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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 9h

I got out of school for a whole day in like 1990 because some dude predicted the New Madrid was gonna blow.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 9h

ah I forgot about New Madrid! It's a town, a fault, a stealth locals quiz.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 9h

“This is complete obstruction, and that’s not the way our democracy was founded.” — Adelita Grijalva to @tatandanpolie.bsky.social for @salon.com

www.salon.com/2025/10/08/a...

Adelita Grijalva wants to get to work. The GOP won’t let her - Salon.com

Rep.-elect Grijalva tells Salon she's exploring legal action over House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat her

www.salon.com

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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 10h

Dolly Parton, twenty feet tall, eyes glowing, blasting big cities with purity and love and catchy, well-crafted country tunes.

Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 17h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 10h

I'd argue against Cairo and Versailles qualifying since they fall within the boundaries of "how it looks," but if you hear someone discussing KYE-roh, Illinois or Ver-SIGH, Kentucky — welcome, thanks for visiting.

I'm not sufficiently Hoosier-pilled to know how to say Peru, IN, though.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yeah!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 10h

Louisville.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 12h

The Bardstown Rd/Highlands Kroger now has a prominent sign about how service animals are welcome but they cannot ride in the "bascarts" and I always wonder who was tasked with composing that sign

Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h

Kroger calls them bascarts. With a straight face!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly!

Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h

"BuzzBallz—the preferred riot punch of people who vape on airplanes"

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h

Fingers is good and you should be reading it! www.fingers.email/p/the-infant...

The infantilization of the American drinker

Plus: Regulatory Roulette!

www.fingers.email

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h

Shameless plug: On sale now for just $15, includes my thoughts on the "southernmost midwest or northernmost southern" city debate... www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

The Louisville Anthology

A book that looks to stir emotions. It holds a lot of anger.--LEO Weekly. Part of Belt's City Anthology Series.What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the southernmost midwest...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h

Shameless promo: My intro to The Louisville Anthology adds a little more fuel to that fire, too. (Now on sale for just $15!) www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

The Louisville Anthology

A book that looks to stir emotions. It holds a lot of anger.--LEO Weekly. Part of Belt's City Anthology Series.What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the southernmost midwest...

www.arcadiapublishing.com

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h

If we're counting the Ohio River Valley as a cultural subregion of the Midwest they'd better move that line to include Jefferson County, Kentucky.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Daniel Gilliam @dgill.bsky.social · 17h

Humbly presenting to the void: today is new album release eve. Tomorrow you can get hear my second piano trio "Payne Hollow," inspired by Harlan and Anna Hubbard who lived deliberately on the banks of the Ohio. Recorded by local group NouLou Chamber Players. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

Piano Trio No. 2 "Payne Hollow"/winterloops, by Daniel Gilliam/NouLou Chamber Players

5 track album

fictivemusic.bandcamp.com

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h

*season 4 (source: Me, I'm a dad)

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h

Missing a feature on the Paramount+ slate of gangster shows. Tulsa King just came back. Mayor of Kingstown season 3 up next. Could also use a commentary titled, "So You Took the Slow Way, Huh"

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 1d

LOUISVILLE: The Louisville Anthology, edited by me, is ON SALE for $15 through the publisher! An entire book's worth of Louisville-centric essays and poems, in time for you to get a jump on your holiday shopping. Many other city anthologies available, too!

www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

The Louisville Anthology

A book that looks to stir emotions. It holds a lot of anger.--LEO Weekly. Part of Belt's City Anthology Series.What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the southernmost midwest...

www.arcadiapublishing.com

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!! 🙏

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Farewell to the truest of legends, long live Zabar’s.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Salon.com @salon.com · 1d

We’re back with a new episode of @everythingfab4.bsky.social! 🎙️ This week, E Street Band drummer & Rock Hall of Famer “The Mighty Max” Max Weinberg talks The Beatles, Bob Dylan & his very first band.

Listen here & subscribe 👉 bit.ly/47fnjyE

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 1d

Also I quit a teaching gig because he started working at the college and was in charge of tracking media mentions of faculty, which, no thank u, please do not perceive me at all. Clearly I prefer icing out to encountering in our lil Hallmark city.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 1d

Nachbar opened the year we separated and I claimed it for myself. It's not official or anything but I was very clear. The unofficial ban seems to have stuck.

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