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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Mar 21

"depressed by a bad take on the internet, i walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me" with apologies to james wright

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 1d

"Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter’s day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. The sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while, but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing." Bede, Eccelesiastical History of the English People

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 9d

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘KILL BILL’ movies will be released in theaters as one complete movie on December 5.

• Will include a never-before-seen 7-minute animated sequence

• Select presentations will be in 70mm and 35mm

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 10d

if you're thinking about coming to do a #fanstudies PhD with me, here's your chance to learn more.

UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · 10d

Thinking about pursuing a PhD with T&T? We've got TWO upcoming information sessions. The first will be Wednesday, October 15 at 6pm. Sign up here! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...

Texts & Technology PhD October Open House

applynow.graduate.ucf.edu

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 22d

Here's a diversion for you all: contributors to @ebertvoices.bsky.social wrote about 11 of the late, great Robert Redford's performances. My pick is Sneakers. Everybody else's entries are fantastic, and there are some surprises. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances | Features | Roger Ebert

The staff picks some of our favorite performances from the late screen legend, from "Barefoot in the Park" to "All the President's Men."

www.rogerebert.com

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 23d

you are a treasure 💎

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · Sep 10

If professors can be fired for discussing topics not explicitly mentioned in the course description and/or not toeing the ideological line of elected political leaders, there is no academic freedom in Texas.

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · 27d

(social media retirement)

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Aug 24

was anyone going to TELL ME that kahlo and o'keeffe partied together in new york, visited each other afterwards, and kahlo at least seems to have had a pretty intense crush on o'keeffe, or did i really have to find that out myself today via A FB POST

kahlo's one surviving letter to o'keeffe, currently housed at the beinecke. o'keeffe was having a quote nervous breakdown, and kahlo writes, "i can't write in english all i would like to tell, especially to you." according to one of rivera's assistants they went out at night in nyc and got drunk and wound up singing to each other in a ladies' toilet???? WHAT????

on page 2 of the letter, kahlo adds, "I thought of you a lot and never forget your wonderful hands and the color of your eyes.…i like you very much Georgia." she visited her in bermuda (?) and later told a friend they couldn't have sex bc o'keeffe was too weak??? and o'keeffe visited her in méxico later??? why am i ALWAYS the last to learn about these things???

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Feb 28

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Jul 18

he should have dickie on sometime in the next 10 months and just roast everyone together. just DRAG them.

JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Jul 18

honestly thought it would be kimmel but in the end stephen was much more dangerous. poets and comedians are the canaries down the mine shaft, pay attention to who is next

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 18

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning

CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

www.motherjones.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Jul 18

I don't think there should be any question that Colbert is the most brilliant man ever to sit behind a desk at a late night talk show.

Seriously, watch this clip. As an extemporaneous speaker, he can't be beat. And the depth of his intellect is undeniable.

🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · Jul 18

Pumping my fist in the air when he makes that Robert Hayden pull

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Jun 25

(jsyk i have NOT forgotten about this—am just fighting multiple fires of the aging-parent-on-a-rural-dairy-farm variety)

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Jun 22

so few perfect things in the world but Blue is one

CannabisHolocaust @luminosity.bsky.social · Jun 22

One of my favorite albums was released on this date in 1971. Blue by Joni Mitchell. It soared opened with this song, and never came back down.

Joni Mitchell - California (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell

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Screen Door Review @screendoorreview.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈

www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Jun 22

whoa, i'm in here too! honestly kinda sorta hyped about it bc these are three new poems i thought no one would love, but these nice queer southern folks did. they're my favorite, give them some love? 🏳️‍🌈 💕 🌈 (thank u screen door i love y'all)

Screen Door Review @screendoorreview.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈

www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/

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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · Jun 16

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

www.wilderness.org

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · May 29

G-D, IF ONLY THAT EXISTED [sobs, hides under large basket]

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · May 28

Another shoe drops.

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · May 29

I thought your approbation Fame – and it's withdrawal Infamy.

[E. Dickinson to T.W. Higginson, 1877]

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · May 29

The New York Times has announced an agreement with Amazon that allows the company to use the newspaper's content to develop its artificial intelligence models. Until now, the newspaper has consistently refused to allow its content to be used for generative AI.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · May 29

Le New York Times a annoncé un accord avec Amazon qui autorise le groupe à utiliser les contenus du quotidien pour développer ses modèles d'intelligence artificielle. Jusqu'ici le journal a toujours refusé de laisser ses contenus nourrir l'IA générative #AFP

➡️ u.afp.com/Spaj

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · May 29

Li Shangyin 李商隱

A Funny One for a Friend at the Banquet, poem in English translation by Chloe Garcia Roberts.

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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · May 29

my brain is throwing up inside my skull now kevin