old salt point
@oldsaltpoint.bsky.social
Writer and editor based in Northern California.
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The 1993 film of this play was the first time I ever realized how GOOD and RELATABLE Shakespeare can be. Until then, I had only ever read it on the page, understanding not a word.
This clip, too, is even better.
This clip, too, is even better.
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
October 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The 1993 film of this play was the first time I ever realized how GOOD and RELATABLE Shakespeare can be. Until then, I had only ever read it on the page, understanding not a word.
This clip, too, is even better.
This clip, too, is even better.
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Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
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Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.
Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.
Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...
scitechdaily.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!
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From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it.
They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.
They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.
September 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it.
They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.
They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.
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“In the end we will only conserve what we love, we will love what we understand, and we will understand what we are taught,” Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forester,
via The Wonder of #Birds
via The Wonder of #Birds
September 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“In the end we will only conserve what we love, we will love what we understand, and we will understand what we are taught,” Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forester,
via The Wonder of #Birds
via The Wonder of #Birds
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They will cut a great road through the law if they get into power
Zia Yusuf
"Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades.
A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people."
Zia Yusuf
"Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades.
A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people."
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
They will cut a great road through the law if they get into power
Zia Yusuf
"Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades.
A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people."
Zia Yusuf
"Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades.
A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people."
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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wall street surges as the only jobs left are burrito chauffeur or ice agent
September 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
wall street surges as the only jobs left are burrito chauffeur or ice agent
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Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext
Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
August 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
August 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Generative art tools
August 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Generative art tools
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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I threw the sandwich
but I did not kill the deputy
but I did not kill the deputy
August 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I threw the sandwich
but I did not kill the deputy
but I did not kill the deputy
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"We have plenty of time to litigate how woke the professoriate is, as long as universities exist as independent entities. But as soon as they don't, there's no question of woke. There's simply the authoritarian determines what you do," says @biblioracle.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1990...
August 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"We have plenty of time to litigate how woke the professoriate is, as long as universities exist as independent entities. But as soon as they don't, there's no question of woke. There's simply the authoritarian determines what you do," says @biblioracle.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1990...
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The order of science:
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
Yeah. In 2013 I door-to-door canvass to get my city to fluoridate the water. Conversations went like this:
Me: I used to be an environmental chemist.
Them: 😀
Me: I used to test drinking and wastewater.
Them: So you’re against fluoride?
Me: No, I support it!
Them: 😡 (woo jibberish)
Me: I used to be an environmental chemist.
Them: 😀
Me: I used to test drinking and wastewater.
Them: So you’re against fluoride?
Me: No, I support it!
Them: 😡 (woo jibberish)
August 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The order of science:
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'
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theonion.com/u-s-dep...
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'
theonion.com/u-s-dep...
theonion.com/u-s-dep...
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*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
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#TwoForTuesday & #TigerTuesday 🐯🐅:
Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863 - 1944)
#Tiger Head I & Tiger Head II, 1908/09
Chalk lithographs on Japanese paper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 683,4-1912
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10572...
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10446...
Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863 - 1944)
#Tiger Head I & Tiger Head II, 1908/09
Chalk lithographs on Japanese paper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 683,4-1912
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10572...
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10446...
July 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#TwoForTuesday & #TigerTuesday 🐯🐅:
Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863 - 1944)
#Tiger Head I & Tiger Head II, 1908/09
Chalk lithographs on Japanese paper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 683,4-1912
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10572...
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10446...
Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863 - 1944)
#Tiger Head I & Tiger Head II, 1908/09
Chalk lithographs on Japanese paper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 683,4-1912
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10572...
recherche.smb.museum/detail/10446...
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Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
June 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.
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well well well poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
well well well poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
June 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting