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Phleum pratense 🌾

@timothyaschuler.bsky.social
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Freelance writer and environmental journalist. Critic-in-residence @placesjournal.bsky.social. Editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine. Fifth-generation Kansan. He/him.

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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The character Michael from Waking Ned Devine waving goodbye to Jackie’s wife A grave Michael and Jackie making a call in a phone boothVillagers toasting in the pub
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
The cover of Tom Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Houses of Manhattan, KS
A beige house with a wall of plants under grow lights visible through a small, central window - in front of which are strung a series of four gourds A house with no front steps behind a pair of CMU blocksA limestone house with stone and concrete block filling a space that used to be a doorA welcoming house that is practically just one bedroom wide
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
He was our sun, our moon, our starlit sky. Without him, we dwell in darkness.
Val Kilmer as Madmartigan in the 1988 fantasy film Willow
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I love Mrs. Powell’s, our local mall bakery, and I especially love to see it bustling while the chain pretzel shop next door waits for even a single customer 💕
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Do artists typically release these? I feel like this might be the first time I’ve seen this kind of imagery made public
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Amid tracking all the malfeasance being conducted by Musk et al, Wired also has the story of the making of Kendrick’s halftime show, complete with drawings
Concept art for Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, showing three PlayStation controller-themed stage setup
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Screenshot of the Guardian article linked earlier in the thread, reading: ‘It’s Ice’s made-for-TV moment. Inundating all forms of media, including Google search, with stories of mass arrests fits into a strategy of fearmongering, said Lindsay M Harris, a law professor at the University of San Francisco who specializes in immigration and asylum law.

“All of that is intended to send a message to immigrants to be afraid and that they’re coming for you,” said Harris. “Regardless of the actual numbers, the optics of these mass arrests throughout the country have very real ramifications.”’
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Fake, Elon Musk-affiliated home efficiency spam arriving just minutes after the inauguration
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Who could’ve guessed that the creator of a website called Facemash would fail to become a moral standard bearer for our country
A photo of a computer screen showing a webpage from Facemash. On the page are the photos of two females with the question “Who’s Hotter? Click to choose.”
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Seen in the wild in St Joseph, MO just yesterday
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Fixed it
A Smart Cities Dive email subject line that reads “Using AI to prevent homelessness,” except AI has been crossed out in red and the author has suggested “housing” in its place
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🙃 www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
A screenshot of a quote from an NBC article about Doug Burgum’s nomination to be Secretary of the Interior that reads: “Nothing’s true till you read it on Truth Social.”
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
A shot of Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park, during the scene in which they attempt to restore power to the park and reactivate the electric fences
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Happy first day of spring
A white-flowering tree along a street that’s been heavily pruned to prevent interference with suspended electric linesThe shadows cast by the tree on the pavement belowA page from Teju Cole’s photo book “Blind Spot,” with the first section reading, “Spring, even in America, is Japanese. It is not only the leaves that grow. Shadows also grow. Everything grows, both what receives the light, and what is cast by it.”The cover of Teju Cole’s book “Blind Spot”
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
The album cover of Neil Diamond The Bang Years 1966-1968, consisting of a black and white photo of a serious-looking young Neil Diamond in a pea coat
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Finally photographed the commercial fueling station down the road from my in-laws, Pottawatomie County, KS
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
But can’t you feel the ambition
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
I can’t describe how pleasing this playlist artwork is to me
Apple Music playlist artwork, showing four album covers, including (clockwise from top left) Joy Downer’s pale blue Chain Reaction, Gossip’s deep blue Real Power, Lucius’s pastel pink Stranger Danger single, and the Ting Ting’s deep red We Started Nothing
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Feeling good about my decision to join the Konza burn crew 🥴
Email text reading “Thanks Tim.  Start times usually are between 11 and 1 and you can certainly leave by 4:30 even if we are running long, but we often are wrapping up earlier.  Acreages vary between 20 and 1000.  Depends on the day and projects on the list.  Since you aren't KSU affiliated you will have to sign a liability waiver saying we aren't responsible if you get burned up, but we haven't lost anyone yet. “
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Give the witch from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves her own spinoff
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
I’ve come back to this essay so many times since the pandemic. Here’s just one of my favorite bits. The *fun* the writer is having my god
Screen grab of some article text, reading, “In this house, I’m a fetus, cradled, protected, fed and watered inside these nourishing walls. Four months marooned in the apartment and each day I feel more dependent on this animate carapace. It would be unheimlich if it weren’t so home-like. I pad around in truly hideous house shoes touching faucets and outlets and light fixtures, thanking them one by one, and they all spark joy.”
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
I truly can't tell if this is a joke
A photo of an annotated road map inside a laminated plastic sleeveA facebook marketplace listing for a "10x8 mapboard" for $10. The description reads: "Stop carrying your map in a zip lock bag bro. This ain’t BLC. Get yourself this 3 layer plexi glass map board and show up to the brief looking like an ADULT"
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
A meme of a Japanese samurai with a sword in two positions: standing, and kneeling while committing kamikaze. The Samurai is labeled “Microsoft Copilot”
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
“There’s no thread that connects the investment [of a buyout] to something that is actually meaningful. There’s nothing that follows the dot all the way through.” We need “a program that actually looks more synthetically at how all of these things come together.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A person wades through floodwaters in the center of a streetAn abandoned and overgrown lot with the house nearly swallowed by vegetationA child on a toy car in the foreground, with a house being demolished in the backgroundA person on a cold-looking shoreline, with pink tape marking a new path
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Law office, Manhattan, Kansas
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
When the form submission to an artist residency destroys you
A screengrab of a question and answer that's part of an artist residency application. The question is: "Have you spent time in the Flint Hills before? What interests you in this place?" The answer reads: "No." A long space, followed by: "It's my ancestral land."
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
NYPL pretty soon
A photo of shelves of what appear to be old booksA closer up view that reveals the “books” to be pieces of wood
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
I really just don’t have words these days
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Concrete getting that big promo push
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
oh my god it’s so biophilic
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
DAR finally embracing their true nature
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Tom Cruise wearing the mask in Vanilla Sky
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Prairie ikebana
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
From now on, I only see movies at the Rex
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Getting involved at Konza has been a dream of mine ever since I saw this photo of Lloyd Hulbert hanging in the hallway of its HQ
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Recently, in Kansas
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
It’s like I’m trapped inside a Fargo episode
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
Excitement at the house viewing today
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 05/08/2023
Primary colors in Clay Center, Kansas
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
AI is a failure
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
(Accepts payment in the form of bananas)
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Field assistant
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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
I know there have been a lot of “Read this before you see Oppenheimer” threads, but this, from 2017, gets at so much tewawomenunited.org/2017/11/a-tewa-…
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