Kyle Beachy
@kylebeachy.bsky.social
Author of The Most Fun Thing (essays) and The Slide (a novel)
https://linktr.ee/kbeachy
https://linktr.ee/kbeachy
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If you haven’t bought/read The Most Fun Thing, what have you been doing with your time?
I wrote a very serious book about the world's least serious thing and I am more proud of it than anything else I've done. Phenomenology! Performance theory! Anatheism and even some William Gass!
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you haven’t bought/read The Most Fun Thing, what have you been doing with your time?
Taking a moment—today, in particular—to note that the Common BMW spot might be the worst advertisement ever made.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Taking a moment—today, in particular—to note that the Common BMW spot might be the worst advertisement ever made.
I wrote a very serious book about the world's least serious thing and I am more proud of it than anything else I've done. Phenomenology! Performance theory! Anatheism and even some William Gass!
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I wrote a very serious book about the world's least serious thing and I am more proud of it than anything else I've done. Phenomenology! Performance theory! Anatheism and even some William Gass!
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For the afternoon's spiritus mundi
@cnkerr.bsky.social is back with another beauty, this time stepping into the gyre of W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming."
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poeti...
Waxing Poetic #3: “The Second Coming”
Christian N. Kerr navigates the widening gyre of society and skateboarding through William Butler Yeats' post-war poetry.
www.simplemagic.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For the afternoon's spiritus mundi
eastbound amtrak running pretty close to schedule today. very cool.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
eastbound amtrak running pretty close to schedule today. very cool.
ladies and gentlemen who don't watch a lot of skateboarding, please and you're welcome to consider: antonio durao.
youtu.be/0_Yiyk5WzLU?...
youtu.be/0_Yiyk5WzLU?...
Antonio Durao’s HARDBODY INTERLUDE
YouTube video by ThrasherMagazine
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ladies and gentlemen who don't watch a lot of skateboarding, please and you're welcome to consider: antonio durao.
youtu.be/0_Yiyk5WzLU?...
youtu.be/0_Yiyk5WzLU?...
My eyes are hearts and my face become emoji, for I am in love
Waxing Poetic #3: “The Second Coming”
Christian N. Kerr navigates the widening gyre of society and skateboarding through William Butler Yeats' post-war poetry.
www.simplemagic.ca
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My eyes are hearts and my face become emoji, for I am in love
i too harbor this hope, as do the 20 adult writing students i met saturday in sentence class.
My fear is that with the rise of AI, it's only going to get worse. I do have a bit of hope: if all communication is featureless, ChatGPT robot drivel, I believe people will eventually crave interesting, creative work again. We just need to make sure small publishers survive until that awakening.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
i too harbor this hope, as do the 20 adult writing students i met saturday in sentence class.
mike carroll introduced me to De La Soul
Mike Carroll - Finally (FTC 1993)
YouTube video by PristineParts
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November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
mike carroll introduced me to De La Soul
"Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator."
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator."
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Extremely practical lessons here that anyone can use. Wasting the enemy’s time is both achievable and important
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Extremely practical lessons here that anyone can use. Wasting the enemy’s time is both achievable and important
I'm afraid this is what happens when you hide who you are. Should have stuck with "St. Louis Bread Company"
Once the top U.S. fast-casual chain, Panera has dipped to number three, falling behind Chipotle and Panda Express.
Now, to try to win back consumers, the chain plans to reinvest in the business and undo many previously implemented cost-cutting measures, it said Tuesday.
Full story: cnb.cx/487BuFk
Now, to try to win back consumers, the chain plans to reinvest in the business and undo many previously implemented cost-cutting measures, it said Tuesday.
Full story: cnb.cx/487BuFk
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm afraid this is what happens when you hide who you are. Should have stuck with "St. Louis Bread Company"
ah hell yeah, found my tai chi plug
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ah hell yeah, found my tai chi plug
Threading my arms through my Democrats jersey and sitting down to the old keyboard, eager to get a new day rev'd up
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Threading my arms through my Democrats jersey and sitting down to the old keyboard, eager to get a new day rev'd up
pick your favorite toys wisely, i guess
starting to think that repeatedly sinking trillions into Silicon Valley's new favorite toy while tech companies spend millions to kill any meaningful regulation is actually not going to end well
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
pick your favorite toys wisely, i guess
I know some of you sickos follow me back, journalists. Apply! Have at it!
Are you a journalist working on a novel? Apply to the free, fully funded George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop (travel to the workshop is included).
Details in this thread! I'll be part of the 2026 faculty.
www.medill.northwestern.edu/journalism/p...
Details in this thread! I'll be part of the 2026 faculty.
www.medill.northwestern.edu/journalism/p...
Meet The Faculty - Medill - Northwestern University
www.medill.northwestern.edu
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I know some of you sickos follow me back, journalists. Apply! Have at it!
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have you seen the 1990 television series Twin Peaks, which is about skateboarding?
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
have you seen the 1990 television series Twin Peaks, which is about skateboarding?
today, too.
my wish today is that you all find something as unexceptional and perfectly fun as this little aluminum trashcan
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
today, too.
actually heroic work.
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
actually heroic work.
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I'm teaching a 4-week group read of Satantango starting Jan 15 and I imagine it's going to be a gosh dang hoot, man. Come through, join! And please share with the Nobel-curious among your crew!
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...
4-Week: Craft Lessons from Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
In this 4-week class, we’ll conduct a close, craft-focused reading of Satantango, the debut novel by the visionary Hungarian author and 2025 Nobel Prize laureate, László Krasznahorkai. Together, we wi...
lighthousewriters.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm teaching a 4-week group read of Satantango starting Jan 15 and I imagine it's going to be a gosh dang hoot, man. Come through, join! And please share with the Nobel-curious among your crew!
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...
lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...
Am not totally in love with getting text messages from an all new Kennedy.
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Am not totally in love with getting text messages from an all new Kennedy.
When it comes to the accepted calendars for book promotion, a large and important caveat is when you believe way more people should read the book due to they generally find your topic frivolous or beneath them. In such a case you can promote your skateboarding book forever. Forever.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When it comes to the accepted calendars for book promotion, a large and important caveat is when you believe way more people should read the book due to they generally find your topic frivolous or beneath them. In such a case you can promote your skateboarding book forever. Forever.
someone go tell these dorks to get out of there, thank you
right now, the worst trend in skateboarding is how many skaters are still using twitter
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
someone go tell these dorks to get out of there, thank you
"To that end, skateboarding is a pedagogical tool akin to what David Graeber referred to as 'poetic technologies' that expand our imagination beyond the limitations of restrictive bureaucracies"
Seeing Like a Skater: Skateboarding as Poetic Technology
Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban lan...
www.mediapolisjournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"To that end, skateboarding is a pedagogical tool akin to what David Graeber referred to as 'poetic technologies' that expand our imagination beyond the limitations of restrictive bureaucracies"
Well this went great. This went wonderfully. Please take classes from me in the future I would like to keep doing this until I keel over.
Come hang out for a couple hours with me and @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on Zoom Nov 12! We'll talk about the ways time works in narrative prose and it'll be stimulating and provocative and generative.
How to Experiment with Time in Prose with Kyle Beachy - StoryStudio Chicago
In this class, we’ll explore traditional and more adventurous uses of time in fiction and creative nonfiction, giving us the confidence to work with time just as we work with voice, POV, and other nar...
www.storystudiochicago.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Well this went great. This went wonderfully. Please take classes from me in the future I would like to keep doing this until I keel over.