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Elliot
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gym selfies and poetry 🏳️‍🌈 NYC
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Today’s poem: Naomi Shihab Nye: “Kindness”
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Oh this will be fun.
February 12, 2026 at 3:40 AM
shoulders / chest ✅
(exhausted)
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 AM
no you see, the founders wanted to establish an absolute monarchy*

with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
Trying to understand: the Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. The President imposes tariffs without Congress. Congress passes a law rescinding his tariffs. The President then vetos that law. Seems like something’s wrong here.
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
i wish the best for the guthrie woman, but it’s obscene the amount of coverage CNN is giving this story, when masked men are abducting people all over the country with government sanction.

we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Today’s poem: Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
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February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
a day of nonstop non-stopping, now the gym.
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
February 11, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Still wondering what this new performative “fuck” is going to do to political rhetoric over time. If we’re lucky we’ll end up with a public political discourse obsessed with elaborate, obscene fecal or porcine insults.
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
biceps / triceps ✅

my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
arm ✅
February 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Today’s workout made possible by Bruckner.
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Reposted by Elliot
"If you 'know what time it is,' you understand the hour is late and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It gives carte blanche for total ruthlessness in politics because you understand the stakes." @lkatfield.bsky.social talks to @inthesetimes.com about her brilliant new book, Furious Minds.
"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"
Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.
inthesetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
man i am super low energy today. idk what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The best kind of gay porn. Everyone is clothed in pants and long dresses, smiling, and a guy is holding up a football with a civics message on it.

Watch out, Sean Cody.
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
check in day. 203lbs this morning, fasted.
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
TBH as a closeted homophobe at the time, it’s hard to overstate the impact “Born this Way” had on my sense of what “everyone” believed about being gay.

Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
People who think Bad Bunny did a lot for immigrants because of the super bowl are the same people who think Lady Gaga solved homophobia and transphobia because she said "no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgender life" in her show in 2017
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
ideas are fun and talking about the interplay of different intellectual systems is also fun
a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
ALT: a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“guys having a dictator bound by no laws would be so epic and based”

[several years of self-destruction later…]

“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
quads / calves ✅
February 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
update: i rewatched the hockey show again over the weekend while i was doing other stuff, and the end of ep 5 still had me weeping.

i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
idk what the difference is but the janky old hack squat at the gym feels way better than the nicer looking new one.
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Today’s poem: William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (excerpt)
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February 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I think about this a lot bc it’s a choice that matters when you recite poetry. I don’t treat line breaks as pauses unless they naturally feel like pauses, either because of the cadence of the poem or for the sake of a rhyme scheme or something similar.
whenever someone talks about line breaks online someone always shows up and says something like LINE BREAKS ARE ONLY THERE FOR BREATHS and I just can't imagine saying you love poetry while hating it so much
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
205lbs this morning.
Heaviest I’ve ever been.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
this is for @robinson7326.bsky.social because there aren’t pics in DMs and he doesn’t know what nietzsche’s aphorisms look like when printed.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM