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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 22m

… a writer is very like a witch. With her cat, making magic with words. And maybe changing the world, just a little. – Theodora Goss

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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 2h

#vss365 Not sure When I noticed The #siren first I mean I knew To associate them With water They lure men To the depths Afterall So could she possibly Be the bait Calling me To this forest bog Or was it simply enchanted And drew her in as well Victim or foe I'd need a stronger Vision than my own

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Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social · 2h

Ashdown Forest, October 2021

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 41m

Constantine Cavafy Sophist leaving Syria

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Gian D’Oh @giandoh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“Yeah Ma, I’m not loving the carpentry thing but I’m kinda killing it as an influencer…. A shirt? Yeah of course I’m wearing a shirt.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 10h

Expect to see more of this in the future

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 10h

It would be hilarious to change the title of my philosophy of AI seminar to philosophy of Super Intelligence.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 10h

I suspect that #experience can transform your personality even more than Gogol's Dead Souls can and Durrell's Alexandrian Quartet and even Dali's Hidden Faces #vssdaily

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What’s up with the half-wit that writes the NYT puzzles?

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here’s a puzzle design that never would have occurred to me: “A word game where the point is not to find as many words as possible, but rather, to figure out what words the half-witted game designer knows.”

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And once you finish graduate school and spend 30 years as a professor, you realize that Elementary school pretty much got it right.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m. in the morning making the only sound in your life." This one always gets me

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A friend of mine sent me a link for a beer documentary, for the history of beer, I liked it, I was moved, I love beer

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because the first week on Blue Sky I wrote about 500 posts

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am a #sin same feeling when you try to hide trembling losing your mind it catches up to you after some time when you thought there's nothing to it now where will you go? Nowhere to run from yourself you can't weigh your heart against a feather I'm going down, down, down I'm going down #vss365

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you see this, share a film that has significance to you, for whatever reason🎥

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Tito looked for Johnny with a vengeance and a gun Johnny better run, better run" We are men

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Amazing how much progress we’ve made in online privacy. We moved from websites being intrusive without telling you, to websites intrusively asking your permission to be intrusive.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is a nice idea for a song, up until the last till the end part. This Kiss video is how it should have played out: Rosa had a lover on the shady side of town Tito, he was king of the streets She was his possession like a jewel on his crown Johnny better run, better run www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hkk...

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Kiss - Hide Your Heart

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

James Blunt's you're beautiful stuck to my brain all day today, that incel anthem "And I don't think that I'll see her again But we shared a moment that will last 'til the end".

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Stores now showcasing an unusual combination of Halloween decorations alongside early Christmas items.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I hate William Carlos Williams"

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who decided that the Eurasian wren should be called troglodytes troglodytes? Talk about making an insult and rubbing it in.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My past feels like a #blur even listening to The Blur sometimes better than Oasis Proust produced volumes w/details of whereabouts and call them lost time and feelings and impressions For me the 90s were a blur kind of felt nice they seem as if it was always night the later years were sad #vssdaily

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But I live in a quiet suburb district, the poorest in the city, it used to be quite wild, but after the crisis it got dead quiet, nobody has money to get out of the house, it's so sad. I remember when I heard this silence: The silence of the lambs. And the worst thing is that I am one of them

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have Paul Baloff's screams As the way of protesting Their paradox statements They meet this defence It is the stereo hi-fi full volume Kind of insubordination And from volumes of books They play drums Like Zeller, like the thunder Delivering messeges Across the jungle The new data highway

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

William Burroughs photo by Peter Hujar, 1975

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All the right wing people think alike, they are petit-Trumps, they don't realise the power of the economy theory

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But she remembers what cigarettes I smoke

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sociology: The kiosk at the main street is under new management, there are 2 girls and 1 dude, working shifts 24/7. I asked both girls their names, I remember the cute one's, the other I forgot. But: The cute one has forgotten my name also

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John Mariolas @sweetchilly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a few... months, telling which video is or is not AI will be up to us older people, like when my grandmother could tell from the traditional uniform she saw on the TV if the dancers were from our tribe or not

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My son tells me these are called "sheep clouds" in Dutch...

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars. I prefer to knock on wood. I prefer not to ask how much longer and when. I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that existence has its own reason for being. -- Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities”

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