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andrew-varnon.bsky.social
Middle-aged adventurer of the ordinary. #GreenfieldMA #BeerBaseballAndTheBible #BigMessyAmerica #Tennis #PublicSchools Neurodiversity & Sexual Assault awareness. Poet & Essayist. ArtSpace board member. Check out my #Varticles (Varnon + Articles, get it?)
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They want to privatize everything, quantify everything, control everything. The money power. www.americanheritage.com/jacksons-fig...

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It’s Father’s Day, I’m getting into a car tomorrow to drive to Ohio with my parents, and I’m watching “The End of the Tour.” #DavidFosterWallace #Midwest youtu.be/9Jl6qBNfQC4?...

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Speaking of running a tennis league, it's League Friday! #GreenfieldMA #Tennis

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One thing that I do that is most aligned with the @joinordiefilm.bsky.social message is run the rec tennis league in my city. I would say that it is overlapping with the @strongtowns.org message as well in that it is "bottom up," although it is more programming than infrastructure. #GreenfieldMA

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Trump's America: "no fat soldiers."

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When our Federal Government is flirting with tyranny, it's good to know that a distribution of powers can counteract it.

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The logic of social media is that all utterances are severable from their intended context. All utterances are remixable, repostable, repurposable. Meaning is not what is important. Attention is what is important. #TheBigNoise

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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"If to love someone is to act in their deepest interests, there is no simple formula that can be applied, because another person is always partly a mystery, even to themselves. ... Love, then, requires wisdom." Pierz Newton-John, "Love as Work." pierznj.blogspot.com/2016/11/love...

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This is a new wrinkle in the universities v. Trump administration drama: Williams College in #WesternMass decides to "pause" accepting Federal grants, because of the strings attached. www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

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Ryan Ward's "The Slander of the Commons" gets into the idea of how the 16th-17th century phenomenon of enclosure created our modern notion of property rights. medium.com/deterritoria...

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Ever since reading "The Chalice & the Blade," I have noticed that in Trinity UMC Springfield, there are two stained glass windows near where we usually sit. One, "Mysticism," shows St. John holding a chalice. The other, "Faith," shows St. Paul holding a sword. aleteia.org/2018/10/03/w...

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