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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 11h

Tamir Rice was 12.

The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 16h

They've also got "Criterion 24/7", which is just a single continuous stream of movies chosen by them, like old-school HBO, and given the nature of Criterion they're mostly bangers.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 19h

I might have the timeline of this wrong, but wasn't a lot of Google's initial work (pre-CNN, pre-Google Brain) on machine learning based on post-Bayesian spam recognition?

The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 19h

He's plausibly the best capital allocator of all time in terms of buying services and strapping 200 lbs. of Facebook's world-class adtech onto their backs. He's plausibly the worst capital allocator of all time in terms of blue-sea new development, between the legless metaverse and now this.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 19h

B'god, that's Apple's ring music! (Although they seem a little at sea right now, so maybe it'll be Samsung's ring music.)

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing but respect for *my* president.

The poster for Kenneth Russell's Altered States (1980) showing William Hurt topless and upside down with ECG sensors attached to his head and face.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 19h

Ed doesn't believe in blue states or red states, or even green states.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 1d

Why would they want a charismatic guy with a compelling life story who appeals to younger men?

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqya...

"Granny Gets The Point" PIF - Full Version - UK Decimal Day (1971)

YouTube video by Hartley Pellipar

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 1d

Jeno Paulucci, the man who founded Chun King and then brought pizza rolls to market (although they were created by cookbook writer Beatrice Ojakangas) to get better utilization out of his egg roll wrapper machine.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

Even today, after a half-decade of propaganda against it (inc. elite media, which simply adopted the view that it must have been unpopular) half of Americans support Black Lives Matter and fewer than half say police do a good job using the right amount of force. www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...

Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s Killing

Americans have expressed skepticism that attention to racial issues after Floyd's killing led to changes that improved Black people's lives.

www.pewresearch.org

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 2d

Did a joke AMA last week, but now it’s time for a real one. I’m Steve Lieber and I’ve been drawing comic books professionally since 1992. I’m on this flight for the next 5 hours. Ask Me Anything.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

Prydain slaps. "Taran Wanderer" is like a key text in me understanding adulthood.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot Serwer worked there. "Inconsistent project" sounds about right, although at least one prong of it is promotion of the reactionary centrist truth that it's always, *always* the children who are wrong.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

I hope it's the haw-haw-ish final-g-dropping Lord Peter of "Whose Body?".

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

Bet the good people at the Black Cat are delighted to have these guys in the neighborhood.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely pointless.

National Guard walk by Black Cat patrolling 14th Street on a federal holiday during a shutdown.

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 2d

They’re monsters and freaks, and not in a fun David Bowie way.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. bsky.app/profile/diew...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 3d

The Atlantic and the Free Press are engaged in the same project.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 3d

"'Just so!' cried the Red Queen. 'Five times as warm, AND five times as cold--just as I'm five times as rich as you are, AND five times as clever!'"

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 3d

Well, you're smarter and a better reader than Peter Thiel.

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