Kris Miranda
@krismiranda09.bsky.social
Professional lore nerd, slow (and not professional) writer, (very) occasional set/event photographer, Asian American, cat person in Los Angeles.
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anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT
realized my piece on the metaphorical flexibility of pluribus is unintentionally an seo play for the phrase "what is pluribus about"
www.vulture.com/article/what...
www.vulture.com/article/what...
Pluribus Is About Everything
And unlike anything else.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT
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Thank goodness studies convince people… oh, wait
Despite industry leaders promising that agentic AI is the future, taking care of virtually all human tasks within the next few years
#CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time
#CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time
"They’d basically talked themselves to death."
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thank goodness studies convince people… oh, wait
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as a big GDT guy, I wish I had fewer frustrations with the way this FRANKENSTEIN reinterprets the Creature into another of his misunderstood monsters -- but I have them, and here they are.
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a little too in love with the monster. Jacob Elordi is phenomenal as the Creature, but the film’s happy ending saps the character of its original complexity.
The Ending of Frankenstein Is a Little Too in Love with the Monster
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a little too in love with the monster. Jacob Elordi is phenomenal as the Creature, but the film’s happy ending saps the character of its original complexity.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
as a big GDT guy, I wish I had fewer frustrations with the way this FRANKENSTEIN reinterprets the Creature into another of his misunderstood monsters -- but I have them, and here they are.
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Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well, I was trying real hard not to join today’s dogpile-on-the-Times, but this is just an absolute g.d. horror of immorality and journalistic malpractice.
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Girls only dream of one thing: destroying a city so completely that the resulting layer of ash is known as our "Destruction Horizon"
Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Girls only dream of one thing: destroying a city so completely that the resulting layer of ash is known as our "Destruction Horizon"
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If you want to show us you’re serious about fighting, for STARTERS need to see 23 of you vote to replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you want to show us you’re serious about fighting, for STARTERS need to see 23 of you vote to replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
I have no doubt there are that many of you tired of his job performance.
We need one of you to step up and challenge him and 22 others to vote.
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**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year's best.
www.rogerebert.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands very good, Sarah Schachner getting to resurrect some sounds from Anthem for a score playing in IMAX even better
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Predator: Badlands very good, Sarah Schachner getting to resurrect some sounds from Anthem for a score playing in IMAX even better
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
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As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.
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BEGGING Democrats to finally learn this lesson
Without people of color, Spanberger, Shirrill, Mamdani and others wouldn't win with their huge margins.
Just look at the cross tabs.
It was "the woke" who got it done.
Majority of white voters didnt go for them.
Just look at the cross tabs.
It was "the woke" who got it done.
Majority of white voters didnt go for them.
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
BEGGING Democrats to finally learn this lesson
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Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching some 41 million people nationwide in 2024. These...
www.cbpp.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Seems to always boil down to whether or not you think poor people deserve pleasure or if you think an appropriate punishment for being poor is hunger, malnutrition, and misery.
"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Seems to always boil down to whether or not you think poor people deserve pleasure or if you think an appropriate punishment for being poor is hunger, malnutrition, and misery.
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Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
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I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...
James Gunn’s American Project
He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.
www.vulture.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
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Everyone: WHY IS DIGITAL MEDIA DYING?!
Also everyone:
Also everyone:
everybody just posting screenshots and quotes, no links and no attribution
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Everyone: WHY IS DIGITAL MEDIA DYING?!
Also everyone:
Also everyone:
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everybody just posting screenshots and quotes, no links and no attribution
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
everybody just posting screenshots and quotes, no links and no attribution
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
begging all of you to have a crumb of information hygiene
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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This is so fucking bleak and is being inflicted intentionally upon vulnerable people by Republicans who have no desire to help their own constituents (never mind anyone else) survive.
42 million Americans will stop receiving SNAP on Nov. 1, according to a new message from the USDA.
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is so fucking bleak and is being inflicted intentionally upon vulnerable people by Republicans who have no desire to help their own constituents (never mind anyone else) survive.
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This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
Lía Smith, a missing trans student in Vermont has been found dead.
"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
"Vermont State Police touted the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for those in distress or their loved ones." This is the same lifeline the Trump admin cut for LGBTQ people in crisis.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
Missing Middlebury College student confirmed dead after dayslong search, Vermont police say
Middlebury student Lia Smith, 21, was found dead Thursday, Vermont police confirmed. She had been reported missing several days prior.
www.boston.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.
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Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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