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William Preston
@williampreston.bsky.social
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Writer (mostly SF, currently in July–August 2025 Asimov's; forthcoming there and elsewhere), reader, former teacher, parent to three grown women. Interests include film, religion, history, many sciences. he/him ho-hum
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2h
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2h
It’s interesting to compare the Newspeak section of 1984 with Orwell’s essay; if you read 1984 first, you see his concern for the connection between language and thought, but if you read that essay first, you see that he’s an Englishman freaked out about Latinate influences in the motherland.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 5h
:-(
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 5h
There must be some way to conjoin these callings.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 9h
As it was in the beginning . . .
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 9h
“It was a rough night.“ Smooth. The Diplomat serves up one of the most ironic lines from Macbeth during an episode in Scotland.
Actor Keri Russell, seated in a wood-framed library, appearing distressed and saying, "It was a rough night."
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 13h
Eventually, every house is haunted.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 14h
"Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
—Springsteen, "Youngstown"
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 16h
I just want to see one reporter or constituent of this guy ask,”Why are you such a terrible person?” Bonus points here for his callback to Reagan, who of course famously made a deal with terrorists so he could fund an illegal war.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?

MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 1d
"We're number one !" . . . ?
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2d
Clear winner
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2d
We can invite the British back to burn it down again.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2d
Seem like the ballroom would be the perfect place to host a “tramp the dirt down” celebration after the orange guy snuffs it. Maybe there will still be dirt there and not a floor.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 2d
Had me weeping (with joy)!
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 3d
We need Sherman to finish what he started.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 3d
Augustine said there were four ways to read scripture: literally, allegorically, morally, and anagogically (mystically). Feel free to apply any or all of those interpretive lenses to what's happening to "the people's house."
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 3d
Joe Pye gone to seed. #NativePlants #Autumn
Joe Pye, which is purple when it fully flowers, shifts to pale seeds in autumn.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 4d
Sorry for your loss, Tom. Wishing you and the family well.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 4d
The sheep god rarely stands still long enough for a portrait.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 5d
Did someone check outside to see whether the looming continues?
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 5d
I remember Jesus telling this one.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 6d
I will be happy to join the many people failing to attend.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 6d
The party of "the Southern strategy," Reagan‘s “welfare queens,” HW‘s “war on drugs” and Willie Horton, W‘s racist campaign against John McCain’s family, and “Haitians are eating your cats and dogs” definitely is going to stop being racist now.
Image of GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of NYS with sever paragraphs of story headlined, "After racist texts, New York G.O.P. is set to disband Young Republicans."
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 6d
. . . with a burning cross.
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William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social · 6d
Hancock Airport here in Syracuse has refused to show that video, instead playing another one about getting a Real ID.