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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You’ve asked me to accept — because dictionaries and grammar should be descriptive, not prescriptive — that “literally” can mean “figuratively.” I’m not over it. And now “on accident” is acceptable? And “20$”? (I am perfectly fine with the singular “they,” however.)

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eurythmics warned me not to mess with this one.

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s all kayfabe, it’s all working the refs They don’t believe their line and neither do their fans—it’s just my team vs. your team and who scores.

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a stunning work this is. (Don’t skip the acknowledgments!) It fascinates me how modern audiences (myself included) consume historical racial trauma when it’s suffused with the supernatural (see Sinners, the works of Tananarive Due) — in ways I hope are deeper than mere entertainment. #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I hope they will have the decency to clear my name with the same publicity with which they now have besmirched it,”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Am I supposed to be reminded of high fantasy while immersed in hard science fiction? #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are all Charlie Gordon. Reread something from childhood or adolescence. Like Charlie on his post-surgery Rorschach, you’ll insist that this couldn’t possibly be the same text you encountered before maturity and loss of innocence! At least, that’s how I remember “Flowers for Algernon”…. #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ask pharma about its cures for chronic conditions….

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mother and son discuss this painting in the most recent episode of #DarkMatter

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s interesting how deep branding gets into your psyche. The other day I wondered why my eight-year-old niece was interested in Pulp Fiction. Turns out there was only a surface similarity of shapes and colors.

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Isn’t it time for the parents to show up and spank this brat?

top picture: NYT article entitled “OpenAI Discloses Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior”
bottom picture: still from “The Squire of Gothos,” Star Trek TOS

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In or near Stratford, Connecticut? Consider these two ways to support kids’ literacy! #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

QUOTATION CHALLENGE One per day, chosen at random from a numbered collection #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At first I thought this was good news — a sex offender was discovered and he was kicked off a committee or panel — and then I realized, Of course not.

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

QUOTATION CHALLENGE One per day, chosen at random from a numbered collection #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

QUOTATION CHALLENGE One per day, chosen at random from a numbered collection #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I encountered this bit of chiasmus two times in less than a week: IT’S BETTER TO HAVE IT AND NOT NEED THAN TO NEED IT AND NOT HAVE IT. Rhetorically nifty…but used in reference to a Glock and an OxyContin script. Thoughts?

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

QUOTATION CHALLENGE One per day, chosen at random from a numbered collection #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel as if each partial book title is an Easter egg.

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To be fair, have you been to an Eva Hesse exhibit?

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

QUOTATION CHALLENGE One per day, chosen at random from a numbered collection #booksky

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Michael Fiorello @mjfiorello.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

and treatment of indigenous peoples in US and eugenics movement

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