New York Times: “Is Racism Correct? Perhaps We’ve Gone Too Far With This Whole Giving Black People Jobs Thing”
Tyler Dilts
@tylerdilts.bsky.social
Fiction Worker. Teacher. Edgar Award Nominee. Amazon #1 Bestseller. Charlotte’s dad.
My latest shorts story is included in this new and expanded edition of Brutal and Strange” and I’m honored to be in very good company!
Jim Fusilli@jimfusilli.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Everything was different when I still had you. You wouldn’t recognize me now. After the storm, I hardly recognize myself." - from "One Bell RInging" by @tylerdilts.bsky.social in "Brutal & Strange: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Elvis Costello" (Writers at Work Books) that's available now.
"Everything was different when I still had you. You wouldn’t recognize me now. After the storm, I hardly recognize myself." - from "One Bell RInging" by @tylerdilts.bsky.social in "Brutal & Strange: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Elvis Costello" (Writers at Work Books) that's available now.
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
Anti-union nonprofits are the most vile anti-unionists.
NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO@nyclabor.bsky.social · 6mo agoUnionized staff at ProPublica have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after more than two years of bargaining their first contract. Let them know you’ll honor the picket line. nycclc.org/news/take-ac...
Fetterman is doing tremendous damage to the reputation of the Big Oaf community. Big Oafs did not ask for this kind of toxic representation. Now we must lumber back into the shadows, hiding under bridges wearing our most somber JNCO jean shorts, drowning in both our sorrows & voluminous denim
just imagine how may schoolchildren we could murder if we did it with the power of A.I.
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
I was crying laughing, now I’m just crying.
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow from A Mighty Wind
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an elderly man is sitting on a couch with his mouth open and wonder man is written on the bottom
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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9mo agoDescribe your Bluesky account in a single image
Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours
MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.
RT this with your home river. Uh, maybe I didn’t do this right.
The Great and Terrible Gatsby@kellylink.bsky.social · 10mo agoRT this with your home river. The glorious Mill River! Full of pottery shards, and home to fisher cats!
When you have ADHD, it’s vital to have a consistent bedtime routine. Mine is two-and-a-half to three hours long and completely different every night.
May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, And may your headpiece to the staff of Ra always have markings on both sides. Happy New Year, everybody.
I’m dipping them in a vanilla milkshake.
doggsul@doggsul.bsky.social · 10mo agoketchup isn’t available, what are you putting on your fries?
In Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo says “I will take it,” the expression on Ian McKellan’s face says more than most actors do in their entire careers.
Andrew Ihla@andrewihla.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhat actor's facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life? Sheryl Lee and David Lynch proposing that this is what it feels like to enter the afterlife is... Very important to me.
This is worse than that time I was all ready to quit Twitter until Nils Lofgren liked my Tweet
Quentin Tarantino calling Paul Dano the worst actor in SAG is the truest “I know you are but what am I” in history of the universe.
In 25 years of teaching creative writing, by far and away the two most common traits I've seen among successful writers are that they read avidly and that they support other writers enthusiastically.
It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >
Happy Most-Important-Election-of-Our-Lifetime Day to those celebrate.
The big surprise for me today is that I feel worse about what’s happening to Teen Vogue than I do about what’s happening to Sixty Minutes.
I thought I was going to love Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere because of my deep knowledge and long personal experience with Bruce Springsteen’s music. I was wrong. I love it because of my deep knowledge and long personal experience with the creative process and major depressive disorder.