James Seidler
@jamesseidler.bsky.social
Reading the third volume of the complete “Popeye” collection from Fantagraphics, and J. Wellington Wimpy has repeatedly cracked me up. An oddball, all-American original.
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reading the third volume of the complete “Popeye” collection from Fantagraphics, and J. Wellington Wimpy has repeatedly cracked me up. An oddball, all-American original.
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If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
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Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
prospect.org
March 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
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want to get your grubby little paws on a physical copy of my work? and also a bunch of other really cool artists?
pick up EASEL today
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EASEL 01 is now available secure your copy NOW!!!!
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October 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
want to get your grubby little paws on a physical copy of my work? and also a bunch of other really cool artists?
pick up EASEL today
pick up EASEL today
A great artist
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A great artist
Realized at the end of the (excellent) Lilith Fair documentary that I’ve spent 25 years thinking Sarah McLaclan was Joan Osborne.
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Realized at the end of the (excellent) Lilith Fair documentary that I’ve spent 25 years thinking Sarah McLaclan was Joan Osborne.
Great to see this posted in @mcsweeneys.net . Ralph wrote some funny pieces for a humor site I ran in the Cretaceous era.
"Meaningful conversations are a definite deal breaker. Chiefly interested in finding a kindred spirit who may or may not know my name, but recognizes me in a vague way and is ready to signal that with a nearly imperceptible chin movement."
Seeking a Nodding Acquaintance
About Me Have been out of the nodding pool for quite a while, but would like to dip my toe back in. Not looking for anything serious. No preference...
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Great to see this posted in @mcsweeneys.net . Ralph wrote some funny pieces for a humor site I ran in the Cretaceous era.
I am a jazz dummy, but Jerry Garcia had to listen to Grant Green right? Plenty of similarities in the structure of the riffs; it's a fun echo.
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I am a jazz dummy, but Jerry Garcia had to listen to Grant Green right? Plenty of similarities in the structure of the riffs; it's a fun echo.
“Alien Earth” delivered a genuine “holy shit” line last night. Some of the choices in the first couple episodes seemed far-fetched, but they’ve had consequences, and the show’s done a great job plumbing them.
August 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“Alien Earth” delivered a genuine “holy shit” line last night. Some of the choices in the first couple episodes seemed far-fetched, but they’ve had consequences, and the show’s done a great job plumbing them.
I’ve spent the past three years establishing pollinator gardens at our kids’ elementary school, and today a wasp stung me by the side door, so this is apparently my supervillain origin story.
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I’ve spent the past three years establishing pollinator gardens at our kids’ elementary school, and today a wasp stung me by the side door, so this is apparently my supervillain origin story.
Just finished “Vera, or Faith” by @shteyngart.bsky.social —what a beautiful, funny book. More than any writer, he keeps capturing our moment.
August 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Just finished “Vera, or Faith” by @shteyngart.bsky.social —what a beautiful, funny book. More than any writer, he keeps capturing our moment.
Smart, comprehensive take from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social at @404media.co on the race to the bottom inherent to "AI journalism." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
www.404media.co
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Smart, comprehensive take from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social at @404media.co on the race to the bottom inherent to "AI journalism." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
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This from @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social
“God’s mercy…spared a group of men in the dark of the Montana Territory the indignity of forgetting their humanity for a while.”
Like I was looking for a better holy miracle but this is the immense one, there and gone churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/dea...
“God’s mercy…spared a group of men in the dark of the Montana Territory the indignity of forgetting their humanity for a while.”
Like I was looking for a better holy miracle but this is the immense one, there and gone churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/dea...
Deadwood's Violent Theological Realism
Jonathan Heaps, Marquette PhD candidate in theology, on the scandal of God's grace in Deadwood.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This from @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social
“God’s mercy…spared a group of men in the dark of the Montana Territory the indignity of forgetting their humanity for a while.”
Like I was looking for a better holy miracle but this is the immense one, there and gone churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/dea...
“God’s mercy…spared a group of men in the dark of the Montana Territory the indignity of forgetting their humanity for a while.”
Like I was looking for a better holy miracle but this is the immense one, there and gone churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/dea...
FB has announced they're removing old "Live" videos, so I've spent the morning downloading video from my time at Shedd Aquarium, which includes BTS time with sea otters and dolphins and sawfish. That was a special experience with some pretty amazing people!
www.facebook.com/100064820467...
www.facebook.com/100064820467...
