Jim Hayes
@togaspring.bsky.social
Avid reader and aspiring writer in Upstate NY
Dark Academia: A Starter Pack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
Dark Academia: A Starter Pack
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October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dark Academia: A Starter Pack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Hi Joyce, have you read any of The Booker Prize long list selections or short list finalists announced today?
September 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Hi Joyce, have you read any of The Booker Prize long list selections or short list finalists announced today?
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Master—but if I had the Beard on my cheek (like you) and you — had Daisy’s petals and you cared so much for me— what would become of you? Could you forget me in fight, or flight or the foreign land?
-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”
-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”
September 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Master—but if I had the Beard on my cheek (like you) and you — had Daisy’s petals and you cared so much for me— what would become of you? Could you forget me in fight, or flight or the foreign land?
-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”
-Emily Dickinson, “To Recipient Unknown”
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William Orpen's radiant colours and his luscious textures celebrated not only wealth but sensuality, a quality deemed unnatural in the early years of the new century if you weren't Italian or French. This is his 'The Eastern Gown,' from 1906.
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
William Orpen's radiant colours and his luscious textures celebrated not only wealth but sensuality, a quality deemed unnatural in the early years of the new century if you weren't Italian or French. This is his 'The Eastern Gown,' from 1906.
Just finished. Interesting novel using present day themes of relationship and unchecked altruism (with the flair of Albanian culture) left this reader asking throughout: did that person actually say that? Did I hear that response correctly?" 4/13 titles completed ☑️ @thebookerprizes.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just finished. Interesting novel using present day themes of relationship and unchecked altruism (with the flair of Albanian culture) left this reader asking throughout: did that person actually say that? Did I hear that response correctly?" 4/13 titles completed ☑️ @thebookerprizes.com
That’s the kind of phrase that condenses experience into language so precisely, it's philosophical. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
That’s the kind of phrase that condenses experience into language so precisely, it's philosophical. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
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Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
September 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
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Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
Just finished "Flesh" by 2nd time long-list nominee David Szalay @thebookerprizes.com A novel about male alienation and the vertical life of a Hungarian man who spent it as an outsider, never saying "no" to anything he encountered - all the way to the top and then back down again He only said "okay"
August 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just finished "Flesh" by 2nd time long-list nominee David Szalay @thebookerprizes.com A novel about male alienation and the vertical life of a Hungarian man who spent it as an outsider, never saying "no" to anything he encountered - all the way to the top and then back down again He only said "okay"
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family-tended gardens of beauty have a sentimental effect upon me-- filling my eyes with tears. recalling the old "flower gardens" & backyard vegetable gardens that were so common when I was growing up. but some local gardens are extraordinary, home-tended, not professional landscapers.
August 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
family-tended gardens of beauty have a sentimental effect upon me-- filling my eyes with tears. recalling the old "flower gardens" & backyard vegetable gardens that were so common when I was growing up. but some local gardens are extraordinary, home-tended, not professional landscapers.
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I think this is my favorite sign that I saw at the #handsoff2025 protest in Raleigh:
April 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I think this is my favorite sign that I saw at the #handsoff2025 protest in Raleigh:
Sharply written satire of the wealthy elite and working class in present day British society. Delicious and laughable ways cutting words are used as weapons in politics and the media. A great read - highly recommended! @thebookerprizes.com @wordsbynatasha on Instagram
August 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sharply written satire of the wealthy elite and working class in present day British society. Delicious and laughable ways cutting words are used as weapons in politics and the media. A great read - highly recommended! @thebookerprizes.com @wordsbynatasha on Instagram
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You have to start to wonder if the interior decorator is actually trolling him.
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You have to start to wonder if the interior decorator is actually trolling him.
Congratulations Birdie! 🏅
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congratulations Birdie! 🏅
We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...
We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed.
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August 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...
What fun I had reading this wonderful picaresque; fascinating portrayal of academic authority, mentorship, and institutional power all rolled into a sexy romp! Rascals one and all. Highly recommend; a great discovery of this author for me; her previous works now in my focus @adremily.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What fun I had reading this wonderful picaresque; fascinating portrayal of academic authority, mentorship, and institutional power all rolled into a sexy romp! Rascals one and all. Highly recommend; a great discovery of this author for me; her previous works now in my focus @adremily.bsky.social
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Enjoy a few moments of peace from Maine.
August 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Enjoy a few moments of peace from Maine.
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Edward Hopper - "Cobb's Barns and Distant Houses" 1930-33.
August 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Edward Hopper - "Cobb's Barns and Distant Houses" 1930-33.
Thinking about "Audition" as "We Were The Mulvaney's" of 30 years ago. Family is a performance,within a construct. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thinking about "Audition" as "We Were The Mulvaney's" of 30 years ago. Family is a performance,within a construct. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social