David Gerstein
@biryanifan.bsky.social
Writer, film researcher, and foodie. Coauthor of two Disney history tomes with TASCHEN; ongoing comics editor/writer with Fantagraphics, Disney Publishing Worldwide, and others—maybe you! https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/disney-legacy-comic-books
We keep screaming from the rafters that we are being fired/not hired in numbers that can only be due to discrimination, but no one cares.
Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 2d agoYikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2d agoWHEN will emily wilson review THIS
The right-wing wants to portray Black WNBA players as menacing precisely because they are the opposite of that; inclusive, welcoming, and proud to be so.
Your Evil Twin, Skippy@twinskippy.bsky.social · 2d agoGolden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
I want to say I bought this at a bookstore in the Valley, big props to the anonymous author for committing to the bit and not putting any name besides “Skeletor.” honestly not bad advice, especially considering the source.
There are lots of reasons to be concerned about what a Paramount-WBD merger would do to our media landscape. The probability that we'll see fewer shows like #DiarraFromDetroit is one of them. www.salon.com/2026/08/01/d...
"Diarra From Detroit" shows what a media merger could cost TV
A Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will mean less diversity and fewer hidden gems.
salon.com
Rest well. Know that you are loved, appreciated & respected. Even if its just a stranger on the internet you dont even know and have never met. If you needed this, then this measage is for you. If you didn’t need this, same. Be well and be kind to yourself no matter how hard, friend. Take care ❤️👍🏾
I tossed out a Harry Potter movie stub I found last week from back when I lived in VA. Good riddance to trash. I'm saddened to hear what's happening in the UK and Amesty International. Don't stop fighting.
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · last wk.A dark day for human rights.
if a vampire chicken eats your soul is that el pollo diablerie
Vivian Moira Valentine@itsviviactually.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn Vampire: the Masquerade, vampires can gain the powers of other vampires by drinking their blood and souls, a process known as diablerie. In the Nintendo games, beloved pink sphere Kirby likewise gains the powers of his enemies by eating them. implying Kirby is a diablerist. In this essay I will
This is and has always been the point of patriarchy: barring women from access to resources so we can only get them through men. So that men who would otherwise never be chosen by women can coerce women into relationships. Patriarchy has always been affirmative action for shitty men.
Yooty@yooty.bsky.social · last wk.The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.
Very important piece by @davidoatkins.bsky.social at Washington Monthly: the DNC is actually doing just fine and raising record money, and the hit pieces are a product of a tier of useless DC consultants who don't want their media buy gravy train to end. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/31/t...
The Case for the DNC’s Ken Martin. Really.
Martin is being excoriated, but he’s taking on the consultant class, building a strong grassroots operation, and raising tons of money.
washingtonmonthly.com
Me: I had the WORST day. Nothing can come close Katy Perry, recently trapped in a giant bottle because fans refused to roll her towards the stage: Hm
This is the problem right here. And I saw it at work on my son (he escaped)
David Gerstein@biryanifan.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter 2010, an increasing number of Gen Z kids had grown up on a new, edgelord-ish media actually aimed at adults, focusing on hilarious bigot characters, often animated—Cartman, Peter Griffin—who were intended to look humiliating (and did, to the intended viewership), >
I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.
@wagatwe.bsky.social Another part, I think, is that through around 2010, minorities’ battle against white racism was framed in movies, TV and other media as a fight against uncool jerks that any smart, cool, empathetic person—including nonracist whites—could ally with and live vicariously through. >
Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 2w agoa big part of this is that US media is very white—and has only gotten whiter as the workforce shrinks.
Wile E. Coyote's inexorable sadness turns to cunning. On the firmest, most dangerous cliffside, he paints another two-bedroom house, a beautiful road runner wife, and three adorable road runner kids running around on the road. He slyly beckons the Road Runner toward this new road runner life, but
Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 2w agoWile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
best film adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only
Occam’s Shaving Cream II@myburnerhandle.bsky.social · 2w agobest film adaptation of the Odyssey, wrong answers only
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
The Eisner for Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930, edited by J. Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard (Fantagraphics) @fantagraphics.bsky.social #eisnerawards #sdcc
Just gonna say, as the author of the 2021 report, I stand by every single thing I wrote
Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 2w agocenter for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"
FUCK'S SAKE NOOOooooo
paris martineau@paris.nyc · 2w agoNew: State health officials say parsley and cilantro appear to be linked to surging cyclospora cases in North Carolina The disclosure comes as the FDA says it’s investigating a new outbreak linked to an unidentified source. Unclear if the two are related www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
