@jpate.bsky.social
Writer who likes cult films, noir and Gothic novels. He/him.
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Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Public broadcasters in Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Spain said Thursday they will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after the European Broadcasting Union refused to hold a vote on wh...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
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This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
RIP Udo Kier. The intro. to Blood for Dracula (1974) is one of my all-time favorite film openings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHh...
Blood For Dracula 1974 intro with Udo Kier - HD
YouTube video by MultiCathyU - Cassie Arc
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November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
RIP Udo Kier. The intro. to Blood for Dracula (1974) is one of my all-time favorite film openings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHh...
I read "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" last summer--an incredibly powerful book.
Author Omar El Akkad has just won a National Book Award for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" about Israel's genocide in Gaza and Western double standards on human rights.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
Watch our two-part interview with El Akkad from earlier this year.
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity
We speak with the award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad, whose new book about the war on Gaza is titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The book expands on a viral tw...
www.democracynow.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I read "One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This" last summer--an incredibly powerful book.
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HBD, the incomparable Martin Scorsese, whose movies and commitment to art changed my life.
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
HBD, the incomparable Martin Scorsese, whose movies and commitment to art changed my life.
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Add child kidnaspping to the ICE Nuremburg file.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Add child kidnaspping to the ICE Nuremburg file.
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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doorway to hell actor haunted house, casino pier, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
doorway to hell actor haunted house, casino pier, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
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BLACKOUT NOIR • Coming to criterion channel in November!
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
BLACKOUT NOIR • Coming to criterion channel in November!
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Now on sale! Aase Berg ’s Aase’s Death!
25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
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Aase's Death by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson — Black Ocean
One might expect a book by Aase Berg with the title Aase’s Death to be dark, and it is. You may also expect it to be parodic, and maybe it is that too. But if it’s parodic, it’s darkly parodic. A defi...
www.blackocean.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Now on sale! Aase Berg ’s Aase’s Death!
25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
25% off with code DEATH at checkout!
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/aas...
Thanks to the good people at Heavy Feather Review (@hfr.bsky.social ) who've published poems from a collection I've been working on about cult films.
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...
James Pate: Three Poems for Haunted Passages
Messiah of Evil (1973) We sit in the sun and wait. We sleep. And we dream. Each of us dying slowly in the prison of our minds. —Arletty, Messiah of Evil I’ve often thought of the human head as a me…
heavyfeatherreview.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Thanks to the good people at Heavy Feather Review (@hfr.bsky.social ) who've published poems from a collection I've been working on about cult films.
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/15/j...
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Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.
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hi I've been tuned out coz chicago is a lot rn, but must show you this:
I'm in the new issue of the resurrected Udolpho gothic journal, ed. by James Pate! Wonderful folks in this issue (Jace Brittan, Paul Cunningham etc) order for spooky gothic halloween vibes!
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I'm in the new issue of the resurrected Udolpho gothic journal, ed. by James Pate! Wonderful folks in this issue (Jace Brittan, Paul Cunningham etc) order for spooky gothic halloween vibes!
ellersliebookswv.com/product/udol...
Udolpho Issue #2
Udolpho is a creative anthology devoted to all things gothic, a literary genre characterized by dark and picturesque settings, intense emotions, and often supernatural or macabre elements. This unique...
ellersliebookswv.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
hi I've been tuned out coz chicago is a lot rn, but must show you this:
I'm in the new issue of the resurrected Udolpho gothic journal, ed. by James Pate! Wonderful folks in this issue (Jace Brittan, Paul Cunningham etc) order for spooky gothic halloween vibes!
ellersliebookswv.com/product/udol...
I'm in the new issue of the resurrected Udolpho gothic journal, ed. by James Pate! Wonderful folks in this issue (Jace Brittan, Paul Cunningham etc) order for spooky gothic halloween vibes!
ellersliebookswv.com/product/udol...
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Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
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'William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg, and Jean Genet at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 1968'
Michael Cooper photo
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Michael Cooper photo
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September 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
'William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg, and Jean Genet at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 1968'
Michael Cooper photo
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Michael Cooper photo
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Gains in productivity should serve the working class. We need a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay.
A 32-Hour Workweek Is Long Overdue
Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay. He’s absolutely right. Gains in productivity should serve the working class.
jacobin.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Gains in productivity should serve the working class. We need a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay.
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***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER***
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
September 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
***NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER***
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Grateful to Katrine for having invited me to be part of #AncientAlgorithms w/ so many #translators and friends whom I greatly admire: CAConrad, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Baba Badji, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself!
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...