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Andrew Colarusso
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A winter's night warning
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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La Lune à un mètre (The Astronomer's Dream, 1898, dir. Georges Méliès) 🎥

A melancholy, effectively creepy three minutes in which the moon eats people.
In a astronomer's lab a giant telescope points out of a stone arch window at the moon. There's is a blackboard and a large globe, and in a high back chair sits the astronomer, dressed like a wizard including a pointed hat. A puff of smoke is disappearing and a figure in black with a horned black mask can also be seen, looking at the astronomer. The astronomer is moving frantically around in his lab, his chair to the right of frame. From a balcony window, we can see the moon with a face, including a wide open mouth, hanging in the darkness. The moon appears somewhat unnerving. The same setting only now the moon is inside the room, hovering. It has large eyes and arched eyebrows, and a mouth open in a bloody sort of grin. In front of it, on the floor, is part of the remains of the astronomer it has just eaten and spat out. Back to the organisation lab set up, where everything looks normal again and the moon is back to hovering in the night sky, no face, far away. The astronomer is resting on their desk and appears to be sleeping.
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Finally finished The Three-Body Problem, which I (eventually) loved, so I picked up the first chapter of The Dark Forest and - you know, actually, I think I’ll go to sleep instead
every UN resolution is connected to your life, through both direct and indirect channels. You think the US invasion of Venezuela is none of your concern? I say it's got more than a penny's worth of lasting implications for your pension." At the time, Zhang had merely laughed at Lao Yang's
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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supermariomoment.bsky.social
On next week's episode, we finally chat about the GOAT.
A screenshot from Paper Mario showing a small star character saying "My Name is Twink."
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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mrneibauer.bsky.social
This year, I see more and more of my students reading fewer and fewer novels. Middle-grade literature, once a standard fixture in American classrooms, is now gone; replaced with basal textbooks. #TeacherSky
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TL;DR
Human connection through literature
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December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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maggiestiefvater.bsky.social
Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?

I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The older I get the more I understand why the grinch wanted to stay home with his dog.
a green cartoon character with a blue background
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November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I / have grown tired of so much that used to entrance me

Mark Strand
Nocturne of the Poet Who Loved the Moon I have grown tired of the moon, tired of its look of astonishment, the blue ice of its gaze, its arrivals and departures, of the way it gathers lovers and loners under its invisible wings, failing to distinguish between them. I have grown tired of so much that used to entrance me, tired of watching cloud shadows pass over sunlit grass, of seeing swans glide back and forth across the lake, of peering into the dark, hoping to find an image of a self as yet unborn. Let plainness enter the eye, plainness like a table on which nothing is set, like a table that is not yet even a table.
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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they're spending billions of dollars to reinvent powerpoints so three shittily dressed guys can buy a fifth property and lobby against their unhoused neighbors
The New Work Eimes Gamma, a Power Point for the A.I. Era, Raises $68 Million The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

last stanza of The Waking by Theodore Roethke

#poetrysunday
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I leam by going where I have to go.
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Alexei ❤️
four panel cartoon by Jon Bailey 1) East Berlin 1971, kitchen. A woman preparing food says "Alexei, play Tchaikovsky". 2) close-up of a blue telephone behind her on a table showing there is microphone taped under a table in the same kitchen, next to a speaker 3) a man in a grey uniform wearing headphones sits in front of a record player and selects a record from the shelf above. 4) back to original woman in kitchen preparing food, now listening to music coming from the speaker under the table and smiling @jbaileyofficial @jbaileycartoons https://x.com/jbaileyofficial/status/1233356763598139394
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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flemtheparrot.bsky.social
Morning.
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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a black and white cartoon of snoopy laying on top of a wooden house in the rain .
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November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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cliffhorman.bsky.social
Last night was chilly, so I roasted chicken thighs brushed with the confit garlic oil sprinkled with smoked paprika, cracked black pepper and lemon, with mushroom, leek & pea risotto. Great on a chilly evening #rissotto #chickenrisotto #chillyevening #dinner #home
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #2 of 5:

First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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jimmusilpainter.bsky.social
Clouds are one of my favorite things to paint, but they can be tricky! Here’s a few tips I’ve learned along the way.

Questions welcomed!
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Read Chris Waddington's lovely review of Liza Hudock's Reveille: "The authority of these remarkable poems is wrapped up in their matter-of-fact tone — neither dismissive, nor casual about grief, but made taut by Hudock’s effort to find meaning . . ."
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on Reveille, poems by Liza Hudock – On the Seawall
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November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Yes, this ad for 1993 Sega Genesis game The Ren & Stimpy Show Presents: Stimpy's Invention forces you to connect the dots before working out who the 'stars' are.
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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gjane77.bsky.social
I despise sports betting. Always have.
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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tracesoftexas.bsky.social
Abandoned gas station in Glenrio, Texas. One of my own photos, taken a couple of weeks ago.
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ahandleforian.bsky.social
Yeah the Mariners have the lowest batting average with runners in scoring position but they have the highest percentage in shut the hell up John Smoltz
October 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
It's good weather for reading ghost stories
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM