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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 10h

Happy to have three haiku up in @havehashad.com today!

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love that the area of a parabolic arch is 2/3 of base times height. It's so simple.

An arch shaped like a downwards-opening parabola cut off at the bottom with a horizontal line. It's coloured in blue.
The height from base to vertex is labelled with a lowercase h.
The base is labelled with a lowercase b.
To the side and written in blue is the formula A = two thirds b h.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey now!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

btw re: that Stevie Wonder EP, he didn't release his version of "December" but Roberta Flack did. Her 1975 rendition is one of my favorite tracks of all time, perfect 5 a.m. at the end of a long night music...or for any time youtu.be/NcDBwb296ik

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I Can See the Sun in Late December

YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ came out 50 years ago today. An anniversary tour celebrating the double album masterpiece begins next month, and today Wonder shared four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. stereogum.com/2512942/stev...

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright

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Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your regular reminder, which I always do late at night so as to not bother anybody, that my novel’s cover rules.

The cover of my novel ‘Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky’

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Tyler Gooch @tylergooch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very important new one from me

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.

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I Died - Identity Theory

I emerge from the forest to discover I died.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What really upsets me about all this is Alpha calling a pattern of bad academic actions an "anti-pattern." It's a pattern.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anarchist Hebrews Made Sport of Yom Kippur With Dancing

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It always hurts my brain a little that Denis Johnson was just a few years younger than George Harrison.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can't elaborate on this any further right now, but this is Phase 1

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20 y/o me was an idiot and would probably think I'm doing great.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Where are my Graham Greene people at, "The Quiet American" is awesome.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Headline news: -built on human ideas -involves a counterexample -very expensive -very impressive

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From 1951... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun...

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The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's me! I don't think anybody actually wants this!

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Catching up on the summer issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social. moonparkreview.com/issue-36-sum...

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're an English teacher looking to assign a story that involves a winter ritual wherein a poor woman who's had a tough year has to strip and wear a bird costume and undergo a painful ritual for reasons that are difficult to explain and impossible to justify, look no further!

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Perfect embodiment of how the narrative compressions of flash fiction, done well, flow so easily into the religious, thrilling the reader with invitations to understand the world unburdened by context or explanation, which is not what meaning is made of. There are woods behind a store.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Ok, muse—you cheeky, fickle fuck. Blow my shit up with the most disgusting, pearlescent barstool anecdotes about that conniving, self-gaslighting GOAT of toxic horseshit, Odysseus!!” —first line from my modern English translation of the Odyssey, forthcoming from Knopf

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think a bunch of you math people will be interestsed in the part about how numbers in the past were all conceived of describing some thing (like the word "dozen" now). www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIQz...

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anyone who doesn't find this funny is in the lower right. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/philos... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

SMBC 1-panel comic update. A four-quadrant chart is shown with the title "know your branches of philosophy." On the left of the horizontal x axis, there is "careful reasoning." on the right of the x axis, "confusing bullshit." At the top of the y vertical axis there is "stuff that matters," and at the bottom of the y axis can be found "stuff that doesn't matter." A dot is located at the far bottom left, identified as "analytic." Another dot is located at the far top right, identified as "continental."

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poor Melody. She's had a rough year, and she's also sort of part of a cult (or maybe it's a nice normal religion idk the difference) and now she has to wear the wings in the solstice ceremony, ugh, it's just rough for her lately. Read this for Melody. pitheadchapel.com/melody-had-t...

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Melody Had To Wear the Wings

Michael Pershan I called up Melody and told her she had to wear the wings because her mother died in June. I reminded Melody of her bad fortune—that just three weeks after the funeral she herself l…

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve got a story in the September issue of Pithead Chapel, just a heads up that because of my whole emotional situation at the moment I’m going to be posting about it a ton.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please rename the big one Lake Illinois.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I literally don't understand, it sounds like their products are defective.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Exciting news! I can see the full moon through my bedroom window!

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What I don't understand is where the line is drawn between "safety issue" and "product issue." Like ideally those would be aligned, like if sometimes your fork exploded you probably wouldn't want to buy that fork.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm reading good books at the moment!: “The Rest is Noise” — long history of 20th century music (2/3 done) “The Fun Parts” — Sam Lipsyte short stories, enjoying each one (2/3 done) “Golden Hill” — Francis Spufford historical fiction set in early new york city, very much my shit (just started)

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 25/08/2026

Writing exercise: -wake up at 3 AM -eat a handful (or 2) of shredded cheese -write a poem until you burp -go back to sleep

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“The headline claims of ‘2x growth’ come from numbers that have been massaged to the point of being useless for understanding what kids are learning. Alpha School’s appeal seems to lie [in the] eternal appeal of selecting a rich, tech-savvy, ambitious peer group for your kids.”

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Why parents love a school with bogus numbers

Alpha School’s growth scores aren’t real. Alpha School’s growth is.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I owned and loved the Mad Season CD, one of my first purchases.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is all Instagram is for me now

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