Caitlin Parrish
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Caitlin Parrish
@caitlinparrish.bsky.social
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Writer - THE RED LINE, FOUNDATION, TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, G20 Aim for chaotic good.
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This. I love the act of writing. It changes you, and you change the world. It is spellcraft. It is witchery. Why would I ever deprive myself of the act of sorcery?
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
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People at CBS who worked in scripted arena hated working for a whole array of assholes so much the place leaked like a sieve. At diff points, mgmt was so angry about my reporting, execs speculated furiously about my sources & methods. I know this bec I was sent recordings of those rants (twice lol)
so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
10/10 pot. I’m waiting for the new moon for my next one. But there’s never a bad time for a simmer pot.
Also, let us not forget Mommy Fortuna’s last goddamn words, betraying her Domme status: “I HELD YOU!!!”
Any fantasy involving Angela Lansbury is totally explicable.
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
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Clinging to one bit of good news: JOHN CARPENTER’S films are featured on the Criterion Channel.

He deserves a home in the art house, the grindhouse, and the movie theater around the corner. Long live Carpenter!
DIRECTED BY JOHN CARPENTER ⚡ Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

A master at turning B-movie premises into dazzlingly artful nightmares, Carpenter mixes pulse-pounding thrills and subversive social commentary into some of the smartest, most stylish, and electrifying genre films of all time.
I do this every year as well. Best tradition.
Annual Spooktober viewings have begun. Night one - Trouble Every Day. Okay, so look. I love Beau Travail. Claire Denis is a genius. This move is bad. The violence is as misjudged and gratuitous as Vincent Gallo’s entire existence, and he’s also in this movie. Wishes it were Ducournau’s Raw. 3/10.
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I truly cannot tell you how many times I have watched that movie G20 where Viola Davis keeps beating up bad guys and ripping her dress shorter and looting armor and weapons off all the men trying to hurt her and her family and then like stunt driving and piloting a helicopter, etc. 10/10 every time.
Worse than killing John Wick’s dog. You have drawn the attention of Baba Yaga and soon you shall know pain.
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shit ain’t over til it’s over
Or he’s saying that to his own kid who just gave birth, which, CUTER.
That piano scene better not awaken anything in me.
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this is sickening.
fuck these fucking fuckers!
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
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My review of last week's Foundation is now up after a technical snafu. I don't know how this show blends like forty different kinds of science fiction not only seamlessly but symbiotically
'Foundation' Season 3 Episode 8 recap: Judgment Day
It’s really a miracle the Empire lasted as long as it has.
decider.com
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This week's Foundation is fucked up and magnificent even by Foundation standards. What a goddamn television program
'Foundation' Season 3 Episode 9 recap: The Empire strikes back
What a show. What a show.
decider.com
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“The fact is that our Present has become the very Past we desperately hoped we had outrun. History, as it turns out, has swifter feet than even the most alert of us could’ve expected.”
"The People's Project" is going on tour!
Come see me and Maggie Smith IRL!
open.substack.com
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Crow T. Robot said trans rights
There are some incredibly vital issues at this moment in time that go beyond like, oh we disagree on marginal tax rates but we can still be friendly. Trans rights are one of those issues. Trans rights are human rights and those are not negotiable. (see also: genocide; fascism. not unrelated!)
Anyway, eat the rich but time for Downton Abbey.