Steve
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Reskeets are self-criticism. He/him
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i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
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The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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A theology prof had a small cabin built by a lake in Maine, a place he could go to fish & study & write. Outhouse, no electricity, but still a nice little cabin that involved putting a bit of work and money into a structure on land he did not own. …
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A theology prof had a small cabin built by a lake in Maine, a place he could go to fish & study & write. Outhouse, no electricity, but still a nice little cabin that involved putting a bit of work and money into a structure on land he did not own. …
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If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.
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Introducing my students to "secret boyfriend federalism" today (a phrase coined by Nicole Huberfeld and Abbe Gluck)
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February 11, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Introducing my students to "secret boyfriend federalism" today (a phrase coined by Nicole Huberfeld and Abbe Gluck)
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Oh wow, right up my alley. This looks fun as heck.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Oh wow, right up my alley. This looks fun as heck.
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Yeah, I support Newsom. I appreciate the harp, and I think she and Andy Samberg are just such a power couple
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Yeah, I support Newsom. I appreciate the harp, and I think she and Andy Samberg are just such a power couple
Spice World (1997)
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Spice World (1997)
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The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361
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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
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The self-appointed defender of white cultural traditions is wearing a buttondown with a suit
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The self-appointed defender of white cultural traditions is wearing a buttondown with a suit
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One of my guiding principles in life is:
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
One of my guiding principles in life is:
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
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Do you reckon ethically non-monogamous clowns form ridicules?
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Do you reckon ethically non-monogamous clowns form ridicules?
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One of the all-time Josie Masterpieces, this oral history
Yes — Mark Hamill getting cast as The Joker because he was begging to be on the show RIGHT when Tim Curry got fired is a classic example, as documented in my 2017 oral history of Batman: The Animated Series:
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![BT: Everybody who came in to audition for the Joker was doing, basically, [Adam West–era Joker actor] Cesar Romero. They weren’t treating the character seriously. All of the actors that we tested were all doing these really silly and bizarre voices. None of it had any serious threat to it at all. Tim Curry actually came in and gave us something really close to what we wanted. It was funny and weird but also definitely had some menace to it. So we hired Tim. He did about three episodes for us. And then Alan Burnett came to me after we did the third one, and we listened to the assembled tracks, and he said, “I think we have to replace Tim.”
AR: He just couldn’t wrap his head around Tim’s performance. And the truth of it is, I never would have recast Tim.
BT: I didn’t want to do it because we had already recorded a bunch of episodes with him and I knew we would have to rerecord them in post, which I knew was going to be a nightmare. But it didn’t take much for him to convince me, because I was kind of leaning that way myself. It’s not that Tim was doing anything bad, it just wasn’t quite what we wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreicp7nlfegzs6i2hjxdk5qwnt7wcnszrm4ojuo7o7sghjenzgrn724@jpeg)
![MH: I got a call saying, “They want you to come in and audition for the Joker.” And I said, “Oh, gosh, that’s a little too high-profile for my liking. Not only has it been done with Cesar Romero, but it’s been done by Jack Nicholson. What can I bring to the table that hasn’t been done before?” I said, “I’d rather play Two-Face or Clayface or someone who hasn’t been done.” The reason I went in was because I was absolutely certain that they would be unable to cast me as the Joker simply because, public-relations-wise, the idea of the guy who played Luke Skywalker — this icon of heroism, this virtuous character — playing this icon of villainy? Comic-book fans are notoriously demanding. They’re very opinionated and not shy about letting you know how they feel. I thought it would be a PR disaster that they would not be able to withstand. It gave me a great confidence, since I didn’t think there was any shot at all of me getting the part, so I had that performance anxiety removed.
PD: I remember listening to his audition, and when he did the laugh, I said, “That’s it. That’s just it.” The laugh was cruel, it was funny, there was an undercurrent of terrible sadness to it. It was a laugh from a destroyed soul.
MH: I had done Mozart in Amadeus in the first national tour, and then they transferred me over to Broadway, and one of the things that is relevant to my audition [for the Joker] is that Mozart had this sort of ghastly laugh that threw everybody. I played with that laugh a lot. I’d do a little Dwight Frye, I’d do a little Sydney Greenstreet. I love all those old Warner Bros. movies, so I was just slipping people in. Sometimes I’d get notes like, “It was a little too ‘Jerry Lewis at the matinee’. Reel it back.” I’m telling you this because, in retrospect, after getting the part, I asked Andrea Romano, “How did I get it? What was the process? How did you know that you wanted me?” And she said, “The laugh.” I didn’t want to get pigeonholed into a specific laugh. With the…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreihpixqca4m27sihmd2hfhimpnfxajk43vpzhozrncbjllbwofuzxa@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
One of the all-time Josie Masterpieces, this oral history
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why would anyone think scavenging for the sun's energy in ancient rot is more manly & correct than snatching it straight from the sky
"We will harness the sun and capture its rays, my liege! Power beyond measure, even in dark of night! Power across the whole realm!"
Why not go full demagogue and say "we're gonna go nuts with solar, wind and batteries until electricity's too cheap to meter"?
And then aggressively blame Republicans for delays (including ones that are just logistical)
And then aggressively blame Republicans for delays (including ones that are just logistical)
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
why would anyone think scavenging for the sun's energy in ancient rot is more manly & correct than snatching it straight from the sky
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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i have a crank theory that *part* of the reason a certain kind of user is enthusiastic about AI products is downstream from user interface design having been on a steady downward slide for years, and AI products *seem* to make interfacing easier on the surface
I work at one of the biggest media companies in the world and there's about a 30% hit rate on execs knowing how to open email attachments. I think, much like politics, we enthusiastic dorks don't realize how many people treat the entire concept of tech as radioactive
February 11, 2026 at 8:38 PM
i have a crank theory that *part* of the reason a certain kind of user is enthusiastic about AI products is downstream from user interface design having been on a steady downward slide for years, and AI products *seem* to make interfacing easier on the surface
Seems bad
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Seems bad
How much do you want to bet some Republican is trying to keep their wife and kids from leaving
Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso
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El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
How much do you want to bet some Republican is trying to keep their wife and kids from leaving
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*real* bad
February 10, 2026 at 9:06 PM
*real* bad
1) Good. Burn it and salt the earth.
But also,
2) I think someone making this argument would be vastly overestimating the importance of individual rich assholes to the continued functioning of the entire system.
But also,
2) I think someone making this argument would be vastly overestimating the importance of individual rich assholes to the continued functioning of the entire system.
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
1) Good. Burn it and salt the earth.
But also,
2) I think someone making this argument would be vastly overestimating the importance of individual rich assholes to the continued functioning of the entire system.
But also,
2) I think someone making this argument would be vastly overestimating the importance of individual rich assholes to the continued functioning of the entire system.
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"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work
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The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 AM
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.