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rabbit holes & poetry. bylines @Dictionarycom @heyalma @beestung @ImpossWorlds . Translatº editor @ANMLY_LIT he/they 💁💸☕ 🕴️

Paris, France

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3 months

Hey y'all the day you have long awaited is finally here. that's right me and @jomposhart episode of @p2chillPodcast about Sinclair Lewis's novel Arrowsmith & ft incredible art from @DEEP_RED_BELLS that really captures the spirit of the thing

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Premium Episode 88 - Novels as Spycraft 12 - Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith pt. 1: the Long-Lost Lewis...

note from the archivist: Jimmy did not write episode notes for the remaining episodes artwork by Dakota (@DEEP_RED_BELLS) and Mr. Laaksonen Songs: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! by Tex Williams Chan Chan by...

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@JUNlPER map of all culver's in the UK case closed

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fwiw rachel kushner absolutely nails france / europe in a way most american writers seem incapable of doing "The real Europe is not a posh café on the rue de Rivoli with gilded frescoes [...] The real Europe is a borderless network of supply and transport."

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@TotallyTills @NHSEngland @NHSuk @NHSMillion @GoodLawProject I feel like this from the FAQ really sums up UK trans health care, just like "no"

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at the place de la concorde people are chanting "we decapitated Louis XVI and we can start again, Macron" in protest of the forcing through of a raise of the retirement age without a parliamentary vote

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Clément Lanot

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🔴 « Louis XVI on l’a décapité, Macron on peut recommencer ! » scande la foule à #Concorde . #ReformedesRetraite

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Roald Dahl was a virulent, unrepentant antisemite, a nasty little man, but most importantly he was pimped out by William Stephenson as a rent boy to the rich & famous.

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@TheOnion @flying_rodent lmfao signed by Ted kazinsky amazing

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@AliceAvizandum so many unintentionally revealing quotes but my favorite might be: "in the private theatre of my mind, the curtains closed at every turn." no kidding. lmfao

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when you're fingerblasting your VR gf like a pro

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A few years ago I was at the National Gallery for a Miró exhibition and there was a little French kid, age 7 or so, who told their elegant Parisian mother "I could paint that" and she flatly replied "No you couldn't." Peak Fronch parenting moment I gotta say, incredible

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Robert Komaniecki

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Making an abstract art exhibit where if a guest says “I could paint that,” a fresh canvas and paints are lowered from the ceiling and a booming prerecorded voice says “DO IT THEN, SHIT HEAD”

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by the way though, those colorful little almond cookies with ganache fillings are *macarons* not *macarOOns*. macaroons are the coconut cookies you eat at passover.

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there is a haunted apartment building outside Paris. to cover all their bases, a priest *and* an imam have been asked to come do an exorcism of the building, where residents have reported seeing a phantom figure, furniture moving around, and strange knocks in the walls 👻

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Immeuble «hanté» à Fontenay-aux-Roses : un imam et un prêtre vont y pratiquer un exorcisme

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@NastyWoman303 @clairewillett i Am An AlLy 🙄

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I am obsessed with this definitely true very real story about a trans woman who refused to use the proper name for radio electronics

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Baudrillard, taking the grandkids to Disneyland Paris: « No, Marie, I will not buy you Mickey Mouse ears. He is not a real mouse. »

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for a discipline that complains a lot about not getting the respect they deserve, they are incredibly smug about their own ignorance. can you imagine if a political theorist said, "anytime i have to learn how elections actually work, that's a bad sign"? ffs.

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@RottenInDenmark the passive phrasing "how quickly to transition children" is so telling/malicious, implying it's something being done *to* them. Children have agency!!!

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can't stop thinking of Sylvia Plath up in heaven, eyebrows furrowed as she scrolls twitter taking in gas range discourse

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Baudrillard stands outside Space Mountain, chain smoking: « This is but a monument to our inability to truly live in space, a simulacra of scientific progress. »

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For too long there has been an unnecessary division between the mascot and furry communities. With their new mascot, the Seattle Kraken are excited to do their part to bring these two groups together.

@TheAthleticNHL

The Athletic NHL

@TheAthleticNHL

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Meet the new mascot for the Seattle Kraken: Buoy!

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@jaegervonkramer @NotABigJerk be the cube

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oh i wonder what kinds of beliefs he feels aren't being platformed even though they aren't *that* bad and *reasonable* people can disagree

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disgraced Dr. Francesca Gino who falsified data multiple times really told on herself by writing a book entitled Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life (2018)

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what's the matter babe you've barely touched your Armenian snail facial treatment

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pour one out for the realest man in the simulation rip

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"Dying is pointless," French philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard once wrote. He died OTD in 2007.

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@Agonhamza lol, lmfao

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Baudrillard, at Beaubourg, chaperoning a school field trip: « Children, this is a mausoleum of art--sterile, complacent. Though it appears we have lost little Capucine. Has anyone seen her? Oh well, no matter. She is just as unreal as these paintings. »

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@christapeterso literally they whine like it's a hobby. nothing could be more annoying. An entire nation of "but you won't hit me im a little guy it's my birthday I'm a little birthday boy"

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Me with the European swingers I met on vacation

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Hey could you take a picture of us?

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Americans are so stupid that if you do bigotry in a posh British accent they will immediately cosign it as both intellectual and correct

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i stumbled on this incredible text "A Child's Guide to Freud" by Louise Armstrong (1963) and i feel it would be wrong of me not to share some choice excerpts of it with y'all (1/7)

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@RottenInDenmark I read this bit several times and I still don't understand it. Being paralyzed is a form of sympathy? Is there something I'm missing?

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@RottenInDenmark yeah that's why everyone knew about the Manhattan project, Tuskegee syphilis trials, Iran-Contra, Pat on, etc. while they were going on and not after the fact 🙃

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whats the matter babe, you've barely touched your open-plan bathroom/bedroom combo

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As a hub of the military industrial complex, it is only fitting that Seattle be the town to finally give the furry community the respect and public recognition they deserve.

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@Zak_NYCMetroWx @NateSilver538 If you read the article, it says specifically it presumes a free and fair election. So, no, it does not take into account stolen ballots, etc.

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I feel like not enough people have read this wonderful interview with Pamela Paul by Molly Fischer in the New Yorker. The NYT Book Review editor for almost a decade and the only author Pamela can name that she likes is...Christopher Hitchens. 🤡

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I knew about the Alberta Anti-Rat Campaign but what I did not know until just now is how hard their PSAs go

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@AliceAvizandum when folks are out here simping for oil companies it's usually a good idea to simply follow the money. except oddly and not at all suspiciously in the case of @capx you can't lol

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lol got her ass

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There are rejection letters, then there are the rejection letters publishers sent to Gertrude Stein.

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I know I'm a bit late to this but buried in that insane Bill Ackman profile is Israelis and the former CIA director doing Stargate conspiracy with a MoMa curator. Plus ça change ...

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there are only six episodes of the official CIA podcast The Langley Files. very tempted to live tweet them... one thing I will say about the Agency is that graphic design is definitely their passion

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Baudrillard, at the Porte d'Auteil Carrefour, shopping for Sunday dinner: « I do not know what is more absurd--that this hypermarché, this factory of montage, is an agglomeration without meaning or that my wife has told me to buy something called "vegan sausages". »

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reading @BirdWendy2 's "Aberrations" has me thinking a lot about Alec Soth's "Broken Manual: Somewhere to Disappear." He's an artist who was inspired by photog Richard Barnes who shot this iconic photo of the Unabomber's cabin (in addition to lots of bird swarms) 1/

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@patohara69 @Charl_H79 do you think work sets you free, pat?

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the cops at Paris pride have the ugliest float i've ever seen mdr

@yeezlouise

sasha anxty

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Une nouvelle qui donne le sourire : le char du FLAG, association des policiers LGBT ne démarre pas et ils ne vont pas pouvoir faire la Marche de fierté d'Inter-LGBT à laquelle les flics ne devraient de toute façon pas avoir de place 😋 Cheh !

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@BoltzmannBooty I'm kind of obsessed with Yellowstone hot springs microclimates ngl there's a lot of wild shit

Thermophilic Eukarya - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Thermophilic Eukarya

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@kyliejustine @dmt4dmt Fwiw the linked article does specifically recommend wearing N95s it's just not in the tweet

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@adamjohnsonCHI we need a dateline or 20/20 on that stat because what in the world

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@JUNlPER when the agency sends its disinfo posters, they're not sending their best

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He will call you a NEUROTIC. Now you've gained INSIGHT. Call yourself AWARE. (5/7)

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@jonathanchait "backlash in Europe" is a good way to obfuscate your obvious lie about there not being new bathroom bills [and much worse!] in the US 🙄

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@robin__craig holy shit. wtf. low even for the guardian.

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jk he's a staff writer at the atlantic of course i know: he just wants to be reassured that just because he thinks it's fine to misgender people he isn't fash.

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@propublica Scab 🫵

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Reupping because seriously this story is so great I've been quoting from it all week

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Very into this short story from @TylerPlofker "My Brain Bleeds Blue Blood". body horror + baseball is like catnip to me.

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this essay on a Queer Theory of the State was really interesting 👯

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The Point Magazine

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”Queerness and the state are doubly alienated. Not only does queer theory have little interest in the state—it also has no use for it. After all, the state is in itself that which is normal, legitimate and dominant.”

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describing Dave McGowan as "empirically untethered and/or unscrupulous" after you spent a day pretending you didn't know 1488 was a N*zi dogwhistle is just ... wow.

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In the 1960s, French researchers experimented with shooting kids up with massive amounts of LSD and mescaline to "cure" them of homosexuality.

@ZoeDubus

Dr Zoë Dubus

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Thérapies de conversion homosexuelles au LSD - 1960 y a quatre ans aujourd’hui, je travaillais dans la bibliothèque de l’hôpital Sainte-Anne à Paris pour y consulter les volumes des Annales Médico-Psychologiques.

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Baudrillard, on the ticketless Metro: « Today, there are no more Metro tickets. Soon, there will be no more passengers. And yet--still no where to sit on Line 13. »

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a picture of a woman standing alone, doing absolutely nothing but looking worried & watching tv with the caption "we are in this fight together" is the best distillation of the democratic party I've ever seen

@VP

Vice President Kamala Harris

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I know there are women out there who are afraid. To those of you who feel alone and scared: I want you to know the President and I are fighting for you and your rights. We are in this fight together.

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@oopsiepoops @RottenInDenmark

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thrilled to announce that i'm officially founding the Cambridge Institute for the Study of the History of Economic Thought (CISHET)

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@RottenInDenmark look if you refer to the diagram it's perfectly clear what he means

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@robpertray yeah media is never about performance serious podcasting man. tell me more about how talking into a mic is praxis.

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@karaswisher @adamjohnsonNYC lol imagine thinking that saying you "know those dudes" makes you seem more credible here and not less

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@jakebackpack hands dahn

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@queersocialism Hauts-de-Seine baybeee (a district to the west of Paris he played for our basketball team!)

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@CaelanConrad Couldn't help but roll my eyes at this whole thing. Posting about her "trans twin" (does this person exist?), then snarking at someone for misgendering him, then using she/her pronouns for this person a few weeks later. Just all over the map and unhinged posting always.

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@AliceAvizandum playing "dirtbag vampire or Pete Davidson" and the answer to every prompt is just "yes"

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my short story "The Headless Order" is out now in @ImpossWorlds . gorgeously laid out & illustrated and deeply spooky. based on a true story of obsession, sacrifice, and secret societies. for just $5 you can read it & further tales of weirdness and wonder.

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@AaronBastani @novaramedia what part of it are you "enjoying" exactly @AaronBastani

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@WrittenByHanna Nature is healing 💚

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@DrSarahLiu you're crying about £3000 when people have literally risked their lives to stand in solidarity with picket lines. do you just have no backbone or do you really think you're that important?

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@DontShowYourCat Is your cat fat skinny or an in between? Well don't worry because one SIZE fits all

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this is, in fact, how we teach students in France these days.

@HumanoidHistory

Humanoid History

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The school of the future in the postcard series “En l'an 2000," issued in Paris, 1910. Via @GallicaBnF .

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even managed to get in a quote from one of my favorite writers out there, Ms @mikurubaeahina

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I (probably unwisely) dipped my toe in the true crime sauce to talk about one of the most under-studied serial killers in American history, Israel Keyes, who I am unreasonably obsessed with. Check it outttt 💅

@p2chillPodcast

Programmed to "Chill"

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@christapeterso sometimes I think about how his dad lied about teaching at Boston college law school like. maybe kind of a weird grifty family altogether.

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@MsJayneET woah. I didn't know the government forced these changes, that's crazy.

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@AliceAvizandum it's giving QAnon / sovereign citizen but with crochet sweater aesthetic

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@donmoyn Weirdly though he does say elsewhere *some* beliefs are so odious they should be deplatformed, but doesn't say which ones.

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oh i wonder what kinds of beliefs he feels aren't being platformed even though they aren't *that* bad and *reasonable* people can disagree

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@RyanDeto praying for the day his beleaguered social media manager leaves the H off Pittsburgh and all hell really breaks loose

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@Lo_La_Lib yes especially in France

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@RottenInDenmark If I had a tinfoil hat, I'd say it's very suss this article is coming out when the mayor of Paris is running for president and one of her major initiatives has been more bikes, less cars in Paris. Which, btw, is pretty safe to bike in, if not perfect.

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« At least we got the fast pass. »

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👀 @JimmyFalunGong

@depthsofwiki

depths of wikipedia!

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this anthropomorphic sheep sock puppet will never be a three star general in the mari—

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@postoctobrist yeah those postal workers had it coming

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@RottenInDenmark *clears throat in class consciousness*

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this is hilarious. nicely done comrade bartender 🫡

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Absolutely incredible update from the guy who got fired from a newspaper for doing Hitler apologia on here

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i just learned about @DKThomp 's painfully cringe review of Peter Thiel's Zero to One (2014) in the Atlantic, so now you have to know about it, too

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@AliceAvizandum city of champyinz

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excited to share my newest poem, Fadden More Psalter, c. 800 (found 2006). you can read it and more at

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@jomposhart he refused to be silent in the face of oppression and tyranny !!

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@julianfeeld

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@HKesvani she went to brown could have ended up doing some annoyingly twee indie films oh wait

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you Can't Ignore the Rat!

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@JeanneD7766 yes, this is from her new book just out, Creation Lake. there's been quite a lot of Discourse about it this week and i admittedly haven't finished reading it, but this passage really stood out to me.

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@garrett_wollman hollow publishing houses with enormous pr departments and no proofreaders strikes again

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