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Alexandra Peers
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Environmental science, history, art, fiction, technology, writing. Buddhist. She/her. Tweets/views are my own.
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kirstenbakis.com
"Time for bed" in the Mamdani campaign font
January 1, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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komododad.bsky.social
FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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archive.org
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

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Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jacobgeller.com
My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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jonathanbogart.net
the death of the twentieth century continues apace.
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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levin.bsky.social
You do not need generative AI, you need the Emberly easy art books!
presentcorrect.bsky.social Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Oct 31
From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ckunzelman.bsky.social
I am just a little bit of a media historian, but I've read enough to say that I think this has a pretty easy explanation: there was a time where if you wanted to be a movie exec you had to socially succeed with other movie people; now you have to socially succeed with finance and tech bros.
zaaack.bsky.social It’s here and I like it @zaaack.bsky.social · Oct 23
last 15 years feel like an experiment in putting individuals who don't know why people see movies in charge of getting people to see movies
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Oct 23
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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minovskyarticle.bsky.social
I want to meet a California Condor and the chances of that happening some day are thankfully increasing.
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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evegoldenwoods.bsky.social
Brown girl in the ring is so good, just a totally electrifying novel, and the discussion in this ep brings out such interesting elements of the text. Totally worth a read + listen
rangedtouch.bsky.social Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · Jul 18
On SHELVED BY GENRE we're starting the last book of our post-apocalypse unit, journeying to Canada with a post-collapse near-future where science, magic, politics, and family intertwine in Nalo Hopkinson's BROWN GIRL IN THE RING: rangedtouch.com/2025/07/18/b...
July 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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jonathanbogart.net
"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew
June 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
finally, the opportunity i've been waiting my entire podcasting career for: me and austin going in on cmrn for not knowing what cardcaptor sakura is
rangedtouch.bsky.social Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · Jun 6
It's a SHELVED BY GENRE day, and we're talking the final part of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ: come ponder with us cyclical history and the annihilation of nuclear war (again), the wedding of science and mysticism, and the shortcomings of institutional religion: rangedtouch.com/2025/06/06/a...
June 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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neohazard.bsky.social
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"

Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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rangedtouch.bsky.social
The next SHELVED BY GENRE unit has been decided: we're doing a POST-APOCALYPSE VARIETY SHOW, with

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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March 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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choodraws.bsky.social
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March 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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inchywerm.bsky.social
where are my invertebrate lovers? 🐛🐞🐜🦂

#bugsky #bug #invertebrates #entomology #art
colorful digital illustration of several invertebrates (a scorpion, a beetle, a worm, a fly, a lantern fly, an inchworm, a treehopper, and a moth) surrounding the words “love the unloved”
February 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
A screenshot from Twitter. The original tweet reads: "Rapper Kenderick Lamar wore size 29 women's jeans to Super Bowl LIX." The tweet garnered over a thousand replies, most negative. I (Derek Guy) screenshotted that tweet and wrote: "so funny to see history repeat itself. men who wear slim fit and stretch denim—both of which were once considered strictly for women—criticizing kendrick for wearing flares bc they were on the women's aisle. in ten years, you'll be in flares clutching pearls about something else" Then another user replied to my tweet, saying: "Wearing women’s clothes has never been in style, homo."
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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ztul.bsky.social
this is what "silicon valley made the modern world" is about. they believe they have captured the apparatus of culture. but what they have actually done is shrunk it: trapped its illusion in the screens you and I are looking at right now. yet there's a burning world outside, and computers crash too.
ztul.bsky.social michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Feb 6
what they understand is that humans are downstream of the environments they inhabit, the acts of cultivation from which "culture" is derived, and seeing the flourishing of things that oppose their domination and exploitation, they opt to burn the field in the hopes of lording over their chosen weeds
ztul.bsky.social michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Feb 6
there is little need to map out the ideology as it is personally imagined, its weirdness or inconsistencies or hypocrisies; the material point is to create so much misery and fear that they can present themselves, with their hordes of plundered resources, as the only viable path forward
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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ztul.bsky.social michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Jan 28
Thinking of this passage from Julian Dibbell's MY TINY LIFE (covered in the upcoming episode of Game Studies Study Buddies) wherein a guy who feels he was wronged by a chatroom's moderation system explains his plan to use a semi-automated sockpuppet army to troll the community into ruins.
Not that the vestigial Power Elite wouldn’t do their damnedest to rub them out, of course. But this was evidently also part of Anthony’s master plan. As he gleefully observed, the moment anyone tried to bring a dispute against one of his net-puppets, he would straightaway “crank up HortonWho.vs.aCleanWellLighted-MOO again, via proxy,” and watch with pleasure as the CWL crowd went into a frenzy of hairsplitting attempts to draw the line between their own communications link and his. He readily conceded that their efforts might in time sueced, and that a judgment banning some or even all of the little monsters might at last be won, but in that case his adversaries would then face the even tougher challenge of enforcing such a ban. “If you look at the problem of detecting such players, it’s very difficult,” said Anthony, explaining that the only way to go about it would involve a lot of laborintensive close examination of object code. Not an impossible job, to be sure, but then the purpose of his monsters, ultimately, was not to make themselves indestructible—it was to make the existing social system so chaotic and exhausting that eventually nobody in her right mind would even try to make it work. “The point is this, DrB,” said Anthony. “Wars are not won by killing people, they are won by economic collapse of the enemy.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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onepiecepodcast.com
The de Young Museum in SF will host the first-ever Manga exhibition in the Americas.

700+ original drawings by 8 mangaka, including Eiichiro Oda, will be on display from September 2025 to January 2026
January 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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verface.bsky.social
Dualayim & Tolpan :)
a picture of the two characters from Ver's comic, Sacred Bodies. The larger of the two, Tolpan, is a semi-quadrupedal bird monster. They are settled down, but propped up on their front arms. Between their arms sits a human woman, Dualayim. Tolpan is resting their enormous, beaked jaw on top of Dualayim's head, and Dualayim is reaching up to brace herself against Tolpan's large figure. Tolpan's inhuman expression is difficult to scrutinise, but Dualayim has a faint, relaxed smile. The two seem very at ease with each other in spite of their very different lineages.
November 11, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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theyoungdoyler.bsky.social
Shared an update on what I’m working on (sketches included) up on Patreon - public to all! www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...
January 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM