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Jack Lynch
@jacklynch000.bsky.social
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Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric. C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery. https://jacklynch.net
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 5h
OF COURSE I taught Spenser by playing songs by the Roots and Dolly Parton. You mean there’s another way?
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6h
Man, it seems EVERYONE has their own private sex island.
A headline from the New Statesman in 1953, "Dr. Johnson's Island"
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 8h
That crowd accidentally yells it out during sex.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 13h
So you're saying I'm not allowed to do any work?

I'm okay with that.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Sorry, I finished the wine, but I’m pretty sure there’s another bottle.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Kraft Mac & Cheese box
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Mystery solved!

Nothing has changed!

Well, not quite nothing. Instead of both escalators being blocked off with low yellow barriers, they’re now both blocked off with higher blue barriers.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
You may yet become a Mormon posthumously and retroactively.
Baptism for the dead - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d
you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
What they don’t make clear is whether this refers to the escalator that’s been out of service since mid-2021 or the escalator that’s been out of service since late 2023. (Nota bene, there are only two escalators at the station.)
Northeast Corridor Station Advisory Hamilton Station: Temporary Staircase Closure - Beginning Thursday, September 25, 2025 Starting 10:46 AM, Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 079 fol. 96r (the moose is a bonus).
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Someone on the train is wearing a full hazmat suit. Does he know something I don’t?

(Mind you, the grooming habits of fellow commuters have sometimes made me long for something similar.)
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
Today this creature teaches selections from Margery and Julian.
An alerted medieval image of a priest outside an Anchorite’s cell. The Anchorite is a moose.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
En français, on dit 0,1 scaramouches.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2d
He had a good run.
Over a photo of Lecornu: French Prime Minister Resigns in Surprise Move Sébastien Lecornu stepped down less than 24 hours after he had formed his cabinet.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks a LOT.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read
press.princeton.edu
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
(Wish I had more confidence that we won’t be among them….)
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
YA THINK?!?!?!
Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.
www.nytimes.com
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
I make generous donations to charities like this mostly for the tax deduction. Gotta be careful not to go into a higher bracket.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
(Much obliged!)
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
They call it a “10-point compact”; I call it a ransom note: abandon all your academic values and you’ll get the money that was rightfully yours.
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 6d
Aw, shucks. It’s the least I can do.

I mean literally. It’s the very least I can possibly do.
You're donating $0.01 this ride ACLU Foundation
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 7d
A president seeking to “maximize pain” of Americans would once have been considered a problem, rather than a straightforward statement of the facts.
White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes
www.nytimes.com
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 7d
If there’s any way I can be helpful — any way of leveraging the privilege I have — I’m yours to command.
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