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This is a good era in which to read Oliver Twist

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I bought an updated one of the one I used when printing out drafts of my diss 13 years ago and it is just as good as I remember.

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The youngest winner was Rudyard Kipling. What a world

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ironically, one of the biggest rebellions against tech takeover is to own and maintain a laserjet printer. Keep forcing the digital onto paper.

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AI Captions are Bad Marketing: An Angry Treatise

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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love this but it's often not a verse in a book they are choosing over their kid, it's a faux-church meme or an AI-generated series of videos or a social media feed.

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Donald Trump is the least popular Republican since Herbert Hoover. Think about that. There are too many polls to go over, but Gallup having party ID at 50% for Democrats is bonkers. While low propensity voters breaking for Democrats isn’t surprising given this economy, it is a very big deal!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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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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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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A scene highlighted in Edmundson's Death of Sigmund Freud: Hitler paraded through Vienna completely unguarded during the Anschluss. He knew he was so beloved no one would try to hurt him.

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

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

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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 · 29/09/2026

No one has yet told him they don't accept cash in hell (but maybe they do)

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

The Boston way is to chug a DD iced on the sidewalk then throw it out by the front door (at a car windshield perhaps?) before resting your head on the side of the building and saying "eh fuckin hell kid here we go" before making your dreams come true.

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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

TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why I begin every interview by lighting a cigarette and saying “ah, this shit again”

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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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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Grizzles did not see the narrative arc coming to flatten them!

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

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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 · 18/09/2026

Most shipwreck narratives in England owe their roots to readers of Heliodorus' Aethiopica which led some scholars of the English prose romance (a source for many a shipwreck Shakespeare narrative) to joke that characters "travel by shipwreck" in Romance! Episode sounds wonderful.

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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.

It gives me hope that the GOP is entering its ego death phase of "both sides are awful" and "I just want to garden and go back to my childhood and chug run off water from a hose"

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pre-Elon twitter would have given this the attention it deserves.

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This is what conservative "ego death" looks like: retreating to privilege, saying they hate the whole system, emphasizing how it's alllll bad. You love to see it.

TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’re all about to Barrassoed!

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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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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is what we get for the decades spent mocking Freudian thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026

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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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TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And one wonders if the real purpose of college is an old school one: networking and the people (friends and mentors) you meet as well as a credential that shows when you people ask you to do a bunch of things you can do them. Anything beyond that seems hard to ever be sure about

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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 · 27/08/2026

A feather for Voltaire by Jorie Graham!

We will find out. I am sure, thanks to Utah’s ban, sales of Push in the state are already way up.

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The label often used by the committee and by the specifics of HB 29 is “pornographic.” Pornography exists to arouse. These books are not arousing. They do not appeal “to the prurient interest.” They disturb to teach. What do we imagine happens if these books become widely read?

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It’s a novel about hope and stubborn survival. It emphasizes the importance of having the freedom to imagine and shape one’s own story. Precious says early in the novel: “Sure you can do anything when you talking or writing, it’s not like living when you can only do what you doing.”

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. As Sapphire herself wrote in 1996 shortly after the novel’s publication: “I wasn’t interested in writing a dark, horrible story—a case history or a crime novel. I was interested in how, through all these impediments and all these trials, a human being could still grow. And why they could”

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Despite the horrors present in the novel, it is among the most powerful defenses and celebrations of the power of writing of any text I know

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The book deals with sexual assault and incest in very frank ways. But at the same time, it provides one of the strongest illustrations of the power of telling one’s own story.

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Far from the banning committee’s assertion that the text “has no serious value for minors,” I, as a former minor who read the text as such, felt like the most dynamic and powerful literature was opening up in front of me.

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When I was a high school student at the turn of the millennium, I came across Push in my local library. I had the kind of unsupervised, parent-free interaction with a book that sends chills down the spine of many Utah legislators and school committee members.

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