Valentine Steele
@terwillikerinst.bsky.social
Associate Director of Marwenology Studies at McGill
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Twin Peaks Table Read With Me
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Twin Peaks Table Read With Me
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It represents the existence of stories that are not "guy who looks exactly like me wakes up in anime world with huge penis" and "girl find out that she is secretly a princess and becomes the romantic focus of 10 differently hot werewolves"
When a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt, what does Hollywood still represent?
www.latimes.com/entertainme...
www.latimes.com/entertainme...
If anyone can make a movie now, what does Hollywood still stand for?
From AI-native studios to interactive platforms, a new generation of storytellers is challenging Hollywood’s role as the center of the entertainment universe.
www.latimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It represents the existence of stories that are not "guy who looks exactly like me wakes up in anime world with huge penis" and "girl find out that she is secretly a princess and becomes the romantic focus of 10 differently hot werewolves"
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This piece is great because it cuts to the point perfectly: these people want a cosmopolitan urban playground without libs, but guess what: libs MAKE the cosmopolitan urban playground! Newsflash dipshit! The things that make living in a city fun and good are all hated by your new cultural allies!
Spiritually speaking, the KotH reboot has to accommodate this epic tsunami of equal parts total stupidity and selfish malice.
All of Joe Rogan's friends really hate Texas
From the heat to the power grid, Texas isn't what they were promised.
www.chron.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This piece is great because it cuts to the point perfectly: these people want a cosmopolitan urban playground without libs, but guess what: libs MAKE the cosmopolitan urban playground! Newsflash dipshit! The things that make living in a city fun and good are all hated by your new cultural allies!
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the bind which the united states is putting jewish community institutions in is not necessarily the most evil thing it is doing but it is among them
Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.
Wait wait wait wait so Columbia MUST create a DEI office for Jewish folks but MAY NOT create a DEI office for anyone else? Am I reading this right?
July 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the bind which the united states is putting jewish community institutions in is not necessarily the most evil thing it is doing but it is among them
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no exceptions. if you can't match Brad Lander I want you out of the fucking party
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
no exceptions. if you can't match Brad Lander I want you out of the fucking party
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every Democrat accusing Mamdani of harboring or abbetting antisemitism in this country because of his opposition to Israel is a quisling who must at the least face a primary or be defeated in their next bid for higher office
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
every Democrat accusing Mamdani of harboring or abbetting antisemitism in this country because of his opposition to Israel is a quisling who must at the least face a primary or be defeated in their next bid for higher office
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If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.
July 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.
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If your Talia be Lavin, that's a good take you're havin'.
If your Talia be Jane, that take be insane.
If your Talia be Jane, that take be insane.
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If your Talia be Lavin, that's a good take you're havin'.
If your Talia be Jane, that take be insane.
If your Talia be Jane, that take be insane.
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like just hit ‘em on the genocide man
July 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
like just hit ‘em on the genocide man
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one problem is that the ADL itself does not take actual anti-semitism seriously. it simply does not care about the welfare of American Jews.
July 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
one problem is that the ADL itself does not take actual anti-semitism seriously. it simply does not care about the welfare of American Jews.
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A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Every single kids show I watched growing up had an episode about how too much computer was guaranteed to make you a friendless malcontent. It was obvious to the producers of PBS Kids' Arthur like 20 years ago
The Male Loneliness Epidemic is the most made up shit in the world and could be solved by mandating that every voting age man do beer league softball/join a trivia team/become a historical reenactor and have no more than one hour of screen time a day. It's just internet poisoning, full stop
July 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Every single kids show I watched growing up had an episode about how too much computer was guaranteed to make you a friendless malcontent. It was obvious to the producers of PBS Kids' Arthur like 20 years ago
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unironically speaking, it's that quite a few of them no longer understand how their own industries work
I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
unironically speaking, it's that quite a few of them no longer understand how their own industries work
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one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
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I hate how literal White House conservatives are allowed to call liberals stupid and unpatriotic America haters, but anyone to the left of center gets pilloried for being indelicate to conservatives. Next cycle, gloves off. Call them submentaloid hedonist pussies every day.
Sean Duffy on Fox: "It's dangerous to ride the subway in New York ... it's just stupid liberals with stupid policies that impact the lives of New Yorkers"
July 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I hate how literal White House conservatives are allowed to call liberals stupid and unpatriotic America haters, but anyone to the left of center gets pilloried for being indelicate to conservatives. Next cycle, gloves off. Call them submentaloid hedonist pussies every day.
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Corbyn is who critics said Bernie was, and Starmer is who critics said Biden was
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Corbyn is who critics said Bernie was, and Starmer is who critics said Biden was
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i don't think it's politically wise or anything, but from now on people in cities should start insulting people in towns like they insult us. condescendingly grimace whenever someone brings up that they're from a small town. immediately remark "yeah, a lot of overdoses there i hear."
June 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i don't think it's politically wise or anything, but from now on people in cities should start insulting people in towns like they insult us. condescendingly grimace whenever someone brings up that they're from a small town. immediately remark "yeah, a lot of overdoses there i hear."
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A lot of American Jews are cosmopolitan liberals, and thus deeply unwilling to accept that their parochial ethno-religious obsessions are examples of bog-standard diaspora nationalism, no better or worse. But it remains true.
June 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A lot of American Jews are cosmopolitan liberals, and thus deeply unwilling to accept that their parochial ethno-religious obsessions are examples of bog-standard diaspora nationalism, no better or worse. But it remains true.
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we're getting word that the bug has endorsed cuomo
a man in a white apron is walking down a street in front of a green dumpster that says fast
ALT: a man in a white apron is walking down a street in front of a green dumpster that says fast
media.tenor.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
we're getting word that the bug has endorsed cuomo
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The visuals are obvious. Which do you want to pay for?
June 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The visuals are obvious. Which do you want to pay for?
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I don't think anyone would be brave enough to make it, but we really need a Rebel Ridge/Rambo style movie where a soldier goes on a rampage after ICE kidnaps his wife
June 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I don't think anyone would be brave enough to make it, but we really need a Rebel Ridge/Rambo style movie where a soldier goes on a rampage after ICE kidnaps his wife
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If Mamdani wins, it feels pretty essential that he, the nyc dsa, and whatever faction of progressive orgs and dem party operatives he controls altogether never shut the fuck up about how the institutional dem leadership to the same side as some of the worst republican activists re: mayor endorsement
June 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If Mamdani wins, it feels pretty essential that he, the nyc dsa, and whatever faction of progressive orgs and dem party operatives he controls altogether never shut the fuck up about how the institutional dem leadership to the same side as some of the worst republican activists re: mayor endorsement
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Zohran campaign seems like a pretty big vindication of RCV tbh: the more left candidate has clearly felt substantial incentive to reach out to center, and multiple other candidates have felt incentive to not alienate his supporters either.
June 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zohran campaign seems like a pretty big vindication of RCV tbh: the more left candidate has clearly felt substantial incentive to reach out to center, and multiple other candidates have felt incentive to not alienate his supporters either.
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its genuinely heartening to see how basically the entire field except Ramos and that generic rich white dude absolutely fucking hate Cuomo's guts
Rank me #1.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Zohran #2.
Rank the rest of the WFP Slate.
And Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo.
June 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
its genuinely heartening to see how basically the entire field except Ramos and that generic rich white dude absolutely fucking hate Cuomo's guts
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Read this thread please
Last Tuesday when I was detained by ICE, I was lucky to have organizations and colleagues who immediately rallied to secure my release.
I want to take a moment to thank them.
I want to take a moment to thank them.
June 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Read this thread please