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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 14d

The new book by @luaz.bsky.social is almost here

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 14d

Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Common time, I will hear out

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 1d

ARCHER DENIELS FIDLAND

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 2d

Two friends are in Japan right now and found this at a store called "America Obsessed" - calling @mrillinois.bsky.social

A sweatshirt with a red collared shirt underneath it on a mannequin, displaying the crest of Decatur, Illinois with the word "Decatur" in huge text over top of it.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Ok that’s just wrong

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

I’m good for everybody’s unhinged takes, thanks. In fact, I think I’ve got enough of them to last 10,000 years.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

You know what else happened in 1492

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Kindness has wimpy connotations, I’m told :(

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

I like most of Koren’s choices insofar as I understand them

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

#frogsky

Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 1d

“Politics” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

Politics

The prairie frogs and the swamp frogs disagree on many things. Chief among the points at issue is that the prairie frogs claim they can jump higher farther and faster than the swamp frogs because they are not waterlogged. The swamp frogs take offense at the epithet "waterlogged" and fire back with the word "desiccated", which sets the prairie frogs into a predictable tizzy. The Ancients of both groups do not even try to interfere in this dispute, though they know from their own ancestors that once the prairie was swamp, and the swamp, prairie. Instead, they (the Ancients) relish these times of fuss and bother because it means they can feed in peace on the insect life that becomes agitated into flurries of flight by the frog-jumping competitions that ensue. Although they are called on to judge these competitive games, they always refuse with a platitude, such as "It's best to share knowledge among tribes" or "One day you will all evolve beyond the need to prove yourselves" or "Once you are Ancients, you will understand why we say no" but the real reasons are the abundance of food (those bothered insects) and genuine boredom with the young and their egos. The Ancients congratulate themselves that they no longer have bothersome egos, of course, while plotting against each other for best position in the feeding grounds. They - the Ancients of swamp and prairie - have to pretend not to associate with each other, but All Frog is One, as they are fond of saying, so it's only that tribal enmity that keeps the young unaware of their pretense.
And the snakes? The snakes laugh and laugh, as they pick off the unaware and fill their bellies.

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Some lines I saw just now that gave me comfort, and that might give you comfort too.

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

He does not stay angry forever,
but delights in loving-kindness.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, why make life harder for people who have been friendly with or kind to me

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Lady Celestina, Princesa de Pastel @celestinakitty.bsky.social · 1d

Shakespeare is mid and is only popular cause of his royal patronage

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s Brooklyn, there, saved you some… I guess some time space?)

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile people keep trying to locate the spot in the time space continuum where holidays turn into museums

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

The freedom from / freedom to divide strikes again.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Holidays. The idea is, you don’t do the usual thing because you are obliged to do some other thing.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: the market is open

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, holidays. I mean, Fellini? A day when everybody goes someplace and reads subtitles. Columbia professor Lorenzo Da Ponte? A day where everybody mentions a much more famous person they worked with once…

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 1d

Marcella Hazan! Everyone makes an all-day tomato sauce & homemade pasta to celebrate!

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

Gramsci

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Seasonally appropriate essays by the late Rabbi Sacks. Donleavy’s Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton, @robertpbaird.com’s The Nimbus, Compagnon’s Proust: A Jewish Way. Recently enjoyed Cuonzo’s
MIT book on Paradox and Lorr’s Secret Life of Groceries.

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

I did like it for a while.

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

(I certainly don’t feel at home on Bluesky, if that’s what the eyebrow you’re raising means)

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

I always aspired to the O’Hara bit about being too square in one group and too cool in another but he didn’t make it to his 50s and I have to say after a certain age it’s nice to feel at home somewhere

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