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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 10d

The new book by @luaz.bsky.social is almost here

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 10d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 19h

Played this a couple times. youtu.be/E4VbMmsvJm0

Nicto Kicko

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 20h

I am on the point of turning on the boiler here for the first time. It is making me want to drink Coca Cola

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 20h

That’s interesting! They both sound current to me but current music sounds dated to me so I’m probably not the arbiter for this quality

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 21h

To be fair, it’s possible they thought Alfred Nobel established the prize to celebrate the use of explosives.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

But I think I’ve loved all of those songs at one point or another

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

1979 was too far in time from when I would get enough allowance to afford a record a month (if that was what I wanted to save for) and I never bought the album, or any other Neil Young record for that matter (he can’t sing)

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

Most of the time I think “that is so true” and am done with it.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

I noticed and thought about a lot of album covers before Rust Never Sleeps came out, but that was the first album title I remember seeing and thinking, “is that right” in that way I now know is a sign I have to wrestle with a poem

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

Jeepers

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 21h

10/13/1979:
#70 Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
#73 I Need A Lover - John Cougar
#82 Highway To Hell - AC/DC
#84 It's All I Can Do - The Cars
#86 Hey Hey, My, My - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

I see what the song is called and I hear the organ but this makes me think a lot more about Walter Salas-Humara and Bob Rupe than anyone else youtu.be/Y0Cjdx9b9YM

Bob Dylan XII

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

Putting this in medium rotation. youtu.be/QNzCIYfj71Y

Toundra

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 21h

Cannot find a cd by this artist anywhere on earth

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

#frogsky

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 1d

“One Frog” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

One Frog

Tonight one frog sings outside. It's no country for rain. I live far away, but I can hear this one frog, it's a loud frog, alone in some creek or other, in a county of two lane roads that twist in the dark. Still there is comfort here because somewhere glimmering among the darkened trees is a lighted window. An old man and his nephew sit inside, whittling. They're making toys. One makes a small cart with rolling wheels; the other makes a dog with a wagging tail. There are no children nearby, not even in the neighboring counties, so one might wonder who the toys are for.
But the old man and his nephew don't seem concerned; they just keep whittling. Occasionally one of them smiles. The shavings go into the fire. The frog sings. The roads twist in the dark. The creek is low. One day it might rain.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for my Peter Cole anthologies…

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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 13d

What in the ahistorical nonsense...?

Our texts & liturgies have talked about Am Yisrael for CENTURIES BEFORE ZIONISM. Before Enlightenment-era nation-states existed.

I have seen more of this kind of thing in recent months from Arab-speaking creators. idk where they're getting this shit from.

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Historically speaking, there was never such a thing called "The Jewish People" before zionism.

There were Jews--Egyptian Jews, European Jews, Yemeni Jews, etc.

The fairytale they sell now to the world was manufactured in the 19th century. Most Jews didn't buy it at first; so zionists set up schools (literal schools) to indoctrinate them into believing that colonizing Palestine had been their lifelong dream.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty sure I understand this top to bottom

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

#frogsky

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 1d

“One Frog” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

The billionaire CEO whose asset firm owns the University of Phoenix
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report

Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is my birthday present to my brother this year

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

This hits me hard, like fallow period Dylan, or the early 90s blues records my brother used to try to get me to listen to

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 4d

Played this three times in a row just now. I’ll play it again some more on Thursday, most likely music.apple.com/us/album/e-w...

E Witaman by Régis Niquay on Apple Music

Song · 2019 · Duration 4:27

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Played this again. Starts strong, finishes ok.

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 4d

Only played this one once. That’s on me music.apple.com/us/album/nim...

Nimueshtaten nete by Kanen & Louis-Jean Cormier on Apple Music

Song · 2022 · Duration 4:00

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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 7d

There's a lot of attention on the boat strikes, understandably so, but beyond that there is an undercurrent of "government in waiting" in the discourse around Machado that is unmistakable to anyone who remembers the names Ahmed Chalabi and Hamid Karzai

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

One week, Chicago! Looking forward to this and if you come to the show and say hi, also cool.

I'm going to the Bears game on the 19th with @veryimportant.lawyer @torqpenderloin.bsky.social and @ericmichel.bsky.social, so the saints pod will also have some real-time reaction.

Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 29d

as part of my mission to start performing a little more often, i'm doing a show in chicago when i'm there next month. if anyone feels like coming out to lincoln lodge on *October 17* this is where i'll be. www.eventbrite.com/e/blackout-d...

Blackout Diaries

The Blackout Diaries is a comedy show where standup comedians, plus 'regular' people tell incredible true drinking stories.

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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 1d

…and later in the episode, we’ll ask: did a showgirl kill poptimism? The panel will weigh in on this and more, just after these short messages.

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