Sandra Macpherson
@sandramacpherson.bsky.social
Still obsessed with Sylvia Townsend Warner. Making cocktails and talking about cats. (I am a dixhuitiemiste at an R1, but mostly teach film and whatever-the-hell-else they want me to teach.)
Well goddammit what am I going to do without the House of Guinness?
October 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Well goddammit what am I going to do without the House of Guinness?
Jesus Fucking Christ
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Jesus Fucking Christ
This is correct. (Though I love them both.)
people talk a lot about robert redford directing ‘ordinary people’ to a best picture win over ‘raging bull,’ but for my money ‘quiz show’ is his masterpiece as a filmmaker
September 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is correct. (Though I love them both.)
A most eloquent summation.
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A most eloquent summation.
RIP smarty pants
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Hockey Has a Gigantic-Goalie Problem
Never before in the NHL’s history has a tail so wagged the dog.
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September 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
RIP smarty pants
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Oh no, my Dad is retiring!! 😭
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Oh no, my Dad is retiring!! 😭
FUCK MEN AND THEIR MACHO COSPLAY.
August 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
FUCK MEN AND THEIR MACHO COSPLAY.
It’s terrifying. I’m terrified. First time in my 25 years living and working and raising children and paying taxes in the U.S. that I wonder if I should move back to Canada. And I am not on of those Canadians.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It’s terrifying. I’m terrified. First time in my 25 years living and working and raising children and paying taxes in the U.S. that I wonder if I should move back to Canada. And I am not on of those Canadians.
This hype is fucking absurd.
Our critic Wesley Morris and the writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner loved the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That,” that everyone else loved to hate. They celebrate a show about middle age and mourn its untimely end. nyti.ms/414B5Rj
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This hype is fucking absurd.
I just can’t with the daily acts of total devastation.
Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I just can’t with the daily acts of total devastation.
Gotta love my people
July 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Gotta love my people
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Quick, somebody write another op-ed about how this isn't genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
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July 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Quick, somebody write another op-ed about how this isn't genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
This video is everything 😍
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This video is everything 😍
Come on NYC! Crossing my fingers. You can do it! 🤞👊
Every time I post this picture, he goes up five more points in the polls.
June 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Come on NYC! Crossing my fingers. You can do it! 🤞👊
Yep. Terrifying times, getting more terrifying by the day.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yep. Terrifying times, getting more terrifying by the day.
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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
June 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
Well goddammit to hell. Still, that was some epic hockey.
the logo for the oilers is on a blue cloth
ALT: the logo for the oilers is on a blue cloth
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June 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Well goddammit to hell. Still, that was some epic hockey.
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Is there a way to text 0 to STOP an entire party's messaging strategy?
Democrats will hand out free tacos to mock Trump
Democrats will hand out free tacos to mock Trump
Because of the president's tariff chaos, "TACO" has become shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Is there a way to text 0 to STOP an entire party's messaging strategy?
RIP John Locke you would have loved this
kind of regretting teaching my parrot the Tears in Rain monologue
May 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
RIP John Locke you would have loved this
Yesterday was Little’s Senior Prom, and Big came from Chicago to help her get ready. Love being their Mom. And I love my Mum too. HMD y’all! ❤️
May 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yesterday was Little’s Senior Prom, and Big came from Chicago to help her get ready. Love being their Mom. And I love my Mum too. HMD y’all! ❤️
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By definition you cannot “deport” someone out of the US who is a citizen of the United States because their home nation is… the United States.
This is state racism in the baldest form we have yet seen, true Hannah Arendt territory
This is state racism in the baldest form we have yet seen, true Hannah Arendt territory
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
politi.co
April 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
By definition you cannot “deport” someone out of the US who is a citizen of the United States because their home nation is… the United States.
This is state racism in the baldest form we have yet seen, true Hannah Arendt territory
This is state racism in the baldest form we have yet seen, true Hannah Arendt territory
Fuck Wayne Gretzky.
a hockey player with the number 20 on his jersey stands in a locker room
ALT: a hockey player with the number 20 on his jersey stands in a locker room
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Fuck Wayne Gretzky.
Watched two episodes of The Studio, which is the most Canadian thing I have seen in a while. 🍁
April 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Watched two episodes of The Studio, which is the most Canadian thing I have seen in a while. 🍁
Dear Ohioans, here is info on where you can sign the petition for a referendum on SB1 (government takeover of higher education). For those in Columbus you can sign during the day of action at OSU on the 17th, and at the Statehouse protest on the 19th. ohsb1petition.com/sign-the-pet...
Sign the Petition
Put your name down! We’re trying to get the first 1000+ signatures to get the referendum language approved You must be a registered Ohio voter to sign the petition.You must sign the petition …
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April 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dear Ohioans, here is info on where you can sign the petition for a referendum on SB1 (government takeover of higher education). For those in Columbus you can sign during the day of action at OSU on the 17th, and at the Statehouse protest on the 19th. ohsb1petition.com/sign-the-pet...
Thankful someone in the media understands the importance of language. Off to call into my local NPR fundraiser …
Ok sorry but getting on my soapbox to say that this isn’t a u-turn or a 180 or even a pause on tariffs.
The MASSIVE tariffs are gone but BIG tariffs are still in place. And more so than before last week.
Frame it right.
The MASSIVE tariffs are gone but BIG tariffs are still in place. And more so than before last week.
Frame it right.
April 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thankful someone in the media understands the importance of language. Off to call into my local NPR fundraiser …