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Erin Keane
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Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · Oct 17
Welcome, new friends! My book is pop culture criticism woven around my family's origin story: my mom ran away from her military officer family's home at 13, hitchhiked around the country, lived as an adult in 1970s NYC, then married an ex-con her own father's age. bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
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Nobody told me the future would be so deeply stupid.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 1h
Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash have launched a pilot program that pays delivery workers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that a previous passenger left open, according to a joint statement from the company given to 404 Media.
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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A good book mail day for me! 🙌 cc @aaronburch.bsky.social @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Hand holding two books: TEEN QUEEN IN TRAINING by Kristine Langley Mahler and TACOMA by Aaron Burch. Autofocus pubs cool memoirs, check them out.
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Most brands want to be sued by employees for alleged cult-like abuse?
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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beltpublishing.bsky.social
If you've ever wanted to get into treasure hunting at estate sales but felt intimidated by the unwritten rules and codes or wondered how people find such gems, Bring Cash is for you!

Cover design by @downpourdw.bsky.social

Releasing March 31st! Preorder here: beltpublishing.com/products/bri...
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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josie.zone
One of the all-time Josie Masterpieces, this oral history
josie.zone 🏳️‍⚧️ The Milkmaid of Human Kindness @josie.zone · 7h
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. AR: I got a phone call from Mark Hamill’s agent — which was absolutely astounding — saying, “Mark is a huge comic-book fan, a major Batman fan, and would please very much like to be a part of the Batman series.” Mark Hamill (The Joker): I actively wanted to get on this show because I was reading about the people that they were putting together in key positions. I followed the fan press in terms of comic books. I was reading in, I think, Comics Buyer’s Guide that their goals were to make the episodes of Batman analogous to the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons of the ’40s. That was their benchmark of quality. I thought, Oh, my gosh, they’re really going to do this right. It’s not going to be aimed at grade-school kids, like some earlier iterations of the Batman cartoons. AR: So I found a very nice guest role for him. BT: Mark came in and played a corporate tycoon who was responsible for Mr. Freeze’s wife dying. MH: I went in and I just let my geek flag fly. I was asking them all these questions: “Are you going to do Ra’s al Ghul? Are you going to do Dr. Hugo Strange?” AR: He was very grateful, and he pulled me aside at the end of the session and said, “I had so much fun doing this, and thank you so much for bringing me in. But I really want to be a part of the series. I don’t want to just come in and do a guest-star and disappear.” And then, coincidentally, here comes the need to recast the Joker. 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… AR: Any actor whom I hired to be the Joker replacement voice would have to match the mouth flaps established by Tim Curry’s performance. And that’s really hard to come up with while introducing a character as intense as Joker — you’re stuck with somebody else’s timing. And Mark was crazy good. BT: It was just like, Hallelujah! Who knew that Luke Skywalker would be our perfect Joker? KC: Luke Skywalker is the nice, young leading man, and most times in films, that’s probably the least interesting character in a film. Well, Mark Hamill could not be further from that. This madman came into the recording studio and he was totally eccentric and he goes a million miles an hour. He talks a million miles an hour. His imagination never stops jumping from topic to topic. He’s a very intellectually alive person, and if you get Mark on a topic, you can’t shut him up for an hour.
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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andizeisler.bsky.social
Several months back, I wrote about ADHD and menopause, and among the people who contacted me was @aliciajrose.bsky.social. She told me two alarming things: one, that my brain was eating itself, and two, that women have been lied to about HRT for two decades. She’s making a movie/a movement about it
How the FDA fueled a menopause panic
Decades ago, women were told hormone replacement therapy would kill them. Now, there's a movement to demand justice.
www.salon.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 AM
erinkeane.bsky.social
Jesus, Andrew Ranken died, too? www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dead at 72
In a statement published online the band said Ranken was the "heartbeat of The Pogues".
www.bbc.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
This is me!

Had a super fun chat with Sophie Newman on zoom and now here it is in Electric Lit. In her intro, she calls me "the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing," which seems really funny but also I'm kinda into it.
electricliterature.com Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d
Read Sophie Newman’s interview with “Tacoma” author Aaron Burch. They talk about the last 20 years of the literary scene, writerly obsession, autofiction, and more.

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February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
erinkeane.bsky.social
Exactly
February 11, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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okaydonkeymag.com
OKD Newsletter Editor, Christine Salek @cms.bsky.social, and Fiction Reader Eleanor Ball eleanorball.bsky.social are among several amazing editors who worked on MONARCH 2026, a queer awards anthology from fifth wheel press! Pre-order it at asterismbooks.com/product/mona.... Out on March 3rd.
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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American Girl Doll / Animal Liberation Front operative mistaken identity is a phrase I never imagined
February 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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She eventually surrendered for sentencing, got 5 years for trying to liberate the burros www.lassennews.com/tuesday-feb-...
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 • Litchfield arsonist sentenced to five years in prison
Publisher’s note: This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Feb; 4, 2014 edition of the Lassen County Times. Eco–terrorist and longtime fugitive Rebecca Jeanette Rubin — one of a group of seve…
www.lassennews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
OK so did everyone but me know there was an American Girl doll who shared a name with a woman wanted by the FBI for eco terrorism at the time of her debut? Because I just learned this yesterday and feel like the Instagram meme accounts failed us abcnews.com/Business/sto...
Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and Eco-Terrorist
American Girl's newest Jewish doll, Rebecca Rubin, has same name as FBI wanted poster for eco-terrorist indicted in fire-bombings of Oregon energy plant.
abcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
If you're mainlining Olympic ice dancing and takes on "Wuthering Heights" this week, might I suggest reading "The Favorites" by Layne Fargo next www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747088...
The Favorites by Layne Fargo: 9780593732069 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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It looks like the Blake Lively case is headed for trial and I’m steeling myself to have to relive another version of Depp v. Heard. Like Final Destination for viral smear campaigns against celebrity women
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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😀 🏆️ 🏆️ 🏆️
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
Absolutely outrageous that women are still being gaslit by poorly-trained doctors about perimenopause and its available and safe treatments. www.salon.com/2026/02/11/h...
How the FDA fueled a menopause panic
Decades ago, women were told hormone replacement therapy would kill them. Now, there's a movement to demand justice.
www.salon.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
I remember a time, not too long ago — a year ago, even! — when something as simple as having the mail held, then delivered on the day after the hold expired, simply worked.
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Openly discussed as a fact when I was growing up in the '80s and '90s in Reidland.
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious.

Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process.

Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
So you are, or are not, going to bet on Iris to go all the way?
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
The seeding process is very mysterious to me (in basketball as well!) but I trust our tourney masters. Upsets will start in round 1 and be unrelenting I think. Also damn, the 90s were full of amazing sad songs!
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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jrmcconvey.bsky.social
For @marchxness.bsky.social, so I wrote an extracurricular about Mimi Parker, Low, love, sadness, and Minneapolis. Side note: Minnesota gave us Prince, Low, Bob Dylan and Husker Du. We owe those people.
marchxness.com/the-essays?u...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
marchxness.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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I was gonna have "Crossroads" to take it all, but the author had to drop. (I never bet on my own essay to win, and especially not this year with "November Rain" being a #1 seed!)
marchxness.bsky.social March Sadness 90s Edition @marchxness.bsky.social · 4d
March Sadness 90s Edition Bracket is Live: marchxness.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
erinkeane.bsky.social
Japanese toilets ftw
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM