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Achilles Micawber

@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social

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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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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · Nov 15

Might as well introduce myself:

I'm an English and history teacher (favourite subject: the short 20th century) who likes big books but often doesn't finish them. I'm obsessed with music lists, and especially the music from 1977 and 2000. I wish I had more time to watch movies.

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1h

Bluesky apppears very unhinged these days. Good.

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 7h

Can you softblock now?

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Christina Ladd @christinaladd.bsky.social · 21h

This book I am holding, this is someone's whole heart

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 21h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 4d

podcast.feedspot.com/poetry_podca...

100 Best Poetry Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025

Best Poetry Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. Audio Poem of the Day ⋅ 2. Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry ⋅ 3. Poetry Off the Shelf

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

It only changed now in my app

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social Oh your podcast has a new logo!

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful Legacy podcast with @afuahirsch.bsky.social and @peterfrankopan.bsky.social is back, about the potato.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

If I misidentified the "M" in TIME Magazine for a tiny crown on my head, I would delete my social media account and find all new friends who didn't know me, and this guy is just going to go back to being president tomorrow

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump doesn’t like the photo lol

Trump: Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

I think we know by now that Sora is bad, we don't need Sora-produced A.I. videos by its critics to know that Sora is bad.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

a picture of a puppet with the word hello written on it

Alt: a picture of a puppet from Saw with the word hello written on it

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged doesn't mean not good.

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 9

Happy Columbo’s Day

Series of four screenshots. Lieutenant Columbo talking to his basset hound, Dog, who is sticking his head out of a car window: “OKAY, I'M GONNA PUT YOU IN CHARGE. YOU TAKE CARE OF THE CAR. YOU'RE A RESPONSIBLE DOG
WHEN I GET BACK, IF THE CAR'S OKAY, I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COOKIE. IF THE CAR'S GONE, I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COOKIE ANYWAY BECAUSE I LOVE YOU.”

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough. (No pun intended.)

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Is this by the master himself?

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

GOAT

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Eco

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been ten months since I last watched Stalker. Might as well.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · Dec 1

What are your favorite books, films, paintings, songs, plays, zines or comics, any pieces of art that feel like they weren’t made by humans? That are so full of great mystery and strangeness that you had to check to make sure they had an earthly provenance?

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Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 1d

Found this contemporary New Yorker review of Magnolia, which describes the film as “a kind of mad crackup derby” and speaks of some actors’ “tremendous arialike moments” (Moore, Cruise, Reilly). I like that thought.

MAGNOLIA-In Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie, the characters break down, fall apart, and denounce themselves and others.
"Magnolia" consists of multiple vignettes set in the San Fernando Valley, but since there's no common theme, the picture becomes a kind of mad crackup derby.
Much of the material is earnest Arthur Miller-type stuff about how we can't escape the past, we can't escape the evil we've done, we all need to be truthful with one another, and so on. The ideas are banal, but Anderson (“Boogie Nights'') plays each sequence in real time and cuts among them with remarkable fluency, and the actors have some tremendous arialike moments-especially Julianne Moore as an adulterous young wife, John C. Reilly as an angelic cop looking for love, and Tom Cruise as some sort of sex guru who hosts a cable-TV show called "Seduce and Destroy." With Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and William H.
Macy.-D.D. (12/20/99) (Cinema
I, Lincoln Square, Union Square.)

Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 2d

There are some names I don't know...thanks a lot for the extensive answer. And a reminder to read more Chekhov.

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