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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 2h

Every person in the next administration will be replacing the worst person to ever hold their office.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4h

It would be good if there was just, like, one good thing in the world, wouldn't it? Like if a nice thing happened, or if someone did something that made things better rather than worse, or if people weren't needlessly, pointlessly, cruel in an endless tragic cycle.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 6h

You mean the Fortune 500 episode?

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 8h

the social media ideal is firing off three to five borderline nonsense posts before closing the app and taking a 2 hour nap

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 12h

one thing I tell myself these days, when everything feels irreparable, is that you don't have to fix everything, and you never have to go it alone. if you find one thing you can do consistently in the company of others, you will have accomplished so much more than you can rightly enumerate.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 11h

I understand why many people have not so positive feelings and associations with Springsteen. I'm not going to argue with that. This is also one of the most well written albums by an artist in his generation. In many ways, it's a whole encapsulation of the burning house MLK talked about.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 11h

Thread. There is a clear pattern here. The first sign of a bubble popping is when the ads (in the US) are telling "ordinary" white people to invest. But you know it will pop *right away* when they start targeted advertising to *Black* investors.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 13h

Winter is coming, folks W.S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927

W. S. Merwin
DUSK IN WINTER

The sun sets in the cold without friends
Without reproaches after all it has done for us
goes down believing in nothing
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it
It has brought its flute it is a long way

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 13h

Ladies and gentlemen, the banality of evil.

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This has been my pinned post for 8 months (and a fave quote since I read it years ago) and wish it wasn't so au courant.

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 15h

Another welcome acquisition. The quirky irony of the title has always raised a smile - no wonder it’s been lodged in the memory for years. Read the title story today - and then happily reread, knowing I’d missed a few things first time around… And of course, it’s all beautifully written. #booksky

Copy of the Orb Paperback edition of the Gene Wolfe collection ‘The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories’.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 18h

Dreamt that I failed again… but not at dreaming.

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MattSkywalkingFox 🎃🎃👻👻 @jaimevilchez18.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kuroneko is a brilliant feminist ghost story that really manages to go so freaking hard in terms of how it shows the brutal consequences of what comes with violence and their serious effects on us, but it also critiques upon the issues of sexual violence and systemic oppression through arrogance.

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This guy just sat there not saying anything so we decided to try a different place for lunch.

A mannequin is sitting on a picnic table watching you. he hasn't said anything... yet.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For alums or others who want to support student journalism, you can donate to the Cornell Daily Sun here:

cdsaa-2660.wp.greekly.io

Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love how on Bluesky you can just keep replying to yourself forever, almost completely confident in the fact no one will ever read your innermost thoughts and that if they do they won't judge but will just think, yes friend, I understand

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me, coming across a cursed Discourse: one that is pointless, argumentative, and big "Everyone Sucks Here" vibes

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Homer Simpson Retreats into a Bush

Alt: Homer Simpson Retreats into a Bush

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Killing time before going to a free food event put on by the adjunct union. Tell me something, anything at all.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't even anymore with this world. Why bother.

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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it’s incredible that dogs have figured out how to outsource their cognition to humans. they will literally stare at you and it makes you uncomfortable enough to try to figure out what they want. the dog might not even know! but you’ll start doing things for the dog until you do something they want.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/09/2026

I remember realising this nearly twenty years ago, reading Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near, where he talks about how in a post-scarcity world where everything was utterly free, you'd have to have some technical means to protect intellectual property.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking this morning about John Gray’s assertion that humans are essentially killer apes; we can be more, but that’s pretty much our baseline.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything is so appalling or exhausting or both.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Day the Earth Fidgeted Nervously

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s Little Free Library find.

A first edition paperback of John Christopher’s The White Mountains.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tilda Swinton's Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton" is a good example of "common" evil, in a world without morality. You can see her rationalizing everything she does, getting deeper into it, losing all perspective, until she's justifying murders as being for the good of the shareholders

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

$64K is more or less what I make as an adjunct professor, teaching at three different NYC schools; the thought that if I'd stayed in journalism, and reached what I would have once felt was a somewhat exalted position (Harpers!), only to make the *same amount* as a hustling adjunct... well.

"He went on to spend a decade at Harper's, editing serious long-form articles for an ever-dwindling audience. For this he was, as recently as 2023, paid $64,000 a year: less than when he started, adjusted for inflation."

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

50! An overflowing album (a double Lp with bonus 45; it seems meant for the CD or streaming age). Its richness still astounds, full of fresh discoveries ("Contusion," "All Day Sucker,"etc)

Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life (rel 28 Sept 1976)

Liner note credits, inc listing by name all the great Motown players and an apology for taking so long to release it

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes. Looking forward to the day when this is as forgotten as Y2K.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Top five Costello for me. Happy memories of the pair of them on a documentary chortling together as they tried to come up with a slogan to sell the record and eventually settled on "Because it's a lonely world - Costello and Bacharach". "God Give Me Strength" is *jaw-droppingly* good.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sidebar: the one time I was in the audience for a taping of Late Night with David Letterman, in 2004, the musical guest was Arcade Fire; I distinctly remember turning to my visiting friend (the reason I was even there) and asking, “What the hell is Arcade Fire?”

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