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Starting the day with Maura Shawn Scanlin's RULE OF THREE, alongside the only family member who shares my love of fiddle tunes maurashawnscanlin.bandcamp.com/album/rule-o...

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 8h

Good to see the bears out there celebrating Backpack's big win

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow!

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Voting has opened and the Fat Bear Week server is struggling under the weight of the world's love, which gives me some hope.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing beneath notice is a political strategy for the left

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I call this meeting to order

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't know what you were doing at 6am but I was merging three related spreadsheets drawn from different sources in different formats into a single comprehensive efficient record and now I am going to admin so hard oh god please send help what have I become

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If sports were played more literally pickleball would be funnier than handball or football.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Played this tune with some folks last night and can't get it out of my head this morning. No choice but to skip work, I guess.

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Sailing Over England, Clifftop campsite jam, 8/1/14

YouTube video by Will Carter

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have my mandolin in my office today for evening plans, which raises an important professional question: Is it time for an afternoon music break? Of course it is.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After receiving this glorious supermarket circular of literature from South Dakota Review, how could I not subscribe?

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is indeed a beautiful and excellent book (I have had notes toward write about it for quite a while now and will eventually make them coherent).

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't care how many people try to convince me otherwise. This sneaker company logo is a person smoking as they stare into the sky, deep in the midst of an existential crisis and quite possibly French.

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

While the onions fry, figure what supper will be.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A wonderful book.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stayed home this morning to read a stack of student writing without the distractions of the office, and now jackhammers and pavement saws are tearing up the sidewalk in front of my house.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have you seen my snooker table, Doris? No farmer Griffiths. I haven't seen any snooker tables at all this morning.

Old painting. Man and enormous rectangular sheep

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We have only been empty nesters for a couple of weeks and it is still rather unsettling how bare the cupboard looks even after I've done the big shop.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

and it turns out that finding blurbs has been tricky. So I'm wondering whether there might be anyone reading this who'd like to read such a book, and whose name and contact details I could pass on to the editors for them to consider

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hi. Sorry. Hey. So publishing is overburdened and writers are overburdened and I have a weird book coming out in January (synesthesia, being too girly for the theory bros and too theory for the girlies, France and Flanders, making new universities in the spare room, stars, migration, etc.)

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A studded leather bracelet dropped on the subway station stairs. Somewhere the office punk will spend this whole miserable day getting mistaken for a square.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, to begin with today, it’s the 56th anniversary of the publication of the book which contains the only advice a chap really needs

Extract from Kathryn Paulsen’s 1970 work, The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft. The first line at the top of p.90 is: “You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese”

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guy walking through the park calling out, "This life is amazing if you let it!" over and over and grammar aside he's bang on.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Printing this out and taping it to the wall of my office, looking at it any time I consider weighing in on a trending topic

Stand up chalkboard on a street corner with message

Caution
Hornet best
Stay clear!

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At last a chance to read the long awaited Hookland Fragments from @hookland.bsky.social, on a city bus with a driver who seems to travel in her own pocket of time and space.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All of us stone botherers – archaeologists, ley hunters, lithic pilgrims – have reverence for the artefacts of the Long Neolithic. However, some of us cross into devotion. It's not uncommon to find a stone dressed with garland. – Dr. K. Brophy, 1982 #StandingStoneSunday

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Met our incoming class of Writing and Publishing first years today, a really nice group with smart questions. And then I met some of the MFA grad students whose program I'm directing now. I'm excited to meet the rest next week and to get this year underway!

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The other day while looking for something to watch I wondered, "Why is so much horror suddenly interested in characters stuck in their houses?" and it was an embarrassingly long time before the obvious answer struck me. Fortunately Will is smarter than I am.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My office door is ready for the new semester and I am, too

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As a professor who is loudly, vocally anti-AI and who doesn’t allow it in my classroom in any form, I cannot overstate how much students dislike it and how relieved they are to have a space in their day without it

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There are places even locals rarely frequent such as the salt cured marsh with its mud and tide peril. Here my garnering bag becomes fat, my boots dirty. Here my heart is charged, my magics grow tidal teeth. Here I am a brackish witch. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Explaining to my dog that she has lost porch privileges for the day after barking for no reason at an elderly basset hound going by and she is pretending not to understand what I'm saying, the brat.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/08/2026

Penda's Fen (1974), dir. Alan Clarke

A young man with someone putting their hand on his head
'Child, be strange'

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So far my weekend plans are grocery shopping then hacking away at this tune until it sounds vaguely musical, and I already went grocery shopping

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Elzic's Farewell

YouTube video by Fletcher Bright - Topic

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A workshop on writing Cape Cod with David Gessner at @ccmnh.bsky.social is such an opportunity and will be a good time for sure. If I wasn't teaching that week myself I might attend. Perhaps you can?

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David Gessner's Writting Cape Cod

TUES, OCT 13 to SAT, OCT 17 Immerse yourself and be inspired by Cape Cod’s incredible landscape with a brand-new writing class from best-selling author…

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

These really are my two favourite descriptions of Hookland.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Play Music On The Porch Day appeals to so many of my interests at once — it's the perfect holiday. You know where to find me on August 29.

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Play Music on The Porch Day – A worldwide celebration of peace and music.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Awfully frustrating that publication of the 2026 O Henry Prize anthology has been pushed back several weeks after I already planned one of my fall courses around students having it. That'll teach me to prep before the last minute.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

FREEDOOOOOMMMM!

A small snail, so excited about a day of rain after 2 months of nothing, that they are climbing a window to celebrate.

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have just decided that I am moving to Scotland to open a chippy named Deepfryers Bobby

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

*I arrive at the pearly gates of heaven* St Peter: Hi, friend. For sorting purposes, what’s your Hogwarts house? I’d guess Hufflepuff, but—“ Me: Send me to the other place

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I did not find the corresponding outbox and that’s probably for the best

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