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Noel Ransome
@noelransome.bsky.social
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Writer | @VICE (RIP) alum | Form Canadian Press @CdnPressArts | Words @WIRED @ebertvoices @globeandmail @variety @complex etc
email ✉️: noel@noelransome.com
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Reminds me of Edward Said’s playbook from decades ago. Sometimes I gotta open his Representations of the Intellectual to remind myself how the moves of a certain kind of intellectual is an old, and easy template
Quote from representations of an intellectual
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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So we really got frontpage columnists out here measuring genocide by body count now? This argument boils down to ‘If Israel wanted to erase Gaza, it would’ve done it better.' Huh?
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Jubilee is a grift starter pack
July 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Just a PSA: I can’t tell you how important it is to get messages like these with the way things are going. Whether it be a DM, email, encouragement like this matters
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Modern-day freelance journalism folks
July 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I had a movie-length conversation with Angela Means and those beyond her about reclaiming a meme-turned-character (who even she admits is still funny) and the real story behind it. But the piece also explores how memes shape—and can reshape—how we see people.
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This album man
An image Billy Woods’ album, Golliwag
May 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I don’t think I understood where my standards were for writing in video games until I witnessed an argument or two in Claire:Obscure. Cutting each other off? Broken sentences? Beautiful shit
April 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Trash seats but I’m here
April 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Yup - Black Americans Are Not Surprised @cmgreer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Quote from nytimes, Black Americans are not surprised opinion piece - As the "I didn't think he would do this" chorus continues to grow, I can't help but think what many really mean is, "I didn't think he would do this to people like me." Unlike in the past, though, it is clear that it will not be just immigrants and Black people experiencing the boot of oppression. If much of white America did not know the full story of how fragile this democracy and its rule-of-law norms are, they are going to experience what their fellow Americans are capable of. There is a reason Trump is so determined to root out any honest telling, whether in school curriculums or the Smithsonian Institution, of this country's historical faults. This nation went backward hefore
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Okay, I’m up to speed. Hooked @grahamisador.bsky.social
Severance
March 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Gone way too soon. The real ones remember. Rest easy, Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Trachtenberg in harriet the spy
February 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Got to chat with the brilliant Imani Perry about her new book Black in Blues and how the colour blue carries the weight of Black history—its sorrows, its strength. Wish I could share more of our convo. She’s a writer I’ve long admired.

Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c425231...
February 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Was recently honored to write an essay for Documentary Magazine’s Winter 2024 issue—my first think-piece-ish writeup in a while.

I dig into how docs earn recognition, from festivals to the Oscars, and whether awards validate impact or just reflect the moment:

www.documentary.org/feature/appr...
January 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Props to the person today who reminded me of this piece
An email that speaks about the necessity of reading a VICE article about the being a POC and allowing oneself to be angry.
January 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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It’s gonna be one of those nights. RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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They let me do so much wonderfully stupid art at VICE
January 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Rooting for Nickel Boys all day, but I wish it wasn't so difficult to see it in a theater (by design)
#goldenglobes
Rooting for Nickel Boys all day, but I wish it wasn't so difficult to see it in a theater (by design)
January 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The sampling on the heart part 6 is just is just 💋
November 23, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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I find myself needing to find encouragement when it comes to the practice of literature more and more everyday
November 11, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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My bosses haven't found me yet on this thing. Stay trash algorithm
July 10, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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Me trying to figure out where everybody's at on this app
July 3, 2023 at 7:04 PM