Chip Chandler
@chipchandler.bsky.social
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Director of University Communications & Media Relations @ WT. An inveterate quidnunc. Opinions are my own. "There good. Been around the Block." he/him/his
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Absolutely tore through every episode of this show that we could find when we were researching the book. An astonishing resource and time capsule of gay New York before AIDS, its existence seems impossible today. Highly recommended. Gem after gem in terms of interview subjects.
If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...
To be fair, I haven’t watched more than the first episode as an adult. But for some reason, I loved it when I was a kid.
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One of my earliest Legion purchases. Love that book!
Preach
No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
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Gorgeous picture! I’m in Amarillo, so I’ve certainly seen it before lol
Wow, this season is an almost total misfire. Utica is the only reason I’m still watching
Happy birthday, Martha P.!
Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive.

Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
I just love him in that role
He can wind my clock any time
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If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
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Nothing so poignant as spending the evening with a lunch counter bisecting you through the intestines.
Even worse, to me, was that he insisted on treating his first and last name as one name: “JosephMcRae.” Because of “branding.” 🙄🙄
Correcting language misapprehensions on social media is, like, a dream job.
If you’ve ever heard that

- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym

It’s untrue.

Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
DC Cover of the Day

If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
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Micah @rincewind.run · Jul 24
the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse

bye, you racist asshole
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You say journalism is dead.

I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.