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The atlas-eater with a jaw for news :: journalism, art and comics :: Formerly: Providence Journal, Tampa Bay Times, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Bloomberg, Flaming Hydra :: EMAIL ME: si AT arrr DOT net

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26d

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 26d

the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15m

When you hear the term "BBS" do you think:

A) server, usually hosting a comments forum, that you reach by dialing a particular number using a modem
B) a website hosting a comments forum that you can use if you have any internet connection

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

“Things are always happening that have the potential to change you.” 🔥

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2h

The exact color of Superman's hair and Batman's cowl

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2h

The established trade routes up and down the Americas -- as well as across -- were truly impressive.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 5h

ok I gotta say a thing or two about this because I feel the idea that conquest and subjugation is the natural goal of nations is so weird

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

I'm SORRY WHAT

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 7h

the image crop got me so excited for a new REM album

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

it's black like a bruise, right? related to blood and bloat?

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Were we too harsh to Anita Bryant, a natural leader who wasn't afraid to take a controvertial stand

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Leni Reifenstalh was also a strong female artist who wasn't afraid to speak her mind

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

He'll say "are you married?" We'll say "no man"
Then we'll slowly try to edge away without looking like we're running

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

sadly actual footage of King at the height of his drinking problem

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

you can have Josie & me's Frosty the Snowman idea for free

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

nice job algo

my last skeet followed by a post of a gif of Stephen King in CREEPSHOW, trying to drink some kind of smoothie

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

He lies there year after year until snow envelops him and then he lurches up, shambles down the mountain
He goes by "Parson Brown"

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Corpse should be played by Jack Nicholson and it's a sequel to the Shining

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Just had a great idea for a remake of Frosty the Snowman where it turns out there's just been a dead frozon corpse inside Frosty the whole time but no one realizes until Spring

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

this is why we're married folks - to spare the rest of you

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

Love you

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

🎶Frosty the Snowman
Was a human after all
He was strangled dead
And they put his head
In a snowman's top snowball

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Just had a great idea for a remake of Frosty the Snowman where it turns out there's just been a dead frozon corpse inside Frosty the whole time but no one realizes until Spring

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

As a southern European it's just tuesday

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

is this the cursed novel Borges tried to warn us about

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

we are over

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Still no idea where that roommate is

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

This is not my fault. This is European Colonialism in a single food.

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