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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

These being the only two posts here from Rodrigo Corral’s studio is an incredible bit.

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Kill your inner cop final boss: this person trying to involve the police about someone taking books from their little free library.

Screencap from IG of a blue plastic little free library with a handwritten note taped inside facing through the window, which reads “ Dear Book Thief, You are on camera and your theft has been reported to Salem PD.” We can see a bit of the person taking the photo reflected in that same window.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New job listing for someone who kinda sucks.

Job listing for a 'Junior AI Engineer' at Penguin Random House

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I can't believe my old person genocide tourism cut a few corners

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They won’t let you take jacket photos that prominently feature your nipples inside AND outside of the fold anymore, because of the end of woke.

Banged up Linda Ronstadt album—“Hasten Down the Wind”—sitting on a tabletop. Cover art is a photo of ronstadt looking like a damn baby in a shoulder less sleeveless white dress. She’s looking to one side and the light on her is strong and single direction such that all little bumps are casting a shadow, including, yeah, nipples.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

OPB is hiring an enforcer, if siding with power at the expense of workers is your thing.

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from OPB dated to 23 hours ago.
Text:
OPB is seeking an experienced labor relations professional to join the People & Culture Team. OPB takes bargaining with its two labor unions as seriously as it takes employee experience and understands that the two are intertwined. The ideal candidate for this role is as knowledgeable as they are relationship-driven, especially when it comes to contract negotiations and management. The collaborative nature of this role is absolutely critical. Strong candidates will have substantial experience in bargaining, and will lead with the mission-driven mindset that all teams at OPB keep central to their work.

Apply by Tuesday, August 4th 2026 at 8:59pm Pacific Time

https://lnkd.in/gqDhp_24

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Last night Portland closed off most of the main public bridge where people watch fireworks so the local Blues Festival could put an invite-only thousand dollar a head outdoor dinner there. Continually surprising how a town this small can be so fully locked down by the interests of the donor class.

a red white and blue spray of fireworks in the far distance, being watched by people in 'elevated barbecue' clothing standing beside tables with white tablecloths, all seen through a chainlink fence keeping the hoi polloi at least thirty feet back.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I had some questions about worms. With a guest appearance by this guy. Send it to your favorite worm. Send me a worm poem. Wriggle about it.

Jaunty little hand-drawn skel, with blue ribs and a blue coccyx. From a manuscript of Mansū's Anatomy.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A Chassidic Rabbi's site leaning heavily into AI illustration. Sure. inner.org

Screenshot of what looks like an AI-generated image of a rabbi in a horse-drawn cart, riding away from our vantage. He is lifting his kercheif andf to the right and left of the cart rain is fallen on sodden pedestrians while in front of him is a clear sunny sky.

Screenshot of what looks like an AI-generated image of a rabbi in his study sitting at a desk faced by a small boy, another man standing behind the boy. The rabbi has his right hand lifted, wrapped in a cloth until it's just a white mitten shape.

Screenshot of what looks like an AI-generated image of a rabbi outside at night under a cloudy sky. He is surrounded by other men of the community holding lanterns and books, wearing coats. Significantly the rabbi's hat is white. he waves a kercheif in the air and the clouds part to reveal a full moon.

Screenshot of what looks like an AI-generated image of a man in a plain home of rough-heewn wood lit by candlelight. He has his back to our vantage but is standing, presumably speaking, to a woman who is pressing herself against a wooden pillar near him.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Btw if your literary org could benefit from a strong voice and absurd gifs in your comms, that's what I do. Get in touch.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Easiest way to date a Le Guin book

Photo of a page with the text “the pure cone of St. Helens” highlighted

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

nothing stupid about supporting entrepreneurs with a highly scalable "zero to one" idea for improving society aaron

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

why are they trying to sell me an Aeon Flux Knockoff machine

screenshot of an ad for 'rok' on twitter featuring an ai image of what appears to be a white-blonde woman with a very concerning relationship to food and the body. Am I supposed to be able to see the underside of a person's collarbone.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The most normal of Portland subreddits continues to be very normal

Screenshot of a r/portlandor post the algo gf me with the headline of “human trafficking is ok, say DSA councilors” beside a photo of Olivia Katbi. It’s a link to some substack.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Here’s a tree that gives you depression.

Screenshot of a Google summary of a search for “chinaberry tree.” The top of the frame is four tiled images of a type of tree covered in large yellow berries. Below is text: Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) is a fast-growing, deciduous tree known for its fragrant lilac-like flowers and persistent yellow berries, but it is considered invasive in many areas due to its ability to spread aggressively. All parts of the plant, especially the fruit, are poisonous to humans and many animals, causing symptoms like vomiting and depression, though some birds and livestock can eat the berries safely. It is native to Asia and was introduced to the U.S. as an ornamental, but now invades disturbed sites, roadsides, and riparian zones, outcompeting native vegetation. o

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Aw yeah, who’s ready for some disappointment?

Hand holding a package of plastic-wrapped pre-baked simit from Trader Joe’s

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Here’s an author and analyst who looks uncannily (yes I know) like Anne Waldman.

Screenshot of a search result for Marilyn Charles showing two headshots of a late middle aged woman with longer hair, a high forehead and a blunt jaw, above some brief text.

That text:
Marilyn Charles
Psychoanalyst and writer

Overview
Marilyn Charles is a psychoanalyst, writer, lecturer and 2014-2015 President of the American Psychological Association's Division 39. Marilyn Charles has published articles and book:... Wikipedia

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I like the way my feed lined these up so I can see the face of the man who would type such a thing

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Ariely had a research group called the ‘Center for Advanced Hindsight’ at Duke. I guess now we know what killed Jameson.

Screenshot of a story in The Duke Chronicle.
Photo for the piece is a car driving down a road toward a cathedral tower in the distance—presumably it’s a Duke landmark.

Text:

NEWS | UNIVERSITY
Duke shutters 3
research centers, including Dan Ariely's Center for Advanced Hindsight
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Photo by Amy Zhang | The Chronicle
By Nikhil Sethi
Feb. 6, 2026, 9:53 a.m.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Pulled the car over and walked back to take a photo of the best art I’ll see this month.

Photo of one of those foldable advertising flags you can buy, this one with a photo of a breaded fried chicken drumstick standing proudly filling most of the expanse of the flag/banner. Behind the flag is blue sky with some wispy cloud and an apartment building and a Caribbean grocery.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

a sudden powerful longing for these pencils full of little stones they had in the Boston museum of science.

A pencil, the top two thirds of which is a plastic tube full of polished multicolored stones, capped with an eraser

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

‘Can this bucket of hog semen do origami?’ I dunno man, anything’s possible I guess.

Screenshot from the NYTmes app. Photo is of Tom Homan in a blue suit coat framed by flags, his pate agleam. Text from the screenshot:

Can the White House Border Czar De-escalate Tensions in Minnesota?
Tom Homan wants to focus more on getting immigrants already in jails. He'll have to persuade Democrats to do it.
5 MIN READ
Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Corin Tucker of Sleater Kinney was out in the tear gassy Portland march yesterday.

Screenshot of the sleater Kinney Instagram account. The photo is corin tucker taking a selfie surrounded by Portland protesters, DSA flags and a handmade ICE OUT sign

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Industry overflowing with branding genius.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I am excited to watch Substack content on a Substack app on my television. I have been asking for this. Please, I have been saying, let me. Let me watch subscriber video on the bigger screen.

screenshot of an email header. Text: Introducing the Substack TV app, now in beta
Taking subscriber video to the bigger screen
Zach @ Substack
Jan 22

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I find the distant echoes of Laplanche in the title and body of this early McClure poem so … pleasurable, I guess? No, maybe I just mean notable.

Photo of a book held open to a poem on a single page.
Text:

LA PLUS BLANCHE
JEAN HARLOW, YOU ARE IN BEAUTY ON DARK [EARTH WITH WHITE FEET! MICHAEL slaying the dragon is not more wonderful than you. To air you give magical sleekness. We shall carry you into Space on our shoulders. You triumph over all with warm legs and a smile of wistful anxiety that's cover for the honesty spoken by your grace! Inner energy presses out to you in
[warmness-
you return love. Love returned for admiration! Strangeness is returned by you for desire. How. Where but in the depth of Jean Harlow is such strangeness made into grace? How many women are more beautiful in shape and apparition! How few can /have/
draw such love to them? For you are the whole creature of love!
Your muscles are love muscles!
Your nerves—Love nerves!
And your upturned comic eyes!
Sleep dreams of you.
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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

@andypressman.itch.io I'm a little late here but I just want to say what a great job you've done on this logo for the new indie press bestseller list.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New flavor of soup for my family just dropped.

Screencap of an IG post. Image is a large glass jar full of what looks like swamp water full of nails and thorny clippings and a red pepper. Text:

justamountainwitch
Follow
Suggested for you
War Water Recipe
• Muckiest, most putrid water you can find
• Rusty iron nails
• Thorns
• Hottest peppers you can find
Spanish moss
If using for baneful "going to war" water, also add sulphur and urine.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Establishment Democrat stance in Reddit post form

Screenshot of a Reddit post.
Text is:

r Vent
u/vanessabws • 5d
Join
A lot of homeless people are very rude
I work in area where there are a lot of homeless people. Which I don't mind, they have nowhere else to go at times. But a lot of them are very very rude. I was waiting at the light about to turn and a homeless man with a cardboard sign was sitting on the sidewalk. He walked up to multiple cars asking

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Former strip joint turned bar near me has a challenge in the bathroom: are you horny enough to enjoy these but not so horny that it makes pissing impossible.

A wall papered with like a hundred vintage pinup photos of various undressed women.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I spent months researching different neck lights

It’s a still of an IG ad. A woman who has spent months researching different neck lights is wearing a neck light under the caption “I spent months researching different neck lights.”

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Under thirteenth century welsh law, if you violated the king’s honor by ie killing a guy at his court, you owed him, among other things, a golden chalice as thick as the thumbnail of a plowman who has plowed for seven years.

Screenshot of text: him and another regulus (pennaeth). A hundred kine are to be paid as sarhad to the king for every cantrev in his kingdom (teyrnas), and a silver rod which shall reach from the ground to the king's pate when he shall sit in his chair, as thick as his ring finger, with three knobs at the top and three at the bottom as thick as the rod; and a golden cup which shall hold the king's full draught, as thick as the nail of a ploughman who shall have ploughed for seven years; and a golden cover thereon as thick as the cup, as broad as the king's face.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

To be fair the man surely does have expertise in people being ‘mini.’

Screenshot of another IG feed post from our hero Portland city councilor Dan ryan. Superimposed over the my-parents-didn’t-pay-for-extras school photo background is the city seal and text:

If Council tries to operate like 12 mini-mayors, we'll go nowhere.

Councilor Dan Ryan

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Voting for any president who promises to remodel the place like Darryl Hannah’s character in the original Wall Street.

Fake exposed brick and a paint filler painting some stucco a teal

Hands applying gold and silver to part of a ceiling

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

*speaking in a weird little voice that it seems like is somehow meant to mimic the paranoid-schizoid position* let’s fucking go

Hand holding a 1964 library edition of Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein by Hanna Segal

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Lotta griping about the Times on here but you can’t deny they’re at least VERY funny.

Screencap of an op-ed from the times editorial board. Illustration is three ovals in a vertical column meant to look like the ovals you fill in on some ballots. The center of the three ovals has purple and an “I voted” sticker image meant to look scribbled into the oval. Text on the screenshot:
Opinion
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win
12 MIN READ
Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Pretty disappointed I didn’t get tickets to this.

Screenshot of an event listing on the Literary Arts website.

LIND YOUR STORY RERE
FIND YOUR STORY HERE
MENU E
TICKETED EVENTS
A CONVERSATION WITH KAMALA
HARRIS (SOLD OUT)
Wed, November 5 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205
Kamala Harris
SOLD OUT
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literary-arts.org

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

maggie nelson why are you picking a fight with steven hotdog

Maggie Nelson against her copycats: In a new Paris Review interview, the influential poet, essayist, and author says braided fragments won’t save your writing: “I think people have a hope and a prayer that if they toss in a bunch of quotes, or⁠—and I certainly did not invent the numbered form⁠—add numbers to a piece, it will all magically hang together.”

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This weekend at Mother Foucault’s, Portland.

Digital flyer for a reading. Photo is of a person standing above a candle in lingerie partly visible in a mirror. Text superimposed:

motherfoucaultsbooks
.••
Sat, Oct 11th 6:30-9:30pm
Mother Foucault's
Bookshop
715 SE Grand Ave.
PDX
Julia Laxer
Moonyeka
Uriah Fate
Romy Blue
& more
Readings
Performance Art
Free entry!
Book Signing
THE HOLY HOUR:
An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic and the Divine

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Portland Monthly social team is amazing

Screencap on an IG post by Portland Monthly. Photo is of a 30ish white man with a beard and glasses in a chef coat and apron. Superimposed on that is the text “Longtime Castagna Chef Justin Woodward Has Died” but the text is in a truly insane font choice. Like cutesy gothic. It’s incredible.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I think we can all agree that opening a piece with phrasing like this—unsourced exaggerated vibe quotes, even if they’re undercut later in the piece—serves only to give the author and paper plausible deniability while unsubtly supporting that opinion.

Screenshot of a silly times piece. Text:

By Kellen Browning Photographs by Jordan Gale
Reporting from Portland, Ore.
Oct. 4, 2025
Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster.
Mainstream politicians are sharpening their attacks, and the wealthy are threatening to move away as a socialist revolution sweeps through the city.
They're not talking about Zohran Mamdani or his plans for New York City.
Rather, they are agonizing over the scene in Portland, Ore., where the democratic socialist principles espoused by Mr. Mamdani - the front-runner to become New York's next mayor - have already taken root at City Hall.

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