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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 1h

Tranzac club!

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18h

He coughs a disappointed bray
To urge that we be on our way.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of restless dunes o’er man’s display.

The moving hand of fate will treat
Both kings’ and beggars’ lives as cheap
So hurry now, for soon you sleep
So hurry now, for soon you sleep.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18h

Whose land this is I do not know
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.

My camel friend must think it queer
To rest with no oasis near
And precious little shade these days
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 1d

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't it fun when that happens?

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 5h

I can't emphasise enough how incredibly sharp this knife was. Sometimes a boat will overturn, or you fall in or something, and you are trapped underwater with ropes tangled around your legs. You need to be able to cut them away without looking.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 5h

Undoing knots (usually when they are jammed tight) and forcing open the strands of a rope (so you can splice it). It's a useful, general purpose tool for working with a lot of things that one finds on a boat.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 13h

"Any weapons; any knives?", he asks me, half smiling, as he looks pityingly at my exceptionally dweeby work uniform.

And then his eyes go wide as, into his box, _ker-thunk_, goes my large, razor sharp work/safety knife with its marlinspike that could skewer a cow.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 13h

The only time I ever went there, I was meeting friends after coming off shift from my summer job as a dockmaster.

"Any weapons; any knives?" asks the bouncer, holding out a box to all the goths in their black leather and chrome spikes.

...

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ralphpoppy.bsky.social @ralphpoppy.bsky.social · 1d

A timeline cleanse. Two hummingbirds taking shelter from the rain inside a rose.

Good night Bluesky.🥰

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 10d

This format flattens context - we all get that. Please reflect how this (no doubt abbreviated) comment might be read as permission-giving by somebody considering self-harm. I understand that this nuanced issue can't be summed up in a single sentence. It might be best to remove and reword. Respect.

Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 11d

Many people have already mentioned Kafka, but I think his example is useful in a different way. He wanted his works destroyed because he was (almost certainly) clinically depressed. We aren't obliged to participate in the self-annihilation of a genius.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 11d

Me: It's a toy llama!
3yo: It's a baby sheep.
Me: Sure, it can be a baby sheep.
*3yo plays cutely. Daddy fidgets uncomfortably.*
Me: Look, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I _really_ think it's meant to be a llama.
3yo: Yes, a baby sheep.
Me: Wait, what do you call a baby sheep?
3yo: A lamb-ah.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 16d

Birch makes excellent kindling. Birchbark is some of the best kindling you can get

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 16d

But, from the other sub-thread, it doesn't sound like this is poetic anyway. It's just slender, pale trees.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 16d

For what it's worth, I checked with a native Russian speaker, and he said that the poetic meaning there is usually something to do with 'solitude' or the concept of 'homeland'. The second meaning makes a lot of sense to me, for Russians. The first... I mean birches tent to be pretty gregarious.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 17d

Google says it comes from the Russian берёза (birch tree). So akin to a birch tree, would make sense. I looked up берёзовый (the Russian adjectival form), and it was mostly about stuff being _made of birch_. But that's the dictionary; a quick search shows it being used in a lot of Russian poetry.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 19d

3, apparently. They grow up fast here, where the next blizzard might be your last and, each evening, the howling wolves circle ever closer, closer.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 22d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 21d

It 100% would. You would find it fascinating and possibly very unexpected. This is the book that coined the term "meritocracy" (as a negative). It's the kind of book people unironically cite as changing their outlook on society, and is one of the most influential books of its time.

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · 21d

Have you read The Rise of the Meritocracy, by Michael Young?

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 22d

The Pep Effect, Mate 🇦🇺

This Australian U8 side looked like it was managed by a Guardiola disciple. The 2042 Socceroos might be a PROBLEM.

📹: IG/aquilina_brothers

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · Oct 1

Same!
and... I know!

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · Sep 30

"I'm awake. And I'm gonna make that _everyone's_ problem." ~~Toddlers

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Sep 24

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Nick Gunz @ndgunz.bsky.social · Sep 23

Shanah tovah!

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