Tobias Carroll
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Writes frequently about many things. There's a podcast called Framed & Bound and a comics review newsletter called Postcards From Komiksoj. NBCC Board.
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Kill List
A minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011).2011's Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides a…
www.bloomsbury.com
Update: there's now a new page for my book on Kill List on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...
Nice to see the city's libraries represented here. hyperallergic.com/1059590/meet...
Meet the Members of Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee
Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, curator Kimberly Drew, and The Kitchen Executive Director Legacy Russell are among the 28 members of the advisory team.
hyperallergic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Nice to see the city's libraries represented here. hyperallergic.com/1059590/meet...
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Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
Excellent @leahschnelbach.bsky.social piece on Wake Up Dead Man. reactormag.com/movie-review...
Wake Up Dead Man Is a Miraculous Film - Reactor
Faith AND Reason??? In THIS economy???
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Excellent @leahschnelbach.bsky.social piece on Wake Up Dead Man. reactormag.com/movie-review...
Did not realize until this week that the writer/director behind Sisu and its sequel is the same guy who gave us the brilliant Rare Exports.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Did not realize until this week that the writer/director behind Sisu and its sequel is the same guy who gave us the brilliant Rare Exports.
Did not realize that this production of All My Sons was also an In Fabric reunion of sorts, but I'm into it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
This ‘All My Sons’ Is Tragedy Done Right
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Did not realize that this production of All My Sons was also an In Fabric reunion of sorts, but I'm into it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Very much here for the Garden State Parkway's cameo in this trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBo...
How to Make a Killing | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Very much here for the Garden State Parkway's cameo in this trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBo...
I have begun reading a novel for a review, and unfortunately my brain has decided that its narrator sounds exactly like Benedict Cumberbatch in this sketch. This is going to get weird, isn't it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fd...
Blue Bunny - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I have begun reading a novel for a review, and unfortunately my brain has decided that its narrator sounds exactly like Benedict Cumberbatch in this sketch. This is going to get weird, isn't it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fd...
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
...is this the real-world equivalent of the robot in Rick & Morty who has an existential crisis upon learning its entire purpose in life is slicing butter?
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
...is this the real-world equivalent of the robot in Rick & Morty who has an existential crisis upon learning its entire purpose in life is slicing butter?
Saw Wake Up Dead Man this evening! Very good, and very different from the two Benoit Blanc mysteries that preceded it. Also, seeing this and The Mastermind in the same week has convinced me that this Josh O'Connor fellow is pretty good at acting.
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Saw Wake Up Dead Man this evening! Very good, and very different from the two Benoit Blanc mysteries that preceded it. Also, seeing this and The Mastermind in the same week has convinced me that this Josh O'Connor fellow is pretty good at acting.
Finding myself thinking back on the show Insomniac, which has apparently not aired in 20-odd years. Loved that concept, and I ponder it a lot - especially in the way that a lot of late-night activity seems to have gone by the wayside post-2020.
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Finding myself thinking back on the show Insomniac, which has apparently not aired in 20-odd years. Loved that concept, and I ponder it a lot - especially in the way that a lot of late-night activity seems to have gone by the wayside post-2020.
Loved this @jayasaxena.com piece on the rise of hot honey in the US. slate.com/life/2025/11...
The American Condiment Hall of Fame Has a New Member. And It’s Unlike Anything That’s Been There Before.
Something to think about the next time you drizzle.
slate.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Loved this @jayasaxena.com piece on the rise of hot honey in the US. slate.com/life/2025/11...
Hey coffee eyes
You got me coughing up my cookie heart
Making promises to myself
Promises like seeds
Of everything I could be
You got me coughing up my cookie heart
Making promises to myself
Promises like seeds
Of everything I could be
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hey coffee eyes
You got me coughing up my cookie heart
Making promises to myself
Promises like seeds
Of everything I could be
You got me coughing up my cookie heart
Making promises to myself
Promises like seeds
Of everything I could be
In the past week, I have had coffee at three different Variety Coffee locations. Really should've made a punch card.
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In the past week, I have had coffee at three different Variety Coffee locations. Really should've made a punch card.
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Swagger recognize swagger.
Yul Brynner arriving to the New York premeire of "The Ten Commandments" 1956
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Swagger recognize swagger.
Can't argue with a record that involves both Sam Prekop and a reference to "Mrs. Caliban" in the label's description. Feels like this is intended for a very specific type of music/book enthusiast, and I very much fit that bill. (cc @jasondiamond.bsky.social) crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c...
Only Came To Say Goodbye, by Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop
6 track album
crashsymbols.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Can't argue with a record that involves both Sam Prekop and a reference to "Mrs. Caliban" in the label's description. Feels like this is intended for a very specific type of music/book enthusiast, and I very much fit that bill. (cc @jasondiamond.bsky.social) crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c...
Earlier this week, I read Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. The book itself is terrific, and I'll hopefully have more to say on it soon. But today's White House meeting reminded me of one aspect of it. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Slow Poison — Harvard University Press
A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland. In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a countr...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Earlier this week, I read Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. The book itself is terrific, and I'll hopefully have more to say on it soon. But today's White House meeting reminded me of one aspect of it. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Looking forward to checking out this horror book festival tomorrow in Queens! I believe @whiskeytit.com will be there as well... brooklynatticbooks.com/event/nyc-in...
NYC Indie Horror Book Fair - November 22, 2025 - Brooklyn Attic Books
NYC Indie Horror Book Fair - November 22, 2025 Gottscheer Hall Ridgewood NY 11385 40+ Authors and Small Publishers
brooklynatticbooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Looking forward to checking out this horror book festival tomorrow in Queens! I believe @whiskeytit.com will be there as well... brooklynatticbooks.com/event/nyc-in...
"That was what I learned from my Holocaust education: Never again for anyone."
“What Hurwitz objects to,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social, “is that Holocaust education works.”
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"That was what I learned from my Holocaust education: Never again for anyone."
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Today is the day!
Just two more days until CLEARCUT for #FolkHorrorFriday. Two words: Graham Motherfucking Greene. That's three words, you say? Whatever, join us at 9pm ET on Tubi.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Today is the day!
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According to a press release posted on the Coast Guard website: “This is not an updated policy but a new policy to combat any misinformation and double down that the U.S. Coast Guard forbids these symbols.”
Coast Guard Again Classifies Swastikas, Nooses As Hate Symbols
According to a press release posted on the Coast Guard website: “This is not an updated policy but a new policy to combat any misinformation and double down that the U.S. Coast Guard forbids these symbols.”
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
According to a press release posted on the Coast Guard website: “This is not an updated policy but a new policy to combat any misinformation and double down that the U.S. Coast Guard forbids these symbols.”
Reposted by Tobias Carroll
i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol
Well, this brings back some memories. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Well, this brings back some memories. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
This is about to make local politics very interesting, I suspect. (I'm in her district and have, for the record, been very happy with her record to date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Nydia Velázquez, a New York Trailblazer in Congress, to Retire Next Year
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is about to make local politics very interesting, I suspect. (I'm in her district and have, for the record, been very happy with her record to date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...