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"I’m trying to remember the last time..."
A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...
A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...
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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...
@utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...
September 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"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...
@utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...
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Thank you @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me share my list for resistance!
"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...
@utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...
September 10, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Thank you @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me share my list for resistance!
"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-...
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-...
September 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
"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-...
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-...
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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":
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August 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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":
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WANTED: LOST-T-SHIRT, PERFECT GREEN.
Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social
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Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social
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August 31, 2026 at 2:23 PM
WANTED: LOST-T-SHIRT, PERFECT GREEN.
Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social
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Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social
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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-...
September 4, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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...
A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...
September 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"I’m trying to remember the last time..."
A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...
A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...
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This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
August 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
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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)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD
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August 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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...
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:
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Today in L*STS we have a LAST for you, being @pcmadden3.bsky.social's For the Last Time:
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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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August 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
August 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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...
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...
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OK this is incredibly cool. A gamer has created floppy disks of his Steam collection and they act as executables to launch that game.
August 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
OK this is incredibly cool. A gamer has created floppy disks of his Steam collection and they act as executables to launch that game.
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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.
August 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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.
"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...
Today's L*STS post is Jessica Curry's "Wannabe: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/jess...
August 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"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...
Today's L*STS post is Jessica Curry's "Wannabe: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/jess...
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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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August 21, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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...
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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!
August 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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!
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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!)
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!
August 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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!)
"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 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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August 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM
"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 Tentser's last/lust in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/mish...
Care to contribute to Essay Daily's L*STS project (lists, lasts, losts, lusts, etc.)? Details: www.essaydaily.org/p/lsts-essay...
July 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Reminder about Caroline Tracey book launch tonight and Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening readings + the first 6 Significant Objects stories:
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Upcoming Readings Tonight + Significant Objects
Caroline Tracey book launch Sat evening; Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening
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March 28, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
"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 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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February 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"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 takes a close look at Max Headroom in our Media Club series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/02/aver...
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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!
"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
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@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
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Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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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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December 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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-...
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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-...
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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December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"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-...
Day 2 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is Lily Herman on T2 Trainspotting: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...