Stephen S Power
@stephenspower.bsky.social
Changing the world one page at a time. 30+ years in publishing. Novelist, short story writer, poet and aspiring dramatist. stephenspower.com.
The problem with Hollywood today in a nutshell.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The problem with Hollywood today in a nutshell.
This is how a camera should move, slowly and deliberately, if it moves at all.
The multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇸 American romantic drama “CASABLANCA” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Dooley Wilson premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942
🎬 #WarnerBros
🎬 #WarnerBros
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is how a camera should move, slowly and deliberately, if it moves at all.
The best xkcd of all. Including "Sudo make me a sandwich" and "Someone is WRONG on the internet."
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The best xkcd of all. Including "Sudo make me a sandwich" and "Someone is WRONG on the internet."
Reposted by Stephen S Power
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Stephen S Power
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Reposted by Stephen S Power
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
NY Times: God forbid safety get in the way of growth.
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NY Times: God forbid safety get in the way of growth.
I'm all in on Paul doing a bass version of 4:33.
Paul McCartney is releasing a track of an almost completely silent recording studio as part of a music industry protest against copyright theft by artificial intelligence companies.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track
Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm all in on Paul doing a bass version of 4:33.
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"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
.@samcorbin.bsky.social Expressed geometrically, a streak is a line between two points, so two games alone create a streak.
And four grains of sand would constitute a heap if one's atop the other three as in a tetrahedron.
And four grains of sand would constitute a heap if one's atop the other three as in a tetrahedron.
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
.@samcorbin.bsky.social Expressed geometrically, a streak is a line between two points, so two games alone create a streak.
And four grains of sand would constitute a heap if one's atop the other three as in a tetrahedron.
And four grains of sand would constitute a heap if one's atop the other three as in a tetrahedron.
This is not the first time, I bet, that this thug has gone out of his way to hit young black men.
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is not the first time, I bet, that this thug has gone out of his way to hit young black men.
No duh. A photographer in place? No damage to his ear, but blood that appeared once he slapped a squib against it? Deliberately "epic" reaction at a desperate moment in his campaign?
This needs to get a LOT of traction.
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
No duh. A photographer in place? No damage to his ear, but blood that appeared once he slapped a squib against it? Deliberately "epic" reaction at a desperate moment in his campaign?
Rightwing Catholics are wishing the Pope would go back to, as they did before Vatican II, speaking only in Latin so they could make up what they thought he was saying.
I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Rightwing Catholics are wishing the Pope would go back to, as they did before Vatican II, speaking only in Latin so they could make up what they thought he was saying.
Huzzah!
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Huzzah!
I was telling a guy who may run for office, do these three things:
1. Ask everyday voters what they want, listen, then do those things.
2. Endlessly boost the place you want to run, not yourself.
3. When in doubt, do what Mamdani would do.
1. Ask everyday voters what they want, listen, then do those things.
2. Endlessly boost the place you want to run, not yourself.
3. When in doubt, do what Mamdani would do.
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I was telling a guy who may run for office, do these three things:
1. Ask everyday voters what they want, listen, then do those things.
2. Endlessly boost the place you want to run, not yourself.
3. When in doubt, do what Mamdani would do.
1. Ask everyday voters what they want, listen, then do those things.
2. Endlessly boost the place you want to run, not yourself.
3. When in doubt, do what Mamdani would do.
The numbers Trump's given for his throne room don't add up because he just made them up. Also the numbers are large because his penis is so small. And the drawings were done by AI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump’s 90,000-Square-Foot Ballroom Plan Puzzles the Experts
His planned space would be much larger than luxury banquet halls in the US capital and a departure from traditional presidential style.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The numbers Trump's given for his throne room don't add up because he just made them up. Also the numbers are large because his penis is so small. And the drawings were done by AI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Final treater count 394, down from 471 last year.
Spooky pumpkins by wife and daughter.
Spooky pumpkins by wife and daughter.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Final treater count 394, down from 471 last year.
Spooky pumpkins by wife and daughter.
Spooky pumpkins by wife and daughter.
The use of "neighbors" is significant. It's the word used in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The use of "neighbors" is significant. It's the word used in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Republicans are officially the boogeyman, the terror in the night.
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Republicans are officially the boogeyman, the terror in the night.
Basically they're building a post office where all the mail is delivered to concentration camps.
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Basically they're building a post office where all the mail is delivered to concentration camps.
I will live long enough to see Trump suffer what the Roman's called "damnatio memoriae," the damnation of memory. His name will be removed from everything he built, his throne room will ripped down, and his existence will erased, even as Vance tries to make him a national saint.
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family
Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I will live long enough to see Trump suffer what the Roman's called "damnatio memoriae," the damnation of memory. His name will be removed from everything he built, his throne room will ripped down, and his existence will erased, even as Vance tries to make him a national saint.
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Collect all your favorite Gestapo action figures!
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Collect all your favorite Gestapo action figures!
It's not a ballroom. It's a throne room.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It's not a ballroom. It's a throne room.