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Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.picknit.com
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He, his. Officially designated RadLib Crank.

Why I give my pronouns: https://rb.gy/p9p5yu
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Which will still leave me frustrated at Blake's badly explained re-appearance in the final episode of TOS.

Anyway, I'm not sure I can watch a B7 without Paul Darrow in it.
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Kayla William, Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army

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14/30
Cover of Love My Rifle More Than You by Kayla Williams. Cover photo has a blonde, smiling female soldier, posing in the desert in front of a big bulky combat vehicle, wearing big bulky military gear, and hefting a big bulky automatic rifle.
January 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Babsi Sidhwa, The Crow Eaters

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Cover of Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters. The background image is a lot petal-like shapes in shades of orange and yellow. In the foreground we have a sort of crude purple frame around a stylized purple profile image of a turbaned man driving a two-wheeled cart pulled by an oxen. A huge purple rooster perches on the cart, and the cover text is written is playful script.
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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You know how the climate change denialists are responding to this. So I'm going to steal this NASA graphics:
Tree-panel graphic illustrating effect of warmer temperatures on rain and snowfall. First panel has cute little H2O molecules rising out of a body of water. ("Warmer air leads to more evaporation.") Second panel has cute H2O molecules flying around. ("Evaporation adds moisture to the air and warmer air can hold more moisture.") Third panel has cute little water molecules falling from a cloud. ("More moisture can lead to heavier rain and snowfall when it happens.")
January 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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12/30
Cover of Carla Power's If the Oceans Were Ink. Background images show rows of ornate, gold‑patterned book spines in rich colors.
January 18, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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@binashah.bsky.social's A Season for Martyrs.

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11/30
Cover of A Season for Martyrs. In the background is one of those very abstract mosaics you see in Islamic countries. Imposed on that is a hexagonal pattern. Two of the hexagons contain the title and the author's name. A third contains a closeup of a woman putting on a red headscarf; we can only see her nose, mouth, and hands.
January 17, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Or at least bring ice cleats.
Photo of a masked ICE agent falling backwards on a slippery Minnesota street.
January 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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In effect, the NATO alliance is working together to block imperialistic expansion by the very country that founded it.
Despair, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. A neoclassical nude that works well with facepalm memes.
January 17, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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These stories are set in my part of Portland. We have a statue of Ramona. Different times.
Statue of Ramona in Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden. She's standing with arms slightly outstretched, head tilted upward, and mouth gently open as if in wonder. Ramona wears an oversized, open coat over a loose dress, with textured, tousled hair and sturdy boots.
January 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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According to Steve Bannon, they're Leninists. Revolutionary chaos, baby!
Trump's head superimposed on classic image of Lenin addresses the masses as red flags flutter in the background.
January 16, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Emma Donoghue, Hood

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10/30
Cover of Emma Donoghue's Hood. Cover image is is solid green with distressed edges, and feature a large tear, reflecting the profile of a woman.
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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I've always liked possums. North America's only marsupial.
A gray opossum perched on a fence, with a white face, pink nose, black rounded ears, beady dark eyes, and a coarse-furred body with clawed pink feet.
January 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Coincidentally, I was just reading your chapter about the United States of Greater Austria, F-J's weird little fix for his Empire's ethnic tensions. How naive folks were back then!
Map of Franz Josef's proposed United States of Greater Austria, which would have restructured the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federation of states, with boundaries drawn so each of the Empire's 10 major ethnic identities gets their own state. "German Austria" has enclaves in several other states and Bosnia-Herzegovina is simply ignored.
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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He's also a fan of Iain Banks Culture novels — and seems to have utterly missed the fact that Banks was a Marxist and that The Culture is a commie utopia.
Cover of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks, featuring a painting of a gigantic ring-shaped space habitat.
January 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Magdalen Nabb, The Marshal and the Madwoman

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9/30
Cover of the Marshal and the Madwoman, by Magdalen Nabb. Features a small reddish-brown tinted photograph of Florence, with a prominent domed church rising above the city roofs, along with a larger photo, similarly tinted, of an elderly Italian woman climbing a steep cobblestoned street, her shadow cast on the plaster wall behind her.
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?
Ben Grimm, Sue Storm, and Reed Richards flying in a sleek, white, fin-tailed aircraft (the Fantasticar). Narration: WHEN YOU OR I GO FOR A SPIN, PUSSYCAT, WE HOP INTO THE OL’ HOT ROD AND TAKE OFF! BUT YOU WOULDN’T EXPECT THE F.F. TO BE AS CONVENTIONAL AS THAT, NOW, WOULD YOU? Ben: HEY, STRETCH—WHEN DID YOU HAVE TIME TO DREAM UP A JAZZY FLYIN’ FASTBACK LIKE THIS BABY? Reed: I DIDN’T, BEN! IT WAS AN UNEXPECTED GIFT… SENT TO ME BY AN AFRICAN CHIEFTAIN, CALLED… THE BLACK PANTHER! Sue: F ONLY JOHNNY WERE HOME FROM COLLEGE! HE’D BE IN SEVENTH HEAVEN BY NOW! Ben: NEVER HEARD OF ’IM! BUT HOW DOES SOME REFUGEE FROM A TARZAN MOVIE LAY HIS HANDS ON THIS KINDA GIZMO? ’N WHY WOULD HE GIVE IT TO YOU?
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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I don't know how big his last place was, but I think his new digs may be a bit bigger.
Painting of Gracie Mansion, with crisp white walls and green shutters, prominent on a grassy hill beside the East River. People stroll through the surrounding park.
January 12, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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@charliejane.bsky.social's The City in the Middle of the Night.

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8/30
Cover of The City in the middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders. Feature an abstract yellow sun at the top radiating thin lines across it, with stylized stars scattered around.
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Apropos of nothing, I have to call attention to Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream, in which Adolf Hitler, instead of going into politics, moves to the US and becomes a Science Fiction writer.
Book cover. Top text, "NORMAN SPINRAD presents Adolph Hitler’s Hugo Award winning SF Classic!" In the middle is Adolf Hitler riding a futuristic motorcycle with a cloud of dust, a yellow explosion, a rocket ship, and a giant red swastika in the background.
January 12, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts

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7/30
Covr of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts. Background photo shows horizontal strips of light (sunlight through blinds?) reflected off beige curtains.
January 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Laila Lailami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

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6/30
Cover of Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Background photo shows a moonlit sea between two bodies of land.
January 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Georgia Coley Letterboxd review of My Cousin Vinny: Watched Nov 26, 2020 I'm a man who is very content with his gender identity, but I must admit there's part of me that wants nothing more than to literally just be Marisa Tomei in this movie and wear all those delightful leather jackets and backless catsuits while talking in that New York accent 2026 edit: hahaha. oh sweet girl. i guess the signs were all there.
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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I think I see the issue: they're all cartoon characters, now that I think about it, all but a few cartoon characters are gay. I'm pretty sure Homer Simpson is straight, but I can't really think of any others.
Nine cartoon cha - Betty Boop, standing in a flirtatious pose, one hand on her hip and the other lifted slightly, exposing a bare leg with a garter - Homer Simpson, standing with arms folded across his chest, looking smug - Pikachu: Yay! Hello! - SpongeBob SquarePants, gesturing enthusiastically - Scooby‑Doo, prancing with a friendly grin - Superman, in his classic heroic flying pose - Mickey Mouse, arms stretched out welcomingly - Bugs Bunny, reclining casually, propped up on one elbow while holding a carrot in the other hand. - Pink Panther, standing in a loose, lanky pose
January 11, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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He's never seen 8 1/2? The Seven Samurai? La Dolce Vita? The Seventh Seal?

What kind of barbarian are you raising???!!!
The Clown Marching Band scene from 8 1/2. A bunch of very manly-looking Japanese swordsmen standing in a rice field. From The Seven Samurai. A well-dressed man exchanges a smoldering look with a woman in a fancy gown, with both of them standing hip deep in a fountain. From La Dolce Vita Death, his trademark scythe in hand, leads a line of dancing people to the afterlife. From The Seventh Seal.
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Mary Renault's The Persian Boy

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Cover of The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault. Features a young man drawn in profile, with a teardrop earing. Line drawing on a worn parchment background, appears to be a detail of a Leonardo study, though I can't find the exact one.
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM