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Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD from UCI | Writer @ The Atlantic, Guardian, Salon, UMinn Press &c. | Just finished writing a novel; now writing another one | [ON BLUESKY BREAK until Nov 2024. Cheers!]

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𝚂̶𝚎̶𝚙̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚖̶𝚋̶𝚎̶𝚛̶ November

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Starting today, I'm taking a scheduled (but extremely well-timed) social-media break over the summer for several reasons. But don't worry—the book recommendations, anodyne political quips, glorious #BQT threads, and photos of pretty flowers will resume in September. Until then, cheers in solidarity!

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Organize. If you need help figuring out how to approach that work, how to keep at it, or why collective action is our best hope in catastrophic times, remember that we wrote a book for you. ❤️

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.

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Congratulations to both of you! (You really did find the perfect day to rub it in the noses of those of us still stuck here, too, which in my book is always a nice bonus.)

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And let’s not forget that they’ve got lifelong sinecures to boot! Most craven lickspittles at least do it because they need the gig, they need the juice. These clowns could have literally sat around for decades swapping golf stories at brunch. Actively evil.

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Beyond his obvious problems, Biden is the worst possible person to be President in this historical moment. He doesn't speak about Supreme Court corruption because he's a supposed "institutionalist," he convened a "commission" which came to nothing, he has absolutely no fire to rally the country, etc

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The only solution they ever offered was to paint themselves as the lesser evil, and encourage us to vote harder. But actually battling that evil has never been and will never be their priority, until the time comes when there are no more opportunities for them to wage that battle at all.

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There’s just one small problem with everyone’s earnest suggestions for how Biden and the Democratic leadership can address this latest crisis: it’s precisely the Democratic Party’s perennial unwillingness ever to address any of these kinds of crises that got us here in the first place.

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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I read somewhere on here that there’s some way a person can find out the names of everyone who has blocked them, and I had the same exact thought

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say."

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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I’m just an ignorant bumpkin, of course, but it seems to me like the two favorite liberal-Democratic polar moods (thirsty savior worship, or reflexive lesser-evilism) may not in fact be a sufficient foundation for political identity and political struggle

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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Centuries no longer turn; they simply refresh

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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What’s your favorite black and white movie?

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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They can keep making Mexican food on The Great British Baking Show or they can criticize my pronunciation, but they can’t do both

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on the plus side, he looks a lot older than he did the last time I was forced to see him

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real ones know that Bildad and Peleg are the true villains

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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This one has been in my queue; it sounds like it's very much my bag

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his and those fresh-faced youth he shares it with

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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For the people here who like to keep up on generation discourse: in deadly earnest, the young man who cuts my hair at the barber shop referred to Millennials as "two generations back"

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Obergefell is in sight.

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We’re dealing with two loved ones going through it right now

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Matthew Cheney's avatar Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social
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This year, it's hard. Rick died in December. We had a memorial service for him at the Stonewall in April. His essay was given to all the mourners as a pamphlet seen in this picture atop the little altar of books I built for Rick today.

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"In History's Vicinity" later became part of Rick's novel DUST DEVIL ON A QUIET STREET, one of my favorite books. Each year, I share Rick's essay via social media to remind us all.

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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you’re speaking my language here

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It’s a little thing, I know, but do any of you still remember when John Roberts flubbed the oath ceremony during Obama’s inauguration, and Obama had to correct him, and then they decided they should do it over again in private because Roberts screwed it up? I think about that sometimes.

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tfw you bullshitted your way through college

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I love living out here because you’re guaranteed to always be late to the party

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This reminds me of Obama’s decision to “look forward, not backward” by declining to seek the prosecution of any of the folks who were doing Bush-era war crimes

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I’m old enough to remember when a war on poverty meant a war on poverty, rather than a war on poverty

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For years, people have been walking around with heads full of timely information about the latest Super Bowls, awards programs, Met Galas, and debates, and I have nothing I can offer them. Instead I’ve been staring at a book, or a bird, or a tree.

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My general rule of thumb: if there’s some broadcast event that people feel compelled to livetweet, both the event and the livetweeting of it are best avoided.

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Logging onto Bluesky this morning

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Brian Thill's avatar Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social
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I thought it’d be safe to return to Bluesky this morning after avoiding it all last night, but it looks like people are still getting it out of their system

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥's avatar Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social
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this is an extremely valid reason to never host your conference in a state that can opt out of life-saving medical procedures for people who are pregnant. All professional societies should take note. 👇

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Caræsten 🇵🇸's avatar Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city
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some states are unsafe for trans people to travel through, some states are unsafe for pregnant people to travel through, some states are unsafe for gay people to travel through, we’re developing this horrific patchwork of laws as fundamental rights are upended nationally

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A few months ago I finished a manuscript. High on completion euphoria, I rated it a solid 8/10. I started thinking about sending it out. A dear friend read it and loved it. I let it cool off. When I returned to it, I saw that it was closer to a 7/10. I’m not sending it out. My friend is furious.

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This sounds amazing! An excellent move for you. Congratulations!

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Kate Armstrong's avatar Kate Armstrong @brainchain.bsky.social
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1) Liberation - Wole Soyinka’s ‘You Must Set Forth at Dawn’ 2) Mealtime - (so many options here) Carol Shields ‘Larry’s Party’ 3) Cartography - Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ 4) Snow - Kate Beaton ‘Ducks’

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