Elizabeth Sandifer
@eruditorumpress.com
Writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
You find yourself wondering if he uses a different tone of voice when he calls his wife a fucking bitch.
We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...
Renee Good’s Murder was Misogyny
We cannot ignore the distinctively gendered dynamics of this—and much other—fascist violence
katemanne.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:01 AM
You find yourself wondering if he uses a different tone of voice when he calls his wife a fucking bitch.
The Fountain just took my breath away. A solid hourlong experience of the emotion “wonder.” Have long since come to understand its tricks, but it was ecstatic watching them unfold for the first time.
I would like to hear if you have ever had one (1) transformational experience in a movie theater. Don't care if it's high art or low, somber or funny, poetic or banal - I just want to hear about that one time at the movies that changed you at the atomic level.
January 10, 2026 at 5:18 AM
The Fountain just took my breath away. A solid hourlong experience of the emotion “wonder.” Have long since come to understand its tricks, but it was ecstatic watching them unfold for the first time.
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rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
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January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
What happens if a Minnesota prosecutor goes to a federal judge and asks for an order giving them access to the evidence?
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
What happens if a Minnesota prosecutor goes to a federal judge and asks for an order giving them access to the evidence?
Tell me you haven't paid attention to Raffi in the last twenty years without telling me you haven't paid attention to Raffi in the last twenty years.
they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
January 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Tell me you haven't paid attention to Raffi in the last twenty years without telling me you haven't paid attention to Raffi in the last twenty years.
The idea that ICE could somehow be reformed instead of simply abolished was always a naive liberal fantasy, but it's become willfully delusional at this point. You cannot reform an organization deliberately stuffed to the gills with people who view jackbooted thuggery as an aspirational lifestyle.
January 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
The idea that ICE could somehow be reformed instead of simply abolished was always a naive liberal fantasy, but it's become willfully delusional at this point. You cannot reform an organization deliberately stuffed to the gills with people who view jackbooted thuggery as an aspirational lifestyle.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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this is bad
Starting to think that as society we didn’t consider how slippery the legalized gambling slope would be
January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
this is bad
The pre-coffee period is rough on everyone
January 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The pre-coffee period is rough on everyone
Just like Tom Petty was in the 60s yeah.
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Just like Tom Petty was in the 60s yeah.
I decline to pick already dead people. As for Vincent, I didn’t go off age so much as recording era. Petty and Lynne are both 70s stars in a 60s band. Yorke obviously has major 90s output, but both he and Vincent’s major eras are 00s. If anything the problem is that Yorke is too early.
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I decline to pick already dead people. As for Vincent, I didn’t go off age so much as recording era. Petty and Lynne are both 70s stars in a 60s band. Yorke obviously has major 90s output, but both he and Vincent’s major eras are 00s. If anything the problem is that Yorke is too early.
Have been thinking about this for literally two months, and here’s what I’ve got.
Harrison => Dave Grohl
Dylan => Eddie Vedder
Orbison => Bruce Springsteen
Lynne => Thom Yorke
Petty => St. Vincent
Harrison => Dave Grohl
Dylan => Eddie Vedder
Orbison => Bruce Springsteen
Lynne => Thom Yorke
Petty => St. Vincent
The idea of a 90s Traveling Wilburies seems fantastical: Frank Black? Liz Phair? Thom Yorke?
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Have been thinking about this for literally two months, and here’s what I’ve got.
Harrison => Dave Grohl
Dylan => Eddie Vedder
Orbison => Bruce Springsteen
Lynne => Thom Yorke
Petty => St. Vincent
Harrison => Dave Grohl
Dylan => Eddie Vedder
Orbison => Bruce Springsteen
Lynne => Thom Yorke
Petty => St. Vincent
I have a strong memory of someone—I think James Cameron himself—describing Pirhana II: The Spawning as "not bad for a sequel to a rip off." I can, however, find no citation remotely supporting this line. Anyone able to correct whatever problem exists with my recollection of this?
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I have a strong memory of someone—I think James Cameron himself—describing Pirhana II: The Spawning as "not bad for a sequel to a rip off." I can, however, find no citation remotely supporting this line. Anyone able to correct whatever problem exists with my recollection of this?
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Crucially, it is EXTREMELY difficult and costly to occupy a place with a hostile population that doesn’t want you there.
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Crucially, it is EXTREMELY difficult and costly to occupy a place with a hostile population that doesn’t want you there.
If for some reason supporting one of the most venerable anarchist publishers operating isn't a good enough reason for you, PM Press also owns Ithaca's beloved local used book store, which in turn houses our local record store.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM
If for some reason supporting one of the most venerable anarchist publishers operating isn't a good enough reason for you, PM Press also owns Ithaca's beloved local used book store, which in turn houses our local record store.
It’s always startling to discover my confidence that Vance will be a weak candidate in 2028 has room to grow, but here we are once again.
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It’s always startling to discover my confidence that Vance will be a weak candidate in 2028 has room to grow, but here we are once again.
There’s a fundamental tension between Vance’s job as the heir apparent to Trump’s movement and his job as the obsequious toady that gets rolled out to the cameras when the administration wants to say some really vile shit, and it’s very funny that the tension always resolves in favor of Trump’s ego.
JD Vance: "It was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States ... say a prayer for that agent ... he deserves a debt of gratitude."
January 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
There’s a fundamental tension between Vance’s job as the heir apparent to Trump’s movement and his job as the obsequious toady that gets rolled out to the cameras when the administration wants to say some really vile shit, and it’s very funny that the tension always resolves in favor of Trump’s ego.
(I broadly think this is good, to be clear. Robot of Sherwood did it by effectively getting the last word.)
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
(I broadly think this is good, to be clear. Robot of Sherwood did it by effectively getting the last word.)
It also notably more or less killed the celebrity historical. Chibnall did a couple, but Chibnall did a lot of things. Moffat never did another, nor Davies, and they don’t feel an essential part of the show’s grammar these days.
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
It also notably more or less killed the celebrity historical. Chibnall did a couple, but Chibnall did a lot of things. Moffat never did another, nor Davies, and they don’t feel an essential part of the show’s grammar these days.
Honestly one of the best things you can say about SFF fandom is that it’s a place where you can plausibly get an award for lancing the boil of an incredibly beloved writer who’s turned out to be a horrific abuser.
Not a lot of places where Gaiman would have been so comprehensively rejected.
Not a lot of places where Gaiman would have been so comprehensively rejected.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Honestly one of the best things you can say about SFF fandom is that it’s a place where you can plausibly get an award for lancing the boil of an incredibly beloved writer who’s turned out to be a horrific abuser.
Not a lot of places where Gaiman would have been so comprehensively rejected.
Not a lot of places where Gaiman would have been so comprehensively rejected.
I don’t expect to ever get a Hugo nomination, little yet a win. But I suspect that if I do get one it’ll be this year, for Cuddled Little Vice, and I’d be lying if I said that wouldn’t make me an extremely happy little nerd.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I don’t expect to ever get a Hugo nomination, little yet a win. But I suspect that if I do get one it’ll be this year, for Cuddled Little Vice, and I’d be lying if I said that wouldn’t make me an extremely happy little nerd.
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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It's an outfit to make the heady lesbians go wild and it works. Sorry you can't understand gender play, paradox, and juxtaposition! It's also getting attention for her film. 10/10, killer and successful outfit. Stewart is a treasure
Congratulations to Kristen Stewart, who may have managed to already wear the worst outfit we're going to see all year. You are not prepared for the scrolldown:
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Kristen Stewart Promotes THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER on LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS - Tom + Lorenzo
We can say with utter certainty that, despite her many years of wearing fucked-up fashion and our many years of lovingly (or not) documenting her choices,
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January 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It's an outfit to make the heady lesbians go wild and it works. Sorry you can't understand gender play, paradox, and juxtaposition! It's also getting attention for her film. 10/10, killer and successful outfit. Stewart is a treasure
Some years ago I predicted that, someday soon, that during sex someone would say, in a horrified voice, “but the algorithm said you’d like it” and I’ve never hated being right so much.
January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Some years ago I predicted that, someday soon, that during sex someone would say, in a horrified voice, “but the algorithm said you’d like it” and I’ve never hated being right so much.
Motherfucker looks like a Steve Dillon character (derogatory)
January 7, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Motherfucker looks like a Steve Dillon character (derogatory)