapping. And then…

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wonder what ever happened to Gwyneth Paltrow’s music career?

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

PageSix Reports Polansky (guess Roman probably isn’t an option).

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kushner was often asked to comment about how he could’ve seen all this coming and his response always makes me laugh which is that it was so fucking obvious *even a playwright* could see it. im just saying there’s a reason his friends say his drag name should be Eera Lee Prescient.

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A vital part of the national conversation on the most important things then happening in the country. My guess is I will never see that happen again as long as I live, but I hope I’m wrong.

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It might be the last major world event in which a national publication turned to a playwright and theater critic to make sense of it. And because Toby Kushner (the last playwright public intellectual in America maybe ever) happened to have a play in rehearsals about Afghanistan, theater remained…

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The thing I remember every 9/11, besides the experience of being in Manhattan that day, is that that week Slate was running a daily correspondence between John Lahr (last of the theater critic public intellectuals) and August Wilson (the penultimate playwright public intellectual )

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good morning, friends!

A panel from a 1992 Peanuts comic strip showing Peppermint Patty at her desk in school looking at a piece of paper and touching a pencil to her chin. She is saying, “It’s too late now . . . “

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Holy smokes. Could be the best description I have ever heard: "She once, brilliantly, described novel-writing as 'trying very hard to remember something which has not yet taken place'." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Anita Brookner by Hermione Lee review – an enigmatic literary great given her due

This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jackson State choir. And God.

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