alex pareene
pareene.bsky.social
alex pareene
@pareene.bsky.social
this is a Star Trek opinions account
only one author in the history of English language literature had a cooler real name than the guys he made up: Rex Stout.
August 28, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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What do we call it when a politician holds a public rally calling for the expulsion of homeless people from public space?
"Homeless Industrial Complex"
August 23, 2023 at 8:50 PM
number one thing that makes me feel like I'm living in an RPG is the messianic cult depositing Lore everywhere
August 23, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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There's their idealized version of Eric Adams, where a black moderate, socially tolerant former cop can assemble a politically viable, diverse coalition to address serious systemic problems.

Then there's the actual, real-life Eric Adams, who is a corrupt moron and quite possibly insane.
August 5, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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When I met Jim Starlin, he told me “There’s only one difference between writing for Marvel and and writing for DC. The editors at Marvel are tyrants, and the editors at DC are idiots.”
Jim Starlin rocks.
August 3, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Don't Call Him Deacon Blues
July 27, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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yet again I must give it up for trees

their cooling effect is so obvious in this newly mapped data on the heat island effect in nyc

https://projects.thecity.nyc/2023_07_heat-island-nyc/index.html
July 27, 2023 at 1:17 PM
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"There are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. estimate, compared with just 309,000 public ones."
Opinion | More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives
The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2023 at 1:43 PM
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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!

BIG NEWS: AEGIS-CWA won its union election - SEGA of America has Unionized!

Remember, unionizing your workplace is way past cool! Just like the Chaos Emeralds, workers are stronger when we're together.
July 10, 2023 at 7:34 PM
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proposal: on the signup page for this website there should be a jpeg of fentanyl used as talisman to ward away any police officers
July 7, 2023 at 10:30 PM
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YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO VISIT THE ZOO, NOT BUY IT
July 6, 2023 at 7:58 PM
I went to an $8 matinee of The Flash and I would've loved the hell out of that movie when I was 11. It's very funny that it flopped and the star went on a crime spree but it's also somehow the best/most comic booky Big Two movie in years.
July 6, 2023 at 8:00 PM
I was reading some silver age comics to my kid and it led me to wiki an obscure character and so many of these begin like "Solovar was the smartest ape in Gorilla City and an ally of The Flash" and then in the 2000s become this
July 5, 2023 at 2:16 AM
I never owned a Wii but I'm getting into emulation (cool/sexy activity) and it's truly remarkable how annoying the original controls of New Super Mario Bros Wii are. I don't even hate motion controls this is just a stupid way to control a platformer. Why do I shake to pick up a thing.
July 2, 2023 at 4:45 AM
Asteroid City. Very good. Will probably be the most visually impressive film involving nuclear bomb tests that I see this year.
July 1, 2023 at 8:44 PM
2:12 am... going back for more Steely Dan - Second Arrangement | Remastered Nichols cassette
July 1, 2023 at 2:09 AM
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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!

Fuck the Supreme Court!
June 30, 2023 at 4:51 PM
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Horrific case in Chicago, in which prosecutors sat on evidence that someone arrested at age 28 hadn't committed the murder ... and then made him spend the next 12 years rotting away in PRETRIAL DETENTION in Cook County. Nearly half his life he'll never get back.
June 27, 2023 at 1:44 PM
a car with obviously fake plates has been blocking the hydrant in front of my building for four days and I am literally begging the NYPD to tow it and they're just closing out my 311 tickets. great way to run a city.
June 27, 2023 at 12:33 PM
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New FOREVER WARS: As the Atlanta City Council votes on Cop City, Cat Brooks of the Anti-Police Terror Project warns that last week’s charges against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund could be a template against protest infrastructure nationwide.
When Protest Is 'Terrorism,' Material-Support Charges Are Next
Wednesday's arrests of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund over Cop City could be a strike against protest infrastructure nationwide, warns Cat Brooks of the Anti-Police Terror Project.
foreverwars.ghost.io
June 5, 2023 at 6:29 PM
someone should edit in "Flagpole Sitta" over the Succession ending montage
May 29, 2023 at 5:11 PM
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I had a fun time talking about cattle mutilations (aka, “mutes”) with @pareene.bsky.social & @lauramarsh.bsky.social for TNR’s The Politics of Everything podcast, if you want to learn about that stuff:

https://t.co/LRw9H1PmVS
May 24, 2023 at 2:37 PM
I just went to a WGAE-hosted screening of "Matewan" and I'm ready to run through a wall for the union
May 20, 2023 at 8:09 PM