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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

another form of ambient music one hopes will end within an hour

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Growing up in northern Illinois, I first associated Coleridge with Wisconsin.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh it was plenty haunted before, so no worries

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Camelsaurus officially part of my unconscious mind now

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still kind of love how his Freaks and Geeks character chose to revere Neil Peart of all drummers.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2044: At last I place my quill in the inkwell and behold with serenity this new story no one will read, written on a parchment salvaged from the wastes.

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Barnabas Bulpett @bbulpett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New York photo of the day Manhattan. 73°F (23° C), partly cloudy. #NYC #City #SignOfTheTimes #Travel #RushHour #FDR #Gridlock #Traffic #WeHaveASubway #EastHarlem #CyclingAdvert 🛣

Early evening scene in a hurried City on one of its busiest expressways during the rush hour; the automobiles crawl along the southbound lanes with their many red brake lights glowing because traffic ia moving sonvery slowly; a highway sign above the freeway reads "Average Travel Times: Queensboro Bridge thirty-eight minutes, Midtown Tunnel sixty minutes, Brooklyn Bridge eighty-two minutes", with the numerals illuminated with lights; for context, it takes about forty-five minutes to bicycle from here to the Brooklyn Bridge; cars are wack; a red brick public housing building stands behind the sign and rises above it toward the pink clouds of the overcast twilight sky.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now THAT'S an endorsement

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somehow I'm dreading stopping querying agents on my novel this week, but thinking it might be best for my mental and spiritual health.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This ongoing hideous experiment where tech guys think they're intellectuals because the LLM that sounds like their assistants tells them that Jesus loved the idea of the multinational corporations has to stop.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

really aiming to see his mahler 9 coming up

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i feel that way about the symphonies too, but, for me, the string quartets are the inmost portrait of his imagination

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe this will be controversial, but I feel Breaking Bad, unlike Better Call Saul, got worse in the later seasons when the bro fodder got more pronounced.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one of the funniest and most revealing things about america is how elite institutions really want to know what people who know nothing about anything think about fiscal and foreign policy

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

sometimes reading is hard for book critics

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

still less confusing than Comerica though imo

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And at the same time it seems Pritzker is announcing his intentions to be a blue state governor running for president. Not that Newsom was to be taken seriously anyway, but now, eesh.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Judging by the aesthetic, I am pleased to announce the Pope knows the ways of the middle class.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the right take. American Graffiti the same. Even with young Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, Harrison Ford gave that movie a smooth fierce energy when he'd pop up to drag race someone.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this is the only credible way to say you love wisdom

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even if Picard and Sisko are both the GOAT, so is Janeway.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

buddy you just described an alt-weekly

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'd be more impressed by a Baffler t-shirt

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Something I don't get is the gas station apparel style of American patriotism so common in the U.S. that the president even bedecks himself in it. The optics would be deeply weird if Macron, for example, just went around to official events wearing a cap that said "France" on it.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

they must have tried that already because AI told them as a joke it would be badass

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 12/09/2026

Billionaires, in public, actively trying to wreck democracies and put the world's stupidest and most depraved men in charge ok

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Definitely writing fables and myths and other simple stories I've wanted to write for as long as I've been writing, even if no one ever notices.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a good point. Credit also to the groups that nailed their names, like, say, Tangerine Dream or the Allman Brothers.

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perhaps the only thing that could rise to Breath of the Wild-level reverence for me

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I always appreciate all your humanity

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Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If not literary fiction, perhaps agents would be open to my considerable erudition in this field of inquiry.

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