John Leavitt
@leavittalone.bsky.social
@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
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John Leavitt
@leavittalone.bsky.social
· Nov 11
John Leavitt talks ethical consumption under capitalism @ Drunk Educate
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Hello new followers, here is a sadly still relevant presentation I gave about What Is To Be Done www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GH...
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The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see! Including in a glass. Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about DEAD HAND RULE by Max Gladstone: the great powers of the world converge, struggling for tenuous alliance at the end of all things. Time for a Two Toxicity Lunch!
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see! Including in a glass. Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about DEAD HAND RULE by Max Gladstone: the great powers of the world converge, struggling for tenuous alliance at the end of all things. Time for a Two Toxicity Lunch!
This whole experience has really revealed how many of you would follow an alluring voice into the deep woods
everyone talking about Frieren's demons has missed a better comparison, so-called "AI" like Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, a thing that mimics human syntax brilliantly, isn't capable of human thought or emotion, but merely preys on people
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This whole experience has really revealed how many of you would follow an alluring voice into the deep woods
Frustratingly banal dream where I was trying to coordinate a double feature viewing with a few friends but the cell system was on the Fritz and it was impossible to communicate - woke up feeling like I needed to apologize to someone
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Frustratingly banal dream where I was trying to coordinate a double feature viewing with a few friends but the cell system was on the Fritz and it was impossible to communicate - woke up feeling like I needed to apologize to someone
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context: Dory was extremely traumatized by her WW1-survivror father which actually helped her understand Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hermit-stage when she was doing anti-nuke stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TO9...
The Veterans Big Parade
YouTube video by Dory Previn - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
context: Dory was extremely traumatized by her WW1-survivror father which actually helped her understand Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hermit-stage when she was doing anti-nuke stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TO9...
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it's all music that can be listened to and enjoyed by kids but is not horrible and won't drive adults crazy. half of it isn't even kids music per se but there's no cusses etc. but moreover there's no baby shark etc. this episode has me first and the gimme gimmes and iggy pop
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
it's all music that can be listened to and enjoyed by kids but is not horrible and won't drive adults crazy. half of it isn't even kids music per se but there's no cusses etc. but moreover there's no baby shark etc. this episode has me first and the gimme gimmes and iggy pop
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if you have kids or even if you don't i need you to know that the archives of the kids radio show Greasy Kid Stuff are available to listen on the WFMU website
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
if you have kids or even if you don't i need you to know that the archives of the kids radio show Greasy Kid Stuff are available to listen on the WFMU website
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NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
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Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's an absolutely deranged marketing campaign for the 1949 rerelease of The Wizard of Oz
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The dilemma of being one of Kim Kardashian’s psychics and knowing she’s paying you to say “you’re going to pass the bar exam!” meanwhile all the ghosts and spirits in the room are hollering “SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT TORTS ARE”
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The dilemma of being one of Kim Kardashian’s psychics and knowing she’s paying you to say “you’re going to pass the bar exam!” meanwhile all the ghosts and spirits in the room are hollering “SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT TORTS ARE”
context: Dory was extremely traumatized by her WW1-survivror father which actually helped her understand Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hermit-stage when she was doing anti-nuke stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TO9...
The Veterans Big Parade
YouTube video by Dory Previn - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
context: Dory was extremely traumatized by her WW1-survivror father which actually helped her understand Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hermit-stage when she was doing anti-nuke stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TO9...
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thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
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Darwin has a toy box. He likes to dig round in there. Tonight he got his scarf out, so I put it on him. Apparently he knows the order of the holidays
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Darwin has a toy box. He likes to dig round in there. Tonight he got his scarf out, so I put it on him. Apparently he knows the order of the holidays
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we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”
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Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
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NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
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Not now carnivorous death-ball
Carnivorous 'death-ball' among odd deep-sea finds. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge is team's oddest deep-sea find
The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Not now carnivorous death-ball
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Poison swamp
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Poison swamp
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They're solving the problems on Xiaohongshu
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
They're solving the problems on Xiaohongshu
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Feel like there's a straight line between this shot from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN to Mike Mignola's art career.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Feel like there's a straight line between this shot from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN to Mike Mignola's art career.
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Oh man they monetized posting and made an official special boy prize you can get? someone is getting shot in a parking lot.
Twitter created an official account that features posts that got lots of high quality engagement, and this guy is going absolutely Nasim Aghdam mode over his post not being included. They sent him something like $10k over it originally
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Oh man they monetized posting and made an official special boy prize you can get? someone is getting shot in a parking lot.
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If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If your city is next, mutual aid and neighborhood watch networks are the most important things to scale up, but whistles are a great tool to get people taking the first step.
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
No pasta no weed gummies no ACA extension this government is a direct attack on bear culture
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
No pasta no weed gummies no ACA extension this government is a direct attack on bear culture
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Tandy is very different than Vivien Leigh. Her Blanche presents as less fluttery, her behavioral armor more a spiky effervesence (with perhaps more of a hint of the schoolteacher). It's great. Also fun to hear Karl Malden, Kim Hunter and Brando often vary their iconic line readings from the movie.
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Tandy is very different than Vivien Leigh. Her Blanche presents as less fluttery, her behavioral armor more a spiky effervesence (with perhaps more of a hint of the schoolteacher). It's great. Also fun to hear Karl Malden, Kim Hunter and Brando often vary their iconic line readings from the movie.
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Wow, had no idea this existed. A 1948 radio show about A Streetcar Named Desire winning the Drama Critics Circle Award featuring scenes performed by the original Broadway cast including Jessica Tandy as Blanche. Tantalizing and invaluable glimpse at how she played it.
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
Jessica Tandy & Marlon Brando-A Streetcar Named Desire (Radio Version)
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Wow, had no idea this existed. A 1948 radio show about A Streetcar Named Desire winning the Drama Critics Circle Award featuring scenes performed by the original Broadway cast including Jessica Tandy as Blanche. Tantalizing and invaluable glimpse at how she played it.
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...