Keith A. Spencer
@keithspencer.bsky.social
Author, editor, critic; bylines include WaPo, SFGate, Jacobin, Al-Jazeera. erstwhiles: senior editor Salon, editor-in-chief of The Bold Italic
What's the difference between Avatar: Fire and Ash, and the Nicaraguan Revolution?
In one, a capitalist superpower secretly armed Contras to defeat an indigenous socialist movement. The other took place on Earth.
In one, a capitalist superpower secretly armed Contras to defeat an indigenous socialist movement. The other took place on Earth.
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What's the difference between Avatar: Fire and Ash, and the Nicaraguan Revolution?
In one, a capitalist superpower secretly armed Contras to defeat an indigenous socialist movement. The other took place on Earth.
In one, a capitalist superpower secretly armed Contras to defeat an indigenous socialist movement. The other took place on Earth.
Nothing is more metal than selling your catalog to private equity! 🤘 consequence.net/2025/11/slip...
Slipknot Sell Majority Stake in Music Catalog for Reported $120 Million
Slipknot have officially sold a majority stake in their music catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners, sealing a deal that had been rumored for months.
consequence.net
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nothing is more metal than selling your catalog to private equity! 🤘 consequence.net/2025/11/slip...
Thinking about spreading a new conspiracy theory that Waymos aren’t driverless but are actually driven by ghosts that Google trapped in the earthly plane
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Thinking about spreading a new conspiracy theory that Waymos aren’t driverless but are actually driven by ghosts that Google trapped in the earthly plane
Why are dating apps always like “💌 You have 1 new message!” And the message is “hi stud😍it’s me, your dating app🥰give me more money🫦”
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Why are dating apps always like “💌 You have 1 new message!” And the message is “hi stud😍it’s me, your dating app🥰give me more money🫦”
Need a leftist with a fake resume to apply to this and destroy them from the inside
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Need a leftist with a fake resume to apply to this and destroy them from the inside
The delightful thing about the new Predator movie is that if you think about it, it basically has the same plot as How to Train Your Dragon — just a very R-Rated version.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The delightful thing about the new Predator movie is that if you think about it, it basically has the same plot as How to Train Your Dragon — just a very R-Rated version.
The losing team in this World Series got more runs overall than the winning team — 34 (Blue Jays) to 26 runs (Dodgers). I believe this is the 22nd time this has happened out of 121 World Series.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The losing team in this World Series got more runs overall than the winning team — 34 (Blue Jays) to 26 runs (Dodgers). I believe this is the 22nd time this has happened out of 121 World Series.
Incredible editor’s note in this Wired story profiling Cybertruck owners
October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Incredible editor’s note in this Wired story profiling Cybertruck owners
just walked by a trio of undergrads talking and the one closest to me goes, “It is NOT a party in the USA right now”
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
just walked by a trio of undergrads talking and the one closest to me goes, “It is NOT a party in the USA right now”
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NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
www.peoplesline.org/p/an-insane-...
www.peoplesline.org/p/an-insane-...
September 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
www.peoplesline.org/p/an-insane-...
www.peoplesline.org/p/an-insane-...
Ladies, have you ever had such a crush on a guy that you willed your skin to him so that it could be bound into his book???
September 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Ladies, have you ever had such a crush on a guy that you willed your skin to him so that it could be bound into his book???
My own Mandela effect is that I'm pretty sure that when I was a child, "embarrassment" was spelled with 1 R. Now it's spelled with two. I have a vivid memory of learning that it was spelled with only one R, and correcting myself often. Something shifted in the multiverse.
September 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My own Mandela effect is that I'm pretty sure that when I was a child, "embarrassment" was spelled with 1 R. Now it's spelled with two. I have a vivid memory of learning that it was spelled with only one R, and correcting myself often. Something shifted in the multiverse.
Wow I didn’t know William Makepeace Thackeray was still tweaking the Vanity Fair manuscript 175 years after its release
August 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Wow I didn’t know William Makepeace Thackeray was still tweaking the Vanity Fair manuscript 175 years after its release
Can’t believe the Simpsons predicted Trump’s flag burning ban back in the 1990s
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Can’t believe the Simpsons predicted Trump’s flag burning ban back in the 1990s
Zuck once again displays his incredible talent for understanding human behavior! We humans spend much of our days fretting that we're not "unlocking [enough] value."
August 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Zuck once again displays his incredible talent for understanding human behavior! We humans spend much of our days fretting that we're not "unlocking [enough] value."
Given how bereft and afraid Hollywood is of new ideas, I’m surprised they haven’t rebooted The Truman Show or made it into TV. it’s still widely talked about and in the cultural zeitgeist. Plus, the premise is, frankly, underexplored — the kind of thing you could build a larger universe around.
August 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Given how bereft and afraid Hollywood is of new ideas, I’m surprised they haven’t rebooted The Truman Show or made it into TV. it’s still widely talked about and in the cultural zeitgeist. Plus, the premise is, frankly, underexplored — the kind of thing you could build a larger universe around.
If you've ever wondered if the United States is a dictatorship of capital, currently the government is asking a drugmaker to stop selling a drug that kills people and the capitalists are just saying "nah"
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If you've ever wondered if the United States is a dictatorship of capital, currently the government is asking a drugmaker to stop selling a drug that kills people and the capitalists are just saying "nah"
Superhero movies keep coming, just at a slower pace and with smaller box office numbers. The reason, I suspect, is that superheros have always been a stand-in for American empire — and now that empire is collapsing. My latest for Al-Jazeera: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The superhero film genre is on a decline, and so is American empire
The patriotic, liberal values that superhero movies embody no longer seem to resonate with a divided American public.
www.aljazeera.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Superhero movies keep coming, just at a slower pace and with smaller box office numbers. The reason, I suspect, is that superheros have always been a stand-in for American empire — and now that empire is collapsing. My latest for Al-Jazeera: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The Father (the alien)
The Son (the xenomorph in its mouth)
The Holy Spirit (the alien spores that infect everyone who breathes them)
The Son (the xenomorph in its mouth)
The Holy Spirit (the alien spores that infect everyone who breathes them)
July 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Father (the alien)
The Son (the xenomorph in its mouth)
The Holy Spirit (the alien spores that infect everyone who breathes them)
The Son (the xenomorph in its mouth)
The Holy Spirit (the alien spores that infect everyone who breathes them)
It’s always bothered me that the past-tense of “glide” isn’t “glid”
July 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s always bothered me that the past-tense of “glide” isn’t “glid”
Reposted by Keith A. Spencer
The problem is that the United States has created a situation where if you want to operate a nation state outside of their imperialist scope, you must have a nuclear weapon.
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The problem is that the United States has created a situation where if you want to operate a nation state outside of their imperialist scope, you must have a nuclear weapon.
Remember during the George W. Bush administration when this bumper sticker was on every blue state Volvo?
June 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Remember during the George W. Bush administration when this bumper sticker was on every blue state Volvo?
I love how incongruous these phishing texts are. Texas is fining me for a ticket I got in Maryland for breaking Illinois law, apparently
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I love how incongruous these phishing texts are. Texas is fining me for a ticket I got in Maryland for breaking Illinois law, apparently
Zuckerberg became a billionaire at such a young age that he never had a real, adult "friend." When you attain that kind of wealth, all your relationships become transactional and/or sycophantic. The last person you'd trust to pontificate about human relationships.
May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Zuckerberg became a billionaire at such a young age that he never had a real, adult "friend." When you attain that kind of wealth, all your relationships become transactional and/or sycophantic. The last person you'd trust to pontificate about human relationships.