Stephen Kearse
@kearse.bsky.social
Journalist, critic, and author of novels Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light.
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Stephen Kearse
@kearse.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Liquid Snakes
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hi new followers. i write about music, books, and sometimes movies. I also write fiction, like this book. it's pretty good.
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would love to know what experts consider a normal amount of self-chuckling
January 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
would love to know what experts consider a normal amount of self-chuckling
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There are Bari Weisses everywhere for those with the eyes to see defector.com/bari-weiss-i...
Bari Weiss Is The Symptom | Defector
Who says Bari Weiss doesn’t know how to run a newsroom? “My general view here,” the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in a memo before shelving the now-infamous 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT c...
defector.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
There are Bari Weisses everywhere for those with the eyes to see defector.com/bari-weiss-i...
in a texas senate race rabbit hole entirely off the strength of this: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fLT9ax/
Anger is not the absence of thought — it is the presence of memory. And Black women have long memories when it comes to being discouraged, dismissed, and disciplined out of power. When people use “str...
TikTok video by Hope Giselle
www.tiktok.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
in a texas senate race rabbit hole entirely off the strength of this: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fLT9ax/
sad that people can't imagine a world without police despite such a world being the majority of human history
January 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
sad that people can't imagine a world without police despite such a world being the majority of human history
when my dog pretends not to hear me I think of all the times I dropped a crumb and somehow 🧐—over the sound of the oven and music and talking—she came running to the scene
January 8, 2026 at 9:50 PM
when my dog pretends not to hear me I think of all the times I dropped a crumb and somehow 🧐—over the sound of the oven and music and talking—she came running to the scene
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twitter was always exactly this. what we're seeing this week is a culmination of years and years of abuse run rampant on the platform, supercharged by a megalomaniac's greed and fantasy www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
twitter was always exactly this. what we're seeing this week is a culmination of years and years of abuse run rampant on the platform, supercharged by a megalomaniac's greed and fantasy www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
what a perfectly horrifying image
"Scientists estimate that adults ingest the equivalent of one credit card per week in microplastics"
stateline.org/2026/01/06/p...
"Scientists estimate that adults ingest the equivalent of one credit card per week in microplastics"
stateline.org/2026/01/06/p...
January 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
what a perfectly horrifying image
"Scientists estimate that adults ingest the equivalent of one credit card per week in microplastics"
stateline.org/2026/01/06/p...
"Scientists estimate that adults ingest the equivalent of one credit card per week in microplastics"
stateline.org/2026/01/06/p...
weird seeing so many outlets place imperialism in quote marks like it's some loaded partisan word
January 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
weird seeing so many outlets place imperialism in quote marks like it's some loaded partisan word
a further reminder how absurd his campaign for the nobel peace prize was
January 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
a further reminder how absurd his campaign for the nobel peace prize was
the protein boom can feel scammy but it is at least responding to demand
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 AM
the protein boom can feel scammy but it is at least responding to demand
just saw the all caps beat used in an AI commercial. gross dude
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 AM
just saw the all caps beat used in an AI commercial. gross dude
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To close this out: the first installment of one of my new Paste columns, which features an interview with Rhian from Wet Leg! Ty to everyone who read even a paragraph that I wrote this year, and to all the editors who were kind enough to let me write for them :)
www.pastemagazine.com/music/cover-...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/cover-...
Cover Me: Wet Leg’s moisturizer artwork is animalistic, grotesque, and totally on brand
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
To close this out: the first installment of one of my new Paste columns, which features an interview with Rhian from Wet Leg! Ty to everyone who read even a paragraph that I wrote this year, and to all the editors who were kind enough to let me write for them :)
www.pastemagazine.com/music/cover-...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/cover-...
some things I wrote this year:
exhibit a, on one of the year's best records
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
exhibit a, on one of the year's best records
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Annahstasia: Tether
Read Stephen Kearse’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
some things I wrote this year:
exhibit a, on one of the year's best records
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
exhibit a, on one of the year's best records
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Reposted by Stephen Kearse
I wrote about lesbian pulp for The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/odd-g...
Odd Girls Out | Moira Donegan
The lesbian pulp revival evokes an imagined past, when politics were less oppressive and sex was more fun.
thebaffler.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wrote about lesbian pulp for The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/odd-g...
my U2 iTunes plot for 2025 would be for everyone who buys tickets to fire and ash to instead see predator: badlands
December 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
my U2 iTunes plot for 2025 would be for everyone who buys tickets to fire and ash to instead see predator: badlands
this profile rips
“I’m the king of the world!” he crowed to the audience, brandishing his statue overhead. It was Cameron at his most vulnerable, exulting in his character’s improbable arc from truck driver to Oscar winner, and it just made everybody hate him more
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
“I’m the king of the world!” he crowed to the audience, brandishing his statue overhead. It was Cameron at his most vulnerable, exulting in his character’s improbable arc from truck driver to Oscar winner, and it just made everybody hate him more
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Man of Extremes
The return of James Cameron.
www.newyorker.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
this profile rips
“I’m the king of the world!” he crowed to the audience, brandishing his statue overhead. It was Cameron at his most vulnerable, exulting in his character’s improbable arc from truck driver to Oscar winner, and it just made everybody hate him more
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
“I’m the king of the world!” he crowed to the audience, brandishing his statue overhead. It was Cameron at his most vulnerable, exulting in his character’s improbable arc from truck driver to Oscar winner, and it just made everybody hate him more
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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Over nearly a decade, the State College Police Department underreported hundreds of rapes in public data, a Spotlight PA investigation found, masking the true extent of the crime in the community surrounding Penn State.
100s of rapes unreported by State College police
The missing data masked the true extent of the crime surrounding Penn State. The central PA department claims it was unaware of a 2013 change to what is considered rape.
www.spotlightpa.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Over nearly a decade, the State College Police Department underreported hundreds of rapes in public data, a Spotlight PA investigation found, masking the true extent of the crime in the community surrounding Penn State.
Gabriel Jacoby: gutta child EP
Read Stephen Kearse’s review of the EP.
pitchfork.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I agree with the critics who argue "hallucinating" falsely gives people the sense AI can think
I vote we replace it with "trifling," which we already use for hella nonliving things
I just called winter trifling this morning
I vote we replace it with "trifling," which we already use for hella nonliving things
I just called winter trifling this morning
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I agree with the critics who argue "hallucinating" falsely gives people the sense AI can think
I vote we replace it with "trifling," which we already use for hella nonliving things
I just called winter trifling this morning
I vote we replace it with "trifling," which we already use for hella nonliving things
I just called winter trifling this morning
I reviewed the new Mavi mixtape: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
MAVI: The Pilot
Read Stephen Kearse’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I reviewed the new Mavi mixtape: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
the "affordability's a hoax" stuff reminds me of the time mcdonald's gave its workers budgeting worksheets that included "2nd job" as part of financial planning
www.eater.com/2013/7/16/64...
www.eater.com/2013/7/16/64...
McDonald’s Financial Advice to Employees: Get a 2nd Job
A national site covering food and dining culture, with 23 city sites tracking local dining scenes across hundreds of maps.
www.eater.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
the "affordability's a hoax" stuff reminds me of the time mcdonald's gave its workers budgeting worksheets that included "2nd job" as part of financial planning
www.eater.com/2013/7/16/64...
www.eater.com/2013/7/16/64...
I watch like one boxing match a year but I can confidently say that not enough fighters walk out to BPT
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I watch like one boxing match a year but I can confidently say that not enough fighters walk out to BPT
