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Richard B. Simon

@rbsimon.bsky.social
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Writer. Professor. PEN America Bellwether Prize Finalist. Words: GulfstreamLit, ChicagoQReview, Hunger Mtn., Relix, RollingStone, MTV, Juxtapoz. Teaching Big History (UC Press). BRIGHT SPIDER PRESS www.brightspiderpress.com .

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 17h
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 1h
WHERE CAN I FIND ONE I HAVE TO HAVE THIS I WILL STOP AT NOTHING
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
Legalized Bribery. (H/T @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ) (Core Civic is based in Brentwood, TN)
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years and only start to reproduce at the age of 150 with $45 per heart bounty The plan has been dropped but there is momentum growing to kill the sharks Absolute evil - spread the word nypost.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years with $45 per heart bounty
Greenland sharks becomes sexually mature at the old age of 150 and are believed to gestate thier young for over a decade — meaning populations can take an extremely long time to recover.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Moby Dick, it seems.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh fuck yes
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis. 
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All Greek to me.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
jazz forensics: lewis porter tries to pin down the specific african LPs john coltrane drew from in the early '60s. lewisporter.substack.com/p/coltrane-h...
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Coltrane: His Recorded Sources, Part 2 of 3: "Dahomey Dance" & Thoughts About "Africa" (+Bonus)
(Paying Subscribers, there’s another gift for you at the bottom—three complete recordings that are excerpted in the essay, and a detailed booklet about African music.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They would never.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shamm-AI LLM AI ding dong.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New fan
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s actually protecting you and your work. It’s funny bc it sounds like you’re posting the same words under two IDs and there’s no way for him to know That. But he’s looking out for you, sounds like.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
University Presidents are not the elected leaders of democracies or policy leaders. They are figureheads, unelected heads of state, hired by boards of trustees, and their job is to raise money, period.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tuesday The 11th
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Solid.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yup
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WAAAZZZZZUUUUPPPPPPPPPPP
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sonny’s Blues By Baldwin. Saint Marie by Erdrich. Cathedral, obvs, by Carver. Black Box by Egan.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lol
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also terrifying.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When @brokensymmetry.art finds the fillmore shirt ringers can we have a few of these too? I got old man goals here.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pretty sure they are nowhere near 2XL either
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He don’t look blank
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve heard em. They’re pretty good!
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An unannounced change took effect on September 15, adding another layer of difficulty for thousands of families and lawyers trying to locate detained loved ones. Read more: lataco.com/final-remova... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Jaylyn Preslicka
Two masked immigration agents detaining a man and walking him toward a car. 

Headline reads "Read This If Your Loved One Has a Final ‘Removal Order’"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man, I am trying so hard to.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Raccoon Entrails And Livers
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bonkers how plainly Nazi this idiot is. Just as lunatic a degenerate thug as the original Prussian strain.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2/ Here’s Paul Knight playing some interlude after sets by Marika Christine and Serafima 9/16 … You hippies may remember him accompanying Ramblin’ Jack at the Bobby Weir memorial in January. He’s the finest bluegrass and old-timey bassist in the Bay, venturing lately further into rock and jazz …
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Catching up after recovering a bit from the DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER ROLLING OCEAN REVUE Fall 26 West Coast venture … Here’s me with Paul Knight, a reg’lar associate of Peter Rowan, David Nelson, Ramblin’ Jack, and David Grisman, telling story like whales do, at Mercury Café in SF 9/16.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@queencityjamz.bsky.social
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Genius headline. Hall of Fame.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Canvassing as a young man in an earlier century, I met a gentleman who was convinced that CFC doomers were wrong about the depletion of the ozone layer. What did he do for work? He worked at a manufacturer of CFCs.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See also: 2006. Gasoline price is Americans’ entire ethical framework. Best part is it’s not even real. Most of the price of gas is paid April 15. Factor in the cost of this idiot war. Divide by # of US taxpayers. Divide by the number of gallons you’ve bought this year. Now add that to your $6.37.
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What are you watching on cause I have the same problem
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We love JG, but that JL on Guy Gardner’s chest patch, huh? 👀
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
!!!
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Solar and wind supply record 80% of Australia’s main power grid for first time www.the-independent.com/climate-chan...
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Solar and wind supply record 80% of Australia’s main power grid for first time
Rooftop solar alone met more than half the demand on the National Electricity Market on Saturday
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Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All other countries Have inferior potash
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