Ian W. Hill
@geminicollision.bsky.social
American Artist. Theatre and otherwise. Brooklyn. NYC.
He/Him. Husband of Berit. Aging Pinko Atheist Punk.
Founder/Director of Arts collective Gemini CollisionWorks.
Co-creator/Sound Designer of audio sitcom LIFE WITH ALTHAAR.
He/Him. Husband of Berit. Aging Pinko Atheist Punk.
Founder/Director of Arts collective Gemini CollisionWorks.
Co-creator/Sound Designer of audio sitcom LIFE WITH ALTHAAR.
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the number of times the character name Pasquini is said in Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976, Deodato) delighted me so much that i made an edit of some, but not all, of the 'Pasquinis'
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the number of times the character name Pasquini is said in Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976, Deodato) delighted me so much that i made an edit of some, but not all, of the 'Pasquinis'
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The Salina Daily Union
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Salina Daily Union
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
Salina Kansas
December 20,1917
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Today's trail pics
If you have never been to the NJ pinelands (aka the Pine Barrens), you have no idea what a weird place it is. There's nothing else like it.
I submit today's trail pics as evidence.
If you have never been to the NJ pinelands (aka the Pine Barrens), you have no idea what a weird place it is. There's nothing else like it.
I submit today's trail pics as evidence.
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Today's trail pics
If you have never been to the NJ pinelands (aka the Pine Barrens), you have no idea what a weird place it is. There's nothing else like it.
I submit today's trail pics as evidence.
If you have never been to the NJ pinelands (aka the Pine Barrens), you have no idea what a weird place it is. There's nothing else like it.
I submit today's trail pics as evidence.
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This is as brutal a fact check as you are ever going to see. If you didn’t know @seancasten.bsky.social is an energy expert AND a fighter, now you do.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is as brutal a fact check as you are ever going to see. If you didn’t know @seancasten.bsky.social is an energy expert AND a fighter, now you do.
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“he’s a businessman — he will run the country like he ran his businesses”
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“he’s a businessman — he will run the country like he ran his businesses”
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I shared this earlier just about Trump, but from the responses it's gotten, I'm beginning to think newspapers should run this piece every December, like the "Yes, Virginia..." letter, but for adults who dread going home for the holidays. (And they should pay royalties to @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social.)
I've said it before, but the key text I keep returning to for understanding this era is Merrill Markoe's essay on narcissism, because that post today is a textbook example of what she calls The Narcissist's Credo: "I'm the piece of shit the world revolves around."
Enough about You: My Explanation of Narcissism
Because Understanding can be a Good Strategy for Getting Through the Holidays.
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I shared this earlier just about Trump, but from the responses it's gotten, I'm beginning to think newspapers should run this piece every December, like the "Yes, Virginia..." letter, but for adults who dread going home for the holidays. (And they should pay royalties to @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social.)
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this just get funnier and funnier.
Here's a slice from the CBCT of Jake Paul's jaw. I don't treat injuries like this. But he's going to be dealing with this for years. Looking at nerve damage and TMD issues at minimum. Possibly loss of teeth. Lingering headaches, muscle issues, and problems that money can't fix.
December 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
this just get funnier and funnier.
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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Eat your heart out, Criterion! @severinfilms.bsky.social has the great Joe Dante in their closet talking up a lot of sweet Euro horror and other oddball pictures!
youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y
youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y
JOE DANTE ENTERS THE SEVERIN CELLAR
YouTube video by Severin Films / Intervision Picture Corp.
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Eat your heart out, Criterion! @severinfilms.bsky.social has the great Joe Dante in their closet talking up a lot of sweet Euro horror and other oddball pictures!
youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y
youtu.be/iAfr0_1XV5Y
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'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
December 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
'Magic balls' installed by drones could conquer US market thanks to game-changing performance: 'It's never been like this'
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Just a note that I did this for a living for 20 years and I would have probably been fired and then sued and perhaps criminally prosecuted for such shoddy work. If all they're protecting is victim/family names I don't know of too many pages that are solid names.
The three documents after that sequentially are a straight run of 255 pages of fully blacked out pages – except for a tiny margin at the bottom of each page. 255 full pages like this.
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just a note that I did this for a living for 20 years and I would have probably been fired and then sued and perhaps criminally prosecuted for such shoddy work. If all they're protecting is victim/family names I don't know of too many pages that are solid names.
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70s exploitation movies will have a poster of a guy in a leisure suit screaming as he fires a machine gun from the sun roof of a car and a woman off to the side in nothing but a towel and the movie's titled THEY CALL ME "BAG-O"
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
70s exploitation movies will have a poster of a guy in a leisure suit screaming as he fires a machine gun from the sun roof of a car and a woman off to the side in nothing but a towel and the movie's titled THEY CALL ME "BAG-O"
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If you need a good "fuck it, nothing matters give me something LOUD with ART DIRECTION" watch, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is currently on Netflix. Gary Oldman's cunty little sunglasses died for your sins.
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you need a good "fuck it, nothing matters give me something LOUD with ART DIRECTION" watch, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is currently on Netflix. Gary Oldman's cunty little sunglasses died for your sins.
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<Lux Aeterna intensifies>
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
<Lux Aeterna intensifies>
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One little thing to add to this: nice accidental reminder that the Beatles fans during the height of their popularity weren’t all white. The band refused to play for segregated audiences in the South too. Probably not what Bari means to invoke by using this imagery though!
I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One little thing to add to this: nice accidental reminder that the Beatles fans during the height of their popularity weren’t all white. The band refused to play for segregated audiences in the South too. Probably not what Bari means to invoke by using this imagery though!
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Rolling Stones ~ 2000 Light Years from Home
(from Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1967)
#KeithRichards #BOTD #RollingStones #MusicSky
The original promotional film, filmed in 1967 and directed by Peter Whitehead. Faithfully restored in 4K resolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3j9...
(from Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1967)
#KeithRichards #BOTD #RollingStones #MusicSky
The original promotional film, filmed in 1967 and directed by Peter Whitehead. Faithfully restored in 4K resolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3j9...
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ABKCOVEVO
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Rolling Stones ~ 2000 Light Years from Home
(from Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1967)
#KeithRichards #BOTD #RollingStones #MusicSky
The original promotional film, filmed in 1967 and directed by Peter Whitehead. Faithfully restored in 4K resolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3j9...
(from Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1967)
#KeithRichards #BOTD #RollingStones #MusicSky
The original promotional film, filmed in 1967 and directed by Peter Whitehead. Faithfully restored in 4K resolution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3j9...
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's kleber mendonça filho's storyboard for the secret agent
pick up a pen and a napkin
pick up a pen and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's kleber mendonça filho's storyboard for the secret agent
pick up a pen and a napkin
pick up a pen and a napkin
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me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall
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someone accidently stumbled on an insanely ominious cdc government page, it’s a massive list of random words that looks like this. anyone know whats going on here?
ftp.cdc.gov/pub/health_S...
ftp.cdc.gov/pub/health_S...
December 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
someone accidently stumbled on an insanely ominious cdc government page, it’s a massive list of random words that looks like this. anyone know whats going on here?
ftp.cdc.gov/pub/health_S...
ftp.cdc.gov/pub/health_S...
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Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
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