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I hope the very Catholic conservative SCOTUS justices who sent a woman to a botched execution feel an extra level of shame and disgrace.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 19h

New rule: any new university administrator hired into a strategic role has to bring in new revenue through expansion (not cuts!) in excess of their salary every year or is fired.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20h

Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20h

Some day, God willing, we'll be grateful our fascists were dumb and unlikeable.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 22h

2026 so far has been my most successful year fighting various slush piles but it’s also the year I embraced some DIY aesthetics as well

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think people like Gilmore Girls so much because nothing in that show remotely resembles how life actually functions and people yearn for a completely transformed life and community. Also we need a ten minute season 8 where Emily just slaps every other character.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One aspect of the Cornell case: the quality of educational and university leadership is at an all time low. The result: cowardly equivocators

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I bring a handful of coffee beans and some tepid water to the interview to show I believe in radical possibility

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Forget Cool, but don't forget to check out Issue 1, featuring totally rad writers like @tjduffy.bsky.social! forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

Forget Cool graphic with an Issue 1 Author Spotlight shining on Timothy Duffy

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Big deal. My arch will have FIVE drones and THREE lions who shoot bees out of their mouths.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the things I like about the writing and arts scene in Utah is people aren't trying to monetize everything. They form communities and collectives rather than try to sell workshops and services to everyone.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Saw a world premiere of a 1930s rediscovered Soviet drama in a block box theater in SLC tonight. This city never ceases to amaze

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026

how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me

pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror

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Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One week away! Are you as excited as we are?

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some thoughts on Utah banning Push (a series)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes on a private server or Donald Trump spending 24 hours a day with a mentally unstable aide who has no security clearance, both candidates presented grave national security risks.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone should read Stegner’s Crossing to Safety not only because it’s great but because it reminds you how bad polio was

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What no one wants to admit is to save college teaching in the age of AI you need to have empowered faculty with small student:teacher ratios. You cannot keep cheaping out on faculty, giving them no power or incentives for rigor, and expect any good outcomes.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Finished Stegner’s Crossing into Safety. Shattered into tiny pieces now

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Up in Lewiston Maine among the now quiet mills, the river carries the voices of Bates Professors murmuring into their phones “this fucking guy again”

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My Atlantic pitch: “the hum of the Maine paper mills has gone quiet now instead the Priuses of the most annoyingly online academics whir along a coast once known for its lobsters now chased north by climate change”

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have sworn off all Woody Allen nonsense but I thought “maybe Midnight in Paris” wasn’t as insufferable as I remember and within three minutes it was deeply deeply insufferable

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So happy for Mackenna Goodman. Her work is a balm for the soul

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You would think it would be the left who would staff a beloved news show with boring, unlikable would-be-knowitalls but no...once again the right wing edges us out.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You know a lot of us have been critiqued by classicists without also having made $1bn off a movie and we’re doing fine, so I’m not worried about Nolan at all.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Howard U thing is not just about checking emails or paying bills—it’s 500 students—that could be 20% of the incoming class. That’s a massive amount of students. Something did not go right

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s weird to see people attacking “The Literary Canon” in 2026 as if it hasn’t already been replaced by a bunch of three paragraph passages and a multiple choice question set generated by AI. There’s no way forward without defending canonicity in expanded form

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Great production of Troilus and Cressida at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Not an easy play to put on

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Going to finally be near swimmable natural water in two weeks and this dog is going to be my inspiration.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We had to fix our outdoor sprinkler system because one extremely tiny sprinkler head meant to water a single container blew its top and created a thirty foot arc of water. May all home repair items be so slapstick

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

gotta say I wasn't expecting Matt Damon to look directly into the camera and say "future generations will only know of us through IG reels because there won't be anyone left who knows how to read"

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Going to see Troilus and Cressida soon and re-read the play. It is very very good.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Drop everything and watch Blue Heron (on Criterion). Make room for intense sadness

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Favorite retro touches of Blue Heron: the darkroom and the dangerous thrill of jumping on a trampoline with no net

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Watching Blue Heron on Criterion

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Excited for new Marilyn Hacker work!

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is easily the hardest hike I’ve ever done. Worth it but with a few challenging turns

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's exciting when a poet whose book you love starts a journal and accepts some of your work for their first issue.

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Letting myself get fully into vacation mode after some early morning Canvas wrangling for the Fall

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It won’t be a 7/4 fireworks record if he doesn’t shut up until 7/5

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Thomas Jefferson has been dead for 200 years. He would like about current US: -State of US winemaking -amount of universities and books -select corners of the internet Would dislike: - oafish monolingual president - shoddy neo-classical fake arch - spread of equality to nonwhites and nonmen

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Someone eventually is going to do an Xmas Carol parody with T*ump and E*stein and I want to tell that person now that we aren’t in the mood

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You can tell the oligarchic nature of things where the Supreme Court will endlessly expand Trump's power except where they believe he could further crash the economy (hence tariffs and Fed decisions).

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A museum of the past two years. Under each item, the words: “this went really hard if you were stupid”

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Mamdani is obviously the leader of New York metropolitan dems and that is amazing I don’t know why we have to nationalize everything and make it so weird. Let wins be wins!

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