Vincent Szopa
@fledglinguistic.bsky.social
Writer, techie, macrodata refiner, movie guy, fun inspector. Not a linguist. 💉: Yes 🇺🇦
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Summer Breeze (1973)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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February 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Looking up on WikiHow “How to adjust an adjustable baseball hat”
January 31, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Looking up on WikiHow “How to adjust an adjustable baseball hat”
Incredible news! A cathedral of cinema, a treasure house of trash, a palace of physical discs (and tapes), Scarecrow will thrive!
We just bought our longtime building! Purchasing our forever home marks an exciting and transformative turning point for our physical media library and Seattle’s creative ecosystem.
We cannot wait to share more exciting updates with you in the months ahead! scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...
We cannot wait to share more exciting updates with you in the months ahead! scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...
January 28, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Incredible news! A cathedral of cinema, a treasure house of trash, a palace of physical discs (and tapes), Scarecrow will thrive!
Love to the musicians. Love to justice and compassion. Love to American music. Love to America.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Love to the musicians. Love to justice and compassion. Love to American music. Love to America.
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Anyone who disparages the idea of a man being a registered nurse is a scumbag. When I was recovering from quadruple bypass surgery, male and female nurses were part of the team that saved my life. Alex Pretti worked in the greatest of all professions.
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Anyone who disparages the idea of a man being a registered nurse is a scumbag. When I was recovering from quadruple bypass surgery, male and female nurses were part of the team that saved my life. Alex Pretti worked in the greatest of all professions.
Memorial (2004 Digital Remaster)
YouTube video by Michael Nyman - Topic
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January 25, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Stop telling people not to get close to snowplows or teens will start a “Don’t Get Too Close To Snowplows Challenge” where they get way too close to snowplows while laughing “Don’t get too close to snowplows!”
January 24, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Stop telling people not to get close to snowplows or teens will start a “Don’t Get Too Close To Snowplows Challenge” where they get way too close to snowplows while laughing “Don’t get too close to snowplows!”
January 23, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Orson Welles Falstaff Dean Martin Show
YouTube video by TimPBears
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January 14, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 AM
You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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The scale of the window enacts the feeling of being small and enchanted by snowfall. I feel like Nevinson does something magical: the viewer sees the world *as a child* even though what is given is a portrait of the child seeing the world, not a child’s perspective, per se.
'Looking at the Snow.' (c1930) By the deftest of touches, Christopher Nevinson takes us right to a place and makes it real. Although we are given no clue to the actual location or who the figure is in the painting, it is immaterial.
January 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
The scale of the window enacts the feeling of being small and enchanted by snowfall. I feel like Nevinson does something magical: the viewer sees the world *as a child* even though what is given is a portrait of the child seeing the world, not a child’s perspective, per se.
The silliest TV/movie thing that terrified me as a kid was The Death Probe, a Six Million Dollar Man episode about a tough vehicle sent to Venus that returned to Earth to kill. Several friends agree that just the sound of it got to them. It’s ve-e-ry tame (and lame) when rewatched.
This damn thing traumatized an entire generation of Americans, including me
It wasn't a series, but the scariest thing I saw on TV as a child was the Zuni fetish in Trilogy of Terror (it looks ridiculous now, but it was terrifying when I was 5!)
January 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The silliest TV/movie thing that terrified me as a kid was The Death Probe, a Six Million Dollar Man episode about a tough vehicle sent to Venus that returned to Earth to kill. Several friends agree that just the sound of it got to them. It’s ve-e-ry tame (and lame) when rewatched.
Yes, one of these shelves was installed incorrectly. I’m leaving it as an Ozymandias-style warning about hubris.
January 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Yes, one of these shelves was installed incorrectly. I’m leaving it as an Ozymandias-style warning about hubris.
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If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
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A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
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"There’s this Chekhov quote that I’m kind of living by lately. He says a work of art doesn’t have to solve a problem — it just has to formulate it correctly.... You ratchet the question up, and you go, Yeah, that’s a tough one."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
"There’s this Chekhov quote that I’m kind of living by lately. He says a work of art doesn’t have to solve a problem — it just has to formulate it correctly.... You ratchet the question up, and you go, Yeah, that’s a tough one."
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
GIFT ARTICLE I meant to skim this but was glued to it all the way through.
Saunders (2017 Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo) has a novel out this month, Vigil, about two angelic beings visiting the deathbed of an oil tycoon and climate-change-denial mastermind.
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Don’t know who credit image to, but
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Don’t know who credit image to, but
Tired: speed dating
Wired: hyperspace dating
Expired: time for carbon dating
Wired: hyperspace dating
Expired: time for carbon dating
January 6, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Tired: speed dating
Wired: hyperspace dating
Expired: time for carbon dating
Wired: hyperspace dating
Expired: time for carbon dating