I went on a journey with this week's newsletter. You'll learn so much about Germans. buttondown.com/muledesign/a...
Erika Hall
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I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur. Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research. Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break. San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
In the article she seems somewhat optimistic she can make it work so I do hope she manages it. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘The Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Finance Her $10 Million Thriller Because It’s Got a ‘Wall-to-Wall Trans Cast’
"The Matrix" director Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won't fund her $10 million thriller because of its "wall-to-wall trans cast."
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I started to get a lot more rigorous about sourcing oft quoted quotes in the LLM times and woof.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h agoThis is a core theme you deal with as a fact checker. When tracing a fact back to it’s original source you see how *incredibly common* it is for stuff to be made up by a single source and then get repeated enough times by other sources that frequency of repetition convinces everyone it’s true.
I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 15h agoIncredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
The demented rage seeing happy fat people living our lives provokes in fatphobes is 1=1 exactly the same shit as transphobes freaking out watching trans people enjoy existing. Liberation frightens us because it forces introspection.
During the pandemic my brain broke. At least the part of my brain that could write. Which is a problem for someone who considers himself a writer. So I spent a lot of time doing writing adjacent things like laying out books and zines. Which is fun.
I started listening to @mikemuncer.bsky.social's Evolution of Horror in 2021, and it's so good. When I go on my little runs I look at all my lefty technology and politics and science podcasts, and sigh and think, I can't handle *real* horror, I'm going to listen to nice people chat about slashers.
People *are* using their brains. The problem is that human brains are terrible at critical thinking.
I need to write a piece called "How to Market Nothing" because so often the people advocating a better, lower cost approach are up against organizations with huge marketing budgets who flood the zone
This is why people with nothing to sell* need to get better at marketing. *other than actual evidence and effective approaches that aren't products
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h agoWe already know how this turns out.
Friday! If you want to be a better observer of people and a less awkward haver of interactions. Participate in society! Sondermaxxing. www.eventbrite.com/e/1994617919...
How to Talk to Strangers
There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.
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no one clocked Donald Trump as early or accurately as Berkeley Breathed
Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 3y agoThis bloom county about trump from 1987 is wildly spot on
‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows
‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows
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Instagram served this to me late at night. "Protect the women from who?" has been on repeat in my head ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNN...
BEKS x Rony Rex - TERF WERK (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BEKS
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My current favorite composer of catchy ditties. 2krispii.bandcamp.com/track/hetero...
Heterophobic (Live From My Bedroom), by 2Krispii
track by 2Krispii
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I need to finally learn guitar so I can write catchy little songs about hateful people.
This really underscores the importance of cultural criticism and critical media analysis! There are dozens of us!
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · yesterdayThe push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.
1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
Very funny retail experience yesterday when the cashier pivoted from "your dog is cute" to "when it happens I'll be twerking down Market Street" in 2-3 sentences.
many such cases so many people are condescending when they don't intend to be, and when it actually undermines their goals.
Dang it, Bobby@bobby.plus · yesterday15 years ago I signed up for a meal kit service. Excited, I went to the Fancy Mall Kitchen Store and a salesperson seized upon me. "I'm getting more confident in the kitchen now because I'm trying [Meal Kit]!" I enthused. "Ha, come back when you're cooking for real," she said. Never did!
Here I'll repost this for everyone telling me how easy it is for other people to do things. www.muledesign.com/blog/curse-o...
Lift This Curse (from your communication) — Mule Design
Common sense isn't common. Assuming your audience knows more than they do can wreck your ability to communicate. Don't blame ignorant people before examining your own biases for the curse of knowledge...
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I used to live near there. This could be any of us.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · yesterdayVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.