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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm in the new issue of the @thetemzreview.bsky.social with a look at Kate Beaton's latest. Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour is a call for working-class art and a survey of the literature of Cape Breton, full of the great anecdotes she's known for. www.thetemzreview.com/mcphee-31.html

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3h

I will manage and get tea tomorrow. I'm just annoyed. Also there's a mail strike on here now so it probably wouldn't get here anytime soon. Kind of you to offer though

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3h

That's awesome. I bought pods by accident and now I'm stuck in some kind of Kafkaesque hell

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3h

Okay yeah but they weren't always made of plastic and inferior tea. Do you make tea without bags, though? Is that something people do?

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3h

Wait what's wrong with teabags?

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 4h

now i have a dozen tea pods that i can't do anything with because i dont have whatever proprietary cassette player is needed to boil a cup of goddamn tea. maybe put a coffee filter into a mug and pour water in? ridiculous.

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 4h

The teabag is a perfectly adequate product why on earth would you sell tea in a pod

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 8h

10 Wild Things I Learned About the Bronze Age from The Horse, The Wheel, and Language adamsnotes.substack.com/p/10-wild-th...

10 Wild Things I Learned About the Bronze Age from The Horse, The Wheel, and Language

Adam's Notes for October 9, 2025

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 14h

In this case Dutch contemporary arts is code for pornography

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 22h

I love the idea that there's some guy in the bookies reading through some highbrow Romanian literature (in Swedish translation) and thinking to himself "It's not Cărtărescu's year"

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know why we're always asking the gambling industry who they think will win. At least Nate Silver made loads of little interactive graphs or whatever

Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 22h

"Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Winners LIVE Updates: Will 2025 finally be Haruki Murakami’s year?" No

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 22h

"Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 Winners LIVE Updates: Will 2025 finally be Haruki Murakami’s year?" No

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23h

But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 23h

when houellebecq learned annie ernaux won the nobel in 2022 he gave up on trying to win it himself and decided to focus his efforts on promoting contemporary arts in the netherlands instead

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
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Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 2d

years ago heard an interview w/ a biologist who worked on interspecies comm and identified the ways birds and monkeys share info, including the way they announced the presence of a jaguar. one day in the jungle he heard the jaguar call, wondered who was getting hunted, and realized "oh, it's me."

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 3d

lunch time has produced another hastily written and totally unedited musings about classic weird fic over on the blog! this time, i go on and on about Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," from Weird Tales 1939! read it, why don't ya?
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ACAB Includes Strained Pulp #37: “Far Below” by Robert Barbour Johnson, Weird Tales v 34 n 1, 1939

Trying to do these little free writing essay/dissections a bit more frequently because a) it is Hallowe’en season, after all, and b) it seems like we’re in another round of “socia…

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 3d

I just bought a 1770 copy of Paradise Lost from wotsupdoc for $35; our world is broken and strange

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3d

change of plans schattenfroh schautumn starts now

Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 4d

Going around telling people I'm doing Schattenfroh for Christmas, trying to imply it's some new trend they don't know about

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, the government is running scab camps to warehouse children during the teachers' strike? Did I hear that right?

Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 4d

"I think it's time to quit and go public." "hold on, just a few more years and I can get my pension"

Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 4d

I know you're not supposed to bring the system down from the inside but I feel like the barrier for joining ICE is so low right now you could probably get a whole migrants rights group hired and working together. access to inside info and let the opposition pay your salary

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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 5d

Edmonton’s NeWest Press seeks an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Learn more about the qualifications we are looking for and how to apply by visiting our website.

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#NeWestPress #NowHiring

We're Hiring! NeWest Press is seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Submit your cover letter and resume to president@newestpress.com not later than Friday, October 17, 2025.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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