A. Jay Adler
@ajayadler.bsky.social
Writer. Roper of stars. Professor of English. New York and Los Angeles. #Essays, #poetry, #fiction, #creative nonfiction, #memoir, cultural commentary. Poetry collection *Waiting for Word*. Substacks: Homo Vitruvius & American Samizdat. ajayadler.com
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A. Jay Adler
@ajayadler.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Home of Homo Vitruvius
Welcome
ajayadler.substack.com
To introduce myself on Bluesky, I'm sharing my Substack welcome page for Homo Vitruvius. Lots about me and my writing there, with links to #essays, #poetry & other, #creative #writing. Happy to meet those exploring yet another outpost in social media space.
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Since we're patriarching this thing, no man or woman would defend a male writer in these precious, infantilizing terms, mothering a 32-year-old woman only 13 years younger and roughly the age of the newly elected mayor of NYC.
I won't address "dazed compunction."
I won't address "dazed compunction."
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Since we're patriarching this thing, no man or woman would defend a male writer in these precious, infantilizing terms, mothering a 32-year-old woman only 13 years younger and roughly the age of the newly elected mayor of NYC.
I won't address "dazed compunction."
I won't address "dazed compunction."
Remember the role that Apple played in support of persecution and tyranny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Remember the role that Apple played in support of persecution and tyranny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b...
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File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR
I think of Homo Vitruvius as something like my writer's open studio, where I share with readers some of what I've published and some of what I'm working on.
This week, a #poem "Infinite Nocturne," from my collection Waiting for Word.
ajayadler.substack.com/p/infinite-n...
This week, a #poem "Infinite Nocturne," from my collection Waiting for Word.
ajayadler.substack.com/p/infinite-n...
Infinite Nocturne
Poetry from "Waiting for Word"
ajayadler.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I think of Homo Vitruvius as something like my writer's open studio, where I share with readers some of what I've published and some of what I'm working on.
This week, a #poem "Infinite Nocturne," from my collection Waiting for Word.
ajayadler.substack.com/p/infinite-n...
This week, a #poem "Infinite Nocturne," from my collection Waiting for Word.
ajayadler.substack.com/p/infinite-n...
How could it have happened at all? How could it have happened so fast? Who are these Americans? What was that country?
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November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
How could it have happened at all? How could it have happened so fast? Who are these Americans? What was that country?
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
In dreams, the world steals into us unbidden, or we into ourselves unrecognized. The sources of anxiety are all around us.
"As if I were the intruder himself, I stood on my open windowsill, looking into my own apartment, my own head, before entering."
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"As if I were the intruder himself, I stood on my open windowsill, looking into my own apartment, my own head, before entering."
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In Dreams
Your likes, comments, shares, and recommendations, and your free and paid subscriptions help gain attention for my writing.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In dreams, the world steals into us unbidden, or we into ourselves unrecognized. The sources of anxiety are all around us.
"As if I were the intruder himself, I stood on my open windowsill, looking into my own apartment, my own head, before entering."
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
"As if I were the intruder himself, I stood on my open windowsill, looking into my own apartment, my own head, before entering."
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
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When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
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Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
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Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job
Help save the lives of the courageous
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November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them.
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment.
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Often, when you meet people, you meet other people through them, and a kind of chain of connection gets created. When you travel, the links become more varied and colorful.
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Lukachukai
The People Along the Way II
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November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Often, when you meet people, you meet other people through them, and a kind of chain of connection gets created. When you travel, the links become more varied and colorful.
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
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Goodbye to all that.
Hello.
Hello.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Goodbye to all that.
Hello.
Hello.
A crisis of conscience! A moral dilemma! Inquiring degenerates want to know.
Are we fascists or are we Nazis?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Are we fascists or are we Nazis?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A crisis of conscience! A moral dilemma! Inquiring degenerates want to know.
Are we fascists or are we Nazis?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Are we fascists or are we Nazis?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Beyond the encomia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
How Cheney’s Presidential Power Push Paved the Way for Trump to Go Further
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Beyond the encomia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
The police surveillance state is here.
November 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The police surveillance state is here.
Besides nothing says "heritage" like antisemitism. Our roots are deep!
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Besides nothing says "heritage" like antisemitism. Our roots are deep!
My commentary on the work and career of #photojournalist, street #photographer, visual #artist, and my life partner, Julia Dean.
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The World According to Julia Dean
According to me
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October 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My commentary on the work and career of #photojournalist, street #photographer, visual #artist, and my life partner, Julia Dean.
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God is an ironist.
NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance's protective detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us...
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
God is an ironist.
The NYT has defenders?
Where my NYT defenders at?
The New York Times has been complicit for a long while now, but this goes beyond complicity to intentional disinformation.
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The NYT has defenders?
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For your children and grandchildren and theirs to come. For yourselves.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
For your children and grandchildren and theirs to come. For yourselves.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
And it's good only in effect (so far), not intent, because Trump's intentions are only always for himself.
OCT. 7, NEVER should have happened. The horrors never should have been executed by Hamas. I am happy for the families and hostages returned today. But there are 60,000+dead innocents.There are 4,000 children amputees. There is NOTHING in Gaza now except the living nightmare of death and destruction.
When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
And it's good only in effect (so far), not intent, because Trump's intentions are only always for himself.
To imagine the tyrant is a tyranny of the senses.
Art is the sword of the senses in a free mind opposed in its nature to tyranny.
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Art is the sword of the senses in a free mind opposed in its nature to tyranny.
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Tyranny of the Senses
Art Disbelieves the Brutalitarians
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October 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
To imagine the tyrant is a tyranny of the senses.
Art is the sword of the senses in a free mind opposed in its nature to tyranny.
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
Art is the sword of the senses in a free mind opposed in its nature to tyranny.
open.substack.com/pub/ajayadle...
No kings. No liars. No plutocracy. No kleptocracy. Democracy.
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
No kings. No liars. No plutocracy. No kleptocracy. Democracy.
What is this -- like the plane in the storm in Almost Famous?
I wrote a trans paper! (Updating for the times.)
I wrote a trans paper! (Updating for the times.)
I wrote my take-home final for Law of War at 4 a.m., still half-drunk. It was due at 9 a.m. I got a B, which was my school's equivalent of taking you behind the barn and shooting you. It dropped my honors one level. My father was perturbed.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What is this -- like the plane in the storm in Almost Famous?
I wrote a trans paper! (Updating for the times.)
I wrote a trans paper! (Updating for the times.)
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We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
October 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
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October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )