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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4d

The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55

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Michael Schaub @michaelschaub.bsky.social · 6d

I got Covid for the first time and it feels like I finally discovered the band that everyone else was into five years ago. A band that sucks and when you go their concert beats the shit out of you

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty excited (and more than a little surprised) to have a piece in any Best American anything, let alone Sciene & Nature Writing

Cover of Best American Science & Nature writing 2025, guest edited by Susan Orlean

Opening of my essay "when we used to glow," originally pubbed in Hippocampus

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 7d

how many beer will you beer

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 8d

Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 8d

I mean, there’s budget cuts, and then there’s BUDGET CUTS, geez

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Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social · 9d

this week on Monster Factory, the McElroy brothers create Jom Gaffigom

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 9d

they have yet to invent calipers for this physiognomy

Sven W. Tritschler
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May I see your residence permit?
#ICE #Remigration

a german white guy who is a fan of AfD in an ICE tshirt. he has reddish facial hair & some hair on his head. it is difficult to tell how much hair on his head though as his head shape is one i’ve not yet seen. like they put rubber bands around the midpoint of his head when the fontanelle was still soft to form some mutated peanut shape of some sort. of course his pfp is an ai cartoon version that omits these details.

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 9d

My baby might drool on you, look out

Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 9d

Will never stop telling the story of my coworker who was afraid of downtown Ithaca, NY. Trying to protect people from fake fears just makes them more scared!

Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 9d

I posted it in Faine's replies a few days ago, but... yeah.

I know people who are deathly terrified of going to parts of Providence (a city of 190K) because "you could get mugged." (Note: RI has ~1 crime per 1K people statewide).

They thought I lost my marbles when I moved to "the city."

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 9d

I had my pickup truck break down there once on a cross-country move, there's your opener!

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 13d

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897

and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886

you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Mar 25

Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich (2005-2005): A massive toasted sub/hoagie roll, packed with 2 layers of eggs, 2 slices of American cheese, 2 sausage patties and 3 strips of bacon. It featured 330mg of cholesterol, 1940mg of sodium, and more fat than a Big Mac

A long, seeded roll, filled with 2 fluffy, folded eggs, 2 sausage patties, 3 strips of bacon, and melted American cheese. It sits behind a pile of hashbrowns and in front of a clear glass mug of coffee

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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 15d

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, The Way I See It, actors Amy Ryan, Martin Short, Arnell Powell, and Fred Hechinger perform stories by Ramona Ausubel, Charles Johnson, and @jrobertlennon.com. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/3W2kVor

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 16d

Happy New Year, for those who observe.

Sammy Davis, Jr, turtleneck, collarless jacket, many rings, holding a microphone, looking right atcha. Text reads, La Shana Tova, Babe. And I mean that sincerely.

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 16d

New Novel releases TOMORROW!
See me this week in Cleveland, Chicago,
Detroit and Kansas City~~! Watch me sign
a book just for you with my own hands!

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 16d

❤️

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16d

‘A white man who wrote almost exclusively about criminals isn’t who most readers would go to for a nuanced portrayal of Black Americans’ inner lives, but Elmore Leonard was expert at showing the way racial and cultural dynamics change the calculus.’

J. Robert Lennon: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

J. Robert Lennon · Never use your own car: Elmore Leonard’s Superpower

I don’t think there’s anyone on today’s bestseller lists as accomplished on the page as Elmore Leonard was; he...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 16d

almost forgot to share the true highlight of my short trip to NYC: witnessing an authentic "I'm walkin here!" in a busy intersection in midtown, a beautiful moment.

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 18d

Some SOSO songs:

- Stairway to the Second Floor
- A Moderate Amount of Love
- Okay Times, Meh Times
- Going to Connecticut
- Beige Dog
- When the Levee Requires a Minor Repair

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 19d

Starting a Led Zeppelin cover band with a bunch of other mediocre musicians and calling it SOSO

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 20d

I even got to pay them for it, too

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 20d

I literally got paid to do this today 👍🏼

Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 20d

Tell three writers how much their work means to you.

Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 20d

In case anyone else feels like they're screaming into a void about their work these days, please remember there are countless readers who aren't on social media who have probably read + loved your work without ever saying a word.

(Another reason why having a website is so important.)

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 20d

Goofy 3D face. Text: Are you being good?
• Giving of your time and powers.
• Downloading only pious implements.
• Lingering on charitable notions.
• Ingesting meatful ideas.
• Breathing uncanny particles.
• Telling the devil to scrub hell's tub.
(and mow hell’s lawn while he’s at it)

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 22d

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 21d

Thank you!

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