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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 3h

I love when Lutz puts familiar words in an order that nobody has ever put them in before. (Fresh repurposings on the other hand like "languaged around" often rub me the wrong way, I don't know why.)

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/10/2026

When I worked at the White House, we constantly had to correct the speeches and memos that started with "The cost of college is rapidly rising." It's one of those zombie ideas that is hard to kill. College can be expensive, and moreso than it was for our parents, but let's get the facts right.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't wait for the new story Chris read last night to be published. I've been thinking about it nonstop since.

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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.

identitytheory.com

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

It's not that short! But it's good.

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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 · 23/09/2026

There's a song that makes me cry a few times a year. I think about the last few tracks all the time.

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

I love this album so much. I wish I was at this show.

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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

I did not know that about you but I get it! It's good.

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

This is the best version!!!! G'mar tov!

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

My constantly in-progress high holiday playlist...over the past few years I've taken off some of the classic rock and replaced it with more recent tracks, I think Cool, Cool, River --> Our Prayer --> Not --> Forgive Me Lord is where we currently find ourselves.

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

I'm a dum dum but at least I know better.

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

38 y/o me is surprised by that too.

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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

Oh yes for me too, and we've definitely chatted about it. I don't like this as much as Power and the Glory yet, I may be headed towards a Power and The Glory reread.

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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 · 10/09/2026

I guess my fear is based on an analogy. If there was a guy named Ted who would just show up at your house and walk you through the steps for building a bioweapon, I think that probably more people would build bioweapons. Maybe Ted knows some cheap and simple tricks that he'll tell you if you ask.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The thing that scares me the most is innovation in bio terrorism.

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

Not much, I still think there are use cases for MA but the design that enables speed of progress comes with big trade offs.

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

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

en.wikipedia.org

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 · 06/09/2026

Or even during the summer when I more or less do write full time if I don't have a summer gig, I'm not good enough for more than a few hours of drafting. I guess that's partly a skill issue.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't really understand the breakdown between drafting/revising/reading in an 8 hour work day.

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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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