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The culture needs a restraining order against this man

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Carrie is the story of a victim who becomes a threat. It's basically about a school shooter!

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How many of them say "Los Angeles, California"

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They are trying to karen Anne Carson on the other site

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Why yes I am nearing 35 years of age why do you ask

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Was wondering why everyone was suddenly talking about James Bridle's New Dark Age, but apparently they're all talking about James Marriott's The New Dark Ages

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The most husband-ass picture ever taken

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Opinion | Billionaires Love This School Policy. Many Regular Parents Hate It.

"An Arizona ABC station found that parents were spending their voucher money on everything from trampoline parks to ski tickets." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

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In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reposted by Robert Rubsam

An October story from Robert Walser (1914)

The Man with the Pumpkin Head

Once there was a man and on his shoulders he had, instead of a head, a hollow pumpkin. This was no great help to him. Yet he still wanted to be Number One. That's the sort of person he was. For a tongue he had an oak leaf hanging from his mouth, and his teeth were cut out with a knife. Instead of eyes, he had two round holes. Back of the holes, two candle stumps flickered. Those were his eyes. They didn't help him see far. And yet he said his eyes were better than anyone's, the braggart. On his pumpkin head he wore a tall hat; used to take it off when anyone spoke to him, he was so polite. Once this man went for a walk. But the wind blew so hard that his eyes went out. He wanted to cry with his candle ends, because he couldn't find his way home. So now he sat there, held his pumpkin head between his hands, and wanted to die. But dying didn't come to him so easily. First there had to come a June bug, which ate the oak leaf from his mouth; there had to come a bird, which pecked a hole in his pumpkin head; there had to come a child, who took away the two candle stumps. Then he could die. The bug is still eating the leaf, the bird is pecking still, and the child is playing with the candle stumps.

Robert Walser, 1914.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Damn, that's some impressive protabstination

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Basically all Iraq war dramas could go here

Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And I didn't even suggest Train Dreams yet

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Genuinely surprised it took this long

Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It would be a fantastic choice, and add to my long list of ignored pitch subjects who soon won the Nobel Prize

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically." www.equator.org/articles/dus...

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Dusklands • EQUATOR

Growing up in the shadow of genocide

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But they need people to believe that they are

It’s pretty easy to make a bad movie

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I think there's plenty of blame to go around there

And they can't even blame Sirota for this one

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These people really just hate America, they want their own special Italian-American Rhodesia

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Will be the last of these before I spend a month exclusively logging ghost stories

Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Works about How We Live Now have terrible track records, see any positive review of The White Lotus

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A shame this guy disappeared and never made another movie

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Debut (2026) aka Maddie's Obvious