Patrick Nathan
@patricknathan.bsky.social
author // freelance copy/dev editor // he/him // patrick dot nathan at gmail twitter's death is a good thing and we don't need do it again
Maybe we can finally stop calling these people conservative while we’re at it
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · yesterdayICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...
Reading @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on the limits of the workshop is a nice little visit from the sanity fairy garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
if it’s really “My Chart” why can’t I tinker with my test results
My 100% favorite thing to do when working a book fair is the see some young (aka cash strapped) folk into a book and see them do a mental calculation (“can I afford?) and then I say just take itand they look so surprised and thrilled. what an easy thing to do! I feel like a fucking hero
idk about you but I can open a tab like an outlaw draws a revolver
spritzing myself with a little Woke no. 1 before the evening scrolling hour
dramatic lighting from the side is essential for a good dick pic
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
I'm currently reading The Seduction by Sara Torres and translated by Mara Faye Lethem. "My history of desire is basically a history of failure, everything I wanted and couldn't have, all the times I trembled in the distance that separated me from the object of my affection." #WITmonth
they’re even privatizing COINTELPRO these days
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4d agoThe "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
Here is Musk’s actual legacy: hundreds of thousands of dead children, and soon to be millions. From @mrkocnnll.bsky.social in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
unfortunately the NYT has refused to answer my pitch to determine the “NYT Book Review’s 50 Worst Decisions of the 21st Century”
My gift to you today is this: 8 times out of 10, if you say “Can you please use headphones,” the offender will stop making noise with their phone. 1 time out of 10, they will ignore you or be a defiant shit. And 1 time out of 10 they will get so embarrassed they leave the vicinity (bonus round).
enumerating how capitalism ate woke doesn’t discredit the radical shift in consciousness that has, since 2019, completely changed how Americans perceive the merits of authority — cops and political leaders, sure, but also the authority of ideas, like work culture or “doing your part” for the climate
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d agofinally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
every week, you should get to delete one post that isn’t yours
I'm currently reading Blood Money by Anna Seghers; translated by Lucy Jones. "Andreas Bastian was the last to return from the fields." Set in the summer of 1932 in a small German village as the Nazis rose to power. Out in September from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. #WITmonth
fine, we can keep speakerphone, but it has to send 200 volts of continuous electricity through your hand as long as sound of any kind is coursing through the phone
"Whenever someone starts talking about the 'free market,' it's a good idea to look around for the man with the gun." — David Graeber, THE UTOPIA OF RULES.
there should be more grants where you get paid to go away and never bother anyone again with your writing or your posts
Wouldn’t have said this before but after Pure Colour def Sheila Heti
Jstheater@jstheater.bsky.social · 6d agoA question for readers & writers here on Bsky: what are some works you'd consider *contemporary* notable examples of what would be labeled "the poet's novel." I'm thinking not simply of novels *by* poets, but of novels that defy usual fictional expectations & unfold on highly poetic/lyrical axes.
of course these are the arguments against. "cheapening of the gift of sexuality" says someone who has never experienced the radiant joy of being the demonstration spankee at the queer sex dungeon.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 7d agoThis is a messier and more complicated issue than can probably be discussed here on Bluesky without it devolving into a shouting match, but it's interesting in terms of gay history and NYC history, so...giftlink! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/n...
