Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As 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. 020
Reposted by RobNobel 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. 12915213
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It 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 0150
Reposted by RobTom 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.ncronline.orgMcElroy: Americans can no longer 'pass on by,' ignoring how US is treating immigrantsAmericans 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... 021
Reposted by RobMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ROBIN 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.” 431928330
Reposted by RobAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack 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." 693279189541
Reposted by RobJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. 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.👇 901264869104
Reposted by RobEx Libris NC (aka Lynn Roundtree) @exlibrisnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I 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 061
Reposted by RobNancy C Walker @nancycwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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/contactnewyorker.comContact Us - The New YorkerIf you want to send a submission (fiction, poetry, humor) or request back issues and permissions, please visit our Contact Us page. 022
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trees, in autumn, as "bare ruined choirs..." #exquisite 020
Reposted by RobCelticStoic(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. 1274
Reposted by RobJeff 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 0101
Reposted by RobAgnieszka @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 2212
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He 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 0130
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice (Gift Article)Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshipper. 010
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026substack.com/@brianresist...substack.comBrian Resists (@brianresists)Trying the post again. An Australian citizen speaks to Americans. 000
Reposted by RobTom 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."churchlifejournal.nd.eduThe Challenge of Wendell Berry: A Personal AssessmentBrian Volck on a friend. 121
Reposted by RobLiterature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026forgot how much I love elisa gabbert's lists of books she read each year. www.elisagabbert.com/reading-lists/elisagabbert.comReading Lists – Elisa Gabbert 0111
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026substack.com/@subclub/not...substack.comSub 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... 010
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026substack.com/@aestheticin...substack.comrebeca scurtu (@aestheticintrovert)Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc 011
Reposted by RobIrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026never satisfied to follow the herd one cow found the clover and called the others #2WordPrompt #Satisfy #Follow #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets 0183
Reposted by RobAgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊 493157873846
Reposted by RobTallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Let’s see if Google and Apple recognize the correct map as quickly as they changed Lake Ontario.theguardian.comUN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland 1449
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And 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-...lithub.com“Ghost Cat” a Poem by Margaret AtwoodCats 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… 062
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) 0100
Reposted by RobRobin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Truth rarely interests me — only contact. Annie Dillard #SundaySentence #anniedillard buff.ly/rXlliKl 0131
Reposted by RobChristian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'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.) 0213
Reposted by RobWriting 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 084
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...nytimes.comAnnie 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. 010
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Without pause or preamble, silent as orbits, a piece of the sun went away. - Annie Dillard 031
Reposted by RobSuzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Like I need another reason to love books 📚 #books #reading #learning #sciencefiction #fantasy #animism #peace 36579120
Reposted by RobAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your 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. 5953725413396
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Until 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 171
Reposted by Rob“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026☘️ Great to see our Celtic cousins giving the Mango Mussolini pelters 👏 🏴🇪🇺😎 18382142162
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...nytimes.comNaomi 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. 032
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026annelamott.substack.com/p/fifty-seve...annelamott.substack.comFIFTY-SEVEN DAYS. CLIP AND SAVE. A CHEAT SHEET FOR DEMOCRACYI am so excited—fifty-seven days til the midterms. 010
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026youtu.be/95VcefsgsfE?...youtu.beBill Moyers - Wendell Berry: Poet and ProphetYouTube video by The Berry Center 020