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Literally a bird feeder poem. I just can't anymore.
NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump says domestic violence should not be considered a crime. Can the two parties find common ground?
Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
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Fun to be included in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social special issue on (what else?) The Mall pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/a...
Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
let me give you this background story, because I love it and people usually only know this screenshot
Not certain if this has already been cited, but I found a citation while reading into this for a book called How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester. I bought the book (thank you for the weekend reading!). Here is what he says:
Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
what a gorgeous incorporation of natural science terminology into poetry 🙉🪱
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I have at long last shown up on bluesky, for poetry reasons (among others), so here is a poem I wrote (among others).
The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
Kanye West is selling T-shirts with Swastikas on them. But what is he really trying to say?
The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
Today's horrific Elise Jordan opinion: Musk's destruction of federal institutions "reminds me a lot of the Biden Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done; it was done terribly... What we're seeing here, though, is a long-overdue correction."
Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.”
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
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“Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
Welcome, sir. Longtime fan and admirer.
Amazing video that Questlove and Maya Rudolph put together to showcase all of the music artists that have appeared on SNL. Here’s a clip of Duran Duran mixed with …
