"List the birds native to your state and the birds that arrive for a season. Diagram the placement of all the nests...Start a list of people killed by ICE since 2024" @utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...

Thank you @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me share my list for resistance!

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"List the birds native to your state and the birds that arrive for a season. Diagram the placement of all the nests...Start a list of people killed by ICE since 2024" @utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...

"Memorize these lines from Purgatorio: As sheep come out of their pen, in ones, twos, and threes, and others stand timidly, with eyes and nose towards the ground, and what the first does, the others also do," Today's L*ST is a list from Bri Chapman: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/bri-...

Up today in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series is Emiland Kray's "L’ambroise de Lotito: On Disordered Eating and a Connection Stronger than Life and Death": www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/emil...

WANTED: LOST-T-SHIRT, PERFECT GREEN. Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/heid...

Oh wow! Yesterday's entry in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS project is a LOST game by Dan Pinchbeck of The Chinese Room; quite an honor to be able to put this out in the world! www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/dan-...

"I’m trying to remember the last time..." A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...

[Exit Queen.]

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

I did not fully understand this song as a little kid, but it absolutely made me want my own apartment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaqJ...

Dolly Parton - Two Doors Down LIVE (Dolly TV Series 1987)

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I was left thinking, or am thinking now, about those events that punctuate the multivolume tome of our life [with] colons before lists, the stuff that marks the way: Today in L*STS we have a LAST for you, being @pcmadden3.bsky.social's For the Last Time: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/patr...

Patrick Madden, For the Last Time | L*STS

* For the Last Time Patrick Madden * L*STS: an Essay Daily Happening | About & Contents  Lists | Lasts | Losts | Lusts | Other * The secr...

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lest I come across as arrogant lest I remind him of the time he crashed my VW bug lest he retreats to demon metaphors lest the reference to palm forests triggers the Merwin digression lest I misunderstood the assignment "LEST LIST" by Timothy Dyke: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/timo...

OK this is incredibly cool. A gamer has created floppy disks of his Steam collection and they act as executables to launch that game.

A visual to go along with my "State Fair Vanitas" list linked below. The Kentucky State Fair is always a good time, but my favorite part is at the end, when the culinary exhibits have gone into full decay yet remain on display.

Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we kick off publishing l*sts over at @essaydaily.bsky.social. L*STS are lists, lasts, losts, and lusts. First up is @erinkeane.bsky.social's State Fair Vanitas! www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin.... Want to contribute one? Pitch us!

"My list questions why we can feel this beautiful—bordering on obsessional—appreciation of other women, but are so rarely able to harness that love and reverence for ourselves" Today's L*STS post is Jessica Curry's "Wannabe: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/jess...

Will take this opportunity once more to hype @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS, featuring my ode to the fair: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin...

Erin Keane, State Fair Vanitas | L*STS

*   State Fair Vanitas Erin Keane * L*STS: an Essay Daily Happening | About & Contents   Lists | Lasts | Losts | Lusts | Other *   Yes, yes,...

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Today we kick off publishing l*sts over at @essaydaily.bsky.social. L*STS are lists, lasts, losts, and lusts. First up is @erinkeane.bsky.social's State Fair Vanitas! www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin.... Want to contribute one? Pitch us!

I wrote a little list ode to the Kentucky State Fair for @essaydaily.bsky.social … and will find out later this week if my first-ever entries get a lil prize. (Probably not, but the prize is not the point!)

Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we kick off publishing l*sts over at @essaydaily.bsky.social. L*STS are lists, lasts, losts, and lusts. First up is @erinkeane.bsky.social's State Fair Vanitas! www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin.... Want to contribute one? Pitch us!

"Saturday morning, Beth called to ask if I wanted to go birding at the wildlife refuge west of Syracuse. Beth was the elderly landlady of my hovel, where I drank until my vision fuzzed." Misha Tentser's last/lust in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/mish...

Misha Tenster, On Birds and Poison | L*STS

* On Birds and Poison Misha Tentser * L*STS: an Essay Daily Happening | About & Contents  Lists | Lasts | Losts | Lusts | Other * Saturday...

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Care to contribute to Essay Daily's L*STS project (lists, lasts, losts, lusts, etc.)? Details: www.essaydaily.org/p/lsts-essay...

Reminder about Caroline Tracey book launch tonight and Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening readings + the first 6 Significant Objects stories: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Upcoming Readings Tonight + Significant Objects

Caroline Tracey book launch Sat evening; Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening

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"How is it that we’ve made it here to the age of artificial intelligence realized, and Max Headroom is not around?" Avery Gregurich takes a close look at Max Headroom in our Media Club series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/02/aver...

Avery Gregurich, Seeking: Max Headroom

This essay is in our Media Club series, an ongoing series of essays on visual media. Pitch us something! More details  here . * Seeking: M...

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Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!

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"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?" @andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...

And here we go: Dec 1 in the 2025 @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent calendar features Jodie Noel Vinson on The Golden Girls: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Dec 01, 2025: Jodie Noel Vinson, Sick and Tired

* Sick and Tired Jodie Noel Vinson * Like many during the pandemic lockdown, my husband Marc and I watched and re-watched shows from our cou...

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"at the time, it felt like each expression of private violence was an intimacy. A secret garden where most people wouldn’t tread" Day 2 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is Lily Herman on T2 Trainspotting: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Dec 02, 2025: Lily Herman, Run the Train

* Run the Train Lily Herman * Content warning: violence, sexual abuse, genocide, infant mortality, substance use disorder. I felt the man’s...

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"Tagged T-shirts have evolved into their own Linnaean taxonomy. The messages break down into specific genera or at least accents of fragmentary grammar and syntax." The most excellent Michael Martone in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Dec 03, 2025: Michael Martone, ...All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Eight Memoirs on Wearing Words

…All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Eight Memoirs on Wearing Words Michael Martone * Magic Marker There was an empty box printed in black in...

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"What you learn first: how to carry. Load the hod with bricks or blocks and carry it to the job site. Unload it and do it again, again, again." Today in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar it's one of my favorite essayists, Joni Tevis on a 1910 photo: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

"I hate being the girl who watches boys play videogames, but I wrecked my wrists playing World of Warcraft in the aughts" Dec 6 in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar brings you @brookewonders.bsky.social on Bloodborne and a lot more: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

"From a formal point of view, we share repetition, we share paper and canvas, and we share the robot." Dec 7 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar: Emiland Kray on HR Giger: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

I am very mad that the world didn't tell me you could visit Serge Gainsbourg's house before today, read @cathydelacruz.bsky.social's essay on it at @essaydaily.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

Dec 09: Cathy de la Cruz, A Mess, a Museum

A Mess, a Museum Cathy de la Cruz * “Well, this is my house. I don’t know what it is: a sitting room; a music room; a mess; a museum …”  —Se...

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