Zito
@zeets.bsky.social
“It is all one to me where I start — I arrive there again soon enough.”
Buy my book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-minotaur-at-calle-lanza-zito-madu/21461997
Buy my book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-minotaur-at-calle-lanza-zito-madu/21461997
Got my dad a watch for his birthday/Christmas
December 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Got my dad a watch for his birthday/Christmas
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
LeMonde said, not on our watch
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For those who give presents over the winter holidays: What’s one favorite present you got this year?
@karenmcgrane.bsky.social helped me pick out a new leather wallet: Italian-made in midnight navy, with a sartorial embossing on the outside to give it a protective texture. I hope it lasts forever
@karenmcgrane.bsky.social helped me pick out a new leather wallet: Italian-made in midnight navy, with a sartorial embossing on the outside to give it a protective texture. I hope it lasts forever
December 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For those who give presents over the winter holidays: What’s one favorite present you got this year?
@karenmcgrane.bsky.social helped me pick out a new leather wallet: Italian-made in midnight navy, with a sartorial embossing on the outside to give it a protective texture. I hope it lasts forever
@karenmcgrane.bsky.social helped me pick out a new leather wallet: Italian-made in midnight navy, with a sartorial embossing on the outside to give it a protective texture. I hope it lasts forever
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“The reason why Israel is suddenly recognising Somaliland, which has been a breakaway region for decades, is because they and the US are working on a plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza to there-despite the risk to regional security”
Julia McFarlane BBCNews
apnews.com/article/isra...
Julia McFarlane BBCNews
apnews.com/article/isra...
December 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“The reason why Israel is suddenly recognising Somaliland, which has been a breakaway region for decades, is because they and the US are working on a plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza to there-despite the risk to regional security”
Julia McFarlane BBCNews
apnews.com/article/isra...
Julia McFarlane BBCNews
apnews.com/article/isra...
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The Inequality in Hollywood is SHAMEFUL.
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Inequality in Hollywood is SHAMEFUL.
Biting into a cookie, expecting chocolate chip and getting raisin instead.
December 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Biting into a cookie, expecting chocolate chip and getting raisin instead.
Being so annoyed by the nerds who want to feel special because they read a few of the great books on substack that I might just turn my substack into a big book/reading club where we go through the classics and talk about them without those dweebs.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Being so annoyed by the nerds who want to feel special because they read a few of the great books on substack that I might just turn my substack into a big book/reading club where we go through the classics and talk about them without those dweebs.
Not even sure why I believed in Nottingham Forest to begin with
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Not even sure why I believed in Nottingham Forest to begin with
December 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Please, a different discourse. We can’t do this every time.
December 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please, a different discourse. We can’t do this every time.
Life on Earth - Abderrahmane Sissako
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Life on Earth - Abderrahmane Sissako
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
This is the list of tallest NBA players ever. Let me know how many of them had good careers, let alone great ones. You’ll find that it’s a pretty small numbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
December 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is the list of tallest NBA players ever. Let me know how many of them had good careers, let alone great ones. You’ll find that it’s a pretty small numbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
I just can’t let hockey fans / journalists ever talk shit about any other sport. I’ve even done work for hockey teams and have said it directly to the face of executives. You can’t be a real sport or a part of the culture if your sport is just for rich people.
December 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I just can’t let hockey fans / journalists ever talk shit about any other sport. I’ve even done work for hockey teams and have said it directly to the face of executives. You can’t be a real sport or a part of the culture if your sport is just for rich people.
No, it makes sense that someone who plays and enjoys hockey has such little knowledge and yet animosity towards basketball. The exceptional thing about Wemby is that he’s doing things people his height usually can’t. Being too tall in the NBA is often a detriment, especially in the small ball era.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
No, it makes sense that someone who plays and enjoys hockey has such little knowledge and yet animosity towards basketball. The exceptional thing about Wemby is that he’s doing things people his height usually can’t. Being too tall in the NBA is often a detriment, especially in the small ball era.
Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.
At this point, my not subscribing to the Paris Review is about the principle. And yet they keep releasing interviews that I NEED to read. Tough position to be in.
December 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
At this point, my not subscribing to the Paris Review is about the principle. And yet they keep releasing interviews that I NEED to read. Tough position to be in.
Herbert Pocket is one of the great best friends in literature. We need to appreciate the best friends more.
December 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Herbert Pocket is one of the great best friends in literature. We need to appreciate the best friends more.
He hasn’t let up on American Christians since he became Pope
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
He hasn’t let up on American Christians since he became Pope
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Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.
December 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Seems like a good time to note that many nonfiction publishers do not fact check, or do so only very superficially, and authors who want their work fact checked need to pay for it. This is bad in general but especially when editors are acquiring ‘eye-opening books’ that are just reactionary lies.
That was me until recently and I was asked if I hated Black people. Had to remedy that.
Imagine being a person who hasn’t watched “The Preacher’s Wife.”
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
That was me until recently and I was asked if I hated Black people. Had to remedy that.
It’s also this pretense that the man hasn’t been charged and convicted of sexual crimes as well. The man has a whole Wikipedia page about his sexual misconduct stemming from the 70s.
I’ve heard most journalists and politicians say that Trump hasn’t been directly accused of wrongdoing or implicated in the Epstein Files.
But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.
But, there are repeated instances of Trump being directly named as a perpetrator—by victims and by Epstein. It’s not circumstantial, it’s direct.
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s also this pretense that the man hasn’t been charged and convicted of sexual crimes as well. The man has a whole Wikipedia page about his sexual misconduct stemming from the 70s.
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Also I just wrote about Del Toro’s Frankenstein, how he’s always reluctant to condemn his monsters because he identifies with them, but how monsters sometimes need to be outside the human story. I also wrote about this tension in my own book.
somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Also I just wrote about Del Toro’s Frankenstein, how he’s always reluctant to condemn his monsters because he identifies with them, but how monsters sometimes need to be outside the human story. I also wrote about this tension in my own book.
somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
somethingwonderful.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...