It's #GivingTuesday at Shedd, and we're live with our belugas, birds of prey, sea lions and penguins! We're asking you to donate today to help keep our... | By Shedd Aquarium | Facebook
It's #GivingTuesday at Shedd, and we're live with our belugas, birds of prey, sea lions and penguins! We're asking you to donate today to help keep our...
www.facebook.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
FB has announced they're removing old "Live" videos, so I've spent the morning downloading video from my time at Shedd Aquarium, which includes BTS time with sea otters and dolphins and sawfish. That was a special experience with some pretty amazing people!
www.facebook.com/100064820467...
www.facebook.com/100064820467...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
There’s a lot going on, and most of it seems bad, but Poetry Foundation is still posting poems of the day, and sometimes they’re pretty good. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Working with Jimmy Above a Drop Ceiling
When we had finished, covered in sweat, dusted in particle matter, quiet except for the interstate running like a generator outside, beneath the gaudy lights we’d just installed, he took off his shirt...
www.poetryfoundation.org
May 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
There’s a lot going on, and most of it seems bad, but Poetry Foundation is still posting poems of the day, and sometimes they’re pretty good. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Sad to hear about the passing of David Thomas, a creative force and rock-and-roll original. Back in 2016, I wrote about a very late night seeing Rocket from the Tombs at @emptybottleyt.bsky.social . Thomas was grouchy on stage, but they killed on "What Love Is." magazine.nd.edu/stories/out-...
Out Past My Bedtime | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame
Like many adults, I enjoy the pleasure of setting my own curfew and feel the embarrassment of realizing how strictly I enforce it.
magazine.nd.edu
April 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of David Thomas, a creative force and rock-and-roll original. Back in 2016, I wrote about a very late night seeing Rocket from the Tombs at @emptybottleyt.bsky.social . Thomas was grouchy on stage, but they killed on "What Love Is." magazine.nd.edu/stories/out-...
Very excited to have a short story, "Are You Feeling Brave?," published in the latest issue of Cleaver Magazine. It's about a broke kid trying to tough his way through a situation that's bigger than he should have to deal with. www.cleavermagazine.com/are-you-feel...
James Seidler: ARE YOU FEELING BRAVE? • Cleaver Magazine
James Seidler lives in Indiana. He likes native plants and writing fiction about working-class people with outsized dreams.
www.cleavermagazine.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Very excited to have a short story, "Are You Feeling Brave?," published in the latest issue of Cleaver Magazine. It's about a broke kid trying to tough his way through a situation that's bigger than he should have to deal with. www.cleavermagazine.com/are-you-feel...
Beautiful poem of the day at Poetry Foundation has me diving down the chapbook rabbit hole. Now I’m throwing first saves of creaky publisher websites toward @waybackmachine.bsky.social .
You can read it at
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152834...
You can read it at
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152834...
Oxblood
I squeeze into nine pounds of my dead father’s Brooks Brothers wingtips, heels worn down from running between women. Slip on his herringbone suit coat, flash on him snapping his fi...
www.poetryfoundation.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Beautiful poem of the day at Poetry Foundation has me diving down the chapbook rabbit hole. Now I’m throwing first saves of creaky publisher websites toward @waybackmachine.bsky.social .
You can read it at
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152834...
You can read it at
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152834...
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Reposted by James Seidler
Lindsey is right that it's important to remember that the bigots trying to take away rights from transgender people are weird losers.
Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...
The Urgency of Transgender Advocacy
There is a cabal of creepy little freaks roaming the hallways of our political system right now with the single-minded goal of eradicating transgender, intersex, and non-binary people from the fabric ...
lindseyadler.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Lindsey is right that it's important to remember that the bigots trying to take away rights from transgender people are weird losers.
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Check out my interview with Filmmatic.com on my contest winning Sci Fi TV pilot "Hereditary"! www.filmmatic.com/post/craig-b...
#amwritingfantasy and sci fi 💗🧙♂️⚔️
#amwritingfantasy and sci fi 💗🧙♂️⚔️
Craig Berger Pushes Biotech Boundaries with "Hereditary"
Craig Berger is a talented and prolific Los Angeles-based screenwriter. His one-hour Sci-Fi thriller, "Hereditary", has the genes of a successful TV project. It also finished top of the heap in Fil...
www.filmmatic.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Check out my interview with Filmmatic.com on my contest winning Sci Fi TV pilot "Hereditary"! www.filmmatic.com/post/craig-b...
#amwritingfantasy and sci fi 💗🧙♂️⚔️
#amwritingfantasy and sci fi 💗🧙♂️⚔️
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If you enjoy my Bluesky bullshit, come on out to see it live! I'm a co-writer of "Now That's What I Call F-ck It," a new sketch comedy show happening every Friday night in March at 9 at The Second City in Chicago. Get your tickets now:
Now That’s What I Call…F*&t It - The Second City
www.secondcity.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you enjoy my Bluesky bullshit, come on out to see it live! I'm a co-writer of "Now That's What I Call F-ck It," a new sketch comedy show happening every Friday night in March at 9 at The Second City in Chicago. Get your tickets now:
Just found out the leotard is named after an actual guy, and it’s giving me real “John Backflip” vibes.
February 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Just found out the leotard is named after an actual guy, and it’s giving me real “John Backflip” vibes.