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writer of books, sometimes movies http://linktr.ee/markleidner https://markleidner.substack.com/p/50-questions-to-ask-about-your-story

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every spider is actually a tiny artificially intelligent robot and every web they weave is AI slop

06.03.2026 06:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hate it when someone chops my arm off as I reach the top of the siege ladder. Ok I guess Iโ€™ll just tumble screaming into the throng of attackers below ?

15.02.2026 12:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 337 ๐Ÿ” 51 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Reginald Belgium would be a good name for a poet born in the early 1950s who comes to prominence and acclaim in the late 1970s.

03.03.2026 06:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

footage leaked from a hidden camera on an abandoned space station shows xenomorphs doing push-ups on grated catwalks and pull-ups on exposed pipesโ€”absolutely pathetic that these aliens arenโ€™t naturally athletic and have to work at itโ€”hopefully this makes them less scary for all

02.03.2026 23:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

dreamt that food was so scarce in LA that people began eating clothes. specifically people scavenged the highways for discarded clothing and when someone found an old dried encrusted clothing item on the freeway, they ate it like a drumstick and called it โ€œLA fried chickenโ€

02.03.2026 16:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bo Jackson intentionally got thrown out a game so he could be their for his daughters birth
Bo Jackson intentionally got thrown out a game so he could be their for his daughters birth YouTube video by Barstool Sports

also my favorite sports accomplishment youtube.com/shorts/Vp7w_...

01.03.2026 21:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nba players should be able to parkour off each others bodiesโ€”allowing them to get to the basket by climbing a โ€œladder of chaosโ€โ€”and if it ends in a dunk you get 5 pts. if you miss the dunk or donโ€™t score, however, then youโ€™re charged with a foul for every person you touched

27.02.2026 22:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just think itโ€™s so cool how thereโ€™s not any high fructose corn syrup in some foods, and at the same time, thereโ€™s also not any parabens in some bathroom products

26.02.2026 00:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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William Carlos Williams parodies 5 short poems with short lines

poking a ghost with short sticks markleidner.substack.com/p/william-ca...

25.02.2026 01:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

please limit political commentary in the work slack

we hate him too, but slack is not the place to vent our antipathy to this man

slack is where we collabโ€”on GRINDING ONLYโ€”to complete tasks faster

so we can live more of our limited lifeโ€”boldly, POLITICALLYโ€”beyond the work slack

24.02.2026 18:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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iambic tetrameter ass stick

24.02.2026 07:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1868 ๐Ÿ” 355 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

dreamt I bought warner brothers with a single poem worth more than the netflix and paramount offers combined

23.02.2026 18:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

getting a mfa is like going to the citadel in game of thrones to become a maester

11.02.2026 01:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Words have such super meanings

07.02.2026 00:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 42 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a long-held worldview of mine is getting absolutely bodied by one of todayโ€™s current events ๐Ÿ˜”

07.02.2026 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

after the odyssey, christopher nolan needs to team up with vince gilligan to make a movie about pluribus and memento happening to the same person at the same time

05.01.2026 18:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bro last night was like if pluribus happened to gerard butler in greenland 2

02.01.2026 23:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bro last night was like if pluribus happened to gollum in middle earth

01.01.2026 23:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

according to WME, tarantinoโ€™s hateful comments did an estimated $70 million worth of damages to paul danoโ€™s reputation, but on gofundme, the paul dano reputational recovery fund is now approaching $110m, exceeding its target of $70m by close to $40m as of dawn this morning

31.12.2025 05:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what society really needs

isnโ€™t marty supreme

but a film in the style of marty supreme

set during biblical times

about a brash, young, iconoclastic shepherd

no one really likes

who sacrifices everythingโ€”his health, his relationshipsโ€”

to be present at the nativity

30.12.2025 00:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my dentist told me he dreamt tarantino

made a hagiographic prestige documentary

about paul dano as a form of penance

29.12.2025 03:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Faculty Hilary Plum's latest novel, "State Champ," out from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, was named in the @parisreview.bsky.social's "Our Favorite Books of 2025" list (selected by @markleidner.bsky.social) ๐Ÿ†๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿฉธ

Full list: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...

17.12.2025 13:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our Favorite Books of 2025 by The Paris Review December 12, 2025 โ€“ This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of theย Review for their favorite books of the past year. Hereโ€™s what they said.

@parisreview.bsky.social includes STATE CHAMP in its list of "Our Favorite Books of 2025!" "Hilary Plum's novel has a pulpy, political premise that is complemented by an arresting structure and complex characterization." -- @markleidner.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...

12.12.2025 17:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

dreamt the last level of jedi training was firing up your lightsaber in the shower and having to block every single droplet of water

08.12.2025 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As long as the grid has a few of these things every so often

07.12.2025 20:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s fucked up that in the Book of Job, the main character is made to suffer endlessly through no fault of his own, and his name is spelled the same as the thing you have to do for money 2,000 years later.

07.12.2025 16:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We need a massive New Deal-esque spending program to redirect all the rivers within the United States to flow along contiguous state bordersโ€”so that a map of the United States would look like a jigsaw puzzle of states, with rivers being the seams between the pieces.

07.12.2025 02:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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06.12.2025 03:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(to the tune of eleanor rigby) eleanor rigby

05.12.2025 20:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 572 ๐Ÿ” 121 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" shouldโ€™ve been titled โ€œThirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Person When You Are a Blackbirdโ€ to center the blackbirdโ€™s POV even though the poem is from the POV of people.

05.12.2025 20:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0