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Are you writing a book about food justice and race? Learn more about our Black Food Justice series with series editor Ashanté Reese and @lucaschurch.bsky.social next week at this online lunch and learn👇 utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 9h

itching to be able to say “a thoroughly benighted individual” in an appropriate context

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 14h

it’s not Festivus time yet, but I’m feeling a need to air some grievances. let’s have a group kvetch

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hoo boy I feel a wave of melancholy-tinged ennui coming on. folks who know my taste in music, what should I listen to to help snap me out of this?

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

gonna hold up a sign that says “upstream timeout” anytime I don’t want to deal with my kids

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“71.5 percent of adults reported that at least some of the time in the past three months they felt fatigued, defined as ‘physical or mental tiredness or exhaustion that does not improve with additional sleep or rest.’” sounds familiar #giftlink

nytimes.com

Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Sisyphus Blues”: you play 8,000 choruses of blues but each chorus is only the first 4 bars of the typical 12-bar blues form

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

honestly this is a big part of why I often stick with a book even when I’m not *loving* it. how can I fully appreciate the best without spending some time with the mid

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just finished Save a Seat for Me, by @markanthonyneal.bsky.social. it’s variously poignant, funny, and disarmingly frank. while it’s very much a book about Black fatherhood and Black family in the US, it contains many insights into the relationships and generational dynamics that define any family.

the first hardcover edition of Save a Seat for Me, sitting on a dark wooden surface. the cover is a bright yellow, with a small line drawing of two chairs facing each other.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yeah I’m that motherfucker who points out that a year ending in zero is the last year of the old decade. I also insist on spelling it “doughnut.” despite this I actually *am* lots of fun at parties

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

get in, sickos; we’re starting spooky season early this year

hardcover book The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Leslie S. Klinger and with an intro by Alan Moore. cover art is tentacles interwoven with the text, on a black background

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I'm going to need to try to help my mother understand the difference between legit concerns about AI and the AI Doomerism driven by the rationalist community and effective altruists. please keep me in your thoughts. and can anyone point me to a good "explainer" article re: Yudkowsky et al.?

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

on the one hand, I could ramble about Coltrane for hours. but on the other, I'm aware of how much has already been said and written about him and his music (and a good deal of it worthwhile), *and* I would want anything I put in writing about Coltrane to be worthy of his art

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Any recommendations for cozy fiction featuring Black characters? I don’t care if it’s cozy fantasy or cozy mystery, but, at some point, there should be members of a found family enjoying a hot beverage and a sweet.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

somebody at the office needs to learn how to use the toilet brush when it's appropriate. i'll be the office dad and put up a sign if i have to

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wasn’t gonna post particular Coltrane tracks, because there are so many I’d post as “favorites” but fuck it; here’s a relatively recent discovery from the archive and the quartet sounds terrific

youtu.be

John Coltrane - Slow Blues (Audio)

YouTube video by JohnColtraneVEVO

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For today's John Coltrane centennial, I wrote 2,000 words re: the new archival release The Tiberi Tapes. Here are 19 to whet your appetite: "When I finally heard Tiberi’s tapes, the first words that leapt to mind were “revelatory,” “electrifying,” and “holy shit!” www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

tabletmag.com

Coltrane's Shadow - Tablet Magazine

The legendary ‘Tiberi Tapes’ reveal new sides of the master, even to his biggest fans

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

great thread

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane, of blessed memory, was born on this date 100 years ago. his legacy of artistic and spiritual work lives on in the recordings. Happy Coltrane Day to all who celebrate.

black and white photo of John Coltrane playing his tenor saxophone. the photo is ever so slightly blurred, suggesting Coltrane’s being in motion when the shutter released.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“‘Do or Do Not, There Is No “Try”’: Negative Dialectics and the Limits of Language in Jedi Pedagogy”

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

that’s Dawkins holding a Jazzmaster in the cover photo. I can’t hear guitar tone well enough to say if he’s actually playing a Jazzmaster on some or all of this album. but if he is, he must’ve been one of the only blues musicians to play a JM. seems like a flex tbh

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Sad And Blues

YouTube video by Jimmy Dawkins - Topic

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the overwhelming majority of families who put their kids in the nearby Christian school drive oversize pickups. I guess Jesus was a truck-driving man

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am seeing a new dentist tomorrow and I’m not especially nervous about the exam part but I am *riddled* with dread at the thought of having to fill out the 37 intake forms they emailed me

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

almost had a panic attack when I could find the house's copy of DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT but thankfully I found it (shout-out to the hunting-jacket orange of cover to the 2000 Continuum edition)

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

10yo got hit with a wave of nostalgia and melancholy today, thinking about the passage of time and how she’s older and wishes she were back in preschool. kid, just you wait

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mark Anthony Neal discusses 'Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood' on WUNC's 'Due South' on.soundcloud.com/0qiemPEw3arn...

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a quiet, slippery monster, this novel. I think it could be read multiple ways and debated for hours and hours

cover of an edition of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Tremor of Forgery, with a photo of a coastline presumably in North Africa with people in both Western and Arabian clothes walking on the beach

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

where do you like to buy T-shirts that are actually cotton and NOT expensive (think Land’s End price point or below)? I feel like I can’t find a decent T-shirt that I can afford

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A small price to pay for freedom, Mandrake. A necessary sacrifice to preserve our precious bodily fluids from communist infiltration."

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

and now I’m really on my bullshit, and on a pulpit (…on my bullshit pulpit?) but seriously if there’s something I were to preach, it would be that music is inherently a spiritual practice because it is always a reckoning with the human perception of time

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Coltrane had recalled an earlier ‘spiritual awakening’ during which he ‘humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music.’ Maybe this wasn’t so simple as soothing his listeners with the sunshine.” Yes. Happiness ≠ perpetual pleasure. #giftlink

nytimes.com

‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More. (Gift Article)

The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My mother's family is from Baltimore. I've always considered Charm City a second home. Excited to bring #SaveASeatForMe to the Baltimore Book Festival, and especially to be in conversation with one of my fave thinkers, the Brilliant Jessica Marie Johnson. Thanks to the good folk at @redemmas.org.

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Friday night! time to eat takeout from a top-notch burger joint, put the kids to bed, do some freelance work, and then eat a gummy and read a Patricia Highsmith novel

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I like this album quite a bit overall, and this track in particular. but I actually would’ve paired “Olha Maria” (aka “Amparo”) with the A-minor mazurka, op.17/4

deannajazz.bandcamp.com

Prelude in C minor, Op 28, No 20/Olha Maria, by Deanna Witkowski

from the album Raindrop: Improvisations with Chopin

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

feeling very old and simple, but to me this just sounds like an update of ancient forms of religious belief

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think Apocalypse Now is pretty high up there

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Howard Beale Street Blues @winteron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

catching up with a coworker who's a new parent and the conversation veered into that most hallowed parental topic, How Long Did Your Kid Soil Themselves?

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