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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
@caitbrie.bsky.social Very, very good interview (if you've not read)
I scored the only solo print interview Daniel Day-Lewis has given in nearly a decade! And he was candid and thoughtful about every single thing you’d want to know: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
@caitbrie.bsky.social Very, very good interview (if you've not read)
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Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.
@barryp.bsky.social please please have @rayratto.bsky.social write this post series blog
May 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
@barryp.bsky.social please please have @rayratto.bsky.social write this post series blog
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if high food prices under a Democratic president led the DNC to suggest people adapt by eating more tofu you would run 187 think pieces about how out of touch with Real Americans they are
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
if high food prices under a Democratic president led the DNC to suggest people adapt by eating more tofu you would run 187 think pieces about how out of touch with Real Americans they are
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I wrote this tribute to Val Kilmer long before he died but it still holds www.sfgate.com/streaming/ar...
Hollywood is the pain in the ass, not Val Kilmer
He wanted to be a perfect actor. The new doc 'Val' shows why he never got the chance.
www.sfgate.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I wrote this tribute to Val Kilmer long before he died but it still holds www.sfgate.com/streaming/ar...
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I need to know what's inside the blue one.
March 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I need to know what's inside the blue one.
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I can say proudly that this is the stupidest bit I've ever done.
Fans everywhere are slobbering at the chance to try Devin The Dugong's Algorithmically Generated Sandwich: defector.com/fans-everywh...
Fans Everywhere Are Slobbering At The Chance To Try Devin The Dugong’s Algorithmically Generated Sandwich | Defector
Opening Day is just around the corner, and if you follow the local news, there’s a decent chance you’ve been treated to a sneak peek of your home team’s bold innovations in the ballpark concession spa...
defector.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I can say proudly that this is the stupidest bit I've ever done.
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Sabrina Imbler spoke to Sarah Cooley about the threats facing our oceans, the work she hoped to accomplish in her position, and the "what ifs" of the wreckage of NOAA. defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time the scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form ...
defector.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Sabrina Imbler spoke to Sarah Cooley about the threats facing our oceans, the work she hoped to accomplish in her position, and the "what ifs" of the wreckage of NOAA. defector.com/an-interview...
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I find the current political situation impossible to parse except as a global community of shithead gangster bosses doing odious favors for each other. Domestically and internationally, that's the only ideological through-line. Bossism, fascism, sure, but finally it's just Epstein Island everywhere.
Trump terminates program tracking Ukrainian child abductions, a key component in investigations of suspected Russian war crimes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I find the current political situation impossible to parse except as a global community of shithead gangster bosses doing odious favors for each other. Domestically and internationally, that's the only ideological through-line. Bossism, fascism, sure, but finally it's just Epstein Island everywhere.
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Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.
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JD Vance screamed out of planned ski vacation in Vermont: defector.com/jd-vance-scr...
JD Vance Screamed Out Of Planned Ski Vacation In Vermont | Defector
This might feel somewhat discordant, given that JD Vance’s most prominent physical feature is a golf-ball head that makes his body look like a tee, but the administration he’s part of is one that unde...
defector.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
JD Vance screamed out of planned ski vacation in Vermont: defector.com/jd-vance-scr...
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I am done apologizing.
March 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am done apologizing.
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This is very good. It’s a fair bit of comfort that my state’s got some of the better, smarter representation in Congress. outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/v...
Senate Update: The Great Betrayal
Senate Update: The Great Betrayal
outreach.senate.gov
February 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is very good. It’s a fair bit of comfort that my state’s got some of the better, smarter representation in Congress. outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/v...
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Re-upping this again because I’m so pleased with how it turned out. Your 2025 Oscars roast: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
The hater's guide to the 2025 Oscars
Need to know which Oscar movies to root against this year? SFGATE columnist Drew Magary has you covered ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards.
www.sfgate.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Re-upping this again because I’m so pleased with how it turned out. Your 2025 Oscars roast: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...
From the fednews community on Reddit: Our beloved DHA director was just relieved of duty today
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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February 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...
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Two McDonald’s restaurants honour Connor McDavid with temporary name change
Two McDonald’s restaurants honour Connor McDavid with temporary name change
Edmonton Oilers’ captain Connor McDavid will have two McDonald’s restaurants temporarily named after him for a week after scoring the winning goal for Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off. McDonald's has renamed 2 restaurants"McDavid's"— one in Edmonton, and…
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February 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Two McDonald’s restaurants honour Connor McDavid with temporary name change
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Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory
February 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory
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What is John Fetterman's role in the Democratic party if not to present a credible threat of hammer-throwing the fash dweebs doing this. You have this goon who is basically the same size as Scot Pollard and he's just sending sour ROFL emojis to Mehdi Hasan and being weird to reporters. USE THE OAF.
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
What is John Fetterman's role in the Democratic party if not to present a credible threat of hammer-throwing the fash dweebs doing this. You have this goon who is basically the same size as Scot Pollard and he's just sending sour ROFL emojis to Mehdi Hasan and being weird to reporters. USE THE OAF.
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Imagine being so bad at Sunday school that the pope yelled at you personally
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
February 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Imagine being so bad at Sunday school that the pope yelled at you personally
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Some dipshit is trying to go at Jon Krakauer and brother let me tell you I would never ever want to be the dude on the end of a 20 page Jon Krakauer rebuttal jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber...
The YouTuber on a Mission to Trash My Book: Chapter One
A refutation of Michael Tracy’s obsessive campaign to impugn the veracity of “Into Thin Air”
jonkrakauer.medium.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Some dipshit is trying to go at Jon Krakauer and brother let me tell you I would never ever want to be the dude on the end of a 20 page Jon Krakauer rebuttal jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber...
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As someone very familiar with USAID and what it does, it's been an incredibly depressing time—not just for the first-hand effects described in this report, but seeing right-wing media and politicians flat-out lying about what USAID does.
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
oig.usaid.gov
February 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As someone very familiar with USAID and what it does, it's been an incredibly depressing time—not just for the first-hand effects described in this report, but seeing right-wing media and politicians flat-out lying about what USAID does.