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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 4h

kittysneezes.com/apophany-22-... new me over at @kittysneezes.com talking about pinball machines! the anxiety of standing at a machine! rock band pinball machines! why pinball machines are like dogs!

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APOPHANY #22: SOME NOTES ON PINBALL MACHINES

Pinball hasn’t started making me unhappy yet. Knowing me, there’s still time. But as of now, it feels safe.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 28/09/2026

New column this week, mostly notes on playing pinball. One way to get the column in your email is to sign up for my Buttondown Muleskinner Presser. You also get some capsule reviews and one flash essay. Subscribe for free below. buttondown.com/christophers...

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Muleskinner Presser

Sometimes I live in the country. Sometimes I live in town.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 23/09/2026

Bluesky users when its time to do socialism (going to the post office) versus Bluesky users when a leftist is somewhat cringe

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 16/09/2026

Going to be 100% honest: the more people who subscribe to this for free, the less I have to feel like I have to be online. I want to be less online. Support me in my mission. buttondown.com/christophers...

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Sometimes I live in the country. Sometimes I live in town.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 16/09/2026

tinyurl.com/mulepress912 I had a mild crash out about this yesterday. No social media is good for writing, I have no idea to get people to read it. Muleskinner Presser is a "newsletter" for keeping up with my writing. So it's not just spam, I do write a small header piece and some reviews.

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MULESKINNER PRESSER SEPTEMBER 1/2: I DON'T KNOW HOWS YOU DONE IT BUT I KNOWS YOU DONE IT

Well, I’m off Bluesky for the time being. Good. Send it to hell. I feel like it was designed to drive me insane. Nevertheless, I’m happy that I have been...

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 16/09/2026

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MULESKINNER PRESSER SEPTEMBER 1/2: I DON'T KNOW HOWS YOU DONE IT BUT I KNOWS YOU DONE IT

Well, I’m off Bluesky for the time being. Good. Send it to hell. I feel like it was designed to drive me insane. Nevertheless, I’m happy that I have been...

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 15/09/2026

I'm probably done with the social/poster aspect of this site. The writing is it. Here's my latest newsletter. I review some shit. I wrote about some shit. This is it. I'm done with reacting to the world's horrors like I'm running a talk show. Read the shit or don't. buttondown.com/christophers...

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MULESKINNER PRESSER SEPTEMBER 1/2: I DON'T KNOW HOWS YOU DONE IT BUT I KNOWS YOU DONE IT

Well, I’m off Bluesky for the time being. Good. Send it to hell. I feel like it was designed to drive me insane. Nevertheless, I’m happy that I have been...

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 15/09/2026

buttondown.com/christophers... MULESKINNER PRESSER. MY FAVORITE LOONEY TUNES IN HONOR OF COYOTE VS ACME REVIEWS! SWORD OF THE LICTOR BEYOND APOLLO DIANE WILLIAMS'S I LIKED REX ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD'S LATEST I DON'T MISS POSTING HERE THAT MUCH.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 08/09/2026

Ended up reneging yesterday but barring important stuff, taking the next month or so off Bluesky. The best way to keep up with me is my Buttondown, which I should put out 2-3 issues of before I log back in. buttondown.com/christophers...

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Sometimes I live in the country. Sometimes I live in town.

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I recently had to quit my job for health reasons; I've applied for unemployment but it hasn't kicked in yet, and I'm behind on rent, various debts, and my phone line is set to get cut off today. If anyone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. paypal.me/tuxedocatfish

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Pay Michael Wikoff using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/tuxedocatfish and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 07/09/2026

If you can share or donate, please do. Tux is one of those internet friends that makes the whole enterprise worthwhile and they happen to have been doing good, difficult work up until then (legal aid).

