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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea

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author of THE VEILED PROPHET, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. writing in @thenation, @slate, @jacobin, @proteanmag, @boulevardlitmag — he/him — rep: Erik Hane, Headwater Literary https://linktr.ee/devintoshea

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · Sep 13

check it out

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1h

Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

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I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.

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benny-boy83.bsky.social @benny-boy83.bsky.social · 11h

Great article right here

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 22h

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 12h

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely amazing documentary I was lucky to see a showing of tonight at the Hi Pointe. Joining Walter Johnson, Gwen Moore (neither of whom are on bluesky) in the film to provide great historical context to Percy's one of a kind social justice action, is @devintoshea.bsky.social

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 14h

mark’s substack is essential stuff - sub and support this work!

Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 15h

In my first post of many about Mill Creek Valley i talk about one of my favorite photograph collections that just so happens to have some of the most crispy views of Mill Creek

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Photographing & Coloring Mill Creek Valley

Part I: The Lemen Streets & Sewers Collection

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 15h

More people should be talking about it!

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✨ Viv ✨ @viv-yells.bsky.social · 15h

Mmmmmm love me some Thomas Pynchon thinkpiece. This has me yearning to go do a little reading that scrambles my brain. Just a smidge. As a treat.

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 22h

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 15h

Ah so it runs in the family

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t get me wrong - we should do BRT all over here - it does work and it’s a great cheap improvement, but the diminished expectations is total bullshit - they had 4 years of Brandon to get this done

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 16h

the trolley is possible, the chess hall of fame is possible, the stlpd needs state of the art training facilities and armament, but the Metrolink can only go east and west — it's too expensive to make it go north and south

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 16h

Roach's job is to spend the least amount of money on public transit in St. Louis as is possible, unless it's on gates and security — he's the guy who comes in to bargain things down while Joe Edwards does the absolute dumbest shit possible with a trolley line

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MetroLink Gates Put Ordinary St. Louisans In Their Place

On January 1, Belgrade made mass transit free while St. Louis is spending $52 million on security gates for its MetroLink, neglecting user needs. Is civic imagination suffering amid crime-focused n…

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 16h

Taulby Roach has wanted BRT from the start because he doesn't really give a shit about public transit in st. louis — he doesn't ride it, his biggest accomplishment has been spending 52 million dollars on prison-gates at the entrances to the MetroLink, and people are pissed

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 18h

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 21h

hell yeah, thank you Bill - i'll look up what patronymic means but for now i'll take it as a compliment

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 21h

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 21h

thank you brother 🫡

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 21h

i usually say Inherent Vice as the best way in - plus you can watch the movie after!

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New Door Books @newdoorbooks.bsky.social · 22h

In @literaryhub.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social describes how movies are popularizing the classic #Pynchon theme: "The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 22h

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 23h

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d

big thank you to @joshualawrence.bsky.social for the gifts ‼️

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 3d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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