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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why flesh. Why standing. Why Wednesday at noon. Why not speak Latin. We have to worry. Let's worry in Latin.

Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Italian market on 9th street in south Philly — cheesesteaks, pizzas, pork sandwiches, tacos, lots of good food. The Phila art museum & the Barnes are both great

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I find this exhausting & annoying (having worked in North Philly for almost 25 years). in addition to really really wanting to tell you how scary they think it is, they do not stop when you make it clear that you find this whole routine to be cliche & actually offensive. nothing can stop them

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Abortion is a kitchen table issue & most voters care about it

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the only reason I've ever heard of the discourse song is bc I follow the delightful Irish Number Ones, but I've never actually heard the song. I started following Irish Number Ones for their Mr Brightside watch (424 weeks in total on the Irish charts, but never number 1) which I find fascinating

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my 17yo saw it last night & loved it! I can't explain tho

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my oldest (now nearly 20!) had a long stretch of pronouncing it "dumpfuck" as well around that age. & it was one of his favorite things to discuss

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RIP Rachel Blau DuPlessis, poet & critic extraordinaire. from one of her poems, & from an essay of hers on George Oppen—

samaras
green
sleeves
make a moon round rainy trees.
If more seeds fall
will I learn the nature of rain?
Gather the borders snug, pupal,
eat the teachers,
all under the bosky grids of time and place and under wreathe my boughs.

Here the concept of humanity is constructed by addition: one person adds himself to another, like a set of stones or bricks in a wall. This way, people can be builders. The blood from the stone is one proof that humankind can give (say, their lives during a war) to make life blossom, despite the fact that old mother Nature, who appears in the final section, is a useless "stone dead dam." People can shape their lives — it is a high responsibility, but evidently not one that is beyond us. We can choose to live with a humanist ethic, where other people are "brothers" in part because they too have been deserted by a faith and by a system of belief, and because somehow we construct a new faith on the commonality of that loss. In another important poem from The Materials ("Return"), certain seeds of hope are presented, among them a woman, Petra, whose name, perhaps accidentally (perhaps not), means stone - a woman who awakens a whole community to a social and political struggle and is therefore one of the builders of the "wall," Oppen's image for a human community.

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this interview, Rachel Blau DuPlessis says: "I was lucky enough to have George Oppen’s intransigent eye on my very early work." I was lucky enough to have Rachel's intransigent eye on my very early work. Rest in peace— dear fierce brilliant generous Rachel

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I remember really liking him, & mistaking his arms for a scarf

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Terrible news. I’m shocked (& surprised to be shocked). What a loss

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm genuinely at a loss trying to imagine for whom this description is a positive thing

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

it's worth reading the linked policy memo. here's the last paragraph:

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Don’t even need to smoke in one of these. Just stand there & absorb

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Amazing! It also just started to pour in Philly!

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

mailboat home from Monhegan yesterday

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

looking forward to watching this out of the corner of my eye while my kid watches it on an airplane in 2028!

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Red card couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy [saracasm]. Enzo Fernández is notorious for his racism & transphobia.

Screen shot that reads: Enzo Fernandez, currently with Chelsea in London, after the national team’s victory in the Copa America held in the U.S. (following the final game against Colombia in Miami). The video features a song that ends when someone on the team bus says, “Cut the live.” This action suggests an awareness that the song was highly inappropriate and shouldn’t be shared on social media.
The song itself is a blatant display of transphobia and racism in varying degrees. The full lyrics state: “Listen, pass the ball: They play for France, but they’re from Angola.” The song goes on to describe French star Kylian Mbappe as a “cometravas,” a slang term that refers to someone who has sex with transgender people, before returning to its initial theme: “Their mother is from Cameroon, their father from Nigeria, but their passports say French.”

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When I was 14 years old I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on a flight from Philly to Dublin. Probably the most significant reading experience of my life, Irish & otherwise & all

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lisa Robertson, out of Riverwork, part of a lovely paean to dust (“I am a dust artist . . . displacing cosmic matter temporarily from its solid support to make a negative image of time.”) A way of talking about quotation, circulation, infinite reuse, and how language is ever-borrowed, ever-impure.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the english child who just scored that goal has a real Dulce et Decorum Est face

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's like a Breughel painting, depicting the folly of man in a range of little scenes.

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I used to print out those directions as well. I still screenshot the directions now, & my kids laughed at me til the GPS failed while out & about in Spain

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 07/07/2026

VAR sifting through archaeological evidence from the reign of Ramses II to overturn that goal

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Allons-y babyyyy

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Take me home to the place I belong Philadelphia

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Teaching in study abroad, while in London we rented the most posh housing we’ll ever live in through sabbatical homes. Still dream about that flat. Your place looks gorgeous! Have the best time!

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Where I teach, CJ is the 2nd biggest liberal arts major, by a large margin. Psych is first

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My kids (Philly region) regularly play soccer in Hershey — so I think for soccer purposes Hershey is in the “Philadelphia region”

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I spoke to her twice, both times (awkwardly) in the 10th floor bathroom of Mazur Hall. Also attended the one (1) department meeting she attended

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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I made the same discovery in summer 2022

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