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 07/09/2026

Trying to articulate that I basically agree with the Bluesky position talking to MAHA influencers is a waste of time but I can count on one hand the number of people on here I'd send out to convert a fence sitter.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 07/09/2026

i don't especially want to hear about how great AI is from the guy who codes a website that keeps crashing in my browser

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

My entire goal with guitar is become Loud Dave Rawlings

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

Getting older, the less enamored I get with directors who are doing sketchy shit and being dangerous on set. The proper place for a person whose brain is a menagerie is writing novels, where there are fewer people in the blast zone of their personality

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

They're labeling jazz performances like NBA highlight videos now.

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This book traces Bugs Bunny’s lineage to Africa, specifically to tricksters Br'er Rabbit and Anansi, as one of many forms of the trickster figure in the African diaspora.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

This is my all time favorite reggae album.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

I really should have committed to my hater instincts on this. Whole thing was off. There's no reason to do 38 unless you're trying to hearken to the average poster on this site's age.

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🍄 @peddasson.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

"this fucking sucks actually"-meme
with Adorno pointing at jazz music (represented by Miles Davis playing the trompete)

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/06/2024

My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.”

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

Local guy on Facebook marketplace is selling vintage snapbacks for outrageous prices. I'm not paying $40 for a Myrtle Beach Pelicans hat chief

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 06/09/2026

every time Harry Potter is in the news I keep thinking about my idea to make a big fuck off van painting fantasy story about a character named Wizardkiller

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

if by some miracle I was voted most influential bluesky user I would shoot a video of me pissing in my mouth

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yet Mamdani can play Mario Kary publicly and you all applaud him for it

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

Tomb Mold got me into death metal now

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

really odd thing: a lot of Kid Rock's whole late 90s thing was basically redneck Dr. John

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

Went to play the Metallica pinball machine yesterday and kept saying "My lifestyle determines my pinstyle" to myself, only for "Frantic" to be one of the songs on the machine

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

damn, you're from the east coast and think you have the best pizza? that's fuckin' crazy, man. next you'll tell me those have a different name than "corner store"

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

the awesome thing about pizza is you can put whatever you want on it, which is why I think arguing about how it's cooked or certain toppings is reddit as fuck

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 05/09/2026

Thinking back on me in high school, when I was just throwing shit together to try understand who I was, I remember trying really hard to recreate the By Any Means Necessary picture with a gun made out of legos, which sounds like something you'd see in a Channel Awesome video

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People are always saying William Shakespeare was such a great writer, but I looked it up and it's all stuff like "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Reddit fedora shit.

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isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Maia Poet has been cast as Harry Potter

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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ICE OUT OF FREDERICK, MD! Comrades in Frederick, MD are blocking ICE from kidnapping a family they’ve been stalking since yesterday. THEY NEED PEOPLE! They won’t leave til ICE does. Get out there if you can. Love & solidarity from DC to our MD neighbors

a flier that says: ICE out of Frederick. 36+ hours of ICE camped to intimidate a neighborhood as they abduct and harm community members.

Thames Dr and Schaeffer Dr 9/4/26 we stay until they go

Heavy ice presence/interactions please use caution for privacy and use your own judgment for risk

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

obviously there's so many more vile and awful things about the second trump administration than the fact they are aesthetically wack but the way in which they're aesthetically wack and cringe is the salt in the evil brownie

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lumie's dad @classhuggle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Workers deserve the right to unionize their workplace without fear of unemployment. Justice-oriented organizations do themselves a disservice when they act no different from Walmart or Amazon. @transequality.bsky.social, come to the negotiating table and engage in good-faith effects bargaining.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

Interesting thing about metal that connects it to sports: you look away for ten seconds and a band will have a completely different lineup

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

one of the saddest things I see is someone who I know is pretty smart decide to dive waist deep into the worst sort of online politics drama shit youtube

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

this fuckass website can put a little guy in the right hand corner telling you how many posts are in a thread but I can't lock my profile? come on

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

everybody thinks a humanities education is useless until they decide to define the word "alive" and get it so wrong it destroys the planet.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 04/09/2026

no it's fucking not and you're a magazine for waiting rooms

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