Tom Richardson
@tomrichardson.bsky.social
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe …
—James Baldwin
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That’s the bike I road around on during the filming of the freeway sequence of The Matrix Reloaded
—James Baldwin
www.saatchiart.com/tomrichardson
That’s the bike I road around on during the filming of the freeway sequence of The Matrix Reloaded
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The waning days of 2025 seem like a good time to post this:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Why I Wrote “The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller
From 1996: The McCarthy era, the Salem witch trials, and the story behind the play.
www.newyorker.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The waning days of 2025 seem like a good time to post this:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
Explaining how I was really staying engaged to my brother to whom I initially texted this photo saying I didn’t know how it got in my phone.
December 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Explaining how I was really staying engaged to my brother to whom I initially texted this photo saying I didn’t know how it got in my phone.
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"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"One Word Describes Trump" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
I missed this on its first trip around, then saw it on the "most popular with readers" list for 2025. Recommended, despite the cheesy headline.
Especially valuable if you have ever compared him to a mob boss.
[Gift link]
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And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears
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This feels apocalyptic—we are burning the world down so that we can feed the Bullshit Machine.
MolochGPT is stupid dystopia
MolochGPT is stupid dystopia
"Manufacturers of aeroderivative turbines — which are based on or made from jet engines — and diesel generators have reported increased demand because of data centres seeking to bypass the grid as they wait for larger gas turbines."
Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays
Supply chain shortages drive developers to use smaller and less efficient power sources to fuel AI power demand
www.ft.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This feels apocalyptic—we are burning the world down so that we can feed the Bullshit Machine.
MolochGPT is stupid dystopia
MolochGPT is stupid dystopia
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A whale and three fish sitting down to a formal dinner of Russian sailors, in a propaganda cartoon created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-5). View more from this superb series of prints here: https://buff.ly/2w0DK1S
December 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A whale and three fish sitting down to a formal dinner of Russian sailors, in a propaganda cartoon created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-5). View more from this superb series of prints here: https://buff.ly/2w0DK1S
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The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.
I’m drawing stars
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’m drawing stars
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Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan
Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Journalism is supposed to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” but Bari Weiss has it backwards. My new column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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your occasional reminder that, in Singin' in the Rain, when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's speaking voice, the speaking voice you hear is Jean Hagen's, and when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's singing voice, the singing voice you hear is Betty Noyes's
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
your occasional reminder that, in Singin' in the Rain, when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's speaking voice, the speaking voice you hear is Jean Hagen's, and when Debbie Reynolds provides Jean Hagen's singing voice, the singing voice you hear is Betty Noyes's
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Winter Scene - Takeji Asano
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Winter Scene - Takeji Asano
Remember the good old days when it was all cloud computing
not even in SF but every billboard on the way is about ai past palo alto lmfao
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Remember the good old days when it was all cloud computing
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Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Portrait of a Raven (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
Christmas tree
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Christmas tree
Guy is going to debate grade school students!
I’m pleased to announce that in 2026, I will be bringing debate straight to grade schools, meeting students where they are and challenging ideas through open, confident, real debate, real questions, and developing a new generation of conservative activists
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Guy is going to debate grade school students!
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When I was working on never-printed manuscript fiction, I WAS the digitizer of dozens of manuscripts, by standing & photographing them page by page.
The one exception? In one memorable case, I raised funds to match with the NYPL to pay the $7500 digitization costs for this single manuscript.
The one exception? In one memorable case, I raised funds to match with the NYPL to pay the $7500 digitization costs for this single manuscript.
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
When I was working on never-printed manuscript fiction, I WAS the digitizer of dozens of manuscripts, by standing & photographing them page by page.
The one exception? In one memorable case, I raised funds to match with the NYPL to pay the $7500 digitization costs for this single manuscript.
The one exception? In one memorable case, I raised funds to match with the NYPL to pay the $7500 digitization costs for this single manuscript.
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Left-Handed Girl is much more than I thought it would be. Making it my next film after rewatching Breathless and seeing Nouvelle Vague ended up coincidentally very appropriate. The spontaneity! It takes two geniuses--actor and director--to get a performance this great out of a child this young.
December 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Left-Handed Girl is much more than I thought it would be. Making it my next film after rewatching Breathless and seeing Nouvelle Vague ended up coincidentally very appropriate. The spontaneity! It takes two geniuses--actor and director--to get a performance this great out of a child this young.
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"