johnchan.bsky.social
@johnchan.bsky.social
i just plan on sharing poetry, mostly
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January 10, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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I keep thinking of the way this admin uses the word "fraud."

Officially the DHS agents murdering people are a "fraud investigation" in Minneapolis. Fraud, to them, is being Somali, being queer, being disobedient.
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Incredibly well written article, thanks for sharing!
January 9, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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At the Williamsburg Bridge bike path off ramp as crews begin leveling the dangerous downhill “jump.” Hearing that Mamdani is set to announce the city will begin construction on the long promised redesign of this area in the fall.
January 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Ringing in the new year with this Robert Creeley masterpiece
January 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Truly iconic.
It's the final day of MetroCard sales—so as we say farewell to an icon, let's take a look at how it all started.

Thank you, MetroCard, for moving New York to the very last swipe.
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A New Year's Eve poem as it first appeared in The North
December 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"But right now all I want is a story about human kindness"

From Ada Limón's book, The Hurting Kind: bit.ly/hurtingkind

#poem #books #writing
December 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Incredible baseball writing!!
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Makes me sad that studios are pushing for this part of the process to be elided, when so much of the conceptual creativity happens here! In the sketching!!
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Same when scoring a film! The temp track does so much heavy lifting, from a creative framing perspective, even if it’s invisible in the final edit.
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
You’ve probably solved it by now but for anyone else…it should be the Kasa app for TP-Link products. The name sucks, I agree.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“Chloe had that long, long hair that would float up all around her face like seaweed, collarbones that silt would settle into. There are girls you should never let swim”

joylandpublishing.com/fiction/take...
Take Me to Kirkland
When Chloe called me in the car that Wednesday on the way to Costco, my boyfriend Damian and I were arguing about whether or not we would be willing to swallow a goldfish for money. “You have no conce...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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You're the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men, I'm the guy providing emotional support for the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men via a gentle hand on the shoulder, we are not the same (I'm your rock)
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death.

www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
This may very well be RadioShack’s final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
www.sbnation.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Strikes me as a v sad poem
A #friendsgiving message from Alden Nowlan
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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From Hala Alyan's book, The Twenty-Ninth Year: bookshop.org/a/862/9781328511942

#poem #booksky #writing
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Election day feels like a good day for this one by Andrea Gibson. May their words live forever now that they are gone.

From You Better Be Lightning: bit.ly/gibsonlightning

#poem #booksky #writing
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "

against-a-i.com/syllabus-lan...
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Beautiful and necessary!
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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rest in peace kaleb horton. this is my husband's eulogy for our friend. davesplace.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-...
My Eulogy for Kaleb Horton
A few notes:
davesplace.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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From Yrsa Daley-Ward's book, Bone: bookshop.org/a/862/978014...

#poem #books #writing
April 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM