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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Nothing says 'tis the Season like social media users quote dunking on pleas for people to seek help during an emotionally brutal season.

Heads up: detached irony is out. Being snarky to strangers doesn't make you look cool; It makes you look like just another asshole and we are full up on those.
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone.

You deserve love.
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Some Nobel prizes are deserved
ditzkoff.bsky.social Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Maud Gonne, Revolutionary, Suffragette, Actress, Muse, #BornOnThisDay in 1866, in Tongham, England
Maud Gonne
December 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
The Green Grandmother of Hookland for Solstice.
Among the brambles a cowled elderly face peers out. Bracken emerged from their hood and mouth.
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, and Mary Oliver all in Saturday morning prayer in today’s siddur. And that’s my rabbi.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
I don't suppose fellow I-still-have-a-Rosary types will need to be told how happy I am to be reviewed in America Magazine
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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dulanyw.bsky.social
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From Marcus Aurelius: You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all...
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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philipchristman.bsky.social
ngl proud of this bit www.christiancentury.org/voices/pover...
The sadism inherent in gossip horrifies me, but what really sends me over the edge is the poverty of aesthetic and psychological imagination it often reveals. I love Henry James and George Eliot, in part because both novelists often define their characters against the reader’s desire to type them. They tell you who a too-hasty observer would assume their characters are, what stereotype they are just one or two crucial degrees of complexity away from becoming. This is one reason why James, infamously, takes so long to say anything. But it feels to me like a deep truth about how people are: We are defined in part by the people we almost are, the clichés we try to stop ourselves from living out. They pull on us like gravity, and we fight them, and we become the person revealed in that fighting. While lesser novelists—and almost all novelists are lesser than James and Eliot—vivify old character types, these writers both challenge the types and acknowledge their very real presence in human social life. Gossip tends to work like a bad novelist. It smooths everything out. It turns complex actions into simple, legible ones and cuts ambiguities down to a single dimension.
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
really thoughtful look at the new book -- thanks!
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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stevesilberman.bsky.social
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
A menorah in a window across the street from a building displaying a Nazi flag.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 10d
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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chrisstein.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
this is the realest shit ever posted and when you become a parent you spend a lot of time internally screaming about it
kaseygifford.bsky.social Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10d
People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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courtenaycal.bsky.social
Great article about how David Lynch’s art beared witness to suffering and offered compassion in a brutal world. Lynch’s death was like a light that was extinguished — a light that showed the barbarism but also the empathy of humanity.

www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
I think part of the reason I've always resonated with Rian Johnson's work is that we both made it through the same asylum, and I'd long sensed a deconstruction energy hanging over his filmography, even before Wake Up Dead Man. Was glad to get that confirmed. sojo.net/articles/cul...
Tyler Huckabee, Sojourners: You’ve talked about how Christianity played an important part in your life when you were younger, and that’s very obvious in this movie. I was curious if you think that upbringing has shaped other movies that you’ve worked on. Rian Johnson: Every single one. This is the first movie where I’m coming at it on the surface, but every film I’ve done in some way has been about this topic.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
i talked to @rianjohnson.bsky.social about 'Wake Up Dead Man.' Just two former youth grop kids trying to solve the mystery of faith. please enjoy.
Knives Out’s Rian Johnson Says He Will Always Be a Youth Group Kid
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ wears faith on its sleeve, but Johnson said all of his movies are subtly about his Christian upbringing.
sojo.net
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke'
� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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if you are not subscribed to @colindickey.com newsletter "glacial errata" you are missing out. it's weird, it's interesting, it's informative and just good reading, even when he just posts beautiful photos of mountains, like today glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...
Glacial Errata, No. 48
Five Mountains for the Week of December 8, 2025.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
If Alan Moore did not exist, you probably couldn’t invent him. Here he is describing how he came up with V for Vendetta ceeeej-blog.tumblr.com/post/1240411...
One night, in desperation, I made a long list of concepts that I wanted to reflect in V, moving from one to another with a rapid free-association that would make any good psychiatrist reach for the emergency cord. The list was something as follows; Orwell. Huxley. Thomas Disch. Judge Dredd. Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman." "Catman" and "Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" by the same author. Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes and Theatre Of Blood. David Bowie. The Shadow. Nightraven. Batman. Fahrenheit 451. The writings of the New Worlds school of science -fiction. Max Ernst's painting "Europe After The Rains, ," Thomas Pynchon, The atmosphere of British Second World War films. The Prisoner.
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
I just read the sentence “just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth”
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM