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Mark Bessen
@markbessen.bsky.social
“Writer,” gardener, middle child (gay)
Stood up by my therapist, call that a psych out
October 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Perfect trailer. Might even forgive her for Saltburn if this goes right
"Wuthering Heights" | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.

Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.

We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I found it. The billboard I hate most in the world.
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Amid the mourning for Redford, a friend found this essay by Andrew Holleran on the gay origin story to The Way We Were. glreview.org/article/the-...
The Way Things Were - The Gay & Lesbian Review
glreview.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Porqué no los dos?
do they want bread or do they want to be bred? 🤏
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor for ‘THE HISTORY OF SOUND’

📸 Ruven Afanador
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I miss writer gossip social media.
September 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Arguing about out who has to bottom tonight but we're referring to split screen Mario Kart
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Doing some night writing and these three guys showed up 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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I like to read "must read" as a command. you MUST read these books.

Or else.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book.
“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni
“Toni Morrison” I wish I owned a restaurant then I could run Specials: Today Toni Morrison stew. An exotic mix of tears and sympathy. Nothing grows except The Bluest eyes and a special shot of Peco…
buff.ly
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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you guys are being a real bummer about the collapse of a society
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Spending some time today with Deborah Eisenberg's short story "Recalculating," about a young man who goes from Iowa to London to attend his late gay uncle's funeral, where he learns he greatly resembles the uncle he never knew. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
www.nybooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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It's Mel Roberts's birthday, so may as well share some of the twink thirst traps he took so many of that they made him an enemy of the state.

(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)
August 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"Paddington"
"Paddington 2"
"Paddington in Peru"
"Paddington 4: The Legend of Curly's Gold"
"Pad 5"
"Paddin6ton"
"Paddington VII: The Voyage Home"
"Paddington vs. Jason"
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This film was formative in my AI education
August 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I sound insane when I say this but I truly believe a big part of the Trump admin’s approach to energy policy is driven by gender anxiety. They think coal and oil are manly and renewables are effeminate.
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM