Melissa
@melissagayle.bsky.social
Writer. NU/VCFA WCYA alum. One day some little fat girl in ohio could be the next Mozart & make a beautiful film on her father's camera-corder -Francis Ford Coppola. rep @LindaCamacho she/her
⭐️ New video is up on YouTube! This mini chocolate babka recipe can be found exclusively in my book Small-Batch Breads: 50 Recipes for Loaves, Buns, and Flatbreads Made with One Cup of Flour (out 8/18!) 🙌 Once you get the book you can follow along w the video for more visuals! youtu.be/A7MqErrWzwI
Mini Chocolate Babka made with 1 Cup of Flour (Small-Batch Breads Exclusive Recipe)
YouTube video by The Practical Kitchen
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Jfc we’re now at the “people across the political spectrum will not listen to Jewish people that neo-Nazis shouldn’t be political candidates” stage of our societal drift to the right. I truly despair
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 7h agoHello I'm an idiot
Hero. Trailblazer. One of the best men in modern days, because he cared about women and their autonomy.
RMJ@rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 16h agoI always think of Dr. George Tiller when Kansans protect abortion rights. 17 years later and our state is somehow still a site of refuge, even in the wake of Dobbs
Heads up Angelenos!! A very young, and simply sensational, Anna May Wong.
UCLA Film & Television Archive@uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 20h ago“The Toll of the Sea” (1922) Sat. Aug. 15, 7:30 pm at LACMA Free, RSVP required Join LACMA for a screening of this two-color Technicolor silent film starring Anna May Wong, preserved & co-presented by the Archive. Intro by Archive Head of Preservation Jillian Borders: www.lacma.org/event/film-t...
There's also a recording of Bradbury himself reading it and several other of his stories. archive.org/details/Brad...
Ray Bradbury: Bradbury Reads Bradbury (Listening Library, 1975)
Released by Listening Library in 1975 as 6 separate LPs, this collection features Ray Bradbury himself performing some of his most beloved stories. While you’re never going to find a better narrator o...
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Amadi Lovelace@amaditalks.bsky.social · 16h agoI just learned that there is a recording of Leonard Nimoy reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rain" on the Internet Archive. 15 minutes of wonder. archive.org/details/brad...
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My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.
Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · 24h agoRight now there doesn’t seem to be any movement in the US opposed to antisemitism.
When Grant was dying of throat cancer his finances were in ruins and there was no Presidential pension so dying he wrote his memoirs to secure his family after he died, he just beat the deadline finishing them July 18th 1885 and dying the 23rd they were a huge best selling success
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 21h ago
"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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Oh so we're just doing old school medieval European antisemitism now. No sugar coating, no dog whistles, just "Jews are the devil," right there on main. Very cool. Awesome. Love that for us.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
one mo link for this thread: I wrote about why the BBC's new documentary about Jared Leto shouldn't be necessary -- but why it is, especially right now. I'm in the documentary as well, along with the lead journalist & many survivors 🔥 [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets (Gift Article)
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
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I’ve been using the word “ghastly” a lot more recently to describe behavior … this is ghastly
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
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Donate to Help Courtney's Cancer Fight, organized by Christine Whelan
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"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
The thing that drives me up the fucking wall about this line of apologia for MAHA is that MAHA's strongest soldiers are not the desperately poor and uninsured, they're rich douchebags who shop at Whole Foods if Erehwon is unavailable.
Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d agooh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
i'm gonna be real here and say that i do not think these should be considered protected beliefs
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · yesterdayAn example of what he has said here. This certainly reads as antisemitic to me
"Jews are not discriminated against" is only a belief worth protecting if you are literally a nazi
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
The best-rated book of my series is only $1.99 in eBook today! Please pick it up, Bluesky!! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/vivi... Amzn: a.co/d/090H09M9 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/viviana-va... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The framing that women’s rights are “minority rights” is especially revealing. Women are 51% of the US population. We’re not a minority. What women share with actual minorities is the idea that women are not fit to be full members of the political community.
Welp, I've known @kurtandersen.bsky.social for 35 years and just discovered that he (and/or @paulrudnick.bsky.social) coined the term "air quotes"
back on my bullshit of wanting to write an updated version of LM Montgomery’s THE BLUE CASTLE but not knowing how to reconcile the fact that the love interest’s fortune comes from snake oil/MAHA-type (well, M-Canada-HA) wellness cures (spoiler for a 100 year old book sorry)
The story is online here: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
We don’t talk enough about Ray Bradbury beyond Fahrenheit 451 so consider this a Ray Bradbury Appreciation Day post
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I regularly pair this story with another by Bradbury called “The Murderer” when I teach Readings in Fiction.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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