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Rob

@unixwhisperer.bsky.social
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Connecting dots. Retired IT. Vet. Music. Books. Coffee. Writing. Birds. Beach. Nature. #democracy #nevertrump #followthemoney #equalrights #nogenocide

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IsThatDonHeath? @donjheath.bsky.social · 19h
Who remembers these?
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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This is outstanding!
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As an avowed fan of the late Wendell Berry, this is best thing I've read in a while. Glad I still have yet more to discover. Nicely done.
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Kona Lowell @konalowell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow!
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 04/10/2026
"We don't die when the body starts to end. Because what we leave is a message, which is left and this will survive us." - Rita Levi-Montalcini, awarded the Nobel Prize 40 years ago for her discovery of growth factors. She was the longest-living laureate, passing away at the age of 103 years.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It could have been a scene in a Norman farmhouse twenty-five years ago, with candles burning on the tables, bottles of red wine arranged along damaged shelves, the chill in the room, the high ceilings, the heavy ornate cross on the wall. Michael Herr, Dispatches (1968) #SundaySentence #VietnamWar
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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We must stop, recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name, and fight every dimension of it," McElroy said at a Mass marking the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 27.
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McElroy: Americans can no longer 'pass on by,' ignoring how US is treating immigrants
Americans need to take action to support immigrants who are in this country without documents and are suffering under the government's mass deportation policy, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy sa...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ROBIN WILLIAMS’ final scene on screen. What a privilege — albeit one infused with sadness too — for BEN STILLER. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (2014) “Smile, my boy. It’s sunrise.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Ex Libris NC (aka Lynn Roundtree) @exlibrisnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making... poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-mo... #Poetry #Poems #Autumn #September #Kinnell
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Nancy C Walker @nancycwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The New Yorker accepts several different types of work including #Fiction, #Poetry, and #Cartoons. Each category has it's own submission process. Please read all guidelines to ensure you are submitting to the correct person. #opensubmissions www.newyorker.com/about/contact
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Contact Us - The New Yorker
If you want to send a submission (fiction, poetry, humor) or request back issues and permissions, please visit our Contact Us page.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trees, in autumn, as "bare ruined choirs..." #exquisite
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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MelvilleMonday "It is not down in any map; true places never are." Moby-Dick, Ch. 12 Sunburst at Sea by Lovell Birge Harrison, 1913.
• Sunburst at Sea by Lovell Birge Harrison (1854-1929), pastel and graphite on paper, c. 1913-14. Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Public domain.
• Quote: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (c. 1851). From Chapter 12, Biographical:  "Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
• Source: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983, New York, N.Y.  Fourteenth Printing, The Library of America.
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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 28/09/2026
#MelvilleMonday
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery
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🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning peeps #goodmorning
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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Once a year all world leaders should be put in an Olympic swimming pool full of rotten human blood to let them dog-paddle in their creation. The lifeguard is a blind child playing video war games.” Jim Harrison, “After the War” #sundaysentence
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SundaySentence people are amazing. #books
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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SundaySentence It was summer becoming fall, with already, like shadows before a weltering sun, the chill and implacable import of autumn cast ahead upon summer; something of dying summer spurting again like a dying coal, in the fall. William Faulkner Light in August
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be no obstacle to their inventing true love. Marquez, Love in the time of Cholera (1988) #SundaySentence
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Opinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice (Gift Article)
Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshipper.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Brian Resists (@brianresists)
Trying the post again. An Australian citizen speaks to Americans.
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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"For Berry, the small farmer’s predicament is not merely a crisis of agriculture, but also of culture and character."
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The Challenge of Wendell Berry: A Personal Assessment
Brian Volck on a friend.
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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
forgot how much I love elisa gabbert's lists of books she read each year. www.elisagabbert.com/reading-lists/
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Reading Lists – Elisa Gabbert
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Sub Club (@subclub)
Think you can’t submit your 2 am Substack rambling anywhere because now the “real literary magazines” won’t accept it? First of all. HERE. 👏🏽 YOU. 👏🏽 GO. 👏🏽 (These 74 lit mags will take your reprin...
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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rebeca scurtu (@aestheticintrovert)
Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
never satisfied to follow the herd one cow found the clover and called the others #2WordPrompt #Satisfy #Follow #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is outstanding.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Let’s see if Google and Apple recognize the correct map as quickly as they changed Lake Ontario.
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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And when I go that way, grow fur, start howling, scratch at your airwaves: no matter who I claim I am or how I love you, turn the key. Bar the window. #TodaysPoem #poetry lithub.com/ghost-cat-a-...
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“Ghost Cat” a Poem by Margaret Atwood
Cats suffer from dementia too. Did you know that? Ours did. Not the black one, smart enough to be neurotic and evade the vet. The other one, the furrier’s muff, the piece of fluff. She’d writhe aro…
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SundaySentence He thought of how he might spend [days of waiting], and he wondered how he might press them into one crumpled bit of time that he could toss away. John Williams, Butcher's Crossing (1960)
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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Truth rarely interests me — only contact. Annie Dillard #SundaySentence #anniedillard buff.ly/rXlliKl
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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm a shameless sucker for a good spy thriller, especially if Russians are involved. My #sundaysentence this week is from Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews: "If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one." (Went from this novel right into the sequel and it was pretty good, too.)
Toes on the beach at Cape May, NJ, reading the novel Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I don’t know what I think about certain subjects … until I sit down and try to write about them.” — Don DeLillo writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Don DeLillo
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Without pause or preamble, silent as orbits, a piece of the sun went away. - Annie Dillard
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Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Like I need another reason to love books 📚 #books #reading #learning #sciencefiction #fantasy #animism #peace
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Until the afternoon sun pushed the shade beyond them, they lay wearily on the grassy bank of the river listening to the rustle of the water that flowed past them, smoothly, cooly, effortlessly... onward to the east. John Williams, Butcher's Crossing (1960) #SundaySentence
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
☘️ Great to see our Celtic cousins giving the Mango Mussolini pelters 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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FIFTY-SEVEN DAYS. CLIP AND SAVE. A CHEAT SHEET FOR DEMOCRACY
I am so excited—fifty-seven days til the midterms.
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Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Bill Moyers - Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet
YouTube video by The Berry Center
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