Chip Chandler
@chipchandler.bsky.social
Director of University Communications & Media Relations @ WT. An inveterate quidnunc. Opinions are my own. "There good. Been around the Block." he/him/his
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF:
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF:
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'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
Bookmarking this
Absolutely tore through every episode of this show that we could find when we were researching the book. An astonishing resource and time capsule of gay New York before AIDS, its existence seems impossible today. Highly recommended. Gem after gem in terms of interview subjects.
If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Share your favorite black and white movie
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Share your favorite black and white movie
Preach
No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Preach
Happy birthday, Martha P.!
Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive.
Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
August 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happy birthday, Martha P.!
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If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you're reacting to this thread with "Why isn't my opinion as valuable as any so-called critic's?" you are -- how shall I put this? -- the problem. You see a statement that a profession you're not in has value, and your first thought is "I'm being insulted!" You're how we got here.
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Nothing so poignant as spending the evening with a lunch counter bisecting you through the intestines.
August 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nothing so poignant as spending the evening with a lunch counter bisecting you through the intestines.
Correcting language misapprehensions on social media is, like, a dream job.
If you’ve ever heard that
- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym
It’s untrue.
Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym
It’s untrue.
Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.
July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Correcting language misapprehensions on social media is, like, a dream job.
DC Cover of the Day
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
July 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
DC Cover of the Day
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.
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the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse
bye, you racist asshole
bye, you racist asshole
Hulk Hogan has died at 71, TMZ reports
Hulk Hogan Dead at 71
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the Hogan/Thiel destruction of Gawker was one of the defining moments in the fall of the media and made the world, in a significant way, much worse
bye, you racist asshole
bye, you racist asshole
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You say journalism is dead.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
July 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You say journalism is dead.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
I say the Washington Post profiled a nudist retreat in West Virginia and managed to find a man named Dewey Butts III.
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The last thing a show queen sees before dying.
July 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The last thing a show queen sees before dying.
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As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS, watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
July 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS, watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
This is why we need public broadcasting.
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
July 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
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I'm sure that some people find it traumatizing, but the day I realized I was never going to read everything worth reading was absolutely spirit-lifting, plus it gave me permission* to reread things I love a half dozen (or far more, I'm looking at you, Up the Down Staircase) times.
July 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I'm sure that some people find it traumatizing, but the day I realized I was never going to read everything worth reading was absolutely spirit-lifting, plus it gave me permission* to reread things I love a half dozen (or far more, I'm looking at you, Up the Down Staircase) times.
What's your favorite Bette Davis movie that's not All About Eve?
Maybe “Now, Voyager,” but probably definitely “The Little Foxes”
Maybe “Now, Voyager,” but probably definitely “The Little Foxes”
July 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What's your favorite Bette Davis movie that's not All About Eve?
Maybe “Now, Voyager,” but probably definitely “The Little Foxes”
Maybe “Now, Voyager,” but probably definitely “The Little Foxes”
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This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.
Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.
June 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.
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A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
June 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.