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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The speaker of my poem borrowed my favorite jacket and won’t give it back. Please stop saying we’re the same guy, I’ll never get my jacket back if you keep saying that.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Poetry is cool cause sometimes it’s like, no, that poem actually isn’t about the passage of time or the end of childhood. It’s only about horses. I just can’t believe they’re here being horses like that all the time.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The speaker of my poem isn’t me, it’s three guys in a trenchcoat that looks like me and I don’t trust a single one of ‘em

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don’t consider myself very woo-woo, but sometimes there’s nothing in your head and a poem rushes out onto the page and it feels magic

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the way a sip of boba helps me see the beauty of the world around me

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Kinda wanna just listen to Erika de Casier albums 100% of the time

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Musk's genocide.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/08/2026

Why wait

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.

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The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Issue Fifty-Eight is here, bringing a vibrant batch of poetry, prose, interviews, and artwork to the fore!🦩 Start reading here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Nobody told me how much of The Other Bennet Sister is about a beautiful man who won’t stop talking about poems

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matthew @pahuski.com · 10/08/2026

The ads alone are worth the price of The Onion’s print edition

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Capitalism is great. I have to click out of two ads to see what the weather forecast is for the day and my banana has a sticker on it advertising the new Pixar movie.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Temwa Chawinga is the greatest goal scorer I’ve ever seen. I beg people to look up her career stats. It’s unreal

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Referring to myself as an “archivist” because I love the work of Nia Archives and Sudan Archives

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and it turns out I actually can hate this technology even more

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“We gotta slow down the digging up guys to make one big guy process.” Says Dr. Frankenstein, AI startup founder

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Less tech companies more turning to a pal as you drive past a field and pointing “horse!”

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Idk, seems like there’s a new lawsuit every few months about a chatbot convincing someone to take their life, so maybe we don’t need to sit in a zoom meeting and have someone ask what AI tools we’re incorporating in our work.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Perhaps, in his pondering of “the manly love of comrades” Whitman found his muse in the colorful, humble life of the minion. In this essay I will…

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Not really a horse guy, but really big horse poem guy. Love to read ‘em, love to write ‘em. Ride a horse? No thank you, too tall, I have no business up there.

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I can’t laugh at the memes because I have suffered through too many years of bad US men’s soccer. It was nice that it was actually fun for a bit.

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Raingump Kto: Smile Through The Pain Harold

ALT: Raingump Kto: Smile Through The Pain Harold

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The biggest disagreement in my marriage is that my wife finds the teletubbies creepy, but to me they’re aspirational, mascots for whimsy, nearly deities.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The many World Cup videos of people from different countries joyfully dancing and dining together, talking about how welcome they feel in one another’s company, is healing me. The world could be this way all the time if evil men in ill-fitting suits weren’t constantly trying to tell us otherwise.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Another day watching some awful creep drape a flag over his shoulders, thank Jesus, then say the nastiest shit his small mind can think of into a microphone. Had me thinking of this great new @nathanevansfox.bsky.social record. Listening to “Jesus and the Buck.”

Well the difference ain't much between Jesus and the buck
That both hang on the wall
They're good for telling tall stories, reminiscing on glory And can't interrupt
They're more use as trophies for the clout you can get
Somebody threw out the carcass, somebody remade the head The tales get taller, and the facts more grand
Til Jesus complains 'bout taxes and waves a big flag

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I love soccer. What do you mean that 0-0 tie was a thrilling upset? Incredible.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Marveling at the poetics of Clipse. How they make “The only Audi here is driven by my au pair” such a smooth rhyming line. A masterclass.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I love international soccer because I have been an Ivory Coast fan for many years with absolutely no connection to the country.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Walking through the park with my head high / Past all the college girls and the drunk guys /And if there is a god, he's the bond that's between us two.” Olivia Rodrigo, a poet

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The best part of the World Cup is watching all the videos of people from different countries dance and sing together. A reminder of what we are when these greedy billionaires and bought politicians aren’t foaming at the mouth to make enemies.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Olivia Rodrigo made a pop record that is many things one of which is a pretty clear love letter to The Cure

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Unreal that Olivia Rodrigo is 23 and making art this confident and interesting.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I feel like I’m too young to be saying “what am I, chopped liver?” this much

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Tough Finals series for me, a man with no connection to either city, but a lover of Wemby and KAT

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The “Ai will get so good you won’t even be able to tell!” crowd can’t even begin to understand how much joy I get from realizing a thing I loved was made with puppets.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

On first of June my father insists on sending the family group chat a video of him listening to “June is Bustin’ Out All Over.”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It’s just so easy to be correct morally and politically on this

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Victor Wembanyama highlights to chill and study to

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

You simply cannot fathom how many Deborah and Ava Hacks fan edits I’m sobbing to today.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

there will always be more that I do not know than what I can and lots of time with poetry taught me that this is not scary, where else could I want to be but always learning

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Azzi was always a great pick for Dallas. The hot take crowd is just louder than the ball knowers.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

When I talk poems with my friends it’s actually one of the most important and useful things I could do with my time. How we navigate the way one another experiences this world and try to make sense of it. It’s delightfully cumbersome and very human. No efficiency robot, time and space and community

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