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Malcolm Farley
@malcolmfarley.bsky.social
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Poet & cultural journalist. https://malcolmfarleywriter.com
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 1d
Here's an example of the 8th type of ambiguity (not covered in William Empson's famous monograph): creepy, radically uninterpretable.

From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.)

What should we take from this juxtaposition?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d
Where are the House Republicans? NOT in D.C., that’s for sure. Speaker Johnson won’t even seat Rep. Grijalva because of the Epstein files.
A screenshot of an X post by Senator Alex Padilla (@SenA ..., 8h ago) stating: "BREAKING: The guy who sent the House home for the week claims he's praying government reopens without them." The post includes a quoted X post by NewsWire (@NewsWire_US , 10h ago) stating: "SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS PRAYING FOR A VERY SHORT SHUTDOWN," with a NewsWire logo and verification badge.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 6d
17 wolves have been killed in MT's hunting season. These wolves are more than just numbers - they each played vital roles in their packs, symbolized resilience, and served as keystone species.

This is an important reminder of what could happen in other states if wolves lose federal protections.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d
The Trump Shutdown is happening because Republicans (who control the White House & Congress) refuse to pass a funding plan to stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter. Let’s hold the GOP accountable & encourage Democrats to keep protecting our healthcare: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 6d
My poet-friend and gifted colleague, Casey Elizabeth Newbegin, makes a striking debut with "The Eucalypts," out now from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social

Buy it hot off the press!
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 7d
Miracle! We managed to catch our night-blooming cereus in flagrante delicto. If we had scent-er-rama on Bluesky, you'd be in heaven right now. The perfume is an opioid. This complex flower also looks very sci-fi, like an alien from outer space. I think it attracts moths, bats, nocturnal beetles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d
No, he does not. Only himself and his cronies. x.com/gavinnewsom/...
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 9d
A rare—and beautiful—Heaney poem with an American setting (Massachusetts).

#poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 11d
Lolabelle Lee, Sleep Influencer! Stay tuned for the movie, due out next year, from Marvel.

#dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14d
We can surrender to Trump's authoritarian power grabs. Or we can organize the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. We choose to organize.
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 14d
What is Fürher Trumpf so desperate to hide?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14d
Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the government’s Jeffrey Epstein case files next month. The growing effort to halt that floor vote comes as the discharge petition reached the 218 votes needed.
Top GOP and White House allies working behind the scenes to prevent Epstein vote on House floor | CNN Politics
Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the government’s Jeffrey Epstein case files next month, accord...
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 14d
Another iconic New Yorker cover by illustrator and cultural critic Barry Blit.
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 20d
Oh look! Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale join the aptly monikered Christoper Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor-Lick-and-Spittle, in the culture-laundering of embryonic fascism, full-grown viciousness, and gross malfeasance via a British Royal Family Dysfunction.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22d
TOMORROW: One month out from our next nationwide day of defiance, we’re kicking things off with thousands of activists across the country. Join us, our partners, and this great lineup of guests to learn everything you need to know about October 18: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS OCTOBER MOBILIZATION KICKOFF CALL SEPTEMBER 18 @ 8:00 PM ET GREISA MARTÍNEZ ROSAS, UNITED WE DREAM ACTION CHASE STRANGIO, ACLU BISHOP WILLIAM J. BARBER, II, REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH EZRA LEVIN, INDIVISIBLE RANDI WEINGARTEN, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS JOEL PAYNE, MOVEON KEYA CHATTERJEE, FREE DC ASH-LEE WOODARD HENDERSON, EMCEE
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 21d
"Congress shall make no #law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." #speech #freedom
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 23d
Our little blue dolphin pool thermometer is now a cetacean out of water. Pool drained and covered. Fall cometh. Sadness.

#autumn #signsoffall #omen
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23d
You’ve put over 1,000 events on the No Kings Day map in under a week.

Find your local peaceful protest, start a new event, and find everything you need to know about the next nationwide day of defiance on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
A map of the US showing all of the No Kings Day events scheduled for October 18.
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 25d
Class, democracy, false consciousness, mauvaise foi.
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 25d
She don't look so common to me. Love that red forehead spot and yellow beak against her black plumage.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25d
It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · 29d
At prayer. (From the Old English dative case: on fire; afire; at school; abed; at rest...) Late afternoon reflected sun.

#monk #Thai #red
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29d
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · Sep 8
Yay! Monarch caterpillar!
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Malcolm Farley @malcolmfarley.bsky.social · Sep 8
"Dictionary Johnson" defines pseudo-, crypto-, fascistical-jingoism.