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Watching Steve Kornacki doing longhand math feels like a completely different type of midterms
November 4, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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What did your grandparents do for a living?

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November 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM
seanbirnie.bsky.social
Five A5 pages longhand last night as the melatonin kicked in.
November 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Pick a word you love and make the case for it.

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November 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Which book came along when you needed it most?

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November 1, 2026 at 9:22 AM
originalmardia.bsky.social
How stressed am I? I just wrote 1,400 words of my Yuletide fic in longhand. (Shoutout to @katarin.bsky.social and the writing/daily project challenge she’s handling for a bunch of us, it is insanely productive)
November 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Look out of the nearest window. What’s there?

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October 31, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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The first post of the house blog: Welcome to Longhand. Read it here: longhand.blog/app/blog/lon...

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Welcome to Longhand
Many many moons ago, the most important invention in the history of humanity came about: the invention of language. Language was useful because it enabled us to cooperate. It gave
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November 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
erikaswyler.bsky.social
I am! It's slow writing and I'm doing it all longhand, but I'm at work!
November 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Tell us about a stranger who was kind to you.

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November 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
the-artificer.bsky.social
Thank you! Drafting in my notes now, I'll write it out longhand and send it tonight.
November 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
microwrites.bsky.social
It's a metaphor darling, it's a metaphor! Although I do actually very often write longhand in pencil.
November 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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What are you slowly getting better at?

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October 30, 2026 at 12:02 AM
timesflow.bsky.social
Longhand writing is increasingly a key factual demonstration of self-reflexivity in a world being slowly emptied of such demonstrations.

—Sergio Chejfec, from Forgotten Manuscript (translated by Jeffrey Lawrence)
November 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
laurabrownelambert.bsky.social
I usually need a couple days to let it sink in while I make my notes and outline the changes longhand. It helps me think.
November 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Doing arithmetic as an adult frequently is more like hearing a number, thinking “that doesn’t sound right” and then estimating in your head to check it. It’s rarely sitting down to calculate exact numbers longhand.
November 3, 2026 at 1:47 AM
servantand.bsky.social
Then in early high school I wrote a derevative portal fantasy book. Longhand. And when I was sixteen, I wrote the first Canin story.
November 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
longhandlit.bsky.social
“The wind is rising! We must try to live!”
— Paul Valéry, “The Graveyard by the Sea,” 1920 (translated for Longhand)
Paul Valéry · The Longhand Almanac
Born in the French port town of Sète, Valéry wrote poems as a young man, then largely stepped away from poetry for about twenty years.
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October 30, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Take us somewhere that isn’t there any more.

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October 29, 2026 at 12:02 AM
jamesfarson.bsky.social
Time to start drafting everything longhand? Keeping it analogue? I've always wanted to own a mimeograph machine.
November 5, 2026 at 4:22 PM
doktor-x.bsky.social
This is a joke, right? It's not 1972 anymore, there are no more longhand job applications to complete.
October 29, 2026 at 3:54 PM
jaaaygilbert.bsky.social
Night one of longhand editing is going swimmingly
November 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Readers and writers, welcome home.

Longhand is the text-only blogging platform. No profiling, no ads, no media. Your own blog, for free, and a fresh prompt every day if you need somewhere to start.

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October 30, 2026 at 5:16 PM
longhandlit.bsky.social
Died on this day in 1918: Wilfred Owen.

Owen was killed leading his men across the Sambre–Oise Canal in France, one week before the Armistice. His parents received the telegram on Armistice Day.
Wilfred Owen · The Longhand Almanac
Owen was killed leading his men across the Sambre–Oise Canal in France, one week before the Armistice. His parents received the telegram on Armistice Day. Only a handful of his poems were published in his lifetime; "Dulce et Decorum Est" and the rest came after.
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November 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
longhandlit.bsky.social
“None of them knew the color of the sky.”
— Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat,” 1897
Stephen Crane · The Longhand Almanac
Crane had never seen a battle when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage (1895), the Civil War novel that made him famous. He packed a whole career of fiction, poetry and journalism into a short life, dying at 28.
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November 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM