TJD
@tjduffy.bsky.social
New Utahn. Writer/Scholar/Father. Recent work in Sugared Water, trampset, Black Fork Review, SoFloPoJo, Pleiades, Sepia, Salt Hill, etc… At work on The Renaissance Spatial Condition
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
I think when creative writing professors reach the point when they are too in academe that they can only ever write autofiction about midlife crisis creative writing professors going through banal and irritating situations of their own making that they should be sent on some kind of spirit journey
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I think when creative writing professors reach the point when they are too in academe that they can only ever write autofiction about midlife crisis creative writing professors going through banal and irritating situations of their own making that they should be sent on some kind of spirit journey
As a society we had to give up a lot of institutional security and climate stability for drastically tastier table grapes
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As a society we had to give up a lot of institutional security and climate stability for drastically tastier table grapes
In other The Shining news, the opera adaptation is phenomenal
October 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In other The Shining news, the opera adaptation is phenomenal
Avital Ronell's (I know I know but still) book Loser Sons explains so much of our current predicament.
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Avital Ronell's (I know I know but still) book Loser Sons explains so much of our current predicament.
Canceled Disney Plus! Can get no joy from cowardly media.
September 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Canceled Disney Plus! Can get no joy from cowardly media.
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Some days demand a chicken pot pie
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Some days demand a chicken pot pie
I feel bad for my students who when they heard that gunshot knew that what they had been doing drills for their whole school lives was now happening in front of them. They deserve a better world.
September 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I feel bad for my students who when they heard that gunshot knew that what they had been doing drills for their whole school lives was now happening in front of them. They deserve a better world.
Loving Paisley Rekdal's writing in the NYT. Soldiers would benefit a lot more from hearing poets and experts on war than being taught to be submissive to Trump at every turn as if they were a Royal Army.
September 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Loving Paisley Rekdal's writing in the NYT. Soldiers would benefit a lot more from hearing poets and experts on war than being taught to be submissive to Trump at every turn as if they were a Royal Army.
Nights of Cabiria is such a good movie and perfect for 2025
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Nights of Cabiria is such a good movie and perfect for 2025
Tech Inevitability around AI is the most irritating fallacy. Why would anyone think that an annoying technology that people don't widely like and which is environmentally unsustainable and difficult to monetize will never go away?Weren't we all supposed to be teaching and learning from MOOCs by now?
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Tech Inevitability around AI is the most irritating fallacy. Why would anyone think that an annoying technology that people don't widely like and which is environmentally unsustainable and difficult to monetize will never go away?Weren't we all supposed to be teaching and learning from MOOCs by now?
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I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
September 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
I had a pretty excellent night but then took the eldest out to Swig and drank a 44oz diet soda like a madman. This Utah soda life is no joke.
September 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I had a pretty excellent night but then took the eldest out to Swig and drank a 44oz diet soda like a madman. This Utah soda life is no joke.
The Evangelical idea that parents own their children completely is causing so much havoc in public health and education.
September 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Evangelical idea that parents own their children completely is causing so much havoc in public health and education.
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And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... "
September 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Everyone seems cheered by the rush of dopamine they felt earlier today
August 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Everyone seems cheered by the rush of dopamine they felt earlier today
Having sat through sales pitches for these kind of AI services they make teachers just consumers of external products and plug kids into services they don’t fully understand. The idea that textual analysis would be enhanced by talking to an AI plagiarism bot pretending to be Anne Frank is wild
August 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Having sat through sales pitches for these kind of AI services they make teachers just consumers of external products and plug kids into services they don’t fully understand. The idea that textual analysis would be enhanced by talking to an AI plagiarism bot pretending to be Anne Frank is wild
Adding this to my long list of “Famous conservative Ivy League alums who never learned basic facts”
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Adding this to my long list of “Famous conservative Ivy League alums who never learned basic facts”
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The best early-warning system for natural disasters is Ted Cruz leaving the country for vacation.
July 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The best early-warning system for natural disasters is Ted Cruz leaving the country for vacation.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Peaceful day of adventures with the kids and submitting
July 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Peaceful day of adventures with the kids and submitting
I made funeral potatoes as another culinary tour of Utah. They are delicious and contain so much dairy and cheese, they may accelerate your own funeral
June 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I made funeral potatoes as another culinary tour of Utah. They are delicious and contain so much dairy and cheese, they may accelerate your own funeral