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Runner. Reader. Music and history. Poetry. Shakespeare. Film. Tweets in English and German. Currently listening to a lot of music from 1977 and 1978.
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Bernie dropping a tour announcement like he's Kendrick is taking me out. (Love that for him and us though.)

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What literary journals are you loving lately? Particularly ones that focus on poetry, short fiction, work that blurs genre lines.

@devyngwynne.bsky.social Btw, love your 2001 still.

Too much doomerism, folks.

Woody Guthrie

Unfortunately I won’t be to DC in time, but this rally for Ukraine is happening in Lincoln memorial. Attend if you can and Slava Ukrainii!

Genuinely love malicious compliance. Love it bad.

Robyn and David Byrne are so good together. YouTube Comment: "When dad crashes the karaoke party and makes it amazing."

someone on another app asked (paraphrasing a longer post) "if the right thing to do about Hitler would have been for the people to take up arms and fight him, are we cowardly for not doing that or do we not really believe Trump is a threat on the level of Hitler?" thought I'd share my reply here—

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

@jhoburgh.bsky.social Oh hi just noticed you. Thanks for the follow.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

We need more "We're just normal men, we're just innocent men" energy on here.

We need more "We're just normal men, we're just innocent men" energy on here.

Death throes of the republic.

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

The Leopards Ate My Face account is incredible. They really never thought the leopards could eat their faces.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was released 34 years ago this week. One of the most commercially and critically successful crime thrillers ever made, the making of story is like having an old friend for dinner… 1/45

This is fascism.

Dylan late at night.

"2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say."

We will defeat them.

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

quit it with this doomer shit. i'm here to win.

We forget so easily, but Trump said that, if European NATO members failed to increase their defense spending, he would let the Russians "do whatever they want". Vance proved again today that the Europeans finally need to prepare.

Which one is your favourite love poem?

Where do we go from here?

I seem to have over 2,000 followers. As ever, thanks for staying, and if I haven't followed back yet, give me a shout.

Europe needs to unite and beef up the common defence policy and stand shoulder to shoulder against Russia and fill the vacuum left by the USA. And it needs to do it now not in some imaginary far off point in the future. No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.

Here's the video. You've gotta see it to believe it. youtu.be/k0Y3VoZG3Y8?...