Marissa Skudlarek
@marissaskud.bsky.social
Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.
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The New Deal is one of the best things this godforsaken country ever managed to put together, and Republicans have been wanting to gut it ever since. I think this is specific, targeted hate, not just a brainless drive for real estate value
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The New Deal is one of the best things this godforsaken country ever managed to put together, and Republicans have been wanting to gut it ever since. I think this is specific, targeted hate, not just a brainless drive for real estate value
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We're only three weeks in, but when Time Magazine does Person of the Year it BETTER be all of Minneapolis.
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 AM
We're only three weeks in, but when Time Magazine does Person of the Year it BETTER be all of Minneapolis.
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GoodFellas is a genre. Many films besides GoodFellas are GoodFellas. Boogie Nights is a GoodFella. Summer of Sam is a GoodFella. Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman: all GoodFellas, obvs. I think you can argue Uncut Gems is a GoodFella. Anora feels like a GoodFella to me.
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 AM
GoodFellas is a genre. Many films besides GoodFellas are GoodFellas. Boogie Nights is a GoodFella. Summer of Sam is a GoodFella. Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman: all GoodFellas, obvs. I think you can argue Uncut Gems is a GoodFella. Anora feels like a GoodFella to me.
since I don’t drive, I’m forever grateful to Waymo for finally allowing me to partake in my birthright as a basic white Californian woman pushing 40: belting out Sheryl Crow alone in a car at night
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 AM
since I don’t drive, I’m forever grateful to Waymo for finally allowing me to partake in my birthright as a basic white Californian woman pushing 40: belting out Sheryl Crow alone in a car at night
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When the guy’s life flashes before his eyes I do think it’ll include a full performance of Phantom of the Opera which lasts way longer than all the other stuff
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
When the guy’s life flashes before his eyes I do think it’ll include a full performance of Phantom of the Opera which lasts way longer than all the other stuff
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
about to become a hipster but for hating the Mercator Projection before it was cool
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
Also, @chrislhayes.bsky.social, this seems to be confirmation of your Mercator Theory.
"I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
"I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
about to become a hipster but for hating the Mercator Projection before it was cool
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
(I gave a presentation to my 6th grade class about why it is misleading cartography with bad geopolitical consequences!)
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I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
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I, for one, welcome our new space cat overlord
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I, for one, welcome our new space cat overlord
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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Tom Durie, court fool to Anne of Denmark, 1614. Fascinating, marvelous portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts, whose day is today.
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Tom Durie, court fool to Anne of Denmark, 1614. Fascinating, marvelous portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts, whose day is today.
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
not quite the point here but if you want to read a fun time-travel novel with a funny scene of Medieval Vikings pillaging a modern Wal-Mart, read “The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O.”
As a Christian, I don't support Vikings pillaging monasteries, but the Nordics should get to sack one of those abandoned Wal-Mart turned scam mega churches after all this is done as a treat.
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
not quite the point here but if you want to read a fun time-travel novel with a funny scene of Medieval Vikings pillaging a modern Wal-Mart, read “The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O.”
1. The magnolias & rhododendrons are starting to bloom in the SF Botanical Garden
2. I’ll be performing Shakespeare in a bar again next month—& maybe playing my first ingenue role at age 38?! (Celia in AYLI)
3. This white chicken chili recipe is really good www.halfbakedharvest.com/creamy-white...
2. I’ll be performing Shakespeare in a bar again next month—& maybe playing my first ingenue role at age 38?! (Celia in AYLI)
3. This white chicken chili recipe is really good www.halfbakedharvest.com/creamy-white...
January 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM
1. The magnolias & rhododendrons are starting to bloom in the SF Botanical Garden
2. I’ll be performing Shakespeare in a bar again next month—& maybe playing my first ingenue role at age 38?! (Celia in AYLI)
3. This white chicken chili recipe is really good www.halfbakedharvest.com/creamy-white...
2. I’ll be performing Shakespeare in a bar again next month—& maybe playing my first ingenue role at age 38?! (Celia in AYLI)
3. This white chicken chili recipe is really good www.halfbakedharvest.com/creamy-white...
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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sending a postcard featuring Jean Moulin, French Resistance hero, to some friends in the Twin Cities 💪
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
sending a postcard featuring Jean Moulin, French Resistance hero, to some friends in the Twin Cities 💪
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the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 AM
the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
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I love that Wikipedia's edit history is public because it only takes two clicks to get to the very first version of the "ant" article in its entirety from 2001. Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia! You've come so far
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I love that Wikipedia's edit history is public because it only takes two clicks to get to the very first version of the "ant" article in its entirety from 2001. Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia! You've come so far
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
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It’s disgusting that Tony Kushner had to stand up to a man who was saying Renee Good got what was coming to her. But without that happening we might never have known that he needlepoints pillows with scenes from The Shining
As long as I'm sharing Tony's non-writing work, these are two of my favorites--a birthday present he made for me in 2018. Needless to say, I treasure these.
January 15, 2026 at 1:48 AM
It’s disgusting that Tony Kushner had to stand up to a man who was saying Renee Good got what was coming to her. But without that happening we might never have known that he needlepoints pillows with scenes from The Shining
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we need a word for people who invent elaborate social situations in their head to justify buying new clothes but don't actually like socializing
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 AM
we need a word for people who invent elaborate social situations in their head to justify buying new clothes but don't actually like socializing
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Surely today’s best meta-needlepoint by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright 🪡🧵
He needlepointed this himself. It's a needlepoint pillow of the actor Ernest Thesiger needlepoint. It took forever and is awesome.
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Surely today’s best meta-needlepoint by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright 🪡🧵