@alltoocontrary.bsky.social
Photographer, reader, explorer, fan of gazing upwards. Moved to 🇫🇷 two months before the US election, still getting my feet, still finding my voice. Patience is my mantra for now.
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The US faces many threats, but I hope I'm wrong. Worst case : he doesn't need a violent coup, just to dismantle the existing structures on day one starting with recess appointments. If that is allowed to happen there won't be any governance left in place. No hearings = no checks, no balances.
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Lovely.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Lovely.
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My attempt to be multi-causal on this issue.
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February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
My attempt to be multi-causal on this issue.
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As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.
January 21, 2026 at 3:42 PM
As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.
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The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
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I can already tell that this is gonna be one of those movies that I evangelize about for the rest of my life.
Gus Van Sant has a new movie, Dead Man's Wire. You probably haven't heard of it. But you should seek it out. It's a brilliant movie that speaks to where we are right now, but is also a worthy successor to the 70s classics it emulates. Funny, surprising, compassionate. Big screen if possible.
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I can already tell that this is gonna be one of those movies that I evangelize about for the rest of my life.
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He can’t. It requires the shameful complicity of hundreds of legislators who swore oaths on Bibles to country & Constitution & refuse to do their damn jobs
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then it’s Saturday
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then it’s Saturday
December 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
He can’t. It requires the shameful complicity of hundreds of legislators who swore oaths on Bibles to country & Constitution & refuse to do their damn jobs
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then it’s Saturday
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then it’s Saturday
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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Silent Middle Child nails it. Again:
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Silent Middle Child nails it. Again:
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A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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If I’d been a student at a French school in the 1990s and heard this play at the end of every class, I’d have felt like I was in some low-budget TV series about a detective who investigates everyday, I gripping and yet disturbing mysteries in a small village in the mountains.
It seems this theme was broadcast at the end of each class in schools across the Paris region in the 1990s. So unresolved, so unsettling.
SONNERIE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (VERSION GRAVE ET LONGUE) | SONNERIE ÉCOLE/COLLÈGE/LYCÉE/EREA/CFA
YouTube video by La Cloche Française
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November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If I’d been a student at a French school in the 1990s and heard this play at the end of every class, I’d have felt like I was in some low-budget TV series about a detective who investigates everyday, I gripping and yet disturbing mysteries in a small village in the mountains.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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First, Trump pardoned the "boots" of the insurrection, and now he's pardoned the "suits" of the insurrection substack.com/@glennkirsch...
Trump's pardons of his January 6 unindicted co-conspirators is a recruiting call to interfere in upcoming elections!
So we just learned that Donald Trump pardoned a bunch of people, including his unindicted co-conspirators in the now-defunct federal prosecution of Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
First, Trump pardoned the "boots" of the insurrection, and now he's pardoned the "suits" of the insurrection substack.com/@glennkirsch...
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Facts over feelings. She nails it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Facts over feelings. She nails it.
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I knew nothing about Diane Keaton’s photography career. This is fascinating. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘A photographer with a cool and deadly eye’: Diane Keaton’s creativity behind the lens
The Oscar-winning actor and style icon was also a prolific photographer, collector and curator whose lifelong fascination with images revealed a sharp, singular way of seeing the world
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October 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I knew nothing about Diane Keaton’s photography career. This is fascinating. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
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Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.
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Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
October 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
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From dark academia to medievalcore: fashion is embracing our need for escapism | Lauren Cochcrane
From dark academia to medievalcore: fashion is embracing our need for escapism | Lauren Cochcrane
Much is written about how young people no longer form real-world communities. Well, fashion trends are a stark rejoinder to that, says senior Guardian fashion writer Lauren Cochrane
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September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
From dark academia to medievalcore: fashion is embracing our need for escapism | Lauren Cochcrane
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"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation
It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
September 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