Thomas
@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social
aspiring film bro, non-native new yorker // experience strategist & designer & researcher
When you’re not a heartless ghoul with hatred where your blood should be, Eli lets you be handsome.
"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
When you’re not a heartless ghoul with hatred where your blood should be, Eli lets you be handsome.
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today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
today is the day Joyce Carol Oates truly became the inventor of big jeans
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If they stick to the exact letter of the law on this (“no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States”), I don’t see the problem.
Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If they stick to the exact letter of the law on this (“no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States”), I don’t see the problem.
Hand to God, Vince Gill has one of the best voices in popular music.
“I’m Almost Ready,” a Pure Prairie League track from 1980, is an absolute showcase for what Gill can do.
“I’m Almost Ready,” a Pure Prairie League track from 1980, is an absolute showcase for what Gill can do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hand to God, Vince Gill has one of the best voices in popular music.
“I’m Almost Ready,” a Pure Prairie League track from 1980, is an absolute showcase for what Gill can do.
“I’m Almost Ready,” a Pure Prairie League track from 1980, is an absolute showcase for what Gill can do.
Don’t you want to make the giant axolotl happy?
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Don’t you want to make the giant axolotl happy?
:: looks up what name Creedence performed under from 1964-1967 ::
Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s pretty damn racist!
Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s pretty damn racist!
Hey @andrewhickey.500songs.com! How reliable do you think CCR's "evil producer Max Weiss forced us to play for three years under a racist name!" story is? (Given that a lot of the things that band said about their past were at least questionable?)
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
:: looks up what name Creedence performed under from 1964-1967 ::
Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s pretty damn racist!
Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s pretty damn racist!
To make matters worse, if the House doesn’t go back into session, this cave-in will be worth even less than the white flag it was written on.
The Senate voted late Sunday evening on a compromise that could reopen the government following the longest shutdown in history.
Senators take first step toward reopening the government after historic shutdown
The Senate voted late Sunday evening on a compromise that could reopen the government following the longest shutdown in history.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
To make matters worse, if the House doesn’t go back into session, this cave-in will be worth even less than the white flag it was written on.
Watching the live feed from the Senate floor via PBS and the vibes are not very “world's greatest deliberative body” right now.
WATCH LIVE: Senate meets for weekend session as government shutdown reaches 40th day
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Watching the live feed from the Senate floor via PBS and the vibes are not very “world's greatest deliberative body” right now.
Apropos of nothing, why does Ted Cruz look like he’s playing Professor Marvel in a community theatre production of The Wizard of Oz?
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Apropos of nothing, why does Ted Cruz look like he’s playing Professor Marvel in a community theatre production of The Wizard of Oz?
There’s a very real possibility that Liv Ullman is our greatest living actor and has been so for going on fifty years or more, and it’s only because she’s been particularly selective about what scripts she picks up that her name doesn’t top more such lists.
Evidence: Face to Face (1976) 📽️
Evidence: Face to Face (1976) 📽️
A ★★★★ review of Face to Face (1976)
There’s a very real possibility that Liv Ullman is our greatest living actor and has been so for going on fifty years or more, and it’s only because she’s been particularly selective about what script...
boxd.it
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There’s a very real possibility that Liv Ullman is our greatest living actor and has been so for going on fifty years or more, and it’s only because she’s been particularly selective about what scripts she picks up that her name doesn’t top more such lists.
Evidence: Face to Face (1976) 📽️
Evidence: Face to Face (1976) 📽️
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At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.
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Poor Thomas had to endure one of these dinners and bore it with such pep and grace!
“I don’t want to go back to La Boca, and I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone else eat there.”
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Poor Thomas had to endure one of these dinners and bore it with such pep and grace!
Can someone please nail 99 copies of Isaiah 58:6-8 on the White House front door?
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can someone please nail 99 copies of Isaiah 58:6-8 on the White House front door?
“I don’t want to go back to La Boca, and I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone else eat there.”
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“I don’t want to go back to La Boca, and I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone else eat there.”
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
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Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Mamdani is going to implement shishito law and we’ll all have to eat blistered
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
thin-skinned peppers with every meal.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
"Gentlemen, to bed! For we leave at eight-thirty for nine. And we rise at just after daybreak. Seven-thirty, so just after daybreak. Gentlemen to bed, for we leave at nine-thirty on the dot. On the dot."
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"Gentlemen, to bed! For we leave at eight-thirty for nine. And we rise at just after daybreak. Seven-thirty, so just after daybreak. Gentlemen to bed, for we leave at nine-thirty on the dot. On the dot."
Saraband (2003) is beautiful.
It isn’t perfect, it isn’t as tight as a younger Bergman might have directed it. At the same time, it’s more sentimental than an earlier Bergman would have allowed, and for that I am actually grateful. This story, these characters. They deserved this returning.📽️
It isn’t perfect, it isn’t as tight as a younger Bergman might have directed it. At the same time, it’s more sentimental than an earlier Bergman would have allowed, and for that I am actually grateful. This story, these characters. They deserved this returning.📽️
A ★★★★½ review of Saraband (2003)
After the strange severe right-turn he did with the rather horrific and mean-spirited Of The Life of the Marionettes, a movie that’s sort of a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage, it’s wonderfully reassu...
boxd.it
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Saraband (2003) is beautiful.
It isn’t perfect, it isn’t as tight as a younger Bergman might have directed it. At the same time, it’s more sentimental than an earlier Bergman would have allowed, and for that I am actually grateful. This story, these characters. They deserved this returning.📽️
It isn’t perfect, it isn’t as tight as a younger Bergman might have directed it. At the same time, it’s more sentimental than an earlier Bergman would have allowed, and for that I am actually grateful. This story, these characters. They deserved this returning.📽️
If you zoom-in on the little camo blobs, some have little palm trees on them.
I like to think that he has no idea they are there. None whatsoever.
I like to think that he has no idea they are there. None whatsoever.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you zoom-in on the little camo blobs, some have little palm trees on them.
I like to think that he has no idea they are there. None whatsoever.
I like to think that he has no idea they are there. None whatsoever.
“But when you play-act at real magic, and you know how to do it, who is to say what is real and what is not?”
Well, time to go listen to Dr John…
Well, time to go listen to Dr John…
‘Gris-Gris is a record made by a white man wearing a black mask, and Rebennack’s feathered, faux-hoodoo theatrics would become his professional calling card.’
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘mesmerising half-hour of sonic theurgy’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘mesmerising half-hour of sonic theurgy’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’
Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“But when you play-act at real magic, and you know how to do it, who is to say what is real and what is not?”
Well, time to go listen to Dr John…
Well, time to go listen to Dr John…
Like the invasion of Poland?
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Like the invasion of Poland?
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The day that Brad Lander puts up his video announcing he's going to primary Schumer is going to break this site.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The day that Brad Lander puts up his video announcing he's going to primary Schumer is going to break this site.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down /
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 men.
Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News guest host Dan Kraker talks with a Great Lakes historian about the ship’s final, fateful voyage and what the ore carrier’s shocking sinking means to Minnesotans.
Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News guest host Dan Kraker talks with a Great Lakes historian about the ship’s final, fateful voyage and what the ore carrier’s shocking sinking means to Minnesotans.
The Edmund Fitzgerald sinking: Remembering the Great Lakes shipwreck 50 years later
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 men. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News guest host Dan Kraker talks with a Great Lakes historian about the ship’s final, fate...
www.mprnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down /
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee