Gary Reddin
@garyreddin.bsky.social
Poet Laureate of the Dollar General
Script Editor at @complexly.bsky.social
reddinwrites.com
Script Editor at @complexly.bsky.social
reddinwrites.com
Hard cut to me, at work, writing an intro that's an homage to the 1988 classic "They Live" for our mostly Gen Z audience.
"Are my references outdated?"
"No, it's the children who are wrong."
"Are my references outdated?"
"No, it's the children who are wrong."
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hard cut to me, at work, writing an intro that's an homage to the 1988 classic "They Live" for our mostly Gen Z audience.
"Are my references outdated?"
"No, it's the children who are wrong."
"Are my references outdated?"
"No, it's the children who are wrong."
I’m an atheist, but I’m willing to spend an eternity in hell if I’m wrong so long as every ICE agent is there, too
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I’m an atheist, but I’m willing to spend an eternity in hell if I’m wrong so long as every ICE agent is there, too
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November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Complexly is truly one of the best educational companies out there today. If you've ever watched SciShow, Crash Course, Eons, or any of their other productions, you know how valuable they are as a learning resource. Join in the fun of this year's Learn-a-thon and support free educational content!
Perhaps we treated you too harshly
"I’m not looking so bad now, huh? Absolute best case, the LLM-generated legal advice you get is merely plagiarizing, probably from me. But more likely, it’s a mish-mash of Reddit posts filtered through an algorithm coded by a Belarusian teen on the run from Interpol."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Perhaps we treated you too harshly
I think my hottest take is that I don’t care for Hozier
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I think my hottest take is that I don’t care for Hozier
This is very niche to my specific prog rock space opera-oriented interests, but not every Key Entity has to be that dramatic, right? Like surely one is just, like, Key Entity 16 Jeff the Nostalgic and it's just a guy complaining to Sirius that everything was better in the 90s. Someone get Claudio.
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is very niche to my specific prog rock space opera-oriented interests, but not every Key Entity has to be that dramatic, right? Like surely one is just, like, Key Entity 16 Jeff the Nostalgic and it's just a guy complaining to Sirius that everything was better in the 90s. Someone get Claudio.
New series trailer drop!
Join our book club with Crash Course Latin American Literature! Starting next week, host Curly Velasquez will explore the trends, tropes, and movements of a super diverse region, considering everything from precolonial Indigenous texts to contemporary novels. youtu.be/iBRwcnTUthc
Crash Course Latin American Literature Preview
YouTube video by CrashCourse
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New series trailer drop!
Reposted by Gary Reddin
“Horror specifically is good at taking the temperature of where society is at.”
The Best Ghost Stories Are Really Love Stories - Electric Literature
Carson Faust’s “If the Dead Belong Here” gives voice to the specters of familial loss
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October 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Horror specifically is good at taking the temperature of where society is at.”
Whatever doesn't kill me really wasn't trying hard enough I am very fragile
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Whatever doesn't kill me really wasn't trying hard enough I am very fragile
Cancel your Spotify
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cancel your Spotify
I shouldn't be at work, I should be (plotting an elaborate jewel heist at the Louvre with a ragtag band of misfit Parisians)
October 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I shouldn't be at work, I should be (plotting an elaborate jewel heist at the Louvre with a ragtag band of misfit Parisians)
Someone brought my father and my mother together on the same couch (Bruce and Flo)
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Someone brought my father and my mother together on the same couch (Bruce and Flo)
Sometimes I think back to (literally) almost dying in the journalism trenches during the pandemic to what I’m doing now and it’s just 🤯 btw Lily is AMAZING to work with. They are just a gem of a human!
Women have always played important roles in Native societies. In the new episode of Crash Course Native American History with guest host Lily Gladstone, we unpack the ways Native women have shown up, as war heroes and peacemakers, and as matriarchs and activists.
youtu.be/Dj8EjBQJD84
youtu.be/Dj8EjBQJD84
A History of Indigenous Women with Lily Gladstone: Ep 19 of Crash Course Native American History
YouTube video by CrashCourse
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Sometimes I think back to (literally) almost dying in the journalism trenches during the pandemic to what I’m doing now and it’s just 🤯 btw Lily is AMAZING to work with. They are just a gem of a human!
Yeah, credit scores are so real, bro. That's why they decrease when you pay off loans, bro. Don't think about it. Just consume, bro.
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yeah, credit scores are so real, bro. That's why they decrease when you pay off loans, bro. Don't think about it. Just consume, bro.
Reposted by Gary Reddin
Poetry isn't a separate category. All writing is poetry.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Poetry isn't a separate category. All writing is poetry.
Shoutout to the folks over at @butternoparsnips.bsky.social for having me on to talk about #monsters this #spookyseason
Butter No Parsnips X Monstrum Obscura
Talking Blemmyes with the folks at Butter No Parsnips
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October 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Shoutout to the folks over at @butternoparsnips.bsky.social for having me on to talk about #monsters this #spookyseason
I love when a lit mag is like "send us your fucking worst" and then I DO and they're like "this isn't right for us, but the literary world is subjective"
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I love when a lit mag is like "send us your fucking worst" and then I DO and they're like "this isn't right for us, but the literary world is subjective"
Have you read my weird little chant to the old gods over at @mcsweeneys.net yet?
"IT has seen the things you’ve done, the things you’ve become. Stealing your sister’s lighter. How deeply you embraced Ska. That time you told Jeremy you weren’t screen-peeking in Goldeneye, you were just really good from playing with your cousin."
Only ’90s Kids Will Understand This Dead Language Found Scrawled in Blood on the Wall of a Taco Bell Bathroom
Remember Ecto Cooler? IT remembers you. IT remembers every dark day you spent hiding in your room. All the hours listening to NSYNC while you carve...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Have you read my weird little chant to the old gods over at @mcsweeneys.net yet?
My wife once asked me what drugs writers take, this is my answer @havehashad.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My wife once asked me what drugs writers take, this is my answer @havehashad.com
Does the existence of Taylor Swift
imply the existence of Taylor Slow?
imply the existence of Taylor Slow?
October 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Does the existence of Taylor Swift
imply the existence of Taylor Slow?
imply the existence of Taylor Slow?
Reposted by Gary Reddin
“A system that steadily increases the gulf between the ordinary man and the super-rich, that permits the resources of society to be gathered into personal fortunes is, perhaps, as inimical as anything could be to the American dream.”
- James Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "American Dream"
- James Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "American Dream"
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“A system that steadily increases the gulf between the ordinary man and the super-rich, that permits the resources of society to be gathered into personal fortunes is, perhaps, as inimical as anything could be to the American dream.”
- James Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "American Dream"
- James Truslow Adams, coiner of the phrase "American Dream"
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It's not that you're not talented enough! It's that the literary world is an expensive pyramid scheme!
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I love Big Thief, but you can't fool me, I know a liberal arts college's English faculty cover band when I see one
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I love Big Thief, but you can't fool me, I know a liberal arts college's English faculty cover band when I see one