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SimonDollarsine
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"Before God, and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name. He has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition."
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I saved this from Twittr several yrs ago:
A twitter exchange from 2021 between David brooks & Christian Finnegan explaining what went wrong with Conservatism.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I ask you, what color is her hair
A screenshot of Helly R from Severance Season 2, Episode 4 (the ORTBO episode), when she enters Irv’s tent. Her hair in this shot is raven black; she has red hair in all other scenes.
March 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A box of Jiffy pie crust mix either the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pie”.
December 21, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Brooks Robinson, Andy Etchebarren, and Dave McNally celebrating winning the World Series.
November 23, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee
October 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
Man Is Wolf to Man by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson
October 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Couldn’t find my copy so I lifted this image off the web.
October 11, 2024 at 1:10 PM
foregotunafish.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
A relatively clean copy of the hardcover edition of James Burke’s “Connections.” This might even be a first edition, who knows?
October 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
A tattered paperback copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
October 9, 2024 at 9:28 PM
foregotunafish.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
A red book with a plain featureless cover, on the spine it reads “The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham with an arabesque down the rest of the spine, all in gold colored ink.
September 23, 2024 at 12:54 PM
foregotunafish.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced or stayed with you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5

#Books

#Bookchallenge

#Booksky
The paperback cover of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Mother Night, featuring a doll-man with a swastika graffito on his face, wearing an American flag shirt, and pants with one leg an Israeli flag and the other leg a Soviet flag.
September 22, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Had a lot of trouble parsing this sentence from today’s WaPo:
January 3, 2024 at 7:46 PM