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If you missed it earlier this year, Andrew Ahn's sweet reimagining of THE WEDDING BANQUET has just arrived on Kanopy. It's free to stream without ads or subscriptions, all through participating libraries.
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you missed it earlier this year, Andrew Ahn's sweet reimagining of THE WEDDING BANQUET has just arrived on Kanopy. It's free to stream without ads or subscriptions, all through participating libraries.
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I feel like people on bluesky would particularly appreciate that this is a Twitter joke 14 years in the making.
Some guy tweeted at our shitty then-mayor that we should have a Robocop statue and he was like “thanks but no” and then other people made it actually happen, over the course of 14 years
Some guy tweeted at our shitty then-mayor that we should have a Robocop statue and he was like “thanks but no” and then other people made it actually happen, over the course of 14 years
The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in Eastern Market on Wednesday, nearly 15 years after someone proposed it in a viral social media post.
Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue - Detroit Metro Times
Nearly 15 years later, Detroit finally has its statue of RoboCop. The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in East...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I feel like people on bluesky would particularly appreciate that this is a Twitter joke 14 years in the making.
Some guy tweeted at our shitty then-mayor that we should have a Robocop statue and he was like “thanks but no” and then other people made it actually happen, over the course of 14 years
Some guy tweeted at our shitty then-mayor that we should have a Robocop statue and he was like “thanks but no” and then other people made it actually happen, over the course of 14 years
Four Christmas movies to know me by:
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Four Christmas movies to know me by:
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#Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
#Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
The loss may threaten the population's future by reducing the number of surviving pups.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: David Cook / Flickr cc
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
✨️. I love when we all go out to look at the sky.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
✨️. I love when we all go out to look at the sky.
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I can tell you for sure that Libro.fm does not run ads for ICE. www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
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October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I can tell you for sure that Libro.fm does not run ads for ICE. www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
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Apropos of frog suits, lots of talk about whether or not humor is useful for fighting authoritarians. Not only does it work, but it's a top tool. It can't be the only thing, but nothing can be the only thing. If you want to learn more, I wrote about it last year. buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
Lessons from the Serbian Resistance
The beginner's guide to 21st-century revolution
buttondown.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Apropos of frog suits, lots of talk about whether or not humor is useful for fighting authoritarians. Not only does it work, but it's a top tool. It can't be the only thing, but nothing can be the only thing. If you want to learn more, I wrote about it last year. buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
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“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”
Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.
The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?
The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”
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October 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh
September 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh
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JUST NOW AT THE UN…
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
JUST NOW AT THE UN…
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Intellectually: the equinox is the 22nd, we still have nearly three weeks of summer left.
Emotionally: planning stews, plotting Halloween costumes, listening to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on repeat for two days straight.
Emotionally: planning stews, plotting Halloween costumes, listening to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on repeat for two days straight.
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Intellectually: the equinox is the 22nd, we still have nearly three weeks of summer left.
Emotionally: planning stews, plotting Halloween costumes, listening to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on repeat for two days straight.
Emotionally: planning stews, plotting Halloween costumes, listening to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on repeat for two days straight.
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people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat
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Each of us really can decide to do a little something every day to lessen suffering (including our own).
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Each of us really can decide to do a little something every day to lessen suffering (including our own).
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“I trust my immune system - I don’t need a vaccine.”
I trust my immune system too, but it thinks pollen and cardamom are trying to kill me, so I’ll be giving it some directions, okay?
I trust my immune system too, but it thinks pollen and cardamom are trying to kill me, so I’ll be giving it some directions, okay?
September 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“I trust my immune system - I don’t need a vaccine.”
I trust my immune system too, but it thinks pollen and cardamom are trying to kill me, so I’ll be giving it some directions, okay?
I trust my immune system too, but it thinks pollen and cardamom are trying to kill me, so I’ll be giving it some directions, okay?
“We have begun to recognize that for our movements to work and thrive, we need to be able to socialize our experiences of grief, illness, pain, death, things that now are often relegated to the margins or the outside of our political work.” -Silvia Federici
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“We have begun to recognize that for our movements to work and thrive, we need to be able to socialize our experiences of grief, illness, pain, death, things that now are often relegated to the margins or the outside of our political work.” -Silvia Federici
“The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
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“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
August 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
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August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM