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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · 23d

So enjoy this genre birthed by Donna Tartt's amazing The Secret History of

Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · 23d

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · 26d

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 23

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Hi Joyce, have you read any of The Booker Prize long list selections or short list finalists announced today?

Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 22

Great audience!

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · Sep 21

Master—but if I had the Beard on my cheek (like you) and you — had Daisy’s petals and you cared so much for me— what would become of you? Could you forget me in fight, or flight or the foreign land?

-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · Sep 21

William Orpen's radiant colours and his luscious textures celebrated not only wealth but sensuality, a quality deemed unnatural in the early years of the new century if you weren't Italian or French. This is his 'The Eastern Gown,' from 1906.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just finished. Interesting novel using present day themes of relationship and unchecked altruism (with the flair of Albanian culture) left this reader asking throughout: did that person actually say that? Did I hear that response correctly?" 4/13 titles completed ☑️ @thebookerprizes.com

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just finished! Wonderful themes and characters with the flair of Albanian culture woven throughout.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 13

That’s the kind of phrase that condenses experience into language so precisely, it's philosophical. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 7

You are visiting and not a patient yes?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 7

Trump gets booed at the US Open today.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mahogany rinse indeed

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.

This is how the police dealt with them.

Literally beat the hell out of them.

This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just finished "Flesh" by 2nd time long-list nominee David Szalay @thebookerprizes.com A novel about male alienation and the vertical life of a Hungarian man who spent it as an outsider, never saying "no" to anything he encountered - all the way to the top and then back down again He only said "okay"

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · Aug 31

family-tended gardens of beauty have a sentimental effect upon me-- filling my eyes with tears. recalling the old "flower gardens" & backyard vegetable gardens that were so common when I was growing up. but some local gardens are extraordinary, home-tended, not professional landscapers.

joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Alan Hensel @alan-hensel.bsky.social · Apr 9

I think this is my favorite sign that I saw at the #handsoff2025 protest in Raleigh:

Idolizing billionaires is like thinking a stripper really likes you.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you for sharing this rarefied display

Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sharply written satire of the wealthy elite and working class in present day British society. Delicious and laughable ways cutting words are used as weapons in politics and the media. A great read - highly recommended! @thebookerprizes.com @wordsbynatasha on Instagram

Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 28

yes - it was possible and can be possible again!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 27

You have to start to wonder if the interior decorator is actually trolling him.

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Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations Birdie! 🏅

Jim Hayes @togaspring.bsky.social · Aug 24

Saratoga recap