Brian D. "and all of us, who did NOT die" Clarke
@bdclarke.bsky.social
The Mad Canadian. Generalist. Ronin Librarian. Research Magpie. Unexpected Textbook Co-Author.
Host, Forthcoming Podcast Project
Also; not a Russian bot, and BLM. Needs to be said.
Host, Forthcoming Podcast Project
Also; not a Russian bot, and BLM. Needs to be said.
Haven't been out in the public scene for one of my subcultures in over a decade, and...uh....times have changed
February 19, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Haven't been out in the public scene for one of my subcultures in over a decade, and...uh....times have changed
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Happy new year everyone!
Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!
Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!
a blue penguin is riding on the back of a red horse with the year 2015 behind it
Alt: a blue penguin is riding on the back of a red horse with the year 2026 behind it
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Happy new year everyone!
Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!
Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!
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Many other conservative futurists act this way in reference to Richard Feynman and a few other titans of mid-century physics. And it’s obnoxious when they do it too.
But to treat Isaac Asimov as a scientific god-among-men?
…Dude, this is just so embarrassing for you.
But to treat Isaac Asimov as a scientific god-among-men?
…Dude, this is just so embarrassing for you.
February 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Many other conservative futurists act this way in reference to Richard Feynman and a few other titans of mid-century physics. And it’s obnoxious when they do it too.
But to treat Isaac Asimov as a scientific god-among-men?
…Dude, this is just so embarrassing for you.
But to treat Isaac Asimov as a scientific god-among-men?
…Dude, this is just so embarrassing for you.
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I suspect I may have some opinions to share about this next book I’m reading.
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I suspect I may have some opinions to share about this next book I’m reading.
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I want some of them thar fancy Paris horse d'ovaries, scallops and an eclair!
Originally a sheepfold which housed Central Park’s four legged lawn mowers, Tavern on the Green opened as a restaurant in 1934, serving up ambience and history to tourists and locals for 75 years (reopened in 2014)
Let’s do lunch!
Tavern on the Green
NYC Central Park, 1950
#VintageMenus
Let’s do lunch!
Tavern on the Green
NYC Central Park, 1950
#VintageMenus
February 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I want some of them thar fancy Paris horse d'ovaries, scallops and an eclair!
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It's usually framed as middle aged white men being particularly adept (evidence: look how few women or black and brown people work here!).
And that's the irony: if these clowns *had* taken a gender studies class, they wouldn't now be in the Epstein files or being MeToo-ed more generally.
And that's the irony: if these clowns *had* taken a gender studies class, they wouldn't now be in the Epstein files or being MeToo-ed more generally.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
It's usually framed as middle aged white men being particularly adept (evidence: look how few women or black and brown people work here!).
And that's the irony: if these clowns *had* taken a gender studies class, they wouldn't now be in the Epstein files or being MeToo-ed more generally.
And that's the irony: if these clowns *had* taken a gender studies class, they wouldn't now be in the Epstein files or being MeToo-ed more generally.
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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No one has any right to be this funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rzH...
Billionaires Bill Gates & Elon Musk Buried in Epstein Emails
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
No one has any right to be this funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rzH...
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
June 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
Okay, some of you are gonna love this
Love it. Love everything about it.
Prince and gymnastics?! I'm sat! 10s across the board.
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Okay, some of you are gonna love this
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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An interesting thread.
Something from class yesterday: we were listening to the basslines in "Dear Prudence" and "Billie Jean" and the difference in timekeeping abilities between the Beatles and Michael Jackson's session guys jumped right out of the speakers.
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
An interesting thread.
Fatherhood is baseline pretty great, but then your kids start singing "once in a lifetime" *with you* in the car, or singing a rabbit-centric version to the family pet when youre not around, and thats just next level lovely.
February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Fatherhood is baseline pretty great, but then your kids start singing "once in a lifetime" *with you* in the car, or singing a rabbit-centric version to the family pet when youre not around, and thats just next level lovely.
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I made a little comic celebrating something nice in the world that my family loves. It can also serve as a recommendation for those of you who are (or are considering becoming) parents. Finding joy where you can is a survival skill in bizarre and awful times. I ‘ll fix the typos (I just noticed!)
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I made a little comic celebrating something nice in the world that my family loves. It can also serve as a recommendation for those of you who are (or are considering becoming) parents. Finding joy where you can is a survival skill in bizarre and awful times. I ‘ll fix the typos (I just noticed!)
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“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”
~Heather Cox Richardson
~Heather Cox Richardson
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.”
~Heather Cox Richardson
~Heather Cox Richardson
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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an incredibly thorough consideration of Gaiman and Sandman, well worth reading
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
an incredibly thorough consideration of Gaiman and Sandman, well worth reading
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Me: Hey while I'm out, you want me to get anything, like from Walgreens or Aldi's--
Sara: Al-deez-nuts
Sara: Al-deez-nuts
February 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Me: Hey while I'm out, you want me to get anything, like from Walgreens or Aldi's--
Sara: Al-deez-nuts
Sara: Al-deez-nuts
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import