AJ Schuster @schustafa.com - Bluesky Profile

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

23.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 18548 🔁 5991 💬 199 📌 106

FISH POEM Stella Sacco My best friend in Catholic grade school, Tony, Lived on one side of the highway to Pittstield And between the sets of lanes, Set deep down a sharp incline, There was a little stream Running from one corrugated pipe to another And when I'd come visit we'd cross the road And we'd climb down And we'd get our hands and shoes wet And we'd hunt for cool rocks. But one day we found a big fish instead.

It was in a pool slightly deeper and wider Than the rest of the stream And we were mystified. It was big, much bigger than we figured A fish in a stream that narrow should be. Not that we had ever seen a fish there before. It was alive and so still That we were able to reach into the water And stroke it And feel its slick scales And so we sang songs to it And we called it a gentle giant And it didn't swim away And we thought it was a miracle And we wondered where it would go from there And we went back inside.

The next time I saw Tony I brought up our gentle giant And he looked at me with a sort of bladed pity And said "It was dying, dummy." He explained he had talked to his mom And his mom had said The fish came from somewhere else And had gotten stranded in that stream somehow And had nothing to eat anymore And not enough room to swim And the reason it didn't swim away from us Is because it couldn't swim away from us. It couldn't swim anywhere. We were the giants, not the fish, And we had played with it As it was dying.

I got sad. Maybe it was able to go downstream, I offered. Tony countered with a "How?" For which I did not have a great answer. But I just think If I was dying, As l am every day, I would like someone Who thought I was miraculous To touch me And feel my soft skin And sing to me While I went.

Fish Poem

17.12.2025 23:02 — 👍 626 🔁 127 💬 38 📌 7

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

23.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 1502 🔁 270 💬 41 📌 27

9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>

11.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 1155 🔁 266 💬 21 📌 7

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

09.09.2025 16:44 — 👍 15439 🔁 5209 💬 220 📌 164

Even setting aside its content, this letter has unlocked new depths of embarrassment for my country.

If a seventh grader submitted it as an assignment in English class, it would come back marked SEE ME.

Donald Trump is functionally illiterate.

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11.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

02.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 2043 🔁 1619 💬 51 📌 81

mark vientos of the mets getting hit right in the butt cheeks with a baseball also remember: trans rights are human rights

watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

15.04.2025 01:42 — 👍 478 🔁 64 💬 10 📌 4

This includes the line “[Roko’s Basilisk] is maybe best understood as Pascal’s wager for losers” which made me laugh out loud in a very quiet cafe.

05.03.2025 16:53 — 👍 75 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 3

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

28.02.2025 19:10 — 👍 12021 🔁 2221 💬 120 📌 126

Professional sports leagues don't have the expansive socialism they have out of some desire for fairness or equity or competitive balance. They have socialism because it's a system that guarantees profits for capital, and they have gone to war with labor to keep it that way.

27.02.2025 22:04 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

buncha red-winged blackbirds sitting in cubicles, wearing headsets, cold-calling people about their car warranties

27.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0