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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 3d

You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 3d

Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.

Copy of the Best American Short Stories 2025, edited by Celeste Ng

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 8h

I should also add that, incredibly, Windows is adding an em-dash keyboard shortcut, and it's live now in insider builds of the OS. It will be shift + win + minus.

Windows 11 adds OS level en dash and em dash keyboard shortcuts

Microsoft has added system‑wide keyboard shortcuts for en and em dashes in Windows 11 — press Windows logo key + Minus (-) for an en dash (–) and Windows logo key + Shift + Minus (-) for an em dash (—...

windowsforum.com

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 8h

yeah it's become second nature to me, a little vexing to have to switch it up

J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 8h

(My abandonment of the Mac has many causes, but mostly: if Apple's lefty bona fides are bullshit, and all tech is equally evil, and you're putting AI up in my shit and pointless bling in my OS, why am I paying you $600 for a hundred-dollar SSD? At least now I can play Fallout and have ports)

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 8h

I am back on Windows after a 20-year break and while it's fine, I'm surprised at how hard it remains to type a damn em-dash, a thing I do many times a day, because I am an AI, apparently. For this and other special characters you want instant access to, I recommend the text-replacement app Beeftext

Beeftext

Beeftext is an open-source text snippet management tool for Windows.

beeftext.org

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 10h

if it has to be explained to you why "wine moms," for example, might be upset by the demolition of the most visible symbol of American democracy, it's time to stop watching Zizek videos on youtube and just talk to a person in real life

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 11h

About to drive up to Ithaca for a long weekend. You've got two days to figure out how to get there in time for my reading Sunday

Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 9d

Hey I'm going to be in Ithaca talking IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE with @jrobertlennon.com in a couple weeks. Would be cool to see some of you there, assuming you, like me, live within a 4 hour drive

image promoting the event: 10/26, 5:30 PM Odyssey Bookstore

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

Featuring books by Isabel Yap, Kristen Felicetti, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, GennaRose Nethercott, Sofia Samatar, Jeanne Thornton, @jedediahberry.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, Carmen Maria Machado and @jrobertlennon.com, and Helen Oyeyemi!

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 1d

Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:

Cover for maile’s THE SPOIL—closeup of a fly

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 2d

I admit I was kind of susceptible to the excuse, but it still disqualifies him!

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 3d

It’s good

Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 3d

[CW: earnestness/indignity]

my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.

Book details in link

That name again is Mr. Plow

Reboot: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 3d

It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025

Check out The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 - <p>“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 5d

I admire that this graffito 1) clearly articulates the existence of a capybara-based economic system, and 2) takes no position for or against it

Spraypainted creekside graffito of a capybara accompanied by the text
CAPY-
TALISM

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 5d

Me: …and that’s why I know they used human meat in the mcrib in certain markets if you know what I mean
Server: sir this is a wendys
M: oh my god sorry haha
Server: haha yeah mcds moved to route 9 last year
M: oh man you must get some freaks
S: haha you know it
M: alright later man haha
S: later bro

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 5d

A fun thing I’ve been doing is singing the lyrics from Wire’s “Kidney Bingoes” to the tune of the Beach Boys’s “Little Surfer”

[Verse 1]
Natural splits sunburn jets pride marks smart bets
Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks
Dressed pints demon shrinks bread drunk dead drinks
Stretch clubs models box draw skin black shocks, and
[Chorus]
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
[Verse 2]
Flag stunt rock stone dole axe crash dive
Breath thrift take speed double take weekends
Skull row drugs hall colour bars sex calls
Sparkle finds rented rings pretty things clipped wings, and

J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 5d

Hanging out with 1yo at the same playground where I used to hang out out with 28yo in 1998 and feeling intense nostalgia for an experience I am literally having right this second

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Fallout @fallout.bethesdastudios.com · 5d

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, it's time to wish a ring-a-ding 15th birthday to Fallout: New Vegas with our pals at @obsidian.net!

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 5d

I want a grogu egg so I can take my baby hiking. Why not this instead of plagiarism suicide machine you ghouls

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 6d

Heh heh heh

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The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 6d

The minidisc era was not long, but I was all in.

I had a shoebox full of discs in the car that compromised most of my music collection.

Imagine having access to just about anything you wanted to hear! Ok, so we got that now, but I had that THEN.

And the aesthetics were top notch.

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 6d

Massive turnout in Ithaca today, hundreds more than last time, including these heroes expressionlessly blocking traffic eight blocks away

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 9d

Hey I'm going to be in Ithaca talking IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE with @jrobertlennon.com in a couple weeks. Would be cool to see some of you there, assuming you, like me, live within a 4 hour drive

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 9d

This is two sentences joined by a semicolon.

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