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Amos Magliocco

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Writer, Teacher, Tornado Seeker Stories & essays in Missouri Review, Yemassee, Redivider, Pushcart Prize. Tornadoes at cycloneroad.com. Copy ed., EJSSM.com. Principal Lecturer, UNT English.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · Jun 13

These tornadoes from 20 years ago today mean a lot to me because they were amazing, and because it was a brief window of pure freedom: Eric Nguyen, Scott Blair, and me had all graduated various degree programs and, with no jobs lined up yet, we chased until the money ran out. youtu.be/RspFa7VFfjk

Tornadoes in Kent County, Texas, 12 June 2005 (4K60 Remaster)

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 10h

“He’s a citizen! He’s a citizen! That’s my brother-in-law!”

ICE entered a Walgreens in Chicago running with their guns drawn looking for any person of color.

Apparently they kidnapped a black young man.

Contact Walgreens HQ and ask them to not allow ICE on their property.

#Chicago #Walgreens

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry this is happening, Ian. So many wildly talented people like you guys are waiting for the economy to pass through this stage, whatever it is. I can't even keep count of the ones I know personally. I'm glad there's a temporary refuge for you in CT, however difficult.

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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 1d

We're coming up on a waning crescent moon, which means right now it isn't all puffed up with sodium, retaining seawater. It's healthier for it.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

The booth cannot believe such legal machinations are employed against the Dodgers. They have very expensive attorneys after all.

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Mike Hoinski @hoinski.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! @texashighways.bsky.social writer-at-large Lauren Hough and her dog, Woody Guthrie, go in search of a ghost town. #longreads

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The Quest to Resurrect a Texas Ghost Town

A journey to find a true ghost town reveals vanishing histories and locals working to bring them back to life

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2d

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 3d

This image shows a stack of six lightning bolts nearly striking the same spot six time in only one minute of elapsed time! Mother nature really had it out for whoever was down there... #photography

A sculpted, layered LP supercell at night. The structure is illuminated by six lightning strikes hitting the ground to the right of the storm. A clear, starry night sky is on the left of the storm. A car's headlights can be seen in the distance.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking of this old guy tonight

Lyrics to "You Got Me Singing" by Leonard Cohen

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

This game won the Nobel peace prize.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

That took full hours off our lives. (But maybe 1991 conferred immunity.) Now I’m remembering how the playback bar on the screen had markers for each half inning, and I tried so hard not to notice how long a particular half frame had lasted.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

I taught a night class during game 6. Managed to reach the house without news. Pressed play and the better it got, the more nervously I fast-forwarded between pitches until the final three outs.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

As soon as Ian quits this paper, I'm going to cancel.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

Some things UNT never thought the whole country would hear: our stadium is called "DATCU," which sounds like a Star Wars villain.

Our team is called the Mean Green with no explanation for why this color is angry or how it's really a tribute to ancient alum Mean Joe Greene, and that's odd as well.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

An enormous percentage of the electorate either doesn't about or is openly hostile to democracy.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

He was getting clobbered and they were up by 10 or 14 or something.

Yeah, the possibility the Giants found a quarterback is almost as apocalyptic as if the Browns did it.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

Reached that stretch of semester when anything not directly related to teaching slides across my calendar from today to tomorrow and the next day and the next day. See you in December, aspirations.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 5d

If I was a Phillies fan this image would scorch the back of my eyelids like the flash of a nuclear bomb

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 5d

Why are the Giants launching this kid into defensive ends and linebackers? The first real quarterback they may have stumbled on in decades. What a ponderously dumb organization.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 5d

The only students around me who aren't using AI are my fiction writers. It doesn't even seem to occur to them (yet).

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

It was a terrible mistake. And to think I was so excited in 1992 because we'd have all the books and all the music.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

Haven't seen that argument since grad school, when a few MFA classmates got stoned on literary theory and attacked almost every manuscript for failing to include X and Y (thereby reifying Z) which they decided must be the writer's favorite flavor of oppression.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

It’s such a firehose of doom scented shit it makes Reddit seem clean as the ICU.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

Uncanny, except of course DT can cover a TE in the flat *and* take on a pulling guard, no problem.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

He’s 6’3” and 225, eh? Was the Kremlin this ridiculous in the 80s? Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I remember their fiction having more dignity.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds like you're one of those who "still don't get it."