Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
As he read about the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and how Jesus went alone up the mountain to pray after the crowd had gone, Ron Hogan writes, "I started thinking about the early Quakers, and the stories George Fox told in his journals" of Firbank Fell & Pendle Hill. quaker.org/2026/08/03/h...
Well, GOOD. (As long as he stops playing footsie with the Marjorie Taylor Greene types.)
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9h agoBreaking news: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who built a surging progressive movement in Michigan, overcame a massive spending disadvantage to win Tuesday’s nationally watched Senate primary, AP projected. https://wapo.st/4w98iaX
Sarah “No Fucks Given” Knight called Our Endless and Proper Work “the most thoughtful, engaging, encouraging book I’ve ever read about how hard it is to be a writer and why you should do it anyway.” And it’s currently on sale, direct from @arcadiapublishing.bsky.social, at half-price!
Our Endless and Proper Work
“The most thoughtful, engaging, encouraging book I’ve ever read about how hard it is to be a writer and why you should do it anyway.” ―New York Times bestselling author Sarah Knight of the No Fucks Gi...
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with their glossolalia and their absurdist imagery!
Fucking Every Word@everyword.bsky.social · 20h agofucking dadaists
Well, I highly doubt Sherrod Brown is capable of winning in Ohio on his own “pivot to the right-center” merits, so I say go ahead and push the button, Max.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaywhoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
VLADIMIR: Partying. ESTRAGON: Partying? VLADIMIR: Yeah, partying. ESTRAGON: Partying?!? VLADIMIR: Yeah, fun. ESTRAGON: Fun? Fun? FUN?
Ernie Smith@ernie.tedium.co · yesterdayI must inform you that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” just went platinum, according to the RIAA. www.riaa.com/gold-platinu...
“ChatGPT” actually takes its name from GePeTto, who as is well known from his story, makes a taking puppet that does not know the difference between right and wrong because it is not a real boy. (Google Gemini in turn takes its name from the attempt to give the puppet a conscience, Jiminy Cricket.)
It’ll be the opening ceremony of Infrastructure Week!
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d agooh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again
If the government is only going to approve loans for students who will be prepared for high-paying jobs, then the government can damn well guarantee employment with sufficiently high salaries for the students whose loans it approves. If not, this plan needs to be overthrown.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Like. This question is up there with "You're a rabbi, how come you don't like the oppressive gaping maws of Empire?" (not that some of my colleagues seem to have read the relevant texts, but)
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I bet these data center creeps are real sorry they flew Eric Adams in from Turkey just to whiff this badly.
Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d agoA video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
One important aspect of this analysis of Backrooms is that @vickyacab.bsky.social recognizes the “colorblind” story that the movie set out to tell *as well as* the fevered nightmare of white consciousness that spins out alongside that story.
Anti-Blackrooms
In a white supremacist society, whiteness is unmarked, the default category of the human. To be white is to be a subject, a citizen, a member of society; to be non-white is to need to constantly prove...
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Like, at the very minimum, the existence of “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” ought to answer that question decisively.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
London Calling Sandinista! Combat Rock (Now, some people will tell you that Sandinista is bloated; these people are not entirely wrong, but even so, we can most of us agree that there is at least one album’s worth of legendary material in there, maybe even a double album like its predecessor.)
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
“Conservative evangelicals’ own lives testify to the untenability of their teaching. Even their most exalted teachers fail to embody the purity they themselves demand. And this revelation, quite apart from any one individual’s legacy, is the secret that evangelicals want to keep in their closets.”
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social · 3d agoThis would explain a whole lot about Elisabeth Elliot
We're in the 6th month of a 4-week war that we won in 2 days over a weapons program that was obliterated last year.
she thinks *amnesty* wrecked her reputation?! lady, you did a stellar job of that all on your own.
Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
This is a perfect encapsulation of the right-wing racist fury over The Odyssey. Like, Josh Johnson barely has to work up a “joke” here, he can just describe people’s actual behavior and it’s hilarious.
Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
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I’m surprised nobody has gotten to Camper Van Beethoven’s Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, but hey good news for me!
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
They filed this early enough in the afternoon that Pirro could still make happy hour.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
“Amid his crash-out, George also lit up X, the everything app, where things like this happen all the time…” SOMEbody is having fun at his desk job, as the X posts and press releases come pouring in.
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 5d agoThe Culture Club leader was set to appear in a London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera until he got a little too into generative AI.
If you can’t figure out how to tell a good Blade story, maybe it’s time to get out of the movie business. (But all respect to Mahershala Ali for deciding it was time to start opening himself up again to interesting projects that might actually get made.)
IGN@ign.com · 5d agoMahershala Ali has confirmed his Blade movie is dead and he has officially moved on from the troubled Marvel project. https://bit.ly/4wDl0Qg
Weirdly, this feature puts “Manchurian candidate” in my birth year, when the film had been out for nearly a decade and the novel for three years more than that.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d agoFind the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
I finally saw The Odyssey yesterday, and I couldn’t believe it when the film finally revealed the identity of the “Sea People,” who had been lurking just offscreen from the very start of the picture, terrorizing all of civilization.
If the State Department can’t even find African nations on a map with AI’s help, I shudder to think what the boys at Justice will land upon when they go looking for “political dissidents.”
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d ago“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
One thing that struck me, looking at Europa Content’s roster, is that it’s a very weird place from which a debut thriller to emerge. This is an agency that, at an admittedly cursory glance, seems to specialize in performers, journalists, and food influencers. I’m also not convinced about the AI.
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?
