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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Fianchetto: a chess development pattern where a player advances the pawn in front of their knight one or two squares forward, and then places their bishop on the newly opened long diagonal

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@isaacgreene Thank you Isaac!! I believe it and am hoping the same for myself 🙂

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@canneddragons Appreciate that so much! Thank you!

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@robertbreen Thank you very much!!

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@PaulDeFazio I love this. Wow. thank you for sharing.

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🎉 I turned 30 today. Lots of thoughts about the topic forthcoming; but for today, all I want to do is remind the public of this banger from Jay-Z regarding the same topic.

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I guess you can say that my legend just begun
I’m young enough to know the right car to buy
Yet grown enough not to put rims on it…
Thirty’s the new twenty, homie, I’m on fire still

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(P.S. — production is fire because it’s by Dre. California’s finest.)

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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Dilatory: slow, tardy, or inclined to cause delay

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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Siroc: A siroc (or more commonly sirocco) is a hot, dry, and dust-laden wind that originates in the Sahara Desert and blows across North Africa into Southern Europe.

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@dwalbert @johnbrady Noticed this in Perfect Days also, and was surprised. The ritual of a coffee or tea is so complimentary to the slow, non-consumeristic lifestyle.

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Also, Orwell has an amazing essay on the importance of tea (and how to make it) to English culture that I think of often.

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✍️ New blog post just published // Read the full thing here: bradley-andrews.com

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Counting Car Horns Instead Of Sheep

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Months into the summer, I was expressing to a friend the sudden and uncharacteristic urge I had to wander into a church. “My ass has done its ten thousand hours of warming a pew and I could care less if I ever heard another sermon. I think I just wanted to feel at home,” I remember saying. He let my statement linger, and after staring pensively into the ceiling, he replied, “Bradley, I thought the goal was to feel at home everywhere.”

I let that statement linger too.

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@news Just downloaded! Excited to explore and try it out.

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@naheller This is the one on Montague! You know how charming this area is then 😍
\nWill buckle in for the ride — luckily my lease is going to keep me tethered. Haha

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@naheller 🤣 Great joke. 10/10.

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✍️ Seven Minute Drill (5/27/2026) // bradley-andrews.com

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📚 Currently reading Frankenstein, but ordered these books some weeks back and happy to have them in hand. 😍

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📦 I know I am about to turn 30 because events like “my new picture frame from Etsy just arrived” makes me genuinely excited.

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💬 A great reminder from Theodore Adorno:

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The eye for possible advantages is the mortal enemy of all friendships.

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💬 Quote I was reminded of from Vaclav Havel:

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“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with the world… somewhere at the long chain of events that gave rise to the problem at issue I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”

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📷 New photos from yours truly. Things are heating up in NYC. ☀️ All taken on film on my Pentax K1000.

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🧱 Taken at Tom Sach’s current exhibition at Salon94. Never ceases to inspire.

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🎨 Got this gorgeous print from a German artist who lives in my neighborhood. He said it was inspired by Anna Akhmatova’s “In the Evening.”

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Admittedly, I have yet to see the connection, but am nonetheless entranced with the design. 🤣😍

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✏️ New Word Learned:

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Encomium: a formal expression of high praise or a glowing tribute

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👽 I was sitting outside a theatre and overhead a man explaining the entire plot of Star Wars—including Mandalorian and Grogu—to whom I can only assume is his girlfriend.

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There is something strangely universal and endearing about this❤️

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🎥 Watched: The Devil Wears Prada 2

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A greatly entertaining watch. I adore the first film and think they did it justice. Love how so many males in the film are portrayed as patient and competent: Stanley Tucci, of course, but also Kenneth Branagh and Pat Brammall. Streep, as usual, is a force. ❤️

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@robertbreen Beautiful. This has been recommended to me so many times from good people. I think it is time I pick it up…

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🎥 Watched: Obsession

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Obsession is a new horror film about a young man named Bear who uses his one wish from an enchanted novelty shop to make his best friend, Nikki, “love him more than anyone on the f*cking planet.” The wish goes sideways and Bear’s dream girl is turned into a walking nightmare.

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I really liked the film, although it is deeply unsettling and not for anyone who is easily disturbed. I think the film actually has a lot to say about the gender politics of youth and the loneliness epidemic. The lead actress' performance is one for the history books, seriously. The entire movie is summed up...

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🧟‍♂️ Sherwood News has a great report on the “Resurrection Economy”— i.e. the various ways that companies are making money off of the AI likeness of deceased celebrities. This is legitimately going to be the birth of a whole new industry; just wait until it becomes accessible to the general public.

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✍️ Recognized that I have not been believing the best in others recently. Wrote this post as a reminder for why I should be more open-hearted // bradley-andrews.com

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And while its true that our culture undervalues simplicity, we have more than a few examples in fiction that embody, and even exaggerate, this virtue. Inspector Clouseau, Mr. Magoo, and Mr. Bean, are great examples of what is essentially the same character. They are simpletons in every sense of the word, always out of step with the rhythms and conventions of modernity, yet still one step ahead of the deceivers, thieves, and robbers who try...

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@JohnBrady Hahaha— as a writer on Substack that has become increasingly disillusioned with the platform, I can confirm.

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🤖 “Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find”

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👨‍💻 I found a Reddit Page that asks if Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno aren’t technically ancient fanfictions about the bible—and the implications are quite funny when you think about it.

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💬 From Rob Henri:

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“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

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💬 An excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s The Pueblo. This whole poem has such “long live everything” spirit:

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I believe that Heaven must include
\nthat man, properly shod and crowned
\nI think that those who made so many things
\nought to be masters of everything.
\nAnd those who make bread ought to eat!
\nAnd those in the mine should have light!
\nEnough by now of grey men in chains!
\nEnough of the pale lost ones!
\nNot another man will go past except as a ruler.
\nNot a single woman without her diadem.
\nGloves of gold for every hand.
\nFruits of the sun for all the obscure ones!

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✏️ New word learned:

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Hypnagogic: of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep

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💬 From the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé:

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“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”

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@isaacgreene Haha! The Diapsalmata is probbaly my favorite section of the book. It is what I tell myself (but know is not the case) that the various fragments of thoughts in my Notes app looks like. 🤣

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@ablerism Ahh, that’s one I have not read. Will add to my list; curious to know your thoughts when you get around to it. Princeton Press published a bio on SK’s almost-wife, Regine, some time ago and it provided a very unique perspective. Lots of love letters and poetry I had never seen from him.

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@pragmatist also, I see that you’re new to micro.blog! Welcome! Really is a wonderful platform—great community and philosophy. Youll like it here im sure.

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@pragmatist Yup, that totally tracks with the data and makes so much sense. That being said, definitely makes to difficult for discoverability! Tough time to be a “new writer” without institutional clout.

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@JohnBrady Just watched this recently also. The scene where they are walking home on opposite sides of the street is utter perfection.

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@JohnPhilpin 🤣 Bravo, this made me literally laugh out loud.

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@isaacgreene Congrats, Isaac. I love to see this. May you become even more and more established there!

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@devilgate @johnphilpin I also have not heard of, nor can I find anything, regarding bitumous. However, I agree that it sounds exceptionally legitimate. 😂 I came across “bituminous” in class last night, while reviewing some earnings reports for Big Oil. Apparently _subbituminous _is also a thing.

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@gregmoore Yes, great example. I read his stuff and ask myself “why am I not doing stuff like this more? This is what I actually enjoy.”

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@isaacgreene 🤣 hahaha. Yeah, the old people go for “dearie,” “hun,” “sport,” or ocassionally “tiger.” Big dog tends to be, at least, sub fifty years old. 🙃

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@thebigbabooski

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<\"Jack

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@bradleyandroos | Apologies if my photos spam anyone’s timeline. I will try to space out my releases, but want the shots configured in a way on my photos page and weekly digest that posting individually seems to work best for!

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@ablerism That’s exactly right. A dance-musical interpretation of the album was on Broadway for a brief time. Such joyful weeping it caused…

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@void2259 original work or did you find this somewhere? It’s excellent. So visually appealing.

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@jinscho Agree with you wholeheartedly here. But why is this the first time I’ve heard the phrase ‘ridicule as praxis’? I really like that.

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