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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 15h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 20h

Finally teaching a Taylor story today. Got decent responses to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton, so I’m optimistic about how this will go over.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I got it all on record!” isn’t getting the cultural play it deserves imo

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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

absolutely incredible shit

On his 58th birthday, Goessling met his birth mother in person and later connected with his biological father over the phone. When Goessling asked what he did for a living, his father mentioned he was a musician preparing to tour through St. Louis that summer.

"And I said, 'Are you Michael McDonald?" Goessling said. "And he said, 'Yeah, I'm afraid so."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ralph J. Gleason, who got to know John Coltrane on the way up, wrote the liner notes for ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ on Atlantic Records. A memorable first few paragraphs here.

Ralph J. Gleason’s liner notes for ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ on Atlantic Records.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look at this amazing tracklist. Even the B-sides are total bangers. What a shame Weezer never released any music after 1996

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Listened to this CD SO MUCH when it came out oh my

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You could tell me this is a music video for a new wave band that went #1 in a half-dozen countries in 1982 and I’d be searching for their Wikipedia page before it ended.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Right now at Sonny Rollins's memorial at St John The Divine.

Inside St John the Divine, a large cathedral with a globe suspended in the space.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some of the longest words that can be written using musical notation include acceded, baggage, defaced, and feedbag. If you substituted H for B, you could add the words headache, beachhead, eggheaded, and deadheaded to this list. Rumor has it the longest word ever scored is 'cabbage-faced'.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 15/09/2026

The fact that these people can’t seem to see that they’ve reinvented Christian eschatology by way of the scifi movies they watched as kids is frustrating, but far from unprecedented.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This article is fascinating! What should, on paper, be the truest possible way to be faithful to the original intent fails to account for technical limitations, now absent, that the original was designed to incorporate and accommodate.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People think I’m doing a bit every time I’ve ever mentioned it, including to a therapist once.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Even in my 40s, this song still feels like it’s too moving to be in this movie, like he was breaking some rule and got away with it youtu.be/wTqQrRZi66Q?...

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"Robin Hood" 1973 // Not in Nottingham Scene HD

YouTube video by Movie Scene

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/09/2026

My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!

A brass doorknob with the all-caps lettering "PUBLIC SCHOOL—CITY OF NEW YORK," surrounded by a swirling motif that looks rather like leaves.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Saying the slogan in the Soup Nazi voice

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Almost as egregious as Booker judge Saul Bellow saying “I hear the tinkling of tea cups” to mock Elizabeth Taylor’s shortlist nomination.

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SaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have no idea what happened in the football game, but why does this look like the back cover of a Dean Koontz novel ©️1983.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/09/2026

My gosh, this Anita Brookner can write.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Never pegged him as a pivoting to a 90s middle part guy

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Jerry @jerryfaust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here’s the 1965 Grade 12 reading list for Mater Christi HS (now St John’s Prep) in Astoria, Queens. It’s fascinating to think of the literary “canon” and its mutations/permutations over time…

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shifting into fall mode (only listening to playlists with titles like “Moody Post-Punk,” “80s Indie Pop w/ Sweaters On,” “Sad Bastards/Mournful Chamber Pop,” and “Heartache Jazz”).

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I loved this one and GGW, and have The Stepdaughter on my shelf, waiting. Looking forward to it!

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Caroline Blackwood deserves so much more attention. And not just because her parents were an Earl and a Guinness heiress, and her husbands were painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz, and poet Robert Lowell. She also wrote some goddamn great books.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is the first major advance in the field of dunkology in decades

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When your wife drinks half a can of seltzer and then just leaves it somewhere

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dems could choose this moment to make the case that education is for creating free people

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Amazing for her to admit that the team with the trans girl got outscored 2:1, while implying it’s about some unfair advantage.

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When a reviewer clearly refuses to read a book on its own terms and instead criticizes it for not being some other thing the reviewer would prefer, my reflex is always outrage on the behalf of the writer. Lazy review? Well guess what, it backfired. So there.

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