S A Brown
@snninca.bsky.social
Academic; connoisseur of action, trash, and esoteric film; sometimes uses words like "esoteric"; former broadcaster. Abuser of semicolons
Not a bot. Which is exactly what a bot would say.
Not a bot. Which is exactly what a bot would say.
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John Locke: If you have been very Nice and your parents do not buy you a Nintendo Switch, you have license to replace them with parents who will.
Great Philosophers on Santa’s Naughty and Nice Lists
(With thanks to Dr. Henry Gorman) - - -Aristotle: Be good for goodness’ sake. Plato: To be “good” or “nice” is to cultivate one’s knowledge of Sant...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
John Locke: If you have been very Nice and your parents do not buy you a Nintendo Switch, you have license to replace them with parents who will.
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for your holiday reading pleasure:
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
for your holiday reading pleasure:
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
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🛒🎄 Ride your shopping cart back to a bygone era with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at the #InternetArchive.
These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel.
🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️
archive.org/details/Kmar...
These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel.
🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️
archive.org/details/Kmar...
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🛒🎄 Ride your shopping cart back to a bygone era with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at the #InternetArchive.
These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel.
🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️
archive.org/details/Kmar...
These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel.
🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️
archive.org/details/Kmar...
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guys, if you ain't seen The Prisoner, prepare to have your mind blown
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
guys, if you ain't seen The Prisoner, prepare to have your mind blown
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Baby shoes (haunted)
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Baby shoes (haunted)
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Well, well, well, looks like someone has finally beaten Hemingway at his own game.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Well, well, well, looks like someone has finally beaten Hemingway at his own game.
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This time of year, my brain is always about 10% thinking about "Christmas Wrapping." I haven't heard the song yet in the wild, but it always excites me when I do. A few years ago, I wrote about the song's greatness! anniezaleski.substack.com/p/the-greatn...
the greatness of the waitresses' "christmas wrapping"
"A&P has provided me / With the world's smallest turkey"
anniezaleski.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This time of year, my brain is always about 10% thinking about "Christmas Wrapping." I haven't heard the song yet in the wild, but it always excites me when I do. A few years ago, I wrote about the song's greatness! anniezaleski.substack.com/p/the-greatn...
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We pulled the plug on this documentary 15 minutes in. The AI recreated "voice" of Ed is gross. I didn't realize they'd done this before starting it and it was SO obviously AI we just turned it off. A dumb, and unnecessary, decision filmmakers.
REVIEW: "Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” uses an AI recreation of his voice in the film, which I think is the wrong decision
But otherwise it is a worthwhile documentary (on Netflix) exploring his commitment to featuring Black talent on the show when segregation was the norm
Gift 🔗
But otherwise it is a worthwhile documentary (on Netflix) exploring his commitment to featuring Black talent on the show when segregation was the norm
Gift 🔗
‘Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan’ review: How the TV variety show boosted Black talent when segregation was the norm
Watching his talents more closely here, I have a real appreciation for what he was doing — and how he did it — during a period of profound social change.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We pulled the plug on this documentary 15 minutes in. The AI recreated "voice" of Ed is gross. I didn't realize they'd done this before starting it and it was SO obviously AI we just turned it off. A dumb, and unnecessary, decision filmmakers.
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My new speculative poetry collection Entropocene comes out on 12/18 and is now available for pre-order
bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
Entropocene
Check out Entropocene - <p>A collection of Elgin Award nominated speculative poetry chapbooks, plus various published and unpublished works. Thematic verse covering: time, telepathy, utopia, science, ...
bookshop.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My new speculative poetry collection Entropocene comes out on 12/18 and is now available for pre-order
bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
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![Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib6md2yc7x32taznh2u4feo27rltazabjco4fer3c6mni3soe5tfa@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This isn’t me. I’ll never have an alt and I’ll never ask you to delete things on “my official page”
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This isn’t me. I’ll never have an alt and I’ll never ask you to delete things on “my official page”
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Be advised that with only three viewing experiences, we have the sum total of what the American entertainment industry has to say about Thanksgiving.
1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full.
2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values
3. The clip below.
After that, it's all just football.
1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full.
2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values
3. The clip below.
After that, it's all just football.
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Be advised that with only three viewing experiences, we have the sum total of what the American entertainment industry has to say about Thanksgiving.
1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full.
2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values
3. The clip below.
After that, it's all just football.
1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full.
2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values
3. The clip below.
After that, it's all just football.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Yeesss super moon bestie
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yeesss super moon bestie
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Terrific in-depth discussion here with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social on @masteringdnd.bsky.social. Not just about Designers & Dragons: Origins but also covering Shannon's early career in gaming and how he got started documenting the history of TTRPGs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...
Shannon Appelcline and Designers & Dragons Origins! (MD 265)
YouTube video by Mastering Dungeons
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November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Terrific in-depth discussion here with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social on @masteringdnd.bsky.social. Not just about Designers & Dragons: Origins but also covering Shannon's early career in gaming and how he got started documenting the history of TTRPGs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...
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Another one from the dead bird site.
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Another one from the dead bird site.
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I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
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my old LA pal Ken Layne has a long-running podcast called Desert Oracle that I love - it's as close to listening to Art Bell as you can get these days - and he's started a sub-podcast called Eldritch Republic, about uncanny events in the history of the United States www.patreon.com/desertoracle...
Get more from DESERT ORACLE on Patreon
creating Desert Oracle Radio & Desert Oracle magazine
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October 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
my old LA pal Ken Layne has a long-running podcast called Desert Oracle that I love - it's as close to listening to Art Bell as you can get these days - and he's started a sub-podcast called Eldritch Republic, about uncanny events in the history of the United States www.patreon.com/desertoracle...
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Made a short doc about a man in LA who still makes neon signs. He calls it “the lost and found art.” Check out the full thing on YouTube: youtu.be/SSNfDodj674?...
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Made a short doc about a man in LA who still makes neon signs. He calls it “the lost and found art.” Check out the full thing on YouTube: youtu.be/SSNfDodj674?...
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don't fall for it.
don't fall for it.
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
October 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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don't fall for it.
don't fall for it.
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Your New Hobby! Which will it be?
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Your New Hobby! Which will it be?
