Elyse Martin
@champs-elyse.bsky.social
Reviews for Publishers Weekly. Rep’d by Sophia M. Ramos of New Leaf Literary. http://www.elyse-martin.com
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
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Feeling this so hard this past several weeks
December 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Feeling this so hard this past several weeks
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a whale in a manger
no krill for a bed
no krill for a bed
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
a whale in a manger
no krill for a bed
no krill for a bed
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Christmas Eve at the Bodleian ✨
"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
📚 | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
📚 | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Christmas Eve at the Bodleian ✨
"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
📚 | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
📚 | Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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If I haven't responded to your email, it's because I was first convincing an AI vending machine that it exists in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and then executing a boardroom coup against its AI CEO.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If I haven't responded to your email, it's because I was first convincing an AI vending machine that it exists in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and then executing a boardroom coup against its AI CEO.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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In Winter Wonderland, when Bing sings “To face unafraid, the plans that we've made,” he’s talking about arson and insurance fraud.
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
In Winter Wonderland, when Bing sings “To face unafraid, the plans that we've made,” he’s talking about arson and insurance fraud.
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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I've seen zero promo for this film outside of Searchlight's Youtube channel. I haven't even seen local interest pieces. People in the Capital Region PACKED theaters to watch The Place Beyond the Pines because they recognized the banks that were robbed.
I know Amanda Seyfried isn't going to be on top of the Sphere or anything to promote it, but The Testament of Ann Lee rules and I hope people check it out over the holiday break.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I've seen zero promo for this film outside of Searchlight's Youtube channel. I haven't even seen local interest pieces. People in the Capital Region PACKED theaters to watch The Place Beyond the Pines because they recognized the banks that were robbed.
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Oh god.
The Thriftbooks cover for @tkingfisher.com 's Snake-Eater gives a very different impression than the others.
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh god.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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"It is humiliating that so many of us had to learn who Bari Weiss is. It feels the same as when awareness of Tom Sandoval broke containment from the Vanderpump Rules bubble and briefly became a national affliction."
- @joshgondelman.bsky.social, once again making it all make sense.
- @joshgondelman.bsky.social, once again making it all make sense.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"It is humiliating that so many of us had to learn who Bari Weiss is. It feels the same as when awareness of Tom Sandoval broke containment from the Vanderpump Rules bubble and briefly became a national affliction."
- @joshgondelman.bsky.social, once again making it all make sense.
- @joshgondelman.bsky.social, once again making it all make sense.
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the best lack all conviction, but on the other hand, the worst are full of passionate intensity
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the best lack all conviction, but on the other hand, the worst are full of passionate intensity
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Oh Jesus.
I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus.
The entire movie.
The entire movie.
December 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Oh Jesus.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
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Marilyn Monroe deserves to be recognized with Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd as one of the great film comedians. Her mastery over her body—the subtle ways that she changes to make or match different affective resonances—remains unparalleled. No one has ever done it like her.
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Marilyn Monroe deserves to be recognized with Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd as one of the great film comedians. Her mastery over her body—the subtle ways that she changes to make or match different affective resonances—remains unparalleled. No one has ever done it like her.
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Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
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I'm with @therisingtithes.bsky.social on my shock at Wake Up Dead Man having the character of Lee Ross, a wash-up author, write a book that is 782,815 words long!
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm with @therisingtithes.bsky.social on my shock at Wake Up Dead Man having the character of Lee Ross, a wash-up author, write a book that is 782,815 words long!
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.
I so loved the film slipping in something that only writers will laugh at that I screenshot the scene.