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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 3h

"If it sounds like #writing, I rewrite it." – Elmore Leonard, born 100 years ago on today's date

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 19h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 13h

You feel like you’re IN Monterey, California during the depression. It’s like a time machine.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 13h

Canine-y Row

Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 14h

Beast of Eden

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 23h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 13h

Cannery Row is insanely good. Read it like 6 months ago. Feels like it could have been written yesterday. The opposite of dated.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 13h

David Byrne was insanely good. He turned back the clock. It was a theatrical EXPERIENCE.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing David Byrne tonight and I’m very excited.

a man is singing into a microphone while dancing on a stage

ALT: a man is singing into a microphone while dancing on a stage

media.tenor.com

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with all of this.

Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. 😍

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid"

"It feels like we’re winning this. They’re not getting the footage they’re looking for. They look ridiculous"

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

www.wweek.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

love love love this

Louis Tiffany @louis-tiffany.bsky.social · 2d

Window https://www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-tiffany/window-1892

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

love love love this

Louis Tiffany @louis-tiffany.bsky.social · 2d

Window https://www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-tiffany/window-1892

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois judge blocks ICE from using force against peaceful protesters, clergy and journalists. Also requires visible ID. An overdue victory for the First Amendment.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow!! So excited for you. Can’t wait to read this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 3d

It's fascinating that in the wake of two brother filmmaking breakups (the Safdies and the Coens), we're seeing in their subsequent individual films which ones needed the other the most.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images

The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited

substack.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 2d

Cat pic worked.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 2d

Be my colleague in NYC! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu Women and Gender Studies.

Assistant Professor with a desired focus on Black reproductive rights, maternal care and midwifery / doulas / sexuality

Applications due by November 15.

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 7d

Skylight Books is sold out of Vineland, we really got the Letterboxd crowd reading books

bare shelf with a post-it note saying “Vineland Pynchon”

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