caidid
@caidid.bsky.social
Artist; writer; work: publishing, higher ed, theatre; volunteer w marine animals; curious about everything.
Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz
Lists: limulus.ghost.io
Is it OK if I bring my dog?
Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz
Lists: limulus.ghost.io
Is it OK if I bring my dog?
Highly recommend, and if you find yourself paywalled, may I recommend too a subscription to @flaminghydra.com? It's a steady stream of original work from a collection of some of the best writers on the internet. Worth every penny.
Lust for life / Recessional
Carrie Frye on the romances of Moby-Dick; a farewell shanty from Joe MacLeod and friends
flaminghydra.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Highly recommend, and if you find yourself paywalled, may I recommend too a subscription to @flaminghydra.com? It's a steady stream of original work from a collection of some of the best writers on the internet. Worth every penny.
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renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
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In case you missed it! A projected fall 2026 release, so that's at least one thing that will be better than 2025.
🔔 Deal Announcement 🔔
We’re excited to share a new deal for our client #JMBerger! His #thriller THE POPE’S HITMAN—pitched as #JohnWick meets #Conclave, for fans of #TheDaVinciCode—has been acquired by Marcia Markland at Crooked Lane Books.
Congratulations to J.M. and everyone involved!
We’re excited to share a new deal for our client #JMBerger! His #thriller THE POPE’S HITMAN—pitched as #JohnWick meets #Conclave, for fans of #TheDaVinciCode—has been acquired by Marcia Markland at Crooked Lane Books.
Congratulations to J.M. and everyone involved!
December 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In case you missed it! A projected fall 2026 release, so that's at least one thing that will be better than 2025.
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A wonderful writer and person who used her dying days to speak out against her cousin RFK Jr.’s plan to kill everyone with vaccine misinformation and cuts to cancer research.
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A wonderful writer and person who used her dying days to speak out against her cousin RFK Jr.’s plan to kill everyone with vaccine misinformation and cuts to cancer research.
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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there we are having a nice civilized hundred years war, just how everyone likes it, and then the french decide to rock up with bloody joan of arc, you can't just bring a living saint to the battlefield, it's not sporting, wafting miracles everywhere like its going out of fashion, it was outrageous
December 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
there we are having a nice civilized hundred years war, just how everyone likes it, and then the french decide to rock up with bloody joan of arc, you can't just bring a living saint to the battlefield, it's not sporting, wafting miracles everywhere like its going out of fashion, it was outrageous
Then so be it, dude. If you can't manage it legally, why the fuck should you be allowed to do it at all?
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Then so be it, dude. If you can't manage it legally, why the fuck should you be allowed to do it at all?
Cannot stress this enough: it's not deportation when it is a) outside the legal process and b) a fucking citizen. This is unambiguous kidnapping.
Sounds like the Trump admin deported an American citizen with no criminal record basically because of her ethnicity, over the ruling of a judge. She is 22
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cannot stress this enough: it's not deportation when it is a) outside the legal process and b) a fucking citizen. This is unambiguous kidnapping.
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A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
There has never been a more accurate explanation of Bari Weiss.
For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
There has never been a more accurate explanation of Bari Weiss.
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For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators.
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans.
What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?
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The reason Trump talks up his frequent cognitive tests is because he literally confuses them with IQ tests (which is why he often refers to people as low-IQ individuals).
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
Trump reveals which animals he was required to identify in mental tests
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The reason Trump talks up his frequent cognitive tests is because he literally confuses them with IQ tests (which is why he often refers to people as low-IQ individuals).
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
Just like he literally believes an "insane asylum" and "political asylum" are the same thing.
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No contemporary novelist wants to write all the steps of how one uses, carries, and works a mobile phone, and no contemporary reader wants that either, and if someone in 500 years time tries to write a 2020s novel based only on 2020s literature, that's really going to piss them off.
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
No contemporary novelist wants to write all the steps of how one uses, carries, and works a mobile phone, and no contemporary reader wants that either, and if someone in 500 years time tries to write a 2020s novel based only on 2020s literature, that's really going to piss them off.
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I want 1920s pulp novels to go into lots of detail about how men handle hats, so that I can do nifty period-establishing shit with hats.
For authors of 1920s pulp novels, hats went literally without saying and they were more interested in corpses, trained apes, smuggling, racism, stolen jewels etc.
For authors of 1920s pulp novels, hats went literally without saying and they were more interested in corpses, trained apes, smuggling, racism, stolen jewels etc.
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I want 1920s pulp novels to go into lots of detail about how men handle hats, so that I can do nifty period-establishing shit with hats.
For authors of 1920s pulp novels, hats went literally without saying and they were more interested in corpses, trained apes, smuggling, racism, stolen jewels etc.
For authors of 1920s pulp novels, hats went literally without saying and they were more interested in corpses, trained apes, smuggling, racism, stolen jewels etc.
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For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
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Well, we know who powerful people are most interested in protecting.
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Well, we know who powerful people are most interested in protecting.
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Guys. I have the privilege of having read this already, and it's so good. Like, I immediately wanted to buy copies for my whole family.
December 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Guys. I have the privilege of having read this already, and it's so good. Like, I immediately wanted to buy copies for my whole family.
This. This. This. This. They can keep on trying to force their AI rubbish on me, and I will keep refusing it.
"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future." Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this boost for my soul:
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This. This. This. This. They can keep on trying to force their AI rubbish on me, and I will keep refusing it.
Guys. I have the privilege of having read this already, and it's so good. Like, I immediately wanted to buy copies for my whole family.
December 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Guys. I have the privilege of having read this already, and it's so good. Like, I immediately wanted to buy copies for my whole family.
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