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Elon Green

@elongreen.bsky.social

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LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (2025) http://www.elongreen.com

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22d

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs

“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1h

lmaoooooooo

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1h

"It's a great start."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2h

he can keep that as an inside opinion. The fans want your unvarnished thoughts.

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2h

bonus episode for patreon subscribers

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 3h

“Cynicism is a dead end.” --Paul Farmer www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/o...

Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62 (Published 2022)

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 8h

tv peaked with derry girls and I don’t think we should pretend otherwise

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 13h

a sufficiently motivated swindler could drain the accounts of most bluesky posters. if you fell for that crap, congrats you're a moron.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13h

this is about that viral post where someone photoshopped another article to make it look like israelis were claiming they invented gumbo. this is a facially antisemitic joke and if you didn’t realize that that’s ok but now is your opportunity to do better and delete your repost/bad joke.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15h

i am still capable of being surprised by 1) how many users here think it’s not antisemitism so long as you insist you’re only applying it to israelis and 2) how many of these ppl seem to think we cannot see them

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 15h

did he have any last words?

wife: no

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck you norm i will be muttering this on my deathbed

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 16h

We’re suffering together, if that helps. I tripped over a driveway curb this week and body looked like a pepperoni pizza.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

lmaooooooooo

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

having seen her not that long ago, i gingerly disagree, given that it's not hard to imagine an intra-left brawl break out in the audience

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

It's amusing that you think Aubrey is the asshole in this situation.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 5d

In NY state the Supreme Court is the lowest rung in the judicial branch and hmmm maybe that ought to apply federally

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

With fondness!!

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Right. It’s her whole thing now.

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

probably some folks are aware of the tweets but not many know about helping to fund the anti-trans legislation

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, yep.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

“how will you persuade voters?” is a biased question? Come on now.

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Porter stans on here trying to turn this into some clever answer… bananas.

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamn right.

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

The noble frog's reclamation from fascist pervert associations is so long overdue

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so rare that famous men are done in by their egos. (I’m sure singer wasn’t thrilled that Saul told people he had only taken a few hours to translate.)

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe this is Noah Oppenheim’s second act.

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 2d

“Written by the guy who spiked the Harvey Weinstein story at nbc” isn’t the tagline you want to see

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

For that reason alone I hope she’s dropped into a volcano.