Steve
@snark.bsky.social
“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
"Finally, the General Court…declared that [Roger Williams] was spreading "diverse, new, and dangerous opinions" and ordered that he be banished. The execution of the order was delayed… [H]e was allowed to stay temporarily, provided that he ceased publicly teaching his opinions. He did not comply."
Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
"Finally, the General Court…declared that [Roger Williams] was spreading "diverse, new, and dangerous opinions" and ordered that he be banished. The execution of the order was delayed… [H]e was allowed to stay temporarily, provided that he ceased publicly teaching his opinions. He did not comply."
Thinking again about @naominovik.bsky.social's Scholomance trilogy's inexorable move from a sort of fanfic-ish examination of the gaps in Harry Potter to a parable about late capitalism, motivated by the same questions: but what would be the consequences? why would parents feed their children to it?
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Thinking again about @naominovik.bsky.social's Scholomance trilogy's inexorable move from a sort of fanfic-ish examination of the gaps in Harry Potter to a parable about late capitalism, motivated by the same questions: but what would be the consequences? why would parents feed their children to it?
The Gorilla Channel prophecy has been realized.
i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop
man, did the viziers in the WH not actually show him the actual video?
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
The Gorilla Channel prophecy has been realized.
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The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
We can all imagine a world without ICE. ICE is younger than WordPress. It's younger than GameStop. It's younger than PokerStars. If they can't do their jobs without shooting American citizens turning their SUVs around on public streets, the agency should be undone.
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 PM
We can all imagine a world without ICE. ICE is younger than WordPress. It's younger than GameStop. It's younger than PokerStars. If they can't do their jobs without shooting American citizens turning their SUVs around on public streets, the agency should be undone.
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could not be more excited that @colsonwhitehead.com's third part of the Harlem Trilogy skips ahead to the 1980s
up with social realism, recent history, fictions of urban space
reason for hanging on till july!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742026...
up with social realism, recent history, fictions of urban space
reason for hanging on till july!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742026...
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: 9780385550505 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Har...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
could not be more excited that @colsonwhitehead.com's third part of the Harlem Trilogy skips ahead to the 1980s
up with social realism, recent history, fictions of urban space
reason for hanging on till july!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742026...
up with social realism, recent history, fictions of urban space
reason for hanging on till july!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742026...
The poppies didn't turn up on a cursory Google Image search.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
The poppies didn't turn up on a cursory Google Image search.
I'm pretty sure I would never repeat it, but seeing "Sátántangó" in the theater in... I think 2022?... was a top moviegoing experience.
January 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I'm pretty sure I would never repeat it, but seeing "Sátántangó" in the theater in... I think 2022?... was a top moviegoing experience.
Per @davidaja.com, this is Daredevil #283 (1990); words by
@annienocenti.bsky.social, pencils by Mark Bagley. Per @gwillow.me, "You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor."
@annienocenti.bsky.social, pencils by Mark Bagley. Per @gwillow.me, "You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor."
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Per @davidaja.com, this is Daredevil #283 (1990); words by
@annienocenti.bsky.social, pencils by Mark Bagley. Per @gwillow.me, "You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor."
@annienocenti.bsky.social, pencils by Mark Bagley. Per @gwillow.me, "You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor."
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
TIL that Sammo Hung's grandmother, the early Hong Kong star Chin Tsi-ang (whose first credit in IMDB was in 1930 and whose first credit in Wikipedia was *1925*), played Maggie Cheung's servant in In the Mood For Love. Not even her final credit!
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
TIL that Sammo Hung's grandmother, the early Hong Kong star Chin Tsi-ang (whose first credit in IMDB was in 1930 and whose first credit in Wikipedia was *1925*), played Maggie Cheung's servant in In the Mood For Love. Not even her final credit!
Democrats once ran rings around the GOP in the Senate. Every day Bill Frist—handsome, incredibly rich, a surgeon—woke up asking how he could get into the White House and Harry Reid—none of those—woke up asking how he could punch Frist in the dick. And Chuck Schumer doesn't even want to be president.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Democrats once ran rings around the GOP in the Senate. Every day Bill Frist—handsome, incredibly rich, a surgeon—woke up asking how he could get into the White House and Harry Reid—none of those—woke up asking how he could punch Frist in the dick. And Chuck Schumer doesn't even want to be president.
This is how I learned that Bottom of the Hill—where I saw maybe the most punishingly loud show I've ever been to; it felt like my heart was going to be crushed in my chest—is going to close at the end of 2026. RIP. (It was Mogwai.)
i have no idea how to solve this problem, but the cost of insuring venues is going to kill live music dead in every city at the rate we are going. it wasn’t the only factor driving bottom of the hill into the ground, but $34K/yr is cost-prohibitive for anyone to try to pick it up.
It’s so hard for locally-owned venues. Go out more. See more bands. Netflix will be there when you get back.
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
January 3, 2026 at 2:06 AM
This is how I learned that Bottom of the Hill—where I saw maybe the most punishingly loud show I've ever been to; it felt like my heart was going to be crushed in my chest—is going to close at the end of 2026. RIP. (It was Mogwai.)
For instance: "It is the obligation of any reporter to question power, to be skeptical—which is different from cynical—and to report more than just what the president said on any
given day. If today he says one thing and last week he
said another, it's a reporter's job to point that out."
given day. If today he says one thing and last week he
said another, it's a reporter's job to point that out."
This prompted me to go reread Linda Ellerbee's story (from her memoir "And So It Goes") of sneaking into the welcome-home parade for the American hostages returning from Iran, which is more of a service than Bari has ever done before.
January 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
For instance: "It is the obligation of any reporter to question power, to be skeptical—which is different from cynical—and to report more than just what the president said on any
given day. If today he says one thing and last week he
said another, it's a reporter's job to point that out."
given day. If today he says one thing and last week he
said another, it's a reporter's job to point that out."
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A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.
All Cops Are Batrachians
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:03 PM
All Cops Are Batrachians
Ye Children of Today lack the Tutelage to Produce Miſsives in Copperplate or even a Fine Secretary Hand.
It's 2026.
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
Things many American school kids probably don't know how to do:
* Dial a rotary telephone
* Tell time from an analog clock
* Read or write cursive
* Decipher Roman numerals
* Navigate with a paper map or use a compass
* Balance a checkbook
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Ye Children of Today lack the Tutelage to Produce Miſsives in Copperplate or even a Fine Secretary Hand.
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My first Nancy strip, for New Year’s Day 2026❣️
January 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
My first Nancy strip, for New Year’s Day 2026❣️
It's cool that Tablet, the conservative website "about Jewish life and identity", is calling people rootless cosmopolitans, all very normal stuff.
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
It's cool that Tablet, the conservative website "about Jewish life and identity", is calling people rootless cosmopolitans, all very normal stuff.
There's going to be a no-budget Snookum Snoker slasher movie by August.
public domain day is both really cool in principle and very silly in practice. personally i have no stories to tell with long forgotten cartoon dog Snookum Snoker, once-popular mystery novel protagonist Racist Caricature Police Detective, or self-playing piano hit The Hopscotch Boogie
January 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
There's going to be a no-budget Snookum Snoker slasher movie by August.
Rep. Rob Garcia (D, Long Beach) was sworn into Congress on his citizenship certificate and the Smithsonian's copy of Superman #1.
January 2, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Rep. Rob Garcia (D, Long Beach) was sworn into Congress on his citizenship certificate and the Smithsonian's copy of Superman #1.
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If you look through the media tab on Grok's profile on Twitter people seem to now be primarily using it to non-consensually make other people's (primarily but not exclusively women) photos sexually explicit. Like telling Grok to render the person in a see-through bikini.
December 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you look through the media tab on Grok's profile on Twitter people seem to now be primarily using it to non-consensually make other people's (primarily but not exclusively women) photos sexually explicit. Like telling Grok to render the person in a see-through bikini.
I refute this.
It’s New Year’s EVE not New Year’s STEVE
December 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I refute this.
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Ringing in the new year like
December 31, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Ringing in the new year like