J. M. Lassen
@jlassen.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Bookseller.
I am seeing The Descent in the theater tonight… a rare theatrical screening in North America of the British cut. Very excited.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I am seeing The Descent in the theater tonight… a rare theatrical screening in North America of the British cut. Very excited.
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people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
Every once in a while I will accidentally see coworkers chatting on teams chat after hours and I am reminded how happy I am being hourly instead of salaried.
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Every once in a while I will accidentally see coworkers chatting on teams chat after hours and I am reminded how happy I am being hourly instead of salaried.
The best thing I about the new #Predator Badlands movie is that it feels like it could have been a story set in the #Murderbot Universe. All those Weylin corp androids? Definitely sec units.
(This is meany high big praise, as I absolutely love the #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com)
(This is meany high big praise, as I absolutely love the #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com)
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The best thing I about the new #Predator Badlands movie is that it feels like it could have been a story set in the #Murderbot Universe. All those Weylin corp androids? Definitely sec units.
(This is meany high big praise, as I absolutely love the #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com)
(This is meany high big praise, as I absolutely love the #Murderbot books by @marthawells.com)
I’m starting to think there is nothing the Democrats will fight for (except donor profits. they sure as shit fight for that)
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’m starting to think there is nothing the Democrats will fight for (except donor profits. they sure as shit fight for that)
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In case I was too subtle.:
Terfs are garbage.
Terfs are garbage.
a man is carrying a bag in front of a garbage can that says 04 60573
Alt: a man is carrying a bag in front of a garbage can that says 04 60573
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In case I was too subtle.:
Terfs are garbage.
Terfs are garbage.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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👇🏽👇🏽
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
👇🏽👇🏽
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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As an American, "Gray" is strictly a color name created by Crayola for their products in my vocabulary. "Grey" is the spelling I default to in my writing, but that may be because I read so much SFF already.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
As an American, "Gray" is strictly a color name created by Crayola for their products in my vocabulary. "Grey" is the spelling I default to in my writing, but that may be because I read so much SFF already.
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I love that connection between reading SFF and language! 📚✨ The genre opens up new worlds, even in how we express ourselves. Keep enjoying those vibrant stories! #SFF #LanguageLovers
As an American, "Gray" is strictly a color name created by Crayola for their products in my vocabulary. "Grey" is the spelling I default to in my writing, but that may be because I read so much SFF already.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love that connection between reading SFF and language! 📚✨ The genre opens up new worlds, even in how we express ourselves. Keep enjoying those vibrant stories! #SFF #LanguageLovers
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
OMG!
I read online that the publisher of Mark Danielewski’s new novel Tom‘s Crossing issued 26 signed “wasp” copies that feature a dead wasp!!!
I was looking through our copies at the store and OMG!!!!😱
I read online that the publisher of Mark Danielewski’s new novel Tom‘s Crossing issued 26 signed “wasp” copies that feature a dead wasp!!!
I was looking through our copies at the store and OMG!!!!😱
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
OMG!
I read online that the publisher of Mark Danielewski’s new novel Tom‘s Crossing issued 26 signed “wasp” copies that feature a dead wasp!!!
I was looking through our copies at the store and OMG!!!!😱
I read online that the publisher of Mark Danielewski’s new novel Tom‘s Crossing issued 26 signed “wasp” copies that feature a dead wasp!!!
I was looking through our copies at the store and OMG!!!!😱
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Day 8 of the #NoirvemberChallenge "Now You're Talking, Noir!" Favorite Line in a Film Noir. There are so many it's hard to choose. "Strictly poison under the gravy." "You're a cookie full of arsenic." But I'm going with Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole "I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Day 8 of the #NoirvemberChallenge "Now You're Talking, Noir!" Favorite Line in a Film Noir. There are so many it's hard to choose. "Strictly poison under the gravy." "You're a cookie full of arsenic." But I'm going with Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole "I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
My 14 year old child chose to spend Friday night with clasdmates attending a screening of a 1962 French new wave movie (Cléo from 5-7). I am pleasantly gobsmacked, every day in so many levels, watching my child grow up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A...
Cléo from 5 to 7 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cléo_from_5_to_7
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My 14 year old child chose to spend Friday night with clasdmates attending a screening of a 1962 French new wave movie (Cléo from 5-7). I am pleasantly gobsmacked, every day in so many levels, watching my child grow up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A...
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"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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a beautifully concise summary of austeritarianism
all sticks, no carrots
all sticks, no carrots
It is fascinating to watch governments turn to their populations and say, 'This is it, lads. Yees are not getting anything better ever. Now continue to vote for and support us', as a strategy.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
a beautifully concise summary of austeritarianism
all sticks, no carrots
all sticks, no carrots
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This is today!
I'll be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this weekend doing a panel with @scalzi.com!
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is today!
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
If you are worried about America “sliding into fascism” you are a couple decades too late. America is a full-blown fascist state right now.
But You can do better going forward. It’s never too late to start fighting against fascism. Welcome to the struggl.
But You can do better going forward. It’s never too late to start fighting against fascism. Welcome to the struggl.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
If you are worried about America “sliding into fascism” you are a couple decades too late. America is a full-blown fascist state right now.
But You can do better going forward. It’s never too late to start fighting against fascism. Welcome to the struggl.
But You can do better going forward. It’s never too late to start fighting against fascism. Welcome to the struggl.
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life