zach lennon-simon
@lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social
union organizer, writer/video editor, & one of the last born & raised Brooklynites to still live in Brooklyn.
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Before you start your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide with curated recommendations of books, Blu-rays, posters, and more suggestions to spread the love of women-directed cinema!
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide
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November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Before you start your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide with curated recommendations of books, Blu-rays, posters, and more suggestions to spread the love of women-directed cinema!
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the reporter who does this will never pay for a meal in a restaurant or buy their own drinks again so long as they live
They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the reporter who does this will never pay for a meal in a restaurant or buy their own drinks again so long as they live
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
They Might Be Giants
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Mountain Goats
The Hold Steady
The Gothic Archies with Lemony Snicket!!!
They Might Be Giants
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Mountain Goats
The Hold Steady
The Gothic Archies with Lemony Snicket!!!
Introduce yourself with five concerts youve seen —
Whitney Houston
Weird Al and the Monkees
Club MTV tour feat. Bel Biv Devoe & C&C Music Factory
Fiona Apple
The Mountain Goats
Whitney Houston
Weird Al and the Monkees
Club MTV tour feat. Bel Biv Devoe & C&C Music Factory
Fiona Apple
The Mountain Goats
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
They Might Be Giants
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Mountain Goats
The Hold Steady
The Gothic Archies with Lemony Snicket!!!
They Might Be Giants
Carly Rae Jepsen
The Mountain Goats
The Hold Steady
The Gothic Archies with Lemony Snicket!!!
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It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
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Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Caring about and remembering other human beings is just too woke for the GOP, which, not coincidentally, did its very best to usher them into the grave.
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Old cyanotypes revisited 20
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Old cyanotypes revisited 20
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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I'll tell you one of the things I'm thankful for: David Cross's delivery of this line, which deservedly became a meme
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'll tell you one of the things I'm thankful for: David Cross's delivery of this line, which deservedly became a meme
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
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wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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1,132 days. It’s over.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
1,132 days. It’s over.
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Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to express our thanks to all of you who have donated to help our Fired Four, illegally terminated by Conde Nast. If you haven't already, you still can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Donate to Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper, organized by Louryn Strampe
On November 5, 2025, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union l… Louryn Strampe needs your support for Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to express our thanks to all of you who have donated to help our Fired Four, illegally terminated by Conde Nast. If you haven't already, you still can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
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I didn’t know about this! 👇🏾
a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I didn’t know about this! 👇🏾
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sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children.
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children.
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
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Canal St raid happening now - Canal & Lafayette
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Canal St raid happening now - Canal & Lafayette
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The miniature spaceship FX in Close Encounters aged well because they built a "smoke room" to photograph the models in, to increase the density of the atmosphere around them. I.e., a 1/25 scale model would have smoke room atmosphere 25 times denser than it would be in the real world.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The miniature spaceship FX in Close Encounters aged well because they built a "smoke room" to photograph the models in, to increase the density of the atmosphere around them. I.e., a 1/25 scale model would have smoke room atmosphere 25 times denser than it would be in the real world.
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oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.