Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Okay, even with my usual trick of reverse engineering my first guess from my wife’s starter word (when she shares her results with me), this is a bit uncanny.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Okay, even with my usual trick of reverse engineering my first guess from my wife’s starter word (when she shares her results with me), this is a bit uncanny.
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Mind you, that same military is required BY FEDERAL LAW to provide logistical support to the annual Scouting Jamboree, so Hegseth isn’t going to get this item off his wish list right away.
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Mind you, that same military is required BY FEDERAL LAW to provide logistical support to the annual Scouting Jamboree, so Hegseth isn’t going to get this item off his wish list right away.
The trailer for the new Gus van Sant film looks fantastic—so much so that I’m wondering why they’re burying it in January, instead of an Oscar-eligibility run.
But I’m also curious how the vision for a film goes from Werner Herzog directing Nic Cage to Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård!
But I’m also curious how the vision for a film goes from Werner Herzog directing Nic Cage to Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård!
DEAD MAN'S WIRE | Official Trailer (2026) 4K
YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Network
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The trailer for the new Gus van Sant film looks fantastic—so much so that I’m wondering why they’re burying it in January, instead of an Oscar-eligibility run.
But I’m also curious how the vision for a film goes from Werner Herzog directing Nic Cage to Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård!
But I’m also curious how the vision for a film goes from Werner Herzog directing Nic Cage to Gus Van Sant and Bill Skarsgård!
Everyone digs “[AI] won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation,” but don’t sleep on Leo’s other great line.
“Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
“Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Everyone digs “[AI] won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation,” but don’t sleep on Leo’s other great line.
“Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
“Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
Bailey’s Amendment to Betteridge’s Law
Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Bailey’s Amendment to Betteridge’s Law
Quakers don’t (usually) go in for Rapture panics, like the one we had two months ago. The explanation goes back to the earliest Friends of the 17th century, who experienced the “Living Christ” already present among them, speaking directly to their spiritual condition.
quaker.org/2025/11/24/y...
quaker.org/2025/11/24/y...
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Quakers don’t (usually) go in for Rapture panics, like the one we had two months ago. The explanation goes back to the earliest Friends of the 17th century, who experienced the “Living Christ” already present among them, speaking directly to their spiritual condition.
quaker.org/2025/11/24/y...
quaker.org/2025/11/24/y...
Good on you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Good on you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
I’ll admit, when this appeared in my @commonweal.bsky.social newsletter, I thought women deacons might debate among themselves about a synodality on doom, not that a debate over women deacons would be the doom of synodality. But I’m looking forward to what @heidischlumpf.bsky.social has found out!
Will the Women Deacons Debate Doom Synodality?
Is the Vatican shutting down synodal discussion of women deacons?
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’ll admit, when this appeared in my @commonweal.bsky.social newsletter, I thought women deacons might debate among themselves about a synodality on doom, not that a debate over women deacons would be the doom of synodality. But I’m looking forward to what @heidischlumpf.bsky.social has found out!
Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses, Charlie Brown.
I feel sorry for the supporting band, THEY didn’t do anything wrong and now their tour has abruptly ended.
The death metal band’s sole remaining member has launched a GoFundMe to get home to Portland
stereogum.com/2480744/vitr...
stereogum.com/2480744/vitr...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I feel sorry for the supporting band, THEY didn’t do anything wrong and now their tour has abruptly ended.
Between the pope and a guy who tries to persuade a Roman Catholic convert to ignore the pope, I know which one I’D be likely to identify as Antichrist first.
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Between the pope and a guy who tries to persuade a Roman Catholic convert to ignore the pope, I know which one I’D be likely to identify as Antichrist first.
Chuck’s got a solid list! Today I feel like going with:
Playtime (standing in for all of Hulot)
To Be or Not to Be (the Lubitsch)
Sullivan’s Travels
Kikujiro
Bedazzled (the Cook/Moore)
Sanjuro
A Christmas Story
Extreme Job
The Wrong Box
The Jerk
honorable mention: Kelly’s Heroes
Playtime (standing in for all of Hulot)
To Be or Not to Be (the Lubitsch)
Sullivan’s Travels
Kikujiro
Bedazzled (the Cook/Moore)
Sanjuro
A Christmas Story
Extreme Job
The Wrong Box
The Jerk
honorable mention: Kelly’s Heroes
Gave some thought to my top 10 comedy films. My hasty list:
1.) Groundhog Day
2.) Grosse Pointe Blank
3) O Brother Where Art Thou?
4) When Harry Met Sally
5) Planes Trains and Automobiles
6) Hot Fuzz
7) Better Off Dead
8) Evil Dead 2 / AOD
9) Everything Everywhere All At Once
10) Fish Called Wanda
1.) Groundhog Day
2.) Grosse Pointe Blank
3) O Brother Where Art Thou?
4) When Harry Met Sally
5) Planes Trains and Automobiles
6) Hot Fuzz
7) Better Off Dead
8) Evil Dead 2 / AOD
9) Everything Everywhere All At Once
10) Fish Called Wanda
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Chuck’s got a solid list! Today I feel like going with:
Playtime (standing in for all of Hulot)
To Be or Not to Be (the Lubitsch)
Sullivan’s Travels
Kikujiro
Bedazzled (the Cook/Moore)
Sanjuro
A Christmas Story
Extreme Job
The Wrong Box
The Jerk
honorable mention: Kelly’s Heroes
Playtime (standing in for all of Hulot)
To Be or Not to Be (the Lubitsch)
Sullivan’s Travels
Kikujiro
Bedazzled (the Cook/Moore)
Sanjuro
A Christmas Story
Extreme Job
The Wrong Box
The Jerk
honorable mention: Kelly’s Heroes
He’s not wrong!
also if you judge me for my reading habits i will have you know that the epic of gilgamesh was ALSO contemporary m/m romance once. why do you hate the epic of gilgamesh you uncultured swine
ive been reading a few contemporary m/m romances and enjoying them bc it feels like being lightly concussed. and/or running everything through a magical realism filter. nothing makes sense but everything feels nice
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
He’s not wrong!
Look, LinkedIn, I’m never going to follow Robert Reich, so stop inviting me already.
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Look, LinkedIn, I’m never going to follow Robert Reich, so stop inviting me already.
Trump take leeks.
struck out at 2 grocery stores today in search of leeks. have leeks been cancelled by woke
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Trump take leeks.
This is the plot of David Bowie’s “Saviour Machine.”
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is the plot of David Bowie’s “Saviour Machine.”
Like, am I SERIOUSLY being asked to get excited about James Carville regurgitating Sanders ‘16 talking points nine years later?
And, yes, as Parker and others have observed, Carville’s “pure economic rage” isn’t anti-capitalism, it’s “knock off the identity politics and that abolition bullshit.”
And, yes, as Parker and others have observed, Carville’s “pure economic rage” isn’t anti-capitalism, it’s “knock off the identity politics and that abolition bullshit.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Like, am I SERIOUSLY being asked to get excited about James Carville regurgitating Sanders ‘16 talking points nine years later?
And, yes, as Parker and others have observed, Carville’s “pure economic rage” isn’t anti-capitalism, it’s “knock off the identity politics and that abolition bullshit.”
And, yes, as Parker and others have observed, Carville’s “pure economic rage” isn’t anti-capitalism, it’s “knock off the identity politics and that abolition bullshit.”
Reposted by Ron Hogan
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
Deep cuts are deep.
Iker: she uses a mojo dog to keep her dog invisible
Iker: because there's one thing you need to know about Bricksbury University
Iker: NOOOO DOGS ALLOWED
Iker: You're not our crowd
Iker: Obey the signs
Iker: And boundary lines
Iker: because there's one thing you need to know about Bricksbury University
Iker: NOOOO DOGS ALLOWED
Iker: You're not our crowd
Iker: Obey the signs
Iker: And boundary lines
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Deep cuts are deep.
It may sound conspiratorial, but I think this is on the mark. A complacent populace is a compliant populace, and nothing builds complacency like a steady diet of the mental equivalent of junk food.
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It may sound conspiratorial, but I think this is on the mark. A complacent populace is a compliant populace, and nothing builds complacency like a steady diet of the mental equivalent of junk food.
A Screaming Comes Across the Sky, Charlie Brown
Suicide Is Painless, It Brings on Many Changes, Charlie Brown
We Shall Hex The Pentateuch And Slip You In Neatly Between Numbers And Deuteronomy, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
A Screaming Comes Across the Sky, Charlie Brown
And then they’re, like, “Look, it’s Noam Chomsky and Larry Summers! I bet you feel awful!” and it freaks them out that we’re all, like, “Fuck those guys. But you must be feeling bad about David Copperfield, huh? Do you need a hug?”
For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging.
All MAGA Wanted Was the Epstein Files. Now They're Ignoring Them
For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging.
wrd.cm
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
And then they’re, like, “Look, it’s Noam Chomsky and Larry Summers! I bet you feel awful!” and it freaks them out that we’re all, like, “Fuck those guys. But you must be feeling bad about David Copperfield, huh? Do you need a hug?”
Reposted by Ron Hogan
Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about
Al-Amin died in prison, serving life without parole for a murder it seems entirely possible he might not have committed—and this after decades of being a target of COINTELPRO & other “investigations.”
(Long before the NYPD started spying on New York mosques, Atlanta cops had their eyes on Al-Amin.)
(Long before the NYPD started spying on New York mosques, Atlanta cops had their eyes on Al-Amin.)
Here's a gift link (we need a version of this not in The New York Times):
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Al-Amin died in prison, serving life without parole for a murder it seems entirely possible he might not have committed—and this after decades of being a target of COINTELPRO & other “investigations.”
(Long before the NYPD started spying on New York mosques, Atlanta cops had their eyes on Al-Amin.)
(Long before the NYPD started spying on New York mosques, Atlanta cops had their eyes on Al-Amin.)