Marissa Skudlarek
@marissaskud.bsky.social
Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.
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reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:41 PM
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
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The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌
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“Have you still got those green pills I gave you?”
“We mustn't worry him with technical talk. The worst thing for this sort of case is discussion.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you. If you need a prescription, I’ll go so far as to say you ought to be married.”
www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...
“We mustn't worry him with technical talk. The worst thing for this sort of case is discussion.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you. If you need a prescription, I’ll go so far as to say you ought to be married.”
www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...
Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel
“Have you still got those yellow pills I gave you?”
“Your father’s heart is weak. You must never tell him this; it would weaken his heart.”
“The best prescription I can offer him is someone who be...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“Have you still got those green pills I gave you?”
“We mustn't worry him with technical talk. The worst thing for this sort of case is discussion.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you. If you need a prescription, I’ll go so far as to say you ought to be married.”
www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...
“We mustn't worry him with technical talk. The worst thing for this sort of case is discussion.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you. If you need a prescription, I’ll go so far as to say you ought to be married.”
www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...
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The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.
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Since my previous #Bridgerton 🧵s are over at the Bad Place, here’s a quick recap of my Bridgerton Guide to 18th-Century Art History 101™️ahead of this week’s S4 premiere. (I realize NONE of us are in the mood for this, but I thought the same about #HeatedRivalry. We all deserve art and nice butts!)
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Since my previous #Bridgerton 🧵s are over at the Bad Place, here’s a quick recap of my Bridgerton Guide to 18th-Century Art History 101™️ahead of this week’s S4 premiere. (I realize NONE of us are in the mood for this, but I thought the same about #HeatedRivalry. We all deserve art and nice butts!)
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Tips on coping from the Renaissance
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Tips on coping from the Renaissance
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place.
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Yf Christopher Nolan were trulye serious about makinge a filme of *The Odyssey* he wolde chaunge the L yn hys last name to M
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Yf Christopher Nolan were trulye serious about makinge a filme of *The Odyssey* he wolde chaunge the L yn hys last name to M
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Out: Hamilton
In: Les Misérables.
In: Les Misérables.
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Out: Hamilton
In: Les Misérables.
In: Les Misérables.
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This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 AM
This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men
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The New Deal is one of the best things this godforsaken country ever managed to put together, and Republicans have been wanting to gut it ever since. I think this is specific, targeted hate, not just a brainless drive for real estate value
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The New Deal is one of the best things this godforsaken country ever managed to put together, and Republicans have been wanting to gut it ever since. I think this is specific, targeted hate, not just a brainless drive for real estate value
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We're only three weeks in, but when Time Magazine does Person of the Year it BETTER be all of Minneapolis.
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM
We're only three weeks in, but when Time Magazine does Person of the Year it BETTER be all of Minneapolis.
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GoodFellas is a genre. Many films besides GoodFellas are GoodFellas. Boogie Nights is a GoodFella. Summer of Sam is a GoodFella. Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman: all GoodFellas, obvs. I think you can argue Uncut Gems is a GoodFella. Anora feels like a GoodFella to me.
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 AM
GoodFellas is a genre. Many films besides GoodFellas are GoodFellas. Boogie Nights is a GoodFella. Summer of Sam is a GoodFella. Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman: all GoodFellas, obvs. I think you can argue Uncut Gems is a GoodFella. Anora feels like a GoodFella to me.
since I don’t drive, I’m forever grateful to Waymo for finally allowing me to partake in my birthright as a basic white Californian woman pushing 40: belting out Sheryl Crow alone in a car at night
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 AM
since I don’t drive, I’m forever grateful to Waymo for finally allowing me to partake in my birthright as a basic white Californian woman pushing 40: belting out Sheryl Crow alone in a car at night
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When the guy’s life flashes before his eyes I do think it’ll include a full performance of Phantom of the Opera which lasts way longer than all the other stuff
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
When the guy’s life flashes before his eyes I do think it’ll include a full performance of Phantom of the Opera which lasts way longer than all the other stuff
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
about to become a hipster but for hating the Mercator Projection before it was cool
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
Also, @chrislhayes.bsky.social, this seems to be confirmation of your Mercator Theory.
"I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
"I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
about to become a hipster but for hating the Mercator Projection before it was cool
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
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I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
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I, for one, welcome our new space cat overlord
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I, for one, welcome our new space cat overlord
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools