Matthew Hall
@emjamesvestibule.bsky.social
Curmudgeon, layabout, straphanger, houser, sewer socialist and SF/F ranter. ♿ He/Him
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It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
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Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
You will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You will be visited by 3 spirits
Nothing but hatred for people who wield the word "normal."
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Nothing but hatred for people who wield the word "normal."
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"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
Kim Stanley Robinson's bibliography begs to differ.
There is basically zero YIMBY literature and sci-fi other than Toni Morrison's Jazz and The Expanse.
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Kim Stanley Robinson's bibliography begs to differ.
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i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
i have never been nostalgic for the past before i was born and reading history only reinforces this. running water is good. not losing children to preventable diseases is good. human beings not being property is good.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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13. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
But also, long live Sodom and Gomarrah.
But also, long live Sodom and Gomarrah.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
13. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
But also, long live Sodom and Gomarrah.
But also, long live Sodom and Gomarrah.
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If nothing else, at least we are living in the golden age of board games.
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If nothing else, at least we are living in the golden age of board games.
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When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person?
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person?
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
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An amendment to sunset the funding bill’s .1% transit payroll tax increase in 2028 seems likely to pass. If it does, transit agencies will benefit from a .2% payroll tax for exactly two years, and lawmakers will be right back where they are now in 2027–staring down a fiscal cliff for public transit.
August 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
An amendment to sunset the funding bill’s .1% transit payroll tax increase in 2028 seems likely to pass. If it does, transit agencies will benefit from a .2% payroll tax for exactly two years, and lawmakers will be right back where they are now in 2027–staring down a fiscal cliff for public transit.
There really isn't any nice way to tell strangers their perfume/cologne is disgusting and they're overdoing it.
August 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There really isn't any nice way to tell strangers their perfume/cologne is disgusting and they're overdoing it.
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Help they closed one street to cars to open it to people and now my restaurant a mile away is dying
July 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Help they closed one street to cars to open it to people and now my restaurant a mile away is dying
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If I’m elected mayor crosswalks will buff pedestrians strength so much that they’ll be able to punch cars into orbit
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If I’m elected mayor crosswalks will buff pedestrians strength so much that they’ll be able to punch cars into orbit
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the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
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I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.
FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets."
FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"
FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"
July 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.
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it is deeply funny that these people think that “the middle” wants Hard Choices About Fiscal Responsibility and what the middle actually wants is for someone to commit to hunting down Bigfoot
July 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
it is deeply funny that these people think that “the middle” wants Hard Choices About Fiscal Responsibility and what the middle actually wants is for someone to commit to hunting down Bigfoot
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i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins