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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 9h

With Roles as Civic Hubs, Libraries Turn Over a New Page

Cities looking to revive downtowns are increasingly leveraging the ability of public libraries to draw crowds and encourage economic development.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
“Male Precipitation Fantasy in C Major for Female Duo of Solitary Chart Triumph”

If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles

“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 10h

Charles Dickens. Great storyteller. Godawful writer.

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Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social · 10h

Don't worry about if you know how to write if something inside you is percolating to be expressed. You don't have to be Paul McCartney to enjoy playing the guitar and making meaningful contributions to the lives of people you may never even meet. And don't write for praise. Write to write.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 10h

that's right

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 1d

The New Yorker hunts for the key to all global mythologies, searching for the oldest discoverable stories. However, nothing in the article will surprise anyone who has read any academic work on mythology in the past 20 or 30 years. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?

www.newyorker.com

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Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to @propanon.bsky.social!! gabrielpatrickkennedy.substack.com/p/chapel-per...

Chapel Perilous Wins IGS Book Award!

Chapel Perilous Wins the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics, plus new Article about RAW and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 21h

Note that while there is no publicly available audio or full transcripts from these lectures, Thiel also recently published an essay where he writes about Watchmen and the other books and the idea of the antichrist. If you want to punish your brain for some reason...

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 17h

Free version if paywalled. These issues, occurring nationwide, are unlikely to break down to simple "left = bad" explanations but are part of a broader trend that extends beyond the classroom. E.g. tech is pushing us toward an oral, not written, culture. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Jason Colavito @jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 17h

The Atlantic claims American kids are getting "dumber" because "progressives" have stopped caring about educational standards, so we must reimpose Republican mandatory testing policies--as though half the country's schools aren't run by Republicans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 17h

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail!

Magic mushrooms are even weirder than we thought, the hunt for the world's oldest story, calls for the UK government to pardon women executed for witchcraft, and much more:

www.dailygrail.com/2025/10/news...

News Briefs 14-10-2025

Feel free to take issue with any of today’s news briefs, but please don’t take it all too seriously… Thanks Kat. Quote of the Day There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would mee...

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Eric Wargo @thenightshirt.bsky.social · 14h

Awaken your inner precog!

In partnership with Morbid Anatomy, my book Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self is now a five-week course, Sundays starting November 23.

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Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self with Anthropologist and Author Eric Wargo, PhD, Begins November 23 — Morbid Anatomy

Five-Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Sundays, November 23 - December 21, 2025 3 - 4:30pm ET (NYC Time) $175 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students ...

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Eric Wargo @thenightshirt.bsky.social · 14h

"Young god Mary Shelley, age 18, received the plans for her debut novel from her older self, who received it from her younger self ..."

Enjoy this sample of my new book, Where Was It Before the Dream?, in time for Halloween --
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Fancy's Monster

On the Time-Loop Origins of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 14h

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 10h

From the UFOs community on Reddit: 50-100 unidentified lights over ocean off the coast in northern Sweden 2 nights in a row.

Explore this post and more from the UFOs community

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 11h

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 11h

Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
~ Wendell Berry

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 12h

The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news

“What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing.”

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 14h

Officials Say Aircraft Material of “Unknown Origin” Was Found at Recent Site of Mysterious Crash Near Area 51

Officials have revealed an odd turn of events involving a mysterious crash that occurred in the Nevada desert last month near Area 51.

thedebrief.org

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 14h

Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power

In a levitation breakthrough, scientists have created a virtually frictionless, macroscale levitating disk that requires no external power.

thedebrief.org

FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 14h

SEMAFOR: "SpaceX’s Starship, the biggest and most powerful spacecraft ever launched, successfully completed its 11th test flight, bringing the company closer to sending humans to other worlds."

FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 14h

Opinion | Choosing the next Dalai Lama is surprisingly dangerous

Renewed political instability in Tibet could well spiral into the next U.S.-China flash point.

www.washingtonpost.com

FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 1d

The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?

www.newyorker.com

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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 1d

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