Marc Singer
@theothermarcsinger.bsky.social
Not that one. Not that one, either. Writer and English professor at Howard University in Washington DC. Author of Breaking the Frames (2018) and Grant Morrison (2012).
I for one will never forgive those Venezuelan fishermen for ramming their boat into the World Trade Center.
And for those still going on about drug boat strikes - I wish you’d cared this much about Afghanistan. I don’t love the use of the military to kill drug runners, but it’s no worse than you’ve allowed for three decades. It’s a bit late for moral hazard pearl clutching now.
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I for one will never forgive those Venezuelan fishermen for ramming their boat into the World Trade Center.
Raising the question of why the fuck they didn't arrest him then.
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Raising the question of why the fuck they didn't arrest him then.
Royal who Cheated on Wife with Consenting Adult Looking Pretty Good Now, Huh?
by King Charles
by King Charles
Breaking News: Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III, is being stripped of his title as prince, Buckingham Palace said. nyti.ms/4oQeykJ
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Royal who Cheated on Wife with Consenting Adult Looking Pretty Good Now, Huh?
by King Charles
by King Charles
I stand humbly chastened.
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I stand humbly chastened.
This was a great weekend for Chris Murphy to send me a fundraising email, inasmuch as it was also a great weekend to make sure I never receive a fundraising email from Chris Murphy again.
Chris Murphy on Platner's Totenkopf tattoo: "He sounds like a human being to me. A human being who made mistakes, recognizes them, and is very open about it."
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This was a great weekend for Chris Murphy to send me a fundraising email, inasmuch as it was also a great weekend to make sure I never receive a fundraising email from Chris Murphy again.
I will vote for whatever candidate promises to tear down his gilded ballroom, rebuild the White House, abolish ICE, undo everything he has accomplished, restore everything he has wrecked, and send every last one of these people to prison.
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I will vote for whatever candidate promises to tear down his gilded ballroom, rebuild the White House, abolish ICE, undo everything he has accomplished, restore everything he has wrecked, and send every last one of these people to prison.
The left really, really needs to come up with better candidate selection criteria than "he seems working class and he hates the people I hate."
So Graham Platner has an SS-Totenkopf tattoo.
chat it doesn't look good
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The left really, really needs to come up with better candidate selection criteria than "he seems working class and he hates the people I hate."
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I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed
INCOMING METAPHOR ALERT
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
INCOMING METAPHOR ALERT
“To lose one vice president, Mr. Trump, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“To lose one vice president, Mr. Trump, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
One thing I love about my neighborhood--from pedestrians to drivers, we all fucking loathe Donald Trump.
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One thing I love about my neighborhood--from pedestrians to drivers, we all fucking loathe Donald Trump.
This whole thread is just one bullseye after another.
“Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader were not the same person…..the appeal of a ridiculous assumption like ‘one family was responsible for decades worth of civil wars’ stems from the need to impose simplicity on complex historical events….”
*strokes chin*
“Instead, we must examine social structures”
*strokes chin*
“Instead, we must examine social structures”
Going to become a Vader isn’t Anakin truther as a bit
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This whole thread is just one bullseye after another.
WaPo is hemorrhaging subscribers over this stuff but they don't care. It is no longer a newspaper, it's the publishing arm of Amazon's lobbying operation.
This is a stupid framing and I skimmed the article and it sucks. Republicans could end this by extending subsidies. They could do it tomorrow. That they don’t is not about both sides’ (equivalent, it must be implied) entrenched rage.
This government shutdown is mostly about two parties’ rage at each other and their battle over who will run Washington for the next three years.
That makes it less predictable, and potentially much harder to resolve, according to people on both sides.
That makes it less predictable, and potentially much harder to resolve, according to people on both sides.
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
WaPo is hemorrhaging subscribers over this stuff but they don't care. It is no longer a newspaper, it's the publishing arm of Amazon's lobbying operation.
Interesting disjunction between Grant's thoughts on Rebellion stealing their IP (traditional, wrong) and their approach to using the IP-stealing machine themself (a beautiful new life form we must flower into being).
But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...
But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...
Folks have got to learn there's no secret purely lovable crazy with only correct opinions that can turn it off at will. We accepted this sort of thing as a package deal when we decided we were going to take someone who thinks themselves a wizard seriously.
Lol, fuck off Grant
October 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Interesting disjunction between Grant's thoughts on Rebellion stealing their IP (traditional, wrong) and their approach to using the IP-stealing machine themself (a beautiful new life form we must flower into being).
But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...
But I mean, this is exactly the take I would expect from Grant, so...
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
mandatory faculty development retreat
mandatory faculty development retreat
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Archives banned making copies.
Archives banned making copies.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
New library catalogue website.
New library catalogue website.
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
mandatory faculty development retreat
mandatory faculty development retreat
Well, this just launched to the top of my 2026 reading list.
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Well, this just launched to the top of my 2026 reading list.
One of the unheralded factors behind the sudden push to introduce AI into every industry is that so many journalists, academics, and other knowledge workers clearly hate their jobs and don't actually want to do the work.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
One of the unheralded factors behind the sudden push to introduce AI into every industry is that so many journalists, academics, and other knowledge workers clearly hate their jobs and don't actually want to do the work.
Because he's the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A frog knight.
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Because he's the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A frog knight.
Still thinking about One Battle After Another. The way PTA seamlessly updates Vineland for the 21st century. The way he keeps a properly Pynchonian humor while reining in the wackiness. The way the whole movie seems to be set in a horrible endless present that becomes more present by the day.
October 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Still thinking about One Battle After Another. The way PTA seamlessly updates Vineland for the 21st century. The way he keeps a properly Pynchonian humor while reining in the wackiness. The way the whole movie seems to be set in a horrible endless present that becomes more present by the day.
This is a safe, easy way to destroy ICE morale and make them look bad in the process. Artists, sign painters, your country needs you!
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
October 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a safe, easy way to destroy ICE morale and make them look bad in the process. Artists, sign painters, your country needs you!
Reposted by Marc Singer
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
That moment when your profound disappointment that yet another student has used a LLM to write a paper turns into a burning, unquenchable anger that yet another student has used a LLM to write a paper.
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That moment when your profound disappointment that yet another student has used a LLM to write a paper turns into a burning, unquenchable anger that yet another student has used a LLM to write a paper.
Reposted by Marc Singer
AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
AI actress Tilly Norwood has tragically passed away while filming her first movie with director A Hologram of John Landis