Steve
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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
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"In an age where queerness in cinema is a bit more accepted … Kier’s proud embrace of his queerness as outsiderness, whether as a mad scientist, a lonely hustler, or even a vampire, makes him feel like a pioneer,” writes @clintworthing.bsky.social in his tribute to Udo Kier.
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the prolific character actor, who played vampires and Nazis and outcasts until the age of 81.
www.rogerebert.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"In an age where queerness in cinema is a bit more accepted … Kier’s proud embrace of his queerness as outsiderness, whether as a mad scientist, a lonely hustler, or even a vampire, makes him feel like a pioneer,” writes @clintworthing.bsky.social in his tribute to Udo Kier.
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Let That Sink In
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Let That Sink In
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You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
And another one. :( I'm not a reggae-knower but his performance is fantastic in "The Harder They Come".
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
And another one. :( I'm not a reggae-knower but his performance is fantastic in "The Harder They Come".
Ms. Watanabe went hard.
#OTD in 1943, Iris Watanabe of CA becomes the first Japanese American to join the Women's Army Corps. Watanabe's induction into the WAC was also slated for December 7. She was quoted saying, "I hope to help make the land of my ancestors pay for its unwarranted attack on my country."
🗃 #skystorians
🗃 #skystorians
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ms. Watanabe went hard.
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@tomscocca.bsky.social's "On Smarm" remains one of the key texts in understanding how we got here.
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
@tomscocca.bsky.social's "On Smarm" remains one of the key texts in understanding how we got here.
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I'm reminded of the lore that Trump would regularly go into the board room on The Apprentice and just randomly fire someone based on a passing whim, and that the production team would then have to go back and edit the episode to make it look like that person had done poorly.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'm reminded of the lore that Trump would regularly go into the board room on The Apprentice and just randomly fire someone based on a passing whim, and that the production team would then have to go back and edit the episode to make it look like that person had done poorly.
My friend Anandamayi Arnold's crepe paper surprise balls in the form of the classic Pittsburgh pickle ornament are absolute genius. They are probably not right for you, but if they are, oh boy are they right for you. www.lynxandtelescope.com/product/pick...
Pickle Ornament
Surprise Balls are sculptural crepe paper party favors. Each one contains ten tiny items. Keep them as they are or unwrap yards of multicolored...
www.lynxandtelescope.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My friend Anandamayi Arnold's crepe paper surprise balls in the form of the classic Pittsburgh pickle ornament are absolute genius. They are probably not right for you, but if they are, oh boy are they right for you. www.lynxandtelescope.com/product/pick...
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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like nine years ago I said to my friends "somebody should make a picture of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the paperclip optimizer as MODOK" and they said "why not commission our friend @john13.bsky.social" and I did and he put in the kirby krackle and a million little details and it has given me SO MUCH joy
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
like nine years ago I said to my friends "somebody should make a picture of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the paperclip optimizer as MODOK" and they said "why not commission our friend @john13.bsky.social" and I did and he put in the kirby krackle and a million little details and it has given me SO MUCH joy
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you would think that a new york times columnist writing regularly about the fact that the vice president pals around with neo-nazis would prompt literally anyone to do some reported work. but nope!
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
you would think that a new york times columnist writing regularly about the fact that the vice president pals around with neo-nazis would prompt literally anyone to do some reported work. but nope!
Burger Becky Heineman, the cofounder of Interplay and lead programmer on Wasteland and the NES port of Another World, has passed away at 62. RIP.
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Burger Becky Heineman, the cofounder of Interplay and lead programmer on Wasteland and the NES port of Another World, has passed away at 62. RIP.
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Clipart Crypt is an extremely indulgent fanzine celebrating clipart, featuring interviews with clipart experts and aficionados (such as @kwooten.bsky.social on feminist clipart), and collages of the strangest and most beautiful vintage clipart I could find.
sheerspite.ca/product/clip...
sheerspite.ca/product/clip...
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Clipart Crypt is an extremely indulgent fanzine celebrating clipart, featuring interviews with clipart experts and aficionados (such as @kwooten.bsky.social on feminist clipart), and collages of the strangest and most beautiful vintage clipart I could find.
sheerspite.ca/product/clip...
sheerspite.ca/product/clip...
Great short thread by the novelist (I quite liked "Alif the Unseen") and Ms. Marvel creator about marketing books in the 2020s.
I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great short thread by the novelist (I quite liked "Alif the Unseen") and Ms. Marvel creator about marketing books in the 2020s.
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in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
It sounds like Margaret Sullivan is not immediately defending the stance that the Epstein stories the Times had were not newsworthy: "It would be useful for readers who have become aware of this to know more from the Times about who knew what, when." theintercept.com/2025/11/14/e...
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It sounds like Margaret Sullivan is not immediately defending the stance that the Epstein stories the Times had were not newsworthy: "It would be useful for readers who have become aware of this to know more from the Times about who knew what, when." theintercept.com/2025/11/14/e...
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Day #160: United States Postal Service (1969)
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Day #160: United States Postal Service (1969)
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It’s clear when the paper’s Politics Knowers think something is important, journalistic standards are no obstacle. They find a way to get that thing on the front page nonstop, whether it’s “reporting the controversy,” repeating right-wing info dumps, or meta-coverage of how it’s affecting politics
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s clear when the paper’s Politics Knowers think something is important, journalistic standards are no obstacle. They find a way to get that thing on the front page nonstop, whether it’s “reporting the controversy,” repeating right-wing info dumps, or meta-coverage of how it’s affecting politics
The American people aren't interested in boring process stories like "was the world's most notorious sex trafficker providing underage girls to the President?", they wanted to know more about whether Claudine Gay followed best citation practices for her dissertation.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The American people aren't interested in boring process stories like "was the world's most notorious sex trafficker providing underage girls to the President?", they wanted to know more about whether Claudine Gay followed best citation practices for her dissertation.
The American people aren't interested in boring process stories like "was the world's most notorious sex trafficker providing underage girls to the President?", they wanted to know more about whether Claudine Gay followed best citation practices for her dissertation.
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The American people aren't interested in boring process stories like "was the world's most notorious sex trafficker providing underage girls to the President?", they wanted to know more about whether Claudine Gay followed best citation practices for her dissertation.
The Magnificent Mile is in Chicago. Miracle Mile is in Los Angeles. Miracle Mile (1988) is a surprisingly good no-budget thriller with Denise Richards and Anthony Edwards that freaked me out as a kid.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Magnificent Mile is in Chicago. Miracle Mile is in Los Angeles. Miracle Mile (1988) is a surprisingly good no-budget thriller with Denise Richards and Anthony Edwards that freaked me out as a kid.