C. James Carter
@curakster.bsky.social
Hack with moments, writer of mostly kids’ animation. Performer in live shows and host of The Awkward Show by Bandit Theater (a podcast) in Seattle.
This is a great read, even for someone like me who doesn’t care a whit about golf.
‘All of this kit, plus towel, spare glove, umbrella and so on, has to be loaded into a bag the size of a portmanteau. Edward VII owned one made out of the skin of an elephant’s penis, a gift from a maharajah.’
David Trotter on golf: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on golf: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Putt for Dough: On the Golf Space
Golf lends itself to spectacle. There’s a special thrill to the shape of the perfectly hit shot, a kind of lingering,...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is a great read, even for someone like me who doesn’t care a whit about golf.
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Hey Apple News! There is precisely ONE future event that I want an alert for. You can hold off with all the others for now.
June 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hey Apple News! There is precisely ONE future event that I want an alert for. You can hold off with all the others for now.
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I was diagnosed with measles at 2, but I was misdiagnosed and actually got it when 15. If you are older its not a bad idea to get a titer test to make sure you are immune even if you think you had the disease when young.
Please send this article to anyone you know who is anti-vax and ask them to read to the section about the kids’ symptoms. Horrific. Here is a gift link.
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I was diagnosed with measles at 2, but I was misdiagnosed and actually got it when 15. If you are older its not a bad idea to get a titer test to make sure you are immune even if you think you had the disease when young.
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This thread is very much worth reading, all the way through.
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This thread is very much worth reading, all the way through.
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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
June 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Keep making jokes. Keep making art. Keep making games. Keep up self care. Distract yourself if you need to.
Keep reminding humans what humanity is.
This is part of how you smash fascism.
Keep reminding humans what humanity is.
This is part of how you smash fascism.
June 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Keep making jokes. Keep making art. Keep making games. Keep up self care. Distract yourself if you need to.
Keep reminding humans what humanity is.
This is part of how you smash fascism.
Keep reminding humans what humanity is.
This is part of how you smash fascism.
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I wrote a book on influencers, so I have opinions, and one of them is that the juggernaut was not run through explicitly political influencers.
A “Joe Rogan of the left” would not be a political creator. Most of the pods Trump did weren’t pol creators. MAHA was also hybrid - started in wellness.
A “Joe Rogan of the left” would not be a political creator. Most of the pods Trump did weren’t pol creators. MAHA was also hybrid - started in wellness.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I wrote a book on influencers, so I have opinions, and one of them is that the juggernaut was not run through explicitly political influencers.
A “Joe Rogan of the left” would not be a political creator. Most of the pods Trump did weren’t pol creators. MAHA was also hybrid - started in wellness.
A “Joe Rogan of the left” would not be a political creator. Most of the pods Trump did weren’t pol creators. MAHA was also hybrid - started in wellness.
Ok just watched episode 8 of Andor. I’m kind of a wreck.
May 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Ok just watched episode 8 of Andor. I’m kind of a wreck.
Whoa
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Whoa
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in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything
REPORTER: Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners but not others?
TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
May 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything
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I wrote the definitive book on “continuity of government” and let me tell you: The idea of the US commander-in-chief flying on a plane from a foreign govt is a literal security nightmare. There’s a reason the US is the only country in the world that provides its leader his own helicopters overseas.
ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wrote the definitive book on “continuity of government” and let me tell you: The idea of the US commander-in-chief flying on a plane from a foreign govt is a literal security nightmare. There’s a reason the US is the only country in the world that provides its leader his own helicopters overseas.
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Good morning! For mother’s day all I want is robust structural supports for caregivers and reproductive rights for all women, thank you!
May 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Good morning! For mother’s day all I want is robust structural supports for caregivers and reproductive rights for all women, thank you!
Dropping three episodes a week is too many. I’m now just four episodes behind and feeling heroic about getting the entire family here.
May 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Dropping three episodes a week is too many. I’m now just four episodes behind and feeling heroic about getting the entire family here.
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Our democracy’s survival may well depend on government dudes with guns questioning illegal orders. Military, police, Homeland Security, Marshals, all of them. Honor the oath, not the authoritarians.
EXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.
'What Are They Doing Illegal?' Officer Says Before Arresting Pro-Palestine Students
Audio reveals an officer admitting University of Texas students weren’t breaking the law before they were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest.
www.rollingstone.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Our democracy’s survival may well depend on government dudes with guns questioning illegal orders. Military, police, Homeland Security, Marshals, all of them. Honor the oath, not the authoritarians.
Strong recommend to my Gen-X friends. Two shots, and they’re a little fierce. But better than getting shingles.
I’m 46 but I had my shingrix shot because I’m worried about what RFK jr is going to do with vaccines. Shingles is a preventable illness like measles. We are so lucky to have these vaccines! I for one will not forgo them because the guy who runs government health services has a 🐛 in his 🧠
May 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Strong recommend to my Gen-X friends. Two shots, and they’re a little fierce. But better than getting shingles.
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Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him?
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
April 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him?
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
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This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.
April 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.
Good on ya, Canada.
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Good on ya, Canada.
There’s a special place for the architects and agents of this. May they be tried, convicted, and rot there.
wapo.st/4iDFVux
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
wapo.st
April 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
There’s a special place for the architects and agents of this. May they be tried, convicted, and rot there.
wapo.st/4iDFVux
wapo.st/4iDFVux
Embarrassed to say I just finished The Old Man (we only started recently). It’s great. But what a disappointment not to get a third season. Feels like one of those where a different streamer should pick it up and finish it off. (See also: Perry Mason.)
April 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Embarrassed to say I just finished The Old Man (we only started recently). It’s great. But what a disappointment not to get a third season. Feels like one of those where a different streamer should pick it up and finish it off. (See also: Perry Mason.)
What you do unto the least of these etc.
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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April 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What you do unto the least of these etc.
Great list. If anywhere I’d studied weren’t already signed on, I’d be writing emails and threatening to withhold my meager alumni contributions.
To say it once more today: I think you'll be moved if you take 2 minutes to look through 269 institutions signed on here.
Yes, still a few notable absences. (Where is Stanford?) But such an array of *presence.* Big and small. Public and private. World famous and barely known. Check them out.
Yes, still a few notable absences. (Where is Stanford?) But such an array of *presence.* Big and small. Public and private. World famous and barely known. Check them out.
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Great list. If anywhere I’d studied weren’t already signed on, I’d be writing emails and threatening to withhold my meager alumni contributions.