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Writer, musician and nature-lover cosplaying corporate lawyer.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think people are wasting a lot of cycles on whether AI is conscious or intelligent when really we’re trying to figure out if it’s human, and it isn’t
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the devil is in the details, why does AI get so many things wrong?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. —Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods"
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Give your tired mind the rest of the summer off. It's all reruns in there now anyway.
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The world is too much with me. Distract it with something shiny while I duck out the back.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I feel like everyone is writing their emails with AI and reading their emails with AI and it’s so horrible. Like we created a perpetual motion machine for Sisyphus.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
there was a Shiba parade in San Francisco and all the shibas wore yukatas it’s too much
Fashion in full force at the SF Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
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3 red Shibas on leashes wearing colorful Japanese robesOne of the Shibas in a beautiful green floral robe  Black and sesame Shiba in a blue Japanese robe. The Shiba is tall and slender and looks tres chic
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/04/2026
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be theonion.com/area-man-passionate-de…
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026
You are a senator.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Unpopular opinion: “look on the bright side” is more about your discomfort than my unhappiness
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
All I'm saying is whenever you force your brain and body to perform the tricks that you've assigned value, they meet up in secret while you sleep and plan their revenge.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...
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In declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in ‘53 Iran coup | CNN Politics
Sixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Me frantically making calls trying to make sure the email my team sent lands right
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a group of people are playing curling in lausanne 2020
Alt: a group of people are playing curling in lausanne 2020
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
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Lena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Mary Oliver 🩷
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If we're going to start using the word "politics" to mean "deeply held value systems and ideas about the purpose/value of human life," can we abolish phrases like "just politics" and "let's not bring politics into this"? One's bedrock concept of the very meaning of life is not... like... optional.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dip the rim of your January Monday in orange juice and then in sugar. You can't go into this thing without reinforcements.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
*looking around* hey what’s with all these dead canaries ohhhhhhh
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Everybody every single day in January
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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
From W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
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ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, JACQUELINE DU PRE
YouTube video by Allan Marshall
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Managers: “This meeting could have been an email!” Also managers: *does not read email*
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I understand that it is what it is, but hear me out…what if it could be what it isn’t?
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Man when JCO is on she is ON
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
An excellent article
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Jenée Desmond-Harris @jenee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😂
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
😍 I did not know this existed!
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Oh this is me
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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winnie the pooh is sitting at a table with a towel around his neck and a bowl of water .
Alt: winnie the pooh is sitting at a table with a bib around his neck doing a happy dance while he picks up his knife and fork for a meal.
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Jess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Happy "panic ordering a new Halloween costume bc your child changed their mind again" week to all who celebrate
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A great reminder
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“You should grow a thicker skin.” Maybe. But maybe I like that my thin skin reminds me to move gently through the world.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/09/2025
Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3
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Lou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Got my performance review.
Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I want to be brave warrior snail but I’m afraid I am actually anxiety owl
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Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Being in your 40s is fun because you start feeling like shit and you’re like am I dying? Is it perimenopause? Or did I just forget to drink water again?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.
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