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Dan McHale
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Artist & Animator
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Hi I'm Peggy, a Background Painter + Illustrator who LOVES vibrant colors and fish.
🔥Available for Fulltime/Freelance work in January !🔥
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🌸[email protected]
September 19, 2023 at 4:35 PM
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A great go-to source for quick factchecking is the Quote Investigator website. They trace back quotes and cite sources.
quoteinvestigator.com
Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
quoteinvestigator.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible.

I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”
looking up the source of quotes, whether for a book or a video script, is great for figuring out when a quote everyone "knows" and has repeated for ages is actually just weird bullshit someone else made up
December 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I reviewed a very big book about a very big idea
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...
On the Same Page: The Survivalists | San Francisco Public Library
sfpl.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I decided to watch all of the Joel Haver movies (he did 12 features in 12 months, all free on YouTube) and I'm on the 4th one - HELLO, MY BEAUTIFUL CREATURES - which is co-directed by Eric Bernhagen, whose stuff is like Svankmeyer meets Pee-Wee. This movie is a no-budget artistic masterpiece.
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable.

Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate.

Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Here in Boston, the Black community threatened violence after learning that promoters of "BIRTH OF A NATION planned to stage a reenactment on Boston Common featuring men wearing Klan robes. This was to occur just steps away from the Shaw-54th Massachusetts Monument.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.

People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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WTAF. The Democratic Party is the NY Giants of national politics.
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"Creativity always happens down in the streets, at the human level. It happens among people who are not particularly powerful, who are scrambling to make ends meet and create literature, art, and music that might endure."
New blog post. :)

"What I want to argue here is that we need the human scale, and we should actively choose the human scale. . . . It’s almost impossible to escape this era of hyper-conglomerization. But I would like to."

theodoragoss.com/2025/12/17/t...
The Sky Above Budapest
What I love about the sky above Budapest is that I can see it. There are strict limits on the height of buildings in Budapest. Traditionally, they could not be build taller than Parliament or Saint…
theodoragoss.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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It’s the holidays, so please buy my book. It’s a great gift for anyone who’s ever thought about destroying their student loan company, and it weighs enough to throw at your relatives who say shit like “but in 1972, college only cost a quarter!” www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Not sure this has made my top 10 concrete churches list, however.
Paris, Notre Dame de la Salette in 15è, and Bilbao Santuario San Felicísimo in Deustu are still top of the list.
You wouldn't think I would go to the Duomo for Mass did you? Thanks to @rproctor.bsky.social I went to Parrocchia Santi Giovanni Battista e Paolo Apostolo.
Sorry about the bad photos; the first Communion kids were practising a thing when I got there early so I had to be discrete.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My film Externalities won Best Experimental Short at the Los Angeles Animation Festival last night.
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Honored that my short film externalities has been screen at Punto au Raya this week. In Sofia, Bulgaria.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The @nytimes.com apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.”

fair.org/home/media-r...
Media Reaction to a Woman Murdered at Work Is ‘Nothing to See Here’
A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.
fair.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Gee, that sounds interesting!
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Easy to ask for money, hard to summarize the work we've done to earn your trust over the past year (never mind the seven before that). A thread that highlights some of the essays that took off since Trump was reelected.
This will be a thread of the most widely read essays we've published since the 2024 election, by author. Hopefully this will give you a good view into the kind of publication we're asking you to support. gofund.me/9779a6cb8
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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If you need more reasons to support us, we have testimonials on the GoFundMe page. Jamelle also made a better pitch than we could have below gofund.me/9a6239587
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Gift idea for someone who loves a good heist (even if it’s you): I really enjoyed THE PAYBACK by @kashana.blacksky.app. Loved the main character & the clever, mundanely dystopian premise, and found the writing sharp, funny, and stylish (in more ways than one - I learned about fashion!). Recommend!
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social is like an antidote to snake venom. Read it and it will save your life. The backlash to “me too” was never about moderation it was about submission. Feminism has not gone too far. The world of men simply moves at the pace of a glacier from its Neanderthal past.
“There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress. It was always fanciful to conceive of progressive victories as permanent, just as it was a shortsighted fantasy that edgelord heterodoxy would remain cool.”
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

I wrote about how the health fears around wind turbines were really ripples signifying deep structural injustice in the way we're doing non-fossil energy!!

And how we're screwed if we don't fix it!

unsw.press/books/windfa...
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Prohibition was largely conceived as a nativist regime of laws meant to target & control the huge immigrant population of cities, served at places like Schulz's saloon at Montrose & Lincoln. By partnering with established, connected often Irish partners (like ex-cop Al Winge) they made a fortune.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This article should be going viral, but the mods prefer to stand w genocide. Anyone who gives me shit for complaining about this, know you are complicit with GENOCIDE.

bsky.app/profile/jric...
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM