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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21h

The few, the proud. The earthquake elect.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21h

Me neever. I get like one in ten of those things.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thank you! It never seemed that way before, but on this go-round of "Cholera" it really jumped out at me.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Reading Marquez for the first time in ages, I'm struck by just how much influence he seems to have had on Wes Anderson. "Love in the Time of Cholera" reads like a Wes Anderson movie.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The master took the high seat. A monk approached, asking, "What of the cardinal principle of the curry Dharma?" The master said, "While studying with Huangbo, I questioned his keema three times, and was struck three times." The monk had no reply. The master struck him. The monk bowed low.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Writers lead a double life. And they die doubly, too. This is modern literature's dirty little secret. Writers die twice: once when the body dies, and once when the talent dies."

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looks like it's preserved here! martinamisweb.com/documents/co...

martinamisweb.com

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I sometimes double back to a now-hard-to-find Guardian article called "The Problem with Nabokov" by Marin Amis, about Nabokov's last novel and the problem of declining talent. Worth a read if you can track it down.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"... but he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves." — G.G. Márquez

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of those days where you can feel the seasons revolving

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The kinmokusei has unfurled its olfactory standard!!!

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My guess is yes, the hippocratic oath would oblige them to try to revive. It would be pretty odd if they joined in the execution.

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Dr. McCoy: I'm a Doctor, Not an Engineer

ALT: Dr. McCoy: I'm a Doctor, Not an Engineer

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Atomic Habitz cover of "Be Thankful For What You Got" is the anthem of my rainy summer. Is this a supergroup or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFy...

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Atomic Habitz (Marcus King, Chris Dave, MonoNeon) "Be Thankful4 What U Got" - live at Newport Jazz

YouTube video by MonoNeon

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That quake in the wee hours felt like a boxed-out stirring motion rather than the usual back and forth.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only thing Koenji is missing is a go salon.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It pains me to say this stuff, btw. I have zero love for Confas, but his racist motivations don't make what he brought to light untrue. Amid a genuine meaning crisis we need our schools to pursue the truth, not bury it.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And the trouble is that no serious look into the charges could exonerate him. Many have combed his thesis and the result is clear. Those who propelled him up that high are complicit in his fall. Anything less than a full investigation and the school, having already failed the man, will fail itself.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No look at the relationship between the accusations and Jason Arday's death can be complete without also getting into whether he was guilty of said accusations. Look into the care he received, yes, and also get to the bottom of whether did what he's accused of.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In refusing to examine its own role in how a plagiarist made it to the heights of academia, Cambridge University has heaped sadness upon sadness and become a much less serious institution. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

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Cambridge Abandons Full Investigation Into Hiring of Late Professor Jason Arday

Cambridge's narrowed inquiry may leave key questions about “Great and Unfortunate Things" author Jason Arday's story unanswered.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes the Cocoichi plays deep Grant Green cuts, sometimes the Cocoichi plays G. E. Smith-era Saturday Night Live sax rock. You just never know.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The curry sennin emerged to drop another masterpiece on the congregation. Seriously prolly the best in カレー in the city.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still a live issue that needs following. It's unbelievable that Chris Payne is still in solitary confinement as he awaits retrial.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wrote about that mysterious thing where some good books make you want to write while others make it feel next to impossible. archfidelity.substack.com/p/reading-a-... #reading #writing

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Reading a Hard Act to Follow

Why do some books make the pen feel heavy?

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The annual tansan bender is upon me. It always strikes when summer is wearing on and it begins to feel like the AC is pickling you.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New go calendar image to see us through to Halloween. Deffo know how this guy feels.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pair go X nomihodai got a bit slippery the other night.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Consider yourself double dog dared

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

C-SPAN: Do you read by yourself? SHELBY FOOTE: Always. CS: Why? SF: I don't know ... Readin' is a serious business. CS: How long at a time do you read? SF: Oh a six-hour stretch of readin' is not a long time.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every time I come across it I feel compelled to post it.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night becomes the backdrop for Urth's own motion, so that we feel her rolling beneath us as a sailor feels the running of the tide.” --Gene Wolfe--

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Graduating to the next stage of yoghurt addiction: growing your own supply.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Please, tell me how you concluded that the accusations of plagiarism were fabricated.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Because I held my own nose (because I find Cofnas' views repugnant). After that, I guess I just can't see how you could have looked into it and still conclude that this isn't a bevy of very clear cases of plagiarism. Lifting large swaths of text without attribution is intellectual theft.

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Tyler @tylerrothmar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As for journalism, the police actively discouraged it. See the fifth graph about the 63-page report: "...he had apparently used, without proper citation, huge chunks from a thesis written in 2009 by another student, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers." www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-wa...

timeshighereducation.com

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was just doing my job

My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE reporter Jack Grove

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