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humble content farmer / currently omaha, previously philadelphia
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NEW: Workers at The Union for Contemporary Art publicly announced their union and demanded voluntary recognition. On the same day, management egregiously fired five longtime staffers. Workers have filed a retaliation charge and are moving to an NLRB election. newsguild.org/a-supermajor...

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well, this is fucking wild

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Ben is a good dude and you should sign this

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got my first piece published with xray, and i could not be happier 🪶🐇🍽️

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we have a fantastic story by Keely Curttright @plaintivecuckoo.bsky.social !! it's about a woman who is being stalked by a hawk while she makes dinner for her neighbors. this reads to me like one of those great, classic, 5,000 word New Yorker stories -- so good :) xraylitmag.com/hunting-gath...

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day zero of starting a labor union at my workplace and i would appreciate signatures on this statement of support from all my bluesky friends bit.ly/m/unionunion

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New short story in The End Magazine! I love writing and being alive!

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thinking dangerous thoughts (hoping spurs get relegated and are forced to sell archie back to a promoted leeds)

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got a story and a poem coming out this month 💚

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my wife will be like “ooo what song is this it’s nice” and then mark kozelek’s voice comes in and she just starts laughing at me

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vet tech let girlcat go in the trash can cabinet

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can’t stop thinking about the fact that the guy who killed the UHC CEO has probably also experienced brief and transcendent joy watching dunkey’s “BEEG BEEG YOSHI” video

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a song for @sinigangwarrior.bsky.social soundcloud.com/d-soeuvr/cat...

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i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again: lorrie moore’s “self-help” is one of the only perfect short story collections

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really sorry to hear that, man. for sure, i’ll let you know if i see a guy that looks like that

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kraus was staring out the window for a solid minute before i spotted him.. if your cat sees something and you don’t, you’re wrong

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splash zone

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Bernie Sanders: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

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the philadelphia union have had a top-five team with a bottom-five payroll basically since MLS data has been available

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absolutely heartbroken

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married!

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perfect mail day for keely

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having the worst week of my life. phillies better win tonight

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reminder that i am in fact stupid enough to do this

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happy ninth birthday to my stepchildren

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i am not often filled with rage, but every time i pass my neighbor’s house and their security cam system announces “hi, you are currently being recorded” i feel all of the fury that i did not even know was contained within me begin to rise up

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goalie LP2 “THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY AND THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK” out this spring

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thank you for another year of hanging things on walls for me, watching the worst soccer league in the world with me, and waiting for me to finish breath of the wild <3

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