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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No one will ever be more punk than Dolly Parton. The best of us.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The more interest in long, dense, weird, and obscure prose declines, the more committed I become to writing it

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The near-past, often shockingly grotesque, does not inspire confidence in the probity of the present

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Once again pondering how to create a society that is immune to the effect of wealth because the latter annihilates the former

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The Judge Dredd timeline of events seems more rational than the last ten years

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I did not anticipate being so embarrassed by a society in which I had so little faith to begin with

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It’s not that things don’t make sense; it’s that the sense they make doesn’t make any sense

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Have any of you ever been completely ghosted by your own publisher and if so how did you cope

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I just got a message that chicken tenders are now called chicken TOUGHS and that I’m not man enough to eat one

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Terrifying but stupid but appalling but embarrassing but alarming but absurd

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Now that I have outlived Emily Dickinson it’s time to live like Emily Dickinson

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Acquiescence to being interviewed by Chotiner proves that Thanatos is real

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If I do not speak to you it may be because I listened to you

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Apologizing to random songbirds for the sin of human persons

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Start of the semester is always busy but it would be easier if I didn’t have to turn off all the AI features my institution has stuffed, unbidden, into every aspect of my work life

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It’s a very low priority but if I could find a publisher for this weird book that would be super neat, send vibes pls

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

When moral obligation requires ethical compromise

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Dhalgren. It had a regular ol’ science fiction cover! What could go wrong!

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I was never tempted to be a public intellectual because I could not resist the lure of being a private weirdo

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

That contagion essay by David Wallace-Wells is going right in my evidence file of human life as a net negative for the very possibility of life at all

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

We need a radical improvement in human character but at this point I will welcome even the slightest increase in decency

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thanks to At Length for publishing this essay about Micronauts and other stuff! I wonder if @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social remember these… atlengthmag.com/nemo/

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Nemo

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I’m tired of evil’s petulant insistence that it be treated with respect.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If you’ve heard about the horror of this “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp, please remember another Alligator: Halpatter Tustenughee. A hero of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in 1837, he helped beat the living hell out of Zachary Taylor and the U.S. Army. Resistance is never futile.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Between fighting demons and refueling to fight more demons, please take a look at the essay I have here. Is it better to be a toy than a boy? Find out!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Let’s get some Quakers and assert their claims that this entire administration is compromising their free exercise rights

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A pity, that accuracy should so be heard / as hyperbole

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Do you know what you should have handy at all times? Bolt cutters. Available at many retail chains and your local hardware store, I bet! Anyway, you’re welcome, more tomorrow!

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

How can the fact that other people are real still be so elusive

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David Jesse @reporterdavidj.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Last week, I sent an open records request for some pretty basic and targeted records to 20 major public universities across the country. Records have begun to flow in, none with a charge, except for one: @umich.edu wants $367 and will do their best to get it to me within 60 days.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“I’m really interested in anything that people have strong opinions about. I’m a Florida writer, and people have a lot of strong opinions about Florida.” Up on the WLT Weekly, Debbie Ou interviews Kristen Arnett. @kristenarnett.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/intervi...

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

There’s a point at which merely suffering one moral injury after another begins to make one injurious

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Accepting the presidency of the University of Florida under current conditions is an admission that you are not qualified to be president of any institution nominally committed to teaching and learning

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The number of people who will suffer or die because this cadre of fools could not, absolutely could not accept that they are anything less than exceptional

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I feel like the only reason I use Bluesky is to routinely shout that to persecute trans people is to reveal absolute lack of character or decency

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Did I mention that in the capitulation letter our admin told us we shouldn’t feel sore because soon we are going to deliver awesome services like personalized AI tutors for every student? Please fling yourselves directly into the sun

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Maybe the University of Toronto would like to open a few dozen satellite campuses

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Whenever I am angry my natal regional syntax and diction kick in which is why my empty house is ringing with shouts of “Ain’t none y’all mfers ever been in a fight before”

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A craven, humiliating day for the University of Michigan.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I am sure my institution will not crown itself in glory, but Columbia, you have humiliated yourself perhaps beyond recovery

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I very much hope the book of mine they used poisons the entire process. That’s verse, you idiots: the syntax that destroys its own utility. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I don’t know what they think will happen once they deprive people of all legal means of redress but I don’t think they’re going to like it

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Phrases like “weak-ass bullshit” are appearing more frequently in my correspondence with elected officials than I suspect they like but

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I sure hope the reason I cannot complete a call to either Gary Peters’ DC office or his Detroit office is because so many other people are burning up the lines

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My sister just shared her book club’s most recent selection and I immediately suggested abandoning it and reading @pronounced-ing.bsky.social instead. You’re welcome, book club, I’m just here to help!

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Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ve been forced to use the word “feckless” so much more than I ever could have anticipated

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