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i think about 'we slidin' at least once a week
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
i think about 'we slidin' at least once a week
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congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
I'm still very interested in this film, and I like Nolan's work okay, but look: it would be really nice if movie directors remembered that human civilizations throughout time and space have generally been quite fond of things like "colored fabric"
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
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I love lists, you love lists. It’s the most wonderful time of the year for us. Here’s all my favorite things from over the past 12 months compiled into one handy location.
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Best of 2025 | Wyeth Leslie
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December 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I love lists, you love lists. It’s the most wonderful time of the year for us. Here’s all my favorite things from over the past 12 months compiled into one handy location.
www.patreon.com/posts/145063...
www.patreon.com/posts/145063...
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A week late but happy belated anniversary to this iconic post
meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A week late but happy belated anniversary to this iconic post
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Going full charlie_pepe_silvia.jpg over on the other site
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Going full charlie_pepe_silvia.jpg over on the other site
Ouch.
Netflix's THE PITT!
You know what oddly stings the most? Netflix's The Pitt.
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ouch.
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In extremely sick burn news:
wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In extremely sick burn news:
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Deleted my Substack earlier in the year out of concern for the choices being made on that platform. Moved everything over to Patreon which has been fine. Still no idea how to effectively promote it! Like all writers, wouldn’t mind more readers.
Self promotion never feels great but for folks wanting to read more pop cultural deep dives, you can follow me here! New pieces at least once a month!
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November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Deleted my Substack earlier in the year out of concern for the choices being made on that platform. Moved everything over to Patreon which has been fine. Still no idea how to effectively promote it! Like all writers, wouldn’t mind more readers.
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Busta Rhymes currently dancing in the middle of 34th street with Ninja Turtles. America!!!!
The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been a surreal journey through its own twisted reality.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit A:
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Busta Rhymes currently dancing in the middle of 34th street with Ninja Turtles. America!!!!
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This Machine Keeps the Ghost is for those struggling with lonely online spaces, being former church kids, and anxiety about our digital future. It is available on the big bad buy everything site but you can make me feel crippling gratitude by ordering from an indie bookstore!
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This Machine Keeps the Ghost is for those struggling with lonely online spaces, being former church kids, and anxiety about our digital future. It is available on the big bad buy everything site but you can make me feel crippling gratitude by ordering from an indie bookstore!
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I love this post because it’s such a well observed and deeply felt reaction but also
I cannot WAIT to be of the age where all my posts start with “I am now thinking about ___” no news peg, no clever way in, it’s so beautiful to know your thoughts now are enough
I cannot WAIT to be of the age where all my posts start with “I am now thinking about ___” no news peg, no clever way in, it’s so beautiful to know your thoughts now are enough
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I love this post because it’s such a well observed and deeply felt reaction but also
I cannot WAIT to be of the age where all my posts start with “I am now thinking about ___” no news peg, no clever way in, it’s so beautiful to know your thoughts now are enough
I cannot WAIT to be of the age where all my posts start with “I am now thinking about ___” no news peg, no clever way in, it’s so beautiful to know your thoughts now are enough
I am here to rank Vanity Fair's hunks of Hollywood by their YouTube selections:
1. Andrew Garfield
2. Glen Powell (EFAP <3)
3. Michael B. Jordan
4. LaKeith Stanfield
5. A$AP Rocky (points for working with Danny Elfman, some deducted for attributing Nightmare Before Christmas to Burton alone)
1. Andrew Garfield
2. Glen Powell (EFAP <3)
3. Michael B. Jordan
4. LaKeith Stanfield
5. A$AP Rocky (points for working with Danny Elfman, some deducted for attributing Nightmare Before Christmas to Burton alone)
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am here to rank Vanity Fair's hunks of Hollywood by their YouTube selections:
1. Andrew Garfield
2. Glen Powell (EFAP <3)
3. Michael B. Jordan
4. LaKeith Stanfield
5. A$AP Rocky (points for working with Danny Elfman, some deducted for attributing Nightmare Before Christmas to Burton alone)
1. Andrew Garfield
2. Glen Powell (EFAP <3)
3. Michael B. Jordan
4. LaKeith Stanfield
5. A$AP Rocky (points for working with Danny Elfman, some deducted for attributing Nightmare Before Christmas to Burton alone)
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New essay
Just in time for the renewal announcement, I wrote about Alien: Earth’s interestingly imperfect first season, of fresh biological horrors and careless creators. It has also exposed a need for a better understanding of how art reaches us.
www.patreon.com/posts/all-de...
Just in time for the renewal announcement, I wrote about Alien: Earth’s interestingly imperfect first season, of fresh biological horrors and careless creators. It has also exposed a need for a better understanding of how art reaches us.
www.patreon.com/posts/all-de...
All The Devils Are In Paradise | Wyeth Leslie
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November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New essay
Just in time for the renewal announcement, I wrote about Alien: Earth’s interestingly imperfect first season, of fresh biological horrors and careless creators. It has also exposed a need for a better understanding of how art reaches us.
www.patreon.com/posts/all-de...
Just in time for the renewal announcement, I wrote about Alien: Earth’s interestingly imperfect first season, of fresh biological horrors and careless creators. It has also exposed a need for a better understanding of how art reaches us.
www.patreon.com/posts/all-de...
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Can I make it any more obvious
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Can I make it any more obvious
I am she 🥰🎓✨🎉
What it felt like waiting all day and half a continent away to hear about the wife’s PhD defense (she crushed it)
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I am she 🥰🎓✨🎉
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Thinking about the only good leaked email (Channing Tatum from the Sony leak)
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thinking about the only good leaked email (Channing Tatum from the Sony leak)
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
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Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling is such insanely good casting that you have to be at my intersection of Character Actor Sicko and History Sicko to fully appreciate but fortunately that's like hundreds of thousands of people on here
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling is such insanely good casting that you have to be at my intersection of Character Actor Sicko and History Sicko to fully appreciate but fortunately that's like hundreds of thousands of people on here
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we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!