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DJ Mac
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ATX. Recovering nihilist. Dada not Data. Groucho not Karl. Libertines not Libertarians. Conscience not Con Art.
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The album that launched the CBGB’s scene, showed the Pistols how to punk, and inspired Morrissey to form a band came out two days after my 16th birthday.
The cover of the New York Dolls’ self-titled first album.
July 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Cant wait to see the Cybertruck piñatas.
Screen cap of Instagram post from the Dallas Observer about high demand for Elon Musk piñatas from a local store.
April 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

20/20
Cover of “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens.”
February 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

19/20
Cover of Jack Henry Abbott’s autobiography, “In the Belly of the Beast.”
February 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

18/20
Cover of Jill Lepore’s “These Truths,” subtitled “A History of the United States.”
February 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

17/20
Cover of Herodotus’s “Histories.”
February 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

16/20
Cover of Cory Doctorow’s novel, “Little Brother.”
February 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

15/20
Cover of Joan Didion’s book of essays, “The White Album.”
February 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

14/20
Cover of an anthology of poems by Anna Akhmatova, including “Requiem” and “Poem Without a Hero.”
February 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

13/20
Cover of “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes.
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

12/20
Cover of Stanislaw Lem’s “The Cyberiad.”
February 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

11/20
Cover of John McGahern’s book of short stories, “Nightlines.”
February 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

10/20
Cover of Herbert Marcuse’s book “One-Dimensional Man.”
February 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

9/20
Cover of William Gibson’s science fiction novel, “Neuromancer.”
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

8/20
Cover of Max Weber’s book, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.”
February 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

7/20
Cover of the Paul Bowles short story collection, “The Delicate Prey.”
February 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

6/20
Cover of hardback edition of Nicklaus Wirth’s computer science textbook, “Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs.”
February 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

5/20
Cover of Penguin edition of Edward Said’s “Orientalism.”
January 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

4/20
Cover of Laurence Stern’s novel, “Tristram Shandy.”
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

3/20
Cover of Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine.” Subtitled “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”
January 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#book-challenge
#20daybookchallenge
#bookchallenge

2/20
Cover of Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, V.
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#books
#bookchallenge

1/20
Image of the cover of the book, “Gödel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter.
January 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Why is Trump campaigning in solidly blue states? Maybe he thinks his celebrity should grace Madison Square Garden and Coachella, or maybe he just feels safer in blue states.
Chart showing US states with the strongest gun control laws. California is at the top of the list, followed by New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Hawaii. The highest ranking solid red state is Florida at number 22.
October 11, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Image of Elon Musk in a dark TV studio sharing the “theory” that “Only high T alpha males… are actually free to parse new information with an objective 'is this true’ filter,"and "This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think."
September 5, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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Blue super moon rising. An auspicious sign.
Blue super moon. Texas. August 19, 2024. The Democratic National Convention opens.
August 20, 2024 at 3:17 AM