Steve
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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
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Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.
Minneapolis man says ICE agents took 'trophy' photos, locked him in overcrowded cell
Garrison Gibson, a Minneapolis man from Liberia, shared details of his experience with federal immigration enforcement this week at a press conference Saturday.
www.mprnews.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Inside the detention center, Gibson said officers put him in a bare, metal holding cell about the size of a small conference room with around 40 other detainees. Their legs were shackled. Gibson said one person in the cell appeared to have scabies.
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A correction request on a story Nicole didn't write opened up a mystery of strange bylines and oddly-written stories. aftermath.site/nicole-carpent...
January 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
A correction request on a story Nicole didn't write opened up a mystery of strange bylines and oddly-written stories. aftermath.site/nicole-carpent...
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it's real funny that the times doesn't insert text noting when these people make wildly false assertions, something they could easily do and fits their putative remit
Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
it's real funny that the times doesn't insert text noting when these people make wildly false assertions, something they could easily do and fits their putative remit
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
"Can you imagine programmers arguing over *semantics*?"
Wait, Rusty, are these *move* semantics?
Wait, Rusty, are these *move* semantics?
Have you heard about Gas Town? No? Well I'm gonna explain what it is anyway.
www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to...
www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to...
All Gas Town, No Brakes Town
You sling beads to a hook which activates a polecat according to GUPP.
www.todayintabs.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
"Can you imagine programmers arguing over *semantics*?"
Wait, Rusty, are these *move* semantics?
Wait, Rusty, are these *move* semantics?
Berkeley Breathed in a 1988 The Comics Journal interview, a year before Dilbert premiered.
January 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Berkeley Breathed in a 1988 The Comics Journal interview, a year before Dilbert premiered.
Hypnotic.
Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Hypnotic.
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answer seems to be that while "reading comics" is not a historically unique phenomenon, publishing & distribution shifted in the 80s/90s w/ andrews mcmeel supplying anthologies to chain bookstores & distributing through scholastic book fairs. (see thread below) now muting before an xer murders me
Same age as you, worked at Andrews McMeel Universal as an adult. Can confirm this as a strategy adopted sometime mid-80s. One of AMU's major distro channels was Scholastic catalogs in public schools.
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
answer seems to be that while "reading comics" is not a historically unique phenomenon, publishing & distribution shifted in the 80s/90s w/ andrews mcmeel supplying anthologies to chain bookstores & distributing through scholastic book fairs. (see thread below) now muting before an xer murders me
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Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of
I've always been fond of Murphy's "The City, Not Long After" (post-apocalyptic San Francisco stand off against a rebuilding Army), and Walton's "My Real Children" is just a staggeringly good book (a woman on her deathbed flits back and forth between two sets of alternate universe memories).
A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health.
www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...
www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...
Humble Book Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Open Road Media
Our latest ebook bundle has over 60 of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books written by women! Every purchase supports Active Minds charity!
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January 11, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I've always been fond of Murphy's "The City, Not Long After" (post-apocalyptic San Francisco stand off against a rebuilding Army), and Walton's "My Real Children" is just a staggeringly good book (a woman on her deathbed flits back and forth between two sets of alternate universe memories).
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The Blood Book: The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
A Victorian handmade, folio-sized book of collages excised from popular engravings. The book’s reputation rests on the red India ink that depicts blood that overwhelms everything.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
A Victorian handmade, folio-sized book of collages excised from popular engravings. The book’s reputation rests on the red India ink that depicts blood that overwhelms everything.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
June 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The Blood Book: The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
A Victorian handmade, folio-sized book of collages excised from popular engravings. The book’s reputation rests on the red India ink that depicts blood that overwhelms everything.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
A Victorian handmade, folio-sized book of collages excised from popular engravings. The book’s reputation rests on the red India ink that depicts blood that overwhelms everything.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
Saw it last night and it's terrific; maybe not quite as good as Bacarau (which I loved) as a whole but Wagner Moura is amazing and Mendonça makes some wildly risky choices in the script that pay off.
Just completed a gnarly week, and I'm exhausted, but I'm popping in to say that The Secret Agent—about a guy targeted by the Brazilian dictatorship in the late seventies—is an incredible, beautiful, sad, funny, gripping, thrilling, gorgeous movie. See it in a theater if you can, but see it.
January 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Saw it last night and it's terrific; maybe not quite as good as Bacarau (which I loved) as a whole but Wagner Moura is amazing and Mendonça makes some wildly risky choices in the script that pay off.
"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.