Elizabeth Lopatto
@lopatto.bsky.social
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internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher tip me: [email protected]
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I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden.

Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.
lopatto.bsky.social
stay out of the east bay, loser
lopatto.bsky.social
there’s a bsky integration now my favorite joke is BACK baby
lopatto.bsky.social
it's friday so I gave her the nip early
a tuxedo cat is sticking out her tongue, looking silly. she has little white gloves on her little feets
lopatto.bsky.social
I do wonder if the punctuation inconsistencies in the full memo will be used to identify the leakers. that would also be very musk
lopatto.bsky.social
remind me, how well did doge go? bsky.app/profile/oliv...
oliverdarcy.bsky.social
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
lopatto.bsky.social
if you're taking management tips from elon musk, you're cooked
lopatto.bsky.social
cat ownership: you’ll never pee alone again
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scratchcarddust.bsky.social
If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.
lopatto.bsky.social
instead, they awarded the least-talented member of the traveling wilburys smdh
lopatto.bsky.social
it's a shame, really. in some ways it feels like pynchon was prescient in a way a lot of writers weren't, goofiness and all
lopatto.bsky.social
ok I forgive the new republic for not doing their preview as this is very good. JCO is one of the all-time posters and I am only sorry her poison ivy hiking-in-sandals feet tweet wasn't mentioned.) newrepublic.com/article/2015...
Jens Liljestrand, Nobel watcher, novelist, and longtime friend of this column, had this to say about Krasznahorkai: “Very expected. Very popular name among critics. Also very typical Academy choice: serious, epic, dark-but-humanistic narrator of the apocalyptic European 20th century.” Not only that, but Liljestrand already knows who next year’s winner will be: The new Swedish Academy has reliably rotated between awarding men and women, which means we can get started on next year’s column right now, a piece in celebration of 2026 Nobel Prize–winner Joyce Carol Oates. (The 2026 prize will be specifically awarded for Oates’s tweets about ISIS and dinosaur hunting and “wan little husks,” masterpieces of deadpan humor that were, like all great art, misunderstood upon first appearance. There will be no mention of any of her 157 books—or the fact that she is the greatest boxing writer ever.)
lopatto.bsky.social
the footnote about millie bobby brown is really something
5 Plaintiff claims that this interpretation is “disputed” and that the Court would
require “vital witness testimony” in order to properly understand this lyric’s
meaning. Opp’n Br. at 18. Yet at oral argument, Plaintiff’s counsel could not
provide the Court with any alternative understanding of this lyric. Hr’g Tr. at 34:5-
35:19. Furthermore, in “The Heart Part 6,” Drake confirms that he understands
Lamar to be referring to these preexisting rumors when Drake rapped, “Only f***in’
with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I’d never look twice at no teenager.” Req.
J. Not., Ex. O. To understand the relevant context for these back-and-forths, the
Court takes judicial notice of the fact that Millie Bobby Brown is a well-known
actress, and that she has given interviews stating that she and Drake formed a
friendship when she was 14 years old and he was 32 years old. See, e.g., Lynn
Hirschberg, Millie Bobby Brown Is Already an Icon For Her Generation, W
MAGAZINE, accessed at https://www.wmagazine.com/story/millie-bobby-brown-w-
magazine-cover-interview [https://perma.cc/R8GR-CW5S].
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
Lead Poisoning gave way to The Computer’s Lament
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lopatto.bsky.social
in 2020 I discovered I had not really given enough respect to the existentialists because up until that point I had not suffered enough. it is now 2025 and I wish we had the writings of the weird-as-shit ancient greek guys because I think I am coming to understand insanity as a philosophical program
lopatto.bsky.social
in my heraclitus era, refusing to believe in anything but flux. in my parmenides era, refusing to believe change exists and insisting the entire world is an illusion. in my diogenes era. sleeping in a jar, throwing chickens at people unprovoked, wandering around with a lamp.
lopatto.bsky.social
in 2020 I discovered I had not really given enough respect to the existentialists because up until that point I had not suffered enough. it is now 2025 and I wish we had the writings of the weird-as-shit ancient greek guys because I think I am coming to understand insanity as a philosophical program
lopatto.bsky.social
increasingly beginning to believe that burn after reading was in fact a documentary
lopatto.bsky.social
does seem like a tactical mistake to crack down hard on chicago when there's a chicago pope
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Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...
“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